Very cool hardware project

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You can use it for any grid project you like, not just rendering, that includes weather modeling, computational chemistry, computational cosmology, modeling financial markets, pretty much anything simulation based, algorithmic trading, fluid dynamics, wind tunnel simulation, particle physics etc.

See the 'Software implementations and middleware' section on the link and you will see there are many middleware libraries appearing, also you can always roll your own using sockets.

I keep meaning to look into things like Globus, MPI and even CUDA but never get round to it...

CUDA (Not strictly GRID but shows some of the sort of applications and challenges of parallel processing) -
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/sdk/website/samples.html

 

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Edit: I used world community grid for a while, but I couldn't see any of my slow single core doing much of a difference so I packed it in.

This is really cool! Cabinet could have been a different colour though :P

 

could you run windows on that, just out of curiosity

be interesting to see how it performed on 24 core or wotever it is

 

Yep, no more "Vista is a memory hog" !!

I'm imagining quad sli graphics shoved in; wonder how it'd handle crysis