Re:BOINC: Compute for Science
by dragonwriter on Friday September 11, 2015 @06:21PM
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> As a longtime BOINC user, I'm sometimes frustrated by how tiny a percentage of our global (idle) processing power is being used by distributed computing projects
Hasn't there been significant effort over the last decade or so to improve processor efficiency (for both heat output and power use reasons) by reducing power use when idle, meaning that "idle capacity" is much less of a "free" resource than it used to be?
Hasn't there been significant effort over the last decade or so to improve processor efficiency (for both heat output and power use reasons) by reducing power use when idle, meaning that "idle capacity" is much less of a "free" resource than it used to be?