On 4/22/2011 10:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> A computational cluster (of which Beowulf is the most popular form)
> typically has a "controller" (with lots of disk space) and the compute
> nodes which are typically blades or 1-2U rack mounted machines w/ fast
> CPUs and lots of RAM but not much disk space. There's no reason,
> though, why an organization's desktop computers couldn't be
> dual-purposed as compute nodes.
>
I tried to talk my boss at The Company I'm Ashamed To Admit Having
Worked For into doing just that. We had a hundred desktops sitting idle
all night and I had this big plan of selling compute cycles.
--Joey
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