[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless Cluster ???

[Clae]

it might be something we could experiment with ourselves though.
inferno/plan 9 might be an option to consider, inferno will run under 
any OS, even java
i seem to remember a comment to the effect that low latency times are 
an advantage


Clae

At 2:58 AM -0700 21/5/02, Drew wrote:
>Possible, yeah... feasible, probably not. There are already 
>companies that will pay you for your processing time, such as 
>porivo.com. I checked it out and 10 days of processing with a 1.3ghz 
>gets me $2USD. So figure $12AUD per month, per person with 
>relatively fast cpus, is that enough when combined? Maybe there are 
>better paying ones out there, I don't know.
>
>D
>
>Matt Pearce wrote:
>
>>Hey all,
>>  Would it be possible and feasible once we have a reasonable mesh 
>>of pc's running together to run a wireless clustering system using 
>>linux and "possibly" sell our combined proccessing power to 
>>research companies to pay for shared internet access for all ???.

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