How can you get the most use out of a Windows PC lab?
Most Windows PC labs around the country are severely underutilized. Despite the high cost of power consumption and management, average PC labs only uses about 10% of their total CPU utilization in a particular day. Meaning that 90% of the time, the CPU is just waiting and running some idle process that does nothing. Well, there is a solution at
This Grid Appliance project you to turn a Windows PC lab into a Condor pool without interfering with normal lab use. Through the use of virtualization, this can be acheived without requiring any change to the infrastructure of the lab. And all this can be done effortlessly. Here is a list of projects/software that have made this possible.
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VMware (www.vmware.com)
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Condor (www.cs.wisc.edu/condor)
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IP-over P2P (www.ipop-project.org)
If any of the links above are not clear enough on how this is possible, simple reply to this post and I will be glad to provide more details.
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