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On 16/08/07, Julian Rex <julian.rex at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used a few; seti at home, climateprediction.net.. but from a work
> point of view, I'm more interested in how they've improve development,
> namely build and render farms.
>
> I'm thinking of tools such as Incredibuild/Xoreax Grid Engine, SN-DBS,
> Maya. There's also scope for in-house tools...

I wondered whether the Last.fm scrobbler application could also do
distributed stats processing as well as just submitting tracks played
to the server.

Still, now that we have things like Amazon ec2, aren't gridcomp
screensavers more of a marketing gimmick than a real way of spreading
the computing load?

Tim