Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

Posted Jan 28, 2005 23:23 UTC (Fri) by mongre26 (guest, #4224)
Parent article: Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

I can definitely see this being useful for grid computing and I could see myself deploying this in my environment.

Sure you could probably use some SELinux arrangement, but this is vastly simpler. It remindes me of systrace but assumes even less as far as profiling the app in question. Right up front it defines the limitations. Work within it, or leave.

As grid computing spreads and more projects take advantage of the significant amount of computing out there for inter project work this could be very useful to provide a simple yet effective way to sandbox grid processes.

When I say computing, I do not mean peoples desktops. Sure they can be used for some projects, but combine multi-gigabit networking with hundreds of nodes in a cluster with terabytes of storage and the domain of problems you can tackle grows fast. There are hundreds of small 100-500 Teraflop scale clusters out there that can be connected to maximize their utilization and techniques like this are just what is required to increase they security.