Does anyone out there have an existing toolkit to start and stop Prime 95 (running as a service) on large groups of Windows XP machines?
Of late my participation in GIMPS has declined due to the fact that almost all of the machines I have access to at work are now small form factor with variable speed fans. A lab sitting idle is very quiet. A lab running GIMPS is *VERY* loud and gets *VERY* hot. I currently have 11 large computer labs with just under 400 2.6 to 3.0 GHz machines and one lab with 19 dual 3.0 GHz Xeon CPU machines that could potentially be contributing CPU time. Almost all machines are Dell OptiPlex small form factor machines, all are running Windows XP Pro, all have the Windows firewall turned on, all are in a MS Active Directory, and all machines have the SMS client on them. Baring hardware failures, these machines are imaged only twice per year. What I would like is the ability to schedule the times where the Prime 95 service starts and stops, be able to modify said schedule, and be able to turn off Prime 95 manually in a particular lab when needed (even if this is done through modifying the schedule to turn off the service 1 minute from the current time). I also need the ability to schedule each lab individually. Any ideas? -Marc CC: mersennrform.org's Software _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
