From around 1996-1997, when Linux desktop use became popular, some university departments had this distributed computing system installed in both classroom comp

From around 1996-1997, when Linux desktop use became popular, some university departments had this distributed computing system installed in both classroom computers and staff's desktop computers, to run distributed computing jobs when the computers were not in use otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor