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I know of a few organizations that buy multicore systems for their staff, and then "reserve" a few cores as part of a local grid computer. I think of this as mo
by bane 9y ago
I know of a few organizations that buy multicore systems for their staff, and then "reserve" a few cores as part of a local grid computer. I think of this as more "symbiotic" computing than parasitic.
- mikepurvis 9y agoHow does that work in practice? Is it basically just asking everyone to run a distcc node, or there something more to it?
- bane 9y agoThere's several vendors for it but typically there's some kind of service that runs on the organization's desktop machines that are centrally controlled by a job scheduler/server. I don't have a lot of familiarity with them other than in conversation. But here's a few: http://www.jppf.org/ http://www.jppf.org/ http://www.digipede.net/ http://www.digipede.net/ https://www.maplesoft.com/products/toolboxes/GridComputing/index.aspx https://www.maplesoft.com/products/toolboxes/GridComputing/i...
- wdfx 9y agoThis happens at my employer too, although the developer has full resources during work hours but outside of that the machine is a compute node
- pavel_lishin 9y agoThat sounds pretty interesting. My wife's work has a dedicated rendering machine that sits idle something like 75% of the time. (And apparently due to contract issues, they can't farm it out to an external server somewhere.)