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fluoblack
April 8th, 2007, 09:38 PM
First, sorry for the mistakes, I'm French. Then I don't know if it's the right place to submit ideas but I didn't find a place to do it. First idea: there should be a place for that in the forum.

Second idea: I was wondering about a way to recycle my old computers and I thought about how the SETI program use computers around the world to make calculus on huge quantities of data.

I personally do movie editing and 3D rendering and that takes a lot of time to be done. But if I could link my computer to the old ones, using them as slaves to run a part of the job, it would be done faster and easier.

It would be great at a simple user level but at bigger scale too (universities, companies etc). It would reduce the time of productivity and electricity consumption, the 3Ghz processor that the secretary uses for text editing would have a real purpose and environment would thank you for recycling old pieces of hardware.

Does that already exist or is this a moment of lucidity?

bapoumba
April 8th, 2007, 10:10 PM
it's the right place to submit ideas but I didn't find a place to do it. First idea: there should be a place for that in the forum.

Hello, for ideas about the forum, you have the Forum Feedback and Help (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=48). For general discussions, you have the Community Cafe (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11).
So I'm going to move your thread to the Cafe :)

Nils Olav
April 8th, 2007, 10:13 PM
First, sorry for the mistakes, I'm French. Then I don't know if it's the right place to submit ideas but I didn't find a place to do it. First idea: there should be a place for that in the forum.

Second idea: I was wondering about a way to recycle my old computers and I thought about how the SETI program use computers around the world to make calculus on huge quantities of data.

I personally do movie editing and 3D rendering and that takes a lot of time to be done. But if I could link my computer to the old ones, using them as slaves to run a part of the job, it would be done faster and easier.

It would be great at a simple user level but at bigger scale too (universities, companies etc). It would reduce the time of productivity and electricity consumption, the 3Ghz processor that the secretary uses for text editing would have a real purpose and environment would thank you for recycling old pieces of hardware.

Does that already exist or is this a moment of lucidity?

Not really easily but you could.

TravisNewman
April 9th, 2007, 12:53 AM
It's called a cluster, and yes it has been possible for a while now. But, that said, it's not easy. I've never attempted it, but I would like to.

Compucore
April 9th, 2007, 01:06 AM
Clustering or Beowulfing is possible. I have been trying to get some read up on that part over here as well. I am thinking as well of doing that over here. WIth two servers and maybe one or two other machines that I can convert into ubuntu machines easily. But here is what lead for you that sonme one helse was thinking as well here about that. It is linked within the forums here. Take a look when you can.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33570

Compucore

saulgoode
April 9th, 2007, 08:25 AM
Dyne:bolic Linux (http://www.dynebolic.org/) might be a step in the right direction for building multimedia clusters.

fluoblack
April 10th, 2007, 11:11 AM
Thanks for the replies.
I found that on my way to knowledge, for those who are interested, it doesn't seem so hardcore:
Oscar:
High Performance Computing on Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/hpc-howto.xml)
ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) an easy clustering software
OSCAR (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/), another easy clustering software