Software for PrimeNet farm - Page 3

wblipp · 2004-12-23, 18:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by xilman

I regard computation as a valuable by-product of my fan heaters.

I thought about this today when I visited a large drafty house where they have the central heat turned way down and use electric heaters to spot heat individual rooms. I wondered if I could get them to use computing heater fans instead.

The design issues are interesting. A single CPU is relatively low power compared to an electric heater, so I guess some kind of multi-CPU system would be desired. And some kind of themostat and throttle would be needed. Then how to set computations and collect results? Perhaps a wireless card in each system, and I could drive by once a week with a wireless laptop? I wonder if we could build something cheap enough to really get our friends and neighbors to use it?

William

moo · 2004-12-23, 21:09

suffiient heat would need a lot of cpu power i mean u need a few hundred watts to heat a room proibily around 300 watts or so the p4s dump around 50 to 80 watts i dont remember correctly someione tell me if im wrong so u would need quite a few but u can always use one cpu and stick 3 70 watt lightbulbs in there ;)

moo · 2005-01-20, 22:00

bump quite important thread..... needs to live...

wblipp · 2005-01-21, 18:12

I thought about using an eight processor PIII machine and a thermostat, but I didn't find any cheap 8-processor machines on ebay.

moo · 2005-01-21, 19:40

...try 4 there usally cheaper....

PhilF · 2005-05-02, 19:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime Monster

Have a look at my site http://ws9.jobnegotiator.com/ and specifically http://ws9.jobnegotiator.com/html/netboot.html which does more or less exactly what you want.

PM

Is there an update to these links? I would like to see the site, but the links appear to be outdated.

moo · 2005-05-02, 20:59

unfortunalty prime monsters site went down a long time ago but if you are able to hold on for slow load times and what not http://web.archive.org/web/200312212...egotiator.com/
archive.org has the entire internet on its servers that above is the link to the prime monsters site ;)

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2004-12-23, 21:09	#24
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	suffiient heat would need a lot of cpu power i mean u need a few hundred watts to heat a room proibily around 300 watts or so the p4s dump around 50 to 80 watts i dont remember correctly someione tell me if im wrong so u would need quite a few but u can always use one cpu and stick 3 70 watt lightbulbs in there ;)

2005-01-20, 22:00	#25
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	bump quite important thread..... needs to live...

2005-01-21, 18:12	#26
wblipp "William" May 2003 New Haven 2×7×13² Posts	I thought about using an eight processor PIII machine and a thermostat, but I didn't find any cheap 8-processor machines on ebay.

2005-01-21, 19:40	#27
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	...try 4 there usally cheaper....

2005-05-02, 20:59	#29
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 329₁₆ Posts	unfortunalty prime monsters site went down a long time ago but if you are able to hold on for slow load times and what not http://web.archive.org/web/200312212...egotiator.com/ archive.org has the entire internet on its servers that above is the link to the prime monsters site ;)