here are some more ideas

there is a true random method of obtaining seed numbers for encryption keys, etc. (see google: 
"hotbits").  it wouldn't need a cluster per say, but what could be more geekish than playing with 
mosix and radioisotopes? :)

it wouldn't be practical at all, but it could be fun to load Xaos on the cluster and make some 
really HUGE fractals....anyone have access to a plotter?  (pretty fractal posters :))

--- KRFinch@dstsystems.com wrote:
>
>Here's some ideas (some serious and most not).  We could:
>
>- use it to filter the Spam from the kclug mailing list
>
>- set it up as a war dialer to call telemarketing companies during dinner
>
>- render something cool, like a sunset flyby of downtown KC, or Toy Story 5
>
>- generate time-stamped 1024-bit random numbers for some wacky encryption
>scheme
>
>- play Quake REALLY FAST
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>- host our own mini search engine of Linux-related documentation
>
>- set up a web service to automatically translate between English,
>Canadian, American, Australian, and Kiwi
>
>- play chess against some other LUG's cluster
>
>- handicap horse races to raise enough money to get a bigger booth at ITEC
>next year
>
>- crunch an interesting but nearly useless math problem, like the best way
>to call your shots when you play Battleship, a foolproof strategy for
>Mancala, or whether it is better to pay or try and roll doubles when you
>get sent to Jail in Monopoly
>
>Well, just some thoughts...
>
>- Kevin
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>Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:
>> What are you guys going to do with it?
>
>A Perl script virtual replica of every research project
>at Stowers Institute, yielding more accurate results
>without killing rats.
>
>And for only $50, for a savings of $999,999,950.
>
>Seriously, how about we come up with something that
>no other cluster in the world is working on. Any
>stark raving visionaries in the LUG?
>
>-Jared
>
>ps. as a default, we could simply contribute to SETI or
>any of the other global multinode projects...
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