Well, it does not all have to be rocket science. If you are a geek and you like doing geeky things, then taking an application like Critterding (Artificial Life)
http://critterding.sourceforge.net/ and parallelizing it on a cluster would be a fun project (If only I had the time) Of course, if you created a big enough A-life universe on your home cluster you could have a really kick ass "fish tank" to show your friends. -- Doug > Yes Charlie, > > But my question was relating to the personal use of homegrown > systems. There is certainly a use for the same tech in an > institutional environment. > > But what of homegrown systems that cannot be taken to work, or made > part of a commercial product, that were just made because it could be > done? > > And I did get some ideas, but the general response seems to be "apart > from R&D, unless you're a mathematician or scientist, not much"... I > think this is why it needs the institutional environment - because it > needs at least two skillsets to be useful. One to build the box and > another one to build the apps. And probably another skillset again > to use the apps, interpret the output etc. > > Stu > > On 17 Sep 2010 at 11:53, Charlie Peck wrote: > >> >> Cute, but my question is, what use is one of these homegrown >> platforms? >> >> How about education, outreach and training? There are at least a couple >> of projects [1] that use small, home-built clusters in e.g. for >> undergraduate CS education, faculty education/re-training for parallel >> programming and cluster computing, and the like. Microsoft [2] and >> others have also used platforms like this to explore low-power, >> on-demand compute platforms. > > > --- > Stuart Udall > stuart a...@cyberdelix.dot net - http://www.cyberdelix.net/ > > --- > * Origin: lsi: revolution through evolution (192:168/0.2) > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Doug -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
