To be honest I wouldn't bother hooking up a multimeter to it. I have found in the past with backlight inverters that the input impedance of the meter is just small enough to pull a decent sized current through the output stages of the inverter. Even with new high impedance digital meters. This has the effect of reducing the voltage measured, or even stopping the operation of the inverter, giving the impression the the inverter is blown when in fact it is fine.
Do you think it would be possible to turn this into some form of business model. Where companies who have one-off projects with lots of data to process but not enough to warrant buying their own supercomputer can submit tasks to the system. Of course they should pay for it.
On the other end, the client can make money from processing data for the system. Maybe just to pay for the electricity used by their computers. Or even some kind of system where the more data you process, the less popup adverts you see while browsing. For example I could say I want all my earned money given to slashdot.org in return for no advertising. Everyone's a winner!
how does it compare to the command line versin once the screensaver switches to go to blank mode
I'm not sure what happens when the screensaver switches off. However, I do know that when using SETI@Home on a P4c (with HT) and the SETI window is brought to the front, the processor usage shoots up from 50% to 100%. Maybe this is due to a separate thread being spawned that can be used on the second logical processor. I'm not sure.
This is one thing I would like about the new system, the ability to run more than one instance of SETI at a time. I have tried and failed to get two copies to run together on different logical processors.
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Thank you
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I find your reply interesting, insightful and informative.
Mine was.
What would happen when your broadband ISP cuts you off because you have exceeded their daily/weekly/monthly download limits?
To be honest I wouldn't bother hooking up a multimeter to it. I have found in the past with backlight inverters that the input impedance of the meter is just small enough to pull a decent sized current through the output stages of the inverter. Even with new high impedance digital meters. This has the effect of reducing the voltage measured, or even stopping the operation of the inverter, giving the impression the the inverter is blown when in fact it is fine.
As always, YMMV
Do you think it would be possible to turn this into some form of business model. Where companies who have one-off projects with lots of data to process but not enough to warrant buying their own supercomputer can submit tasks to the system. Of course they should pay for it.
On the other end, the client can make money from processing data for the system. Maybe just to pay for the electricity used by their computers. Or even some kind of system where the more data you process, the less popup adverts you see while browsing. For example I could say I want all my earned money given to slashdot.org in return for no advertising. Everyone's a winner!
I'm not sure what happens when the screensaver switches off. However, I do know that when using SETI@Home on a P4c (with HT) and the SETI window is brought to the front, the processor usage shoots up from 50% to 100%. Maybe this is due to a separate thread being spawned that can be used on the second logical processor. I'm not sure.
This is one thing I would like about the new system, the ability to run more than one instance of SETI at a time. I have tried and failed to get two copies to run together on different logical processors.