From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 20:22:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE1E106564A for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 20:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587758FC0A for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 20:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so1158822wah.3 for ; Sat, 24 May 2008 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=9vLIee16XguRabCIc5jMlnISDnuWaw5/UAEKYNtkxHU=; b=Ecoo5jy1K9eq7tvKouCiakaOz2Mt2f9wg8+am4dL3j1+Vk/RlEtYP5LUeey6N2wrY/gYnLGiL5E8qV+iojkFflEbGru1+rL4r8D5pIDfZoaY4yLtfRAa5GLoIvcqR4NzYUV5+AbUu1z9UCzHbGVDju4ah3ZsVAvB2ChK538hQNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=nVZ/dd2+uyOATXTFe1ieInSmMFj8OZK0KlagN2YgsDUqcHoOodRyz63O0bg4xx0qmB4XG8IJn/4IzgzWgKRN8938FQ7GQiy1ujkOVp9Kj5o8XwdNO8EU6YY7TuFjFJxcbflTU4mjd2UOWvfqP0c7fgxnoqrqhIzdiQYVkKwoq5s= Received: by 10.114.110.12 with SMTP id i12mr3491659wac.73.1211660564880; Sat, 24 May 2008 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.88.6 with HTTP; Sat, 24 May 2008 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <26face530805241322n64f97cacqf06a716b68fec292@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 13:22:44 -0700 From: "Kelly Jones" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: CPU@home - does free distributed computing exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:22:45 -0000 There are several projects (like SETI@home, Einstein@home, folding@home, etc) that let you donate spare CPU power to a specific cause. Is there a project that lets you donate spare CPU power to anyone who needs it? That is, a pool of CPU power that anyone can tap into for free to run computations that would otherwise take forever? I realize it's dangerous to let people run random commands on your system, so this would be limited to pure mathematical functions or something like that (no disk/network access), w/ donator-specified limits on memory/etc. I also realize calling functions over the network is 2 orders of magnitude slower than calling them in memory, so this would only be useful if you could distribute a large number of CPU-intensive parallel function calls. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.