Distributed computing query

One of my users has asked if there's any possibility of setting something up to use our local network for distributed computing purposes - basically so that people who have Very Large Calculations to run can use unused cycles (e.g. overnight) on other people's machines to run those calculations rather than relying on their own machines.

I have googled briefly but am a bit lost... (I think I'm at the stage where I don't know enough about what's out there to google usefully). Any of you lot know anything about this? (We're running Linux.)

I have looked at BOINC but from what I can see that works by you setting up a server & then getting individuals out in the World At Large to subscribe to your project; which isn't quite what I'm after (I only want it to run on our local machines).

Er. Anyway. Any useful comments or pointers would be greatly appreciated - I'm failing to get a mental handle on this at all atm!

Distributed computing query

One of my users has asked if there's any possibility of setting something up to use our local network for distributed computing purposes - basically so that people who have Very Large Calculations to run can use unused cycles (e.g. overnight) on other people's machines to run those calculations rather than relying on their own machines.

I have googled briefly but am a bit lost... (I think I'm at the stage where I don't know enough about what's out there to google usefully). Any of you lot know anything about this? (We're running Linux.)

I have looked at BOINC but from what I can see that works by you setting up a server & then getting individuals out in the World At Large to subscribe to your project; which isn't quite what I'm after (I only want it to run on our local machines).

Er. Anyway. Any useful comments or pointers would be greatly appreciated - I'm failing to get a mental handle on this at all atm!