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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by bloopernova on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:26PM (#26505831)
I remember back in the early 2000s thinking how cool it was that I had distributed C compilers helping my Gentoo installs along.

I really wanted to set up a university computer lab such that when computers are idle, their CPU cycles are donated to some massively parallel simulations. Worked great on small scale, but I moved on before we implemented it on a larger scale.

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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by astrange on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:26PM (#26507738)
Well, that's just F@H/R@H/BOINC. But I think there's some ethical considerations before you sign up all your computers for that, or at least you should check the electricity cost.
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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by bloopernova on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:17PM (#26519504)
The goal was to use spare lab computer cycles to run academic sim jobs on.
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Re:Outrun: Execute local command using processing power of a... by tyrrvk on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:47PM (#26506085)
you just described HTC Condor! Not the parallel part per se..

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/

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