[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless Cluster ???

vak vak at alphalink.com.au
Tue May 21 22:42:40 EST 2002


It would cost you approximately that in electricity.

10 days * 24 hours * 0.15kW (eg) * $0.12 per kilowatt = $4.32 in electricity
bill

Vaskos
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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 ???.
> >
> > Please dont dredge up all other old wars on this one.  All I am asking
> > is would it be possible and feasible and what sorta performamce would
> > the slow wireless cards make instead of hardwired LAN's ??  Obviously
> > it would also depend on the performance of the server its running on
> > as well but that an equation that is akin to how long is a peice of
> > string.
> >
> > Matt.
>
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