[NCLUG] Re: "Green" power
John L. Bass
jbass at dmsd.com
Mon Sep 15 00:24:41 MDT 2008
Of course Chad, it's all in the plan. Step one is a manditory
replacement of all ICE's with EV's, with the flux capacitor upgrade
standard :)
All CISC and RISC machines are scheduled to be replaced with PS7's
shortly after that, based on excess investments from the revised Social
Security surplus :D
John
Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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.
>
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