You could experiment with protocols that run on several host, wether it is kubernetes, GlusterFS or Hadoop Spark.

If you are more adventurous you can experiment by making your own little telecom datacenter: with BGP, IP anycast, VPN and MPLS or even radius or mock 5G networks if you convert some of them as virtual routers.

On a more artistic side I had a buddy that used many thin clients to manage video projectors to make “holographic” projections for art and music shows (the goal is to synchronise and manage all elements to have a cool effect)

Have fun!

I started working on a federated implementation of this this week actually.

Would love to read what functionalities you’d see for such service.

For now I’m implementing activity logging, sharing of activities in groups (kinda like Lemmy communities), public or private as well as a statistics and the ability to post traces and create challenges to share.