Multi-player, AI chess? (or any other game) You've got plently of computing
power, so how about making the board 3D? (or making the game more complex in
some other way).
Possibly, some form of massive network simulation?
Gateways are fairly simple to setup and test, firewalling just adds security
without having to be too careful about how services (eg. web/email etc.) are
configured, regarding which network ports you use. You can do it with one box
downstream of the firewall/gateway to do the testing, and leave everything else
upstream until you're satisfied. Most of us, however, leave that job to the
small ADSL Router/Firewall box which does it for much less power and
complication.
A paraview render-farm running downstream of a gateway (client was upstream)
with a queing system is a good laugh, that took me a while to work out.
Good luck,
Tim B.
On Sunday 23 October 2011 11:47:34 Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Things I've thought of are:
>
> * Getting compiz-fusion to work - but gave up on this - it never seemed to
> work for me - changing settings seemed to have little result
>
> * Multimedia: Recording music or Podcasts / Video editing aren't really my
> thing
>
> * 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!
>
> * Render farm - too similar to lam-mpi
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.lam-mpi.org/
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