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Proposal: Fedora@Home

Proposal: Fedora@Home

Posted Mar 5, 2008 20:14 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article: Proposal: Fedora@Home

I hope the Fedora folks go along with it.  If they do, I wonder if it could make it into
Fedora 9?  Perhaps that would be asking too much.

Sounds like a way cool idea.  I'd also imagine that several other distros would join in and
add MRG grid as an optional feature... and then we could also use it to measure some other
things... so a certain level of accuracy... like how many users are using which distro.  Heck,
the distros could even compete against each other... as to which distro has the most computing
power and donates the most CPU cycles.

Not quite accurate but better than Distrowatch's link thingie I think. :)

Hmmm, I'm assuming that an institution with a large number of MRG systems... could also use
the feature for local computational jobs?  That being built in would be handy for institutions
that already have MRG based grids in operation... and I'm assuming it'll be a default feature
of RHEL at some point... or an addon option?!?

While Rocks Clusters offers more grid computing technologies... I'm wondering if adding MRG to
Fedora and other distros would have an impact on  Rocks Clusters deployments?


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