Re: What the hell is up with BOINC?
Subject: Re: What the hell is up with BOINC?
From: Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Date: 02/09/2005, 17:04
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Am Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:38:47 +0000 schrieb Eric:


basically, fileserving
appliances (threw wireless cards into them and then placed them in a closet,
out of sight and mind).  Their only purpose is to just spit out MP3's,
pictures, video, ect.   What could be better homes for also crunching SETI?


No idea what locks the machines up, but have you considered running Linux
on them? As long as you don't have the X server running (the graphics
desktop), even a 500 CPU should do the job. Samba works perfect and rock
solid as a file server, and the whole set rids you of all virus and most
malware concerns.

I've been running an AMD 500 w/128MB RAM as file server, mail server and
domain controller in a network with 80 Windows NT machines and some 200
users. It was far above any Windows server.


Matthias

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