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"Nightlife" Harnesses Idle Fedora Nodes For Research

Posted by timothy on from the deserves-an-award-for-the-name-alone dept.

A. B. VerHausen writes "If you've given up on SETI, now you can let your idle computer help with other kinds of scientific research. Red Hat employee Bryan Che started a project called Nightlife. He wants people to 'donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.'" Che hopes to have more than a million Fedora nodes running as part of this project.

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  1. Re:SETI by ljgshkg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But for most people, they don't turn on their computer just for that anyway. They just let it run as screensaver when they're away for a while, or they let it to make use of unused CPU cycles while they're working or doing other stuff. It's not like they're using extra electricity.