Re:The untapped potential of volunteer computing
by sitkack on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @08:11AM
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I am not sure if the current boinc clients do this but to gain more users they could
* run only while connected to wall power
* run while battery is 80% charged or higher (don't compete with a 0% charged battery)
* don't spin the fan (meaning throttle back and don't make the user's machine sound like a jet engine)
The much worse problem is that many laptops have non-decent cooling - so if you really put them under hard workload for a longer time, you will at least hear that by the loud annoying fan or the processor will reduce its clock frequency making the laptop slower.