Re: [school-discuss] falling costs of producing audio books

[jeff williams <cfiaime@nconnect.net>]

On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:15 pm, Matt Payne wrote:
> Quoting John Munro <jmunro@uvi.edu>:
> > How many of these steps could be 'outsourced' to those with spare cpu
> > cycles?
>
> Yes!  this is a lot better than Seti @Home.   Is the software you're
> talking about all free?  If it is can't you make a kit for people to run
> books through the cycle? -Matt

Greetings,

Ok, here is what I am thinking.  I could set up our computer lab for after 
hours work as a Cluster of Workstations (10 to 20 450 Pentii IIs) and 
automate and collect said books.  If we can set up a crontab to make this 
happen (and to reboot the things around 6:00 a.m. so to have Windows 
available for the "day shift") I think we could get about 8 hours a night of 
processing for the next semester.  I'm sure my boss wouldn't mind, and I 
think I could even work it into a project for a winterim class.  :-)

You do have the software available, don't you?

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jeff williams - cfiaime@nconnect.net
                jeff.williams@cuw.edu