[ILUG] United Devices Cancer Program for Linux

[Glen Gray]

Well the seti institute are paving the way to have a common platform for
distributed processing projects. Check out their furture directions page
at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html

Basically they are working on an opensource platform that can have a
closed source processing module. Should mean it will be easier for other
companies/groups to roll out projects and have users decide what they
want to sign up to and what percentage of their spare cpu time goes to
what projects.

Glen

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:28, Smith, Graham - Computing Technician wrote:
> There isn't one AFAIK.... 
> 
> There is a statement somewhere on www.ud.com that says they have no plans
> to implement any linux client because the numbers of linux clients that
> would
> generate results wouldn't be enough to warrant the effort of developing it.
> Hmm
> snubbed or what folks?!
> 
> Wine is great but what if you have a bunch of servers that dont run X... a
> nice
> command line client (with multi-processor support) would be cool.
> 
> Its a pity there aren't more useful distributed computing projects. The
> likes of
> Seti and and those encryption cracking projects dont particularly interest
> me....
> 
> One thing to be aware about some of the clients for these applications such
> as United Devices is that although they use idle cpu time, some of them
> use considerable amounts of other resources such as memory.
> 
> G.
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