Re: help! Octave, connecting laptops to "supercomputers"

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Pedro wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm a laptop user & student of image, video, sound processing. Laptops
> have big limitations on processing big, complex data or algorithms but
> are great as a "portable terminals to connect".
> In my case, my laptop have a Intel Pentium M processor 1.2 GHz.
> 
> I would like to prepare a "zombie" and strong Desktop Computer to make
> him work what I do in my laptop. ( But it could be also interesting to
> do a small cloud of computers to distribute the work ! )
> 
> This follows the phylosophy of paying a laptop for his portability,
> and a desktop/server (fixed Computer) for processing. No, I don't want
> a ultrabook with intel i7, etc.
> 
> Anyone would like to share his solution for this problem in Octave
> (speficically) or in general (as a operative system)? Preferred
> crossplatform solutions (If Windows or GNU/Linux users could give work
> to him )
> I see the BOINC app [0], but I don't know how can be used. Docs,
> tutorials?? Here is a message in 2005, asking this in a similar way [1]
> 
> Octave provides packages to work in parallel processing, multicores,
> etc. [2]. But i'm not interested in this, because I want a "standard
> code" that anyone can execute (with his resources).
> 
> Also I'm not interested in the solution of "ssh -X" (X forwarding) or
> with a full remote x server [3]with copies between computers with scp
> or rsync / luckybackup
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro

You've excluded many options ... what about remote desktop?

Ben