Hi everyone, this is the first time I post here in DC.
Today I was talking with the head of our IT department at my University's college of engineering building, after we talked he invited me to the server room to take a look, and showed me the equipment they have in there and my university relies on Sun servers and they had a pretty impressive quad-processor $ 25 k 16 GB server as the main server, well that's there new server, however he told me that after they obtained this server they had to disconnect the older server, if I am not wrong it's a quad sparc 1.5 GHZ one (I can get the detailed specs later if needed), it's a pretty powerful server, fiber connected harddrives lots of memory and what not.
He told me that it's a shame that they don't have any good use for that solaris server it's just sitting there collecting dust, and I thought about it for a minute and it struck me, I told him about medical research projects that rely on distributed computing to perform the calulations ....etc. And he loved the idea.
Now this is a good server and it would be able to run 24/7 - 365 on a very highspeed connection,and since there is no other need for it, it can purely run folding projects and whatnot.
So, the situation in short is that, we have a good server, no other use, it runs solaris and I was told if I give my department enough info they will gladly approve my request to let me setup the server so that it will be able to contribute to the ongoing scientefic research.
I would appreciate you guys input on how to take full advantage of this situation (like which most suitable project to pick, setup advice, ...etc) and contribute as much as possible.
Thank you.
Today I was talking with the head of our IT department at my University's college of engineering building, after we talked he invited me to the server room to take a look, and showed me the equipment they have in there and my university relies on Sun servers and they had a pretty impressive quad-processor $ 25 k 16 GB server as the main server, well that's there new server, however he told me that after they obtained this server they had to disconnect the older server, if I am not wrong it's a quad sparc 1.5 GHZ one (I can get the detailed specs later if needed), it's a pretty powerful server, fiber connected harddrives lots of memory and what not.
He told me that it's a shame that they don't have any good use for that solaris server it's just sitting there collecting dust, and I thought about it for a minute and it struck me, I told him about medical research projects that rely on distributed computing to perform the calulations ....etc. And he loved the idea.
Now this is a good server and it would be able to run 24/7 - 365 on a very highspeed connection,and since there is no other need for it, it can purely run folding projects and whatnot.
So, the situation in short is that, we have a good server, no other use, it runs solaris and I was told if I give my department enough info they will gladly approve my request to let me setup the server so that it will be able to contribute to the ongoing scientefic research.
I would appreciate you guys input on how to take full advantage of this situation (like which most suitable project to pick, setup advice, ...etc) and contribute as much as possible.
Thank you.
