Re: Harnessing Unused Computer Power Over A Network

[hjohnson@pluto.njcc.com (Herbert R Johnson)]

On Wed, 06 May 1998 13:31:23 -0700, Chris Albertson <chris@topdog.pas1.logicon.com> wrote:

*>Another place where this technique is used
*>is Fermi Lab, Tom may have heard something.  I hear they
*>are installing a "Linux Farm". A few hundred boxes all
*>networked together. Also the movies "Titanic" and "Toy
*>Story" are mostly computed on "farms".

The "Linux Journal" had a cover story on the Titanic and their pile of
Linux machines used to generate graphics. I imagine their Web site
would have some info. Web Search on the name... But our strong suit
in TASS is the survey and our initial processing and "databasing" of
the data. I'm personally intreigued by piles of 486 machines all playing
Go or something but I've got other fish to fry.

Herb Johnson
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