Sharing CPU time

[jugio]

Strictly speaking this topic would be perhaps more like Of The Wall discussion, but the idea came from portage.

I have two computers, one is an ol' good jolly laptop, Celeron 500mhz with 64mb ram, and the other is a kick-ass 64-bit Athlon. Since the emerging of software with my laptop takes like aeons, as the same work takes only from a dozen seconds to some minutes on my Athlon server, I was thinkink that perhaps there's some way to send compilation requests and packages to be compiled to the server from the laptop. In practise the emerging process would happen in my laptop, but the time-consuming compiling and other processing would happen on the server.

In the physics research center in Switzerland there's CERN, in which they have something called GRID. GRID shares the data to be computed between the network of powerful computers. Maybe there's something like GRID for the linux desktops/servers also?

I guess it shouldn't be too hard just to send packets to the server accompanied by an information packet that describes how to compute the contents of the packet. Then the server would return the computet packages.

[Monkeh]

distcc.

[ewan.paton]

grid is also available on linux, sun opensourced it and openmosix will migrate cpu functions over the network but what you want to speed up compiles is distcc
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