I've seen this done on another forum/DC team and I tried getting it to go on TPR but there was little interest. (Check out our effort here..)

Basically it's to join small PC's into one user. You know the old machines you all have and they barely score much. The P2 at the bottom of your desk you really dont want to throw away but it sits there and slowly crunches? That Duron you upgraded from and didn't get round to throwing out?


The idea is to get together as a team and run these machines as one user. Try and drum up some interest in crunching (I know you chaps are already pretty good, but it's a bit of fun) I'd throw my low power 533Mhz machine in.

If others fancy chucking in support, we need to come up with a username for the user and a project/projects to run.

As a start, I suggest malaria control.net as it runs with little RAM (my 533MHz CPU with 512Mb RAM is on it). Maybe a non BOINC project as well?

Because the single machines dont give much credit each, people wont really miss them. Is it something people are interested in?

Maybe a limit to the CPU's that can join? Like anything under a certain BOINC benchmark or under 1Ghz? Thoughts?