On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 15:28, duncan brown wrote: > >> If you have sugestions (links) related to grid implementation, > >> please send to me. > >> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ and many, many more. In Gridengine, for instance, you can have queues which are enabled dependent on a calendar setting - so you could have 'night-only' queues. > 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. I think (am I correct?) that Robin is referring to schemes where desktop machines are network booted into Linux compute machines in off-hours.
