[NCLUG] Re: "Green" power

[Chad Perrin]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 08:46:05AM -0600, John L. Bass wrote:
> 
> If you would have read the reference I provided, you would have noticed 
> that a typical high end desktop/server produces a very pitiful 
> contribution to the folding.stanford.edu project, where PS3 and certain 
> high end graphics cards with powerful GPU's complete much higher work 
> units on much lower power. An order of magnitude better work to power 
> ratio, thus making the practice of leaving a desktop powered up just to 
> run a distributed computing client very wasteful. This just doesn't make 
> sense from a conservation standpoint.

Can I assume, then, that you've bought a bunch of PS3s and will be
sending them to people who are currently running F at H on x86(-64)
computers?  You might want to put me on that list, since I'm running F at H
on x86 systems and don't own a PS3.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Larry Wall: "Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of
that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'."
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