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Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles

Posted by Hemos on from the making-good-use-of-time-and-resources dept.

Hustler writes "More on the University of Texas grid project's mission to integrate numerous, diverse resources into a comprehensive campus cyber-infrastructure for research and education. This article examines the idea of harvesting unused cycles from compute resources to provide this aggregate power for compute-intensive work."

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  1. Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The proper decision would balance these three (and other factors) in defining a portfolio of computing assets that can cost-effectively handle both baseline and peak computing loads."

    You're probably right, but oh what a beautiful line of marketing-speak... If you happen to work in management or sales somewhere, write this baby down!
  2. Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor by Poltras · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse, they contribue to global entropy, thus reducing universe lifetime... What are we doing?

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