thats always nice. i have a duel core machine on this laptop and when i have boinc projects utilizing 100% of my processor with no impact on responsiveness wchi is nice.
off topic but i noticed u work for intel. are you guys looking for people to test future chips? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Lombard, David N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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