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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. electricity by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does anyone realize that running a CPU at 100% takes more electricity than running a CPU at 10%?

    "wasted compute cycles" aren't free. I would assert they're not even "wasted".

  2. CPU power consumption by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050509/cual_core _athlon-19.html

    60-100W difference between idle and full power consumption. That is not an insignificant amount of power.