http://fold-server.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Off to ebay, see you later...http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20-x-COMPAQ-ENL-PIII-733Mhz-DESKTOPS-256RAM-CD-ROMS_W0QQitemZ8741677894QQcategoryZ3746QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Actually somthing I saw a while back could be possible

It's share based and has the word farm in it, just need a suitable shed.

Looks interesting.

Is there a bulk buy for 20 HDDs too? Where'd you setup all of those then?

as an aside, just read the "documentation" for that FAH thing.... :eek: HELL! Think I'd rather risk it and stick a knock off windows 98 on each PIII and just run the console version in services on each.... Doing that 20 times would make me go doo-lally! :silly: :insane:

I know theres 20 of them - but surely they would not performe that well ??

Bang for buck maybe. Grab 20 of those for £100, 20 HDDs for £50 (maybe?) and as long as they can all get power and are reliable - looking at ahem...[ouch, brain hurts] about 15 ghz of power. 256mb of RAM means they could all happily do the big scoring WUs as well (although it might take one 2 weeks to crunch it, 20 machines would soon score 12,000 points )

looks like a plan.

i have a spare deskpro somewhere.....

and about 6 hdd