[Noisebridge-discuss] Distributed number crunching for good?

[Lee Sonko]

Each computer's milage may vary but according to a kill-a-watt I borrowed,
my 7 year old 3ghz P4 computer draws 122 watts when idle and 192 watts when
running SETI at Home.

Wow, compare that to the 10 watt idle of the laptop I got this month.


I don't mention this to disuade, just to inform. Distributed number
crunching is a good thing!
 
lee




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Rubin Abdi
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 1:08 AM
> To: NoiseBridge Discuss
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Distributed number crunching for good?
> 
> We have a hand full of machines at Noisebridge that are on 
> but not actually interacting with human beings or doing 
> anything mission critical 98% of the time. Is running Folding 
> @Home still cool or is there another more awesome distributed 
> data mining thing we could be doing with said machines?
> 
> -- 
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
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