somebody wrote:
> "Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
> news:49b439a8$1@news.povray.org...
>> On 3/8/2009 11:18 AM, Saul Luizaga wrote:
>>> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do
> 
>>> http://www.one.org/
>>>
>>> If you have any spare core(s)/CPU(s) please help to help, is for
>>> Humanity sake, thank you.
>> When I have spare cores/CPUs, I power them down.  Once I get my roof
>> coated in solar cells, with a windfarm behind my house, and I'm selling
>> power back to the grid despite running everything 24/7, THEN I'll
>> consider giving away my CPU time.
>>
>> As it is, my power bill is too expensive :(
> 
> I wonder about the efficiency of distributed computing anyway. Sure, the
> cost is transfered from the researcher onto the public, so it's good for
> them, but considering the big picture, wouldn't it be more efficient to use
> one supercomputer in a controlled hardware and software environment than
> hundereds of thousands of motley PCs and the bandwidth, crosschecking,
> software, hosting... etc? You can put a dozen CPUs and memory chips on a
> rack mount motherboard with optimized high speed buses and you have the
> computing power of more than a three dozen random PCs, at a fraction of the
> energy expenditure, with the silly one motherboard per PC architecture,
> unnecessary HDs, video cards, other cards and peripherals.
> 
> In short, just turn off your PC at night and donate part of the savings to
> your favourite research. It would probably be more beneficial for all.

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248.879 TeraFLOPS (http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=wcg)

This stats say you are wrong and don't have clue what you are talking 
about , as you don't care putting a decent nick or your name, just 
"somebody", you don't care about altruistic deeds. But your conscience 
don't leave you alone so you have to post something to make it shut up 
and convince yourself that everything you do is always best. Nice... 
ironically people like you are first to cry out for help when something 
bad happens.

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