I have a rather small work fleet - around 15 computers (some have dual cores or dual processors though)
.. plus my mother, my sister, my nephew
... and then there are the other computers that run BOINC for me. There are many that I have no clue, physically, where they are. I received permission from the organization to run BOINC. I created MSI packages that are delivered through active directory and every computer in certain active directory groups gets BOINC installed at boot. The population of computers changes continuously as computers are retired, new computers arrive, the computers are re imaged for any number of reasons etc. I can't honestly tell you how many computers are doing what at any time.
I even have a "rogue" herd that runs Prime Grid. I've been very diligently trying to stamp out the Prime Grid element for a long time but it keeps coming back alive. I'd like it to run SIMAP instead.
I even have a friend who runs SETI on about 7 computers. When SETI is offline the computers run SIMAP for me! I have SIMAP set to a very low percentage of CPU time (like 2%) and SETI is offline or unavailable for new work more than that so I get a lot of SIMAP production now and then. Of course, SIMAP has no work for the next several weeks so a lot of cycles are not being utilized very well right now.
Yes ... those of us who have been doing this relentlessly for years have accumulated large fleets but not always work fleets. A few years ago ... I was able to tap into a work fleet of several hundred computers (find-a-drug) -- those were heady days indeed. I was able to make it into seventh place overall and would have risen further had the project continued. Find-a-Drug had a fairly significant distributed computing following.
Dwight Ringdahl sorta blew the sails outa my dedication to DC projects a few years ago and the herd has languished and dwindled. I need to update BOINC packages so SETI will run and get the herds back into shape. I also have 2 computers in pieces downstairs that I need to have up and running for other reasons as well as 2 older dual pentium III machines and some other cast offs ...
As my recovery continues I am now getting to the point that I can return to minding BOINC
mondo