Company computer utilization?

[Joel Jaeggli]

requires porting your code to windows... unless your office is full of 
unix boxes (mine is). the ripest target for after hours dual boot setups 
in my experience is university computer labs that are closed in off 
hours...

joelja
 
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Lambe, Dave wrote:

> Pardon my ignorance here, BUT....
> 
> What about some type of "grid" computing similar to SETI? It would only need
> a client installed that could be configured to run when the PC had been idle
> for "X" minutes/hours and would SURELY be simpler to implement than
> re-loading "100's of P4 and P4 Xeon boxes". The later is surely to irk
> someone with stroke to get the whole project kinked.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hartner [mailto:hartner at cs.utah.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:53 AM
> To: Donald Becker
> Cc: Henderson, TL Todd; 'beowulf at beowulf.org'
> Subject: Re: Company computer utilization?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> > > You may want to take a look at GRUB. Newer versions of GRUB can do a
> > > network boot (for some subset of network cards),
> > 
> > Not quite.  GRUB has support for the 'netboot/etherboot' system, so the
> > you must first have 'netboot' support for the network adapter you are
> using.
> 
> True, there must be etherboot drivers for the network cards you are using.
> 
> GRUB does not 'support' the netboot/etherboot system, they 'incorporate'
> the etherboot drivers to create their own network booting mechanism.
> 
> > [[ I don't see a compelling reason to make GRUB and netboot depend on
> > each other, but... ]]
> 
> The compelling reason is that you don't have to burn a bunch of ROMs and
> pop open boxes to put the ROMS in the video cards.
> 
> > > so you could just put your linux kernel and initrd our on a tftp
> > > server and boot into linux without having to install anything local to
> > > the PC's.
> > 
> > Errrm, exactly the same as having a network boot ROM.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Mark
> 
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