Re: [Hampshire] In need of a project

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Author: Jan Henkins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] In need of a project
How about OpenStack?

http://openstack.org

TL;DR:

It's a way to be even more "cloudy" than Amazon EC2! :-)

But seriously, it's a good business tool for companies of any size.

On Sun, October 23, 2011 11:47, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
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> Can anyone suggest a good Linux project? I have 4 boxes, three of which
> are reasonably "specced" but I've not done much with them (apart from
> the usual emails/web etc) since I had them all running the lam-mpi [1]
> software a while back.
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> Things I've thought of are:
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> * Getting compiz-fusion to work - but gave up on this - it never seemed
> to work for me - changing settings seemed to have little result
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> * Multimedia: Recording music or Podcasts / Video editing aren't really
> my thing
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> * Building a bespoke firewall / router. I'm tempted by this but (as
> I'll
> be most likely doing this over the festive season) I don't want to render
> us without net access!
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> * Render farm - too similar to lam-mpi
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> I'm after something that's more a challenge to setup as opposed to
> something that looks flash. It would also be good if it really uses a
> lot of CPU - I like to see my boxes work hard! Can anyone recommend
> anything?
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> Cheers
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> Rob
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> [1] http://www.lam-mpi.org/
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