help?

[Zsiotoric]

Hey... i would really appreciate it if you guys helped me with something
i am a 16 year old highschool student, and i'm going to try and implement distributed computing on 100 sum-odd computers i have been given rights over in my school. I would like to know... what programs could i use and how would i implement this? If someone could give me an outline... or a step by step instruction.... or anything, i would appreciate it alot! I was thinking that maybe my school district could be convinced to implement DC over their whole network of a TON of computers and reduce the time it takes to backup all of their servers... thanks alot!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for your interest in DC!

Take a look in our welcome thread get an idea about what projects are around: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=39&threadid=1370842&enterthread=y

The implementation of each project is different from project to project, so to make a general statement here is virtually impossible. I guess you'd have to decide on a project(s) first and then we can give you a detailled walktrough and answer any questions you have.

:beer: :beer:

Are you considering to join TeAm Anandtech in some projects?

 

[Insidious]

It's amazing that your school is willing to open their computers/network up to you like this!

Please do your homework (as you are now :thumbsup: ) and be careful with the privlege they are offering you.

We will help you all that we can

-Sid

 

[The Reaper]

Find-a-Drug is very easy to setup over a network. Detailed instructions here.

 

[Freewolf]

Get written permission

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
Get written permission

I agree. With educational budgets being eye balled like crazy I can see finger pointing going on when they see the power bill.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
Get written permission

Definitely get written permission. It may save you a load of grief in the future. Despite the many benefits of DC, it might not be a good idea to talk it up to too many people either. I have run SETI@Home on the pay-to-play LAN at my friend's game store in the past, and am going to set some more DC projects up on it in the future.

The thing is, the customers would often screw around with the programs, thinking they were affecting their games, et cetera, when in reality any problems they experienced tended to be due to spyware and other crap installed on the machines by themselves and other customers. Hell, one time I was helping clear spyware from the machines there, and I found one machine set up as a covert Morpheus server, and another with probably a dozen different chat programs installed. When I would run spyware detectors, I would typically find in the hundreds of instances.

Sorry, I got off the train of thought I initially had. Basically, just watch your arse, as if someone goes and does something stupid and wipes out the paper they just spent five days working on, or something, they will happily vent on the DC project and the people that installed it rather than realize they should not have hit the Delete key.

 

[JeffCos]

First of all welcome to the boards. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. If someone here doesn't have an answer, it won't take long for someone to figure out your problem.
About your DC project. You should definitely split that computing power over several projects. There are several great DC projects out there, I can only speak for Folding@Home, but I have also heard good things about find-a-drug. Even 20 computers to each project is A LOT! I have a question though. Is this the only message board you have advertised your efforts on, or have you gone to other message boards and told them what you plan to do. Some people take their DC stats very seriously and working for 2 different teams would NOT BE tolerated. (We had a problem with this a few months ago). Keep us updated on what you plan to do.


Jeff

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Good point JeffCos!! That thing back then with the contest was really a bad thing!