Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: tayter@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Practical Applications
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:31:39 GMT
Message-ID: <6r1vqb$639$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

I work for a school district.  We handle all of the networking/computer
technology for the schools in our county.  We also run a local ISP.  I
have just setup a cluster of linux boxes with pvm.  Available to me
are a couple of labs of pentium 300s which I can easily add to the
cluster with boot disks.  Over night and on weekends, the cluster can
have exclusive access to the labs.

I set all of this up thinking it would be an intersting project.  It was,
but so far, the only application I have is a parallel program which
calculates pi.  I have found POVRAY for pvm and have heard about a
patch to gmake to parallelize it.  However, none of these applications
seem very useful to the school district or the ISP.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any applications which may be useful.
Or, if there is any way which cpu time could be sold on the cluster.
Otherwise, I will probably end up just having to tear it down...

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Mike Tayter
tayter@guistenal.ncats.net

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