Sure - creating a lucene index of the entire revision history of all wikipedia's for a WikiBlame extension.
More realistically (although I would like to do the above) a natural language parse of the current revision of the english wikipedia. Based on the supposed availability of this hardware, I'd say it could be done in less than a week.
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Servers
I have to say the toolserver has grown a lot from that first donated server ^_^
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:00 AM, River Tarnell river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk wrote:
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Brian:
I vote for making the toolserver the head-node to a much larger beowulf cluster that has a well configured job scheduler.
so the issue is that more CPU is needed to run the research jobs? how much more? do you have an example of a job and what it would require to run here?
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