Harvesting & Reusing Idle Computer Cycles 224
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."
Spambots (Score:3, Funny)
So Is This The New Enron.... (Score:1, Funny)
Like water, like electricity, like natural gas and shares of Enron stock?
Spyware, Adware & Malware (Score:5, Funny)
Re:electricity (Score:2, Funny)
NOTE: Scientific accuracy might be impaired during the length of this feature. Thank you for reading.
Re:Virtual Dual Processing (Score:0, Funny)
Green fancy-dancy! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm saving the world!
Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor (Score:5, Funny)
"The proper decision would balance these three (and other factors) in defining a portfolio of computing assets that can cost-effectively handle both baseline and peak computing loads."
You're probably right, but oh what a beautiful line of marketing-speak... If you happen to work in management or sales somewhere, write this baby down!Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sure about that? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:electricity (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I've never heard of this idea before... (Score:3, Funny)
Exciting to read a paper on this fanastic new idea.
Re:How about extra GPU cycles? (Score:3, Funny)
GPU don't have real math... yet. So instead of Folding@home you get "tossed on the bed"@home. Which is unfortunately useless.
Stay tuned tho.
Re:Electricity vs cost of more machines and labor (Score:2, Funny)