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 <ri...@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > - river. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (HP-UX) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm3fcsACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLahACgl/mTCSMcqndaChCrooL9geWo > qYYAnRBmY5aFv3uvScH6uZWcDB8fTV5a > =Q0+7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
