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Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
The question is now how many times do we have to watch Henny Penny gun down Chicken Little before they figure out that there has been a murder.
Humpty Dumpty was arrested for conspiracy, but tried to go over the wall.

Think about that little girl before you press the off switch tonight
I thought about it, and decided to come home with another CPU chip and a power supply/cabinet. Memory and hard drive will follow later.
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Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
Thanks retsof
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rose Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
The question is now how many times do we have to watch Henny Penny gun down Chicken Little before they figure out that there has been a murder.
Humpty Dumpty was arrested for conspiracy, but tried to go over the wall.

Think about that little girl before you press the off switch tonight
I thought about it, and decided to come home with another CPU chip and a power supply/cabinet. Memory and hard drive will follow later.


Yes, I think about her a lot! I have enough parts in-house to think about her a more. Much more. crying
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I'm sorry courine
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Oh dont be. The more people get to know that little girl, the more devices will be showing up to make her dream come true.
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Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
Personally, I don't care how much energy my computer uses. I see my crunching for FA@H and HCC as something I can do to help out. Money isn't the issue. BTW my dual-core AMD 64 Athlon X2 does two at a time plus I run Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 so I can do another.
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Re: Boinc Damaging the Environment.
Has anyone considered all the power that is used by Boinc computing. I put a wattage meter on my two pc's and found that when doing nothing, just setting there they consumed 23w. But when are both crunching WCG Bonic work units they are consuming 650 watts.

what Frankenshein are you using?
mine APC UPS says that I use the 100W (peak at 105W) of power for only PC with BOINC crunching...on other PC the power meter is not present on APC software, and the APC didn't tell me how to enable it?!

maybe you should try powering down the monitor & not using the screensaver...
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Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
Personally, I don't care how much energy my computer uses. I see my crunching for FA@H and HCC as something I can do to help out. Money isn't the issue. BTW my dual-core AMD 64 Athlon X2 does two at a time plus I run Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 so I can do another.

The VM on the same machine running BOINC? Bet you that at the end of the day you still report the same average CPU hours of computation. Adding a VM is more likely adding a bunch of overhead.

Any experts present on this?
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Re: Is the World Community Grid energy-inefficient? Perhaps the project scientists should use a supercomputer instead?
Sekerob:
"The VM on the same machine running BOINC? Bet you that at the end of the day you still report the same average CPU hours of computation. Adding a VM is more likely adding a bunch of overhead."

I shut down my VPC for two days to see whether or not there would be any shortening of time it took my dual processor to finish each work unit. It works out to about an hour less each. I'm turning the VPC back on. Besides, I like seeing my total points increase and my rank drop. : )
OK, so my motives aren't 100% pure............ Hey! I'm about to cruise past a million points pretty soon.
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