[rescue] Trailing-edge compute farm looking for gainful employment

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:20:54PM -0000, jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:
>    Supposing one has a farm of older, relatively slower machines (Sun-2's,
> Sun-3's, early SPARCs, 386es, very small VAXen, 68k-based Macs, etc.)
> running various Unixes (mostly NetBSD), networked together and connected
> to the Net. What does one do with it?

Don't most of these still have decent FLOP performance? Aside from the
386s anyways.

Perhaps you could find someone who needs to render a series of 3d
animation scenes.  Install POVRay or Radiance and send out frames to
be rendered to each machine.

Alternatively, download and install GRASS (do web search) and offer up
custom topo maps a la MapQuest via the web.

./patrick