Hi everyone,
Just wanted to drop a note here -- I have a lot of interest in distributed computing and there's an online workshop I'm doing with a few colleagues (we work for Microsoft) where participants essentially deploy a Folding@home client to the cloud, and each user receives access to 20 servers for a few weeks. It can be configured to contribute to whatever team.
It's primarily targeting devs or IT pros. If you're really adventurous, would be great to see different distributed clients -- SETI, etc. It's a bit of a challenge because the clients need to be "xcopy deployable" -- no big installations, etc. and not too many DC clients support that. (Even with FAH, I can't get the SMP client to work.)
High end desktops + GPUs run circles around the individual servers, but even 10 attendees can leverage 200 servers, so it's a great way to get some compute time.
More info here: http://distributed.cloudapp.net -- dev/IT experience likely needed, but happy to help anyone if they're interested.
Just wanted to drop a note here -- I have a lot of interest in distributed computing and there's an online workshop I'm doing with a few colleagues (we work for Microsoft) where participants essentially deploy a Folding@home client to the cloud, and each user receives access to 20 servers for a few weeks. It can be configured to contribute to whatever team.
It's primarily targeting devs or IT pros. If you're really adventurous, would be great to see different distributed clients -- SETI, etc. It's a bit of a challenge because the clients need to be "xcopy deployable" -- no big installations, etc. and not too many DC clients support that. (Even with FAH, I can't get the SMP client to work.)
High end desktops + GPUs run circles around the individual servers, but even 10 attendees can leverage 200 servers, so it's a great way to get some compute time.
More info here: http://distributed.cloudapp.net -- dev/IT experience likely needed, but happy to help anyone if they're interested.