Thanks for all the responses! After some deliberation, and also due to the fact that these computers are super slow all on there own, we are working on getting rocks clusters (
www.rocksclusters.org) onto the computers. Our only problem is getting another network card for our head node and also getting enough switches. The thing in total will (hopefully) have 24 cores and get about 66 GFlops, which isn't that much, comapred to some on the Rocks list. I guess all we need to figure out now is what to do with it all. I personally wanted to run Folding@home or SETI (@Brett928S2), but my friends want a more "practical use" like game servers or http servers. I think i saw someone mention that they used their cluster as an http server. Maybe like each page is hosted on its own core? They are a bit dismayed that there is little personal use beside scientific research and video rendering. I've done lots of research on distributed computing stuff and the only "big" thing is Folding@home, although they already have over 5 PENTAflops
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! Anyone who knows another use for clusters please say so. Oh, and onichikun? Those competitions intrigues me... could you send me a link? I'm in high school, and I live in Memphis, so that sounds like a great opporitunity. And something to put on my college application when I apply to MIT (like I'd ever get in anyways
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) Thanks again! -PortableSounds