I'm a computational chemist working with little computational power and dealing with increasingly demanding chemical systems. My work machines are part of a big network (mixed with windows and linux) and I was asking myself: is it possible to "borrow" computational power from machines around me (with permission from my department, of course)?
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You can use HTCondor that is designed exactly to "steal" cpu cycles from remote machines. It may be a little difficult to setup but I think this may be the best approach.
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You could install BOINC on those machines. When the computers become idle, the BOINC screensaver/client requests tasks from a server and computes them. See more information about it here. This is the software used by a number of projects such as SETI@Home. You can create your own project with BOINC and then put your desktop machines to work.
answered Oct 29, 2015 at 12:21
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$\begingroup$ I have read about BOINC, the problem is that is is fixed to some projects, isn't it? I mean, one can not change it to his own project, just to contribute with existing and pre-selected scientific projects. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 5:00
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2$\begingroup$ I just added a link to a tutorial on how to create your own independent BOINC project. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 22:08