This
scheduler includes the ability to harness idle CPU capacity from
desktops and also schedule to virtual machines. I'd like to create a
Fedora@Home project where Fedora hosts a MRG grid scheduler, people can
donate CPU time on their computers for computations, and we schedule
meaningful or useful work to these people's computers. This would be
like an open and general-purpose Folding@Home or SETI@Home project.
Ideally, we could include the client software for computation as part of
Fedora distributions and build out a large, million+ node open grid for
things like Fedora infrastructure tasks, scientific computing, or
socially-beneficial work.
This sounds very similar to what BOINC (
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)
does. BOINC was in the wish list for quite sometime and there is a
review request too.
Cheers,
Debarshi
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
-- Arthur Ashe