On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:19:32PM -0700, David Mathog wrote: > Carsten Aulbert wrote > > Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > What exactly is bonic/boinc? > > > > First hit with Google: > > > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ > > I have a nit to pick with them. Their web site implies (but does not > explicitly state) that giving them access to your wasted computing > resources costs you nothing, that everybody wins and nobody loses. ... > My point being, with respect to the original poster, letting something > like boinc run on a cluster for outside use could easily end up costing > the cluster's owner many thousands of dollars a year.
Along these lines, I had a prime number search running in the background on my home desktop. It ran so well--99% utilization with no impact on interactive responsiveness--that I completely forgot about it. I only rediscovered it when I wondered why my CPU was running so hot. -- David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
