I'm currently working for a school, which just bought 10 brand new 1.4ghz machine (running linux) on which the students can browse the web, check email, etc. Since this is the only thing the students do, these machines have a lot of CPU cycles left over. I was wondering if there is a (semi-secure) way i can monitor each machine's load so I can tell the CS department on which machines they can run their CPU intensive programs.