jludwig said:
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:30, Adriano Holanda wrote:
>> Hi Robin;
>>
>> The computer are accessible at off hours, but
>> only from 8:00 till 23:00.
>>
>> Your cron sugestion could be an idea while
>> I can't implement the solution that I want.
>>
>> I'm thinking in grid cause we have research groups
>> that could use idle cpu to perform simulations.
>>
>> If you have sugestions (links) related to grid implementation,
>> please send to me.
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>> Adriano.
why not have specific cpus left on for the distributed computing, and have
the others shut off via cron.
OR, you could have a cron script check for the existance of a file (say,
one created by your distributed computing environment), and if it's there,
then don't power down.
-d
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