I'm a computational chemist working with little computational power and dealing with increasingly demanding chemical systems. My work machines are part of a big network (mixed with windows and linux) and I was asking myself: is it possible to borrow computational power from machines around me (with permission from my department, of course)?
Borrow computational power from machines around me
computational chemistry;cluster computing
You can use HTCondor that is designed exactly to steal cpu cycles from remote machines. It may be a little difficult to setup but I think this may be the best approach.