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A comment on Ask HN: What are some worthy non-cryto uses of excess home compute nowadays?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some worthy non-cryto uses of excess hom... by alibert on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:23PM (#29970624)
I run Boinc connected to Science United which allows me to pick/prioritize domain of interest and it handles of the heavy lifting of getting tasks, running and uploading the results. It has been a install and forget experience with currently a small 3300 days of CPU contributed.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some worthy non-cryto uses of excess hom... by netizen-936824 on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:07PM (#29971143)
This is a great use of extra compute overhead! If you don't know how to get into doing computational research yourself, this is definitely the next best thing
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