it's cold weather, good for BOINC
https://wiki.debian.org/BOINC Above is the Debian Wiki page for BOINC (which includes SETI@Home and many other distributed computing projects). The weather will stop your PCs overheating and waste heat will keep your home warm. http://cpubenchmark.net/ The above page gives performance information about almost all recent i386 and AMD64 class CPUs which in most cases includes the TDP (the amount of heat generated and therefore power used). So if you have multiple PCs in your home you can choose the ones with more performance and less power use. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Huh? On 04/06/17 15:35, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
For someone whom is sold on the belief that climate change is a very serious issue, one would think that the use of IT equipment to generate heat via the use of energy would be somewhat hypocritical as it would be much less efficient to generate heat this way, even if for a good cause, wouldn't it? You can please take that as a statement really, just couldn't resist. Cheers AndrewM
On Monday, 5 June 2017 1:03:00 AM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
On 04/06/17 15:35, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
For someone whom is sold on the belief that climate change is a very serious issue, one would think that the use of IT equipment to generate heat via the use of energy would be somewhat hypocritical as it would be much less efficient to generate heat this way, even if for a good cause, wouldn't it?
Generating heat via a PC is exactly as efficient as generating it via any electric heater that's not a heat-pump. I don't advocate running electric heaters either. But some useful waste heat in Winter while generating useful scientific calculations is much better than buying servers to run in server rooms with dedicated cooling. Most server rooms give double waste electricity use, for calculations and for cooling. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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