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Re: ::scr Seti@Home & Global Warming



On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> I'd be interested in seeing a comparison between an "idle" computer and
> one that is crunching Seti units. My guess is that the power consumption
> difference isn't going to be that significant

Even compared to machines that sleep after a period of idle time and then
dump the memory state to disk and turn off?

There's always the scale of this to consider as well.  Over 3m machines,
that's got to be a pretty hefty power consumption.


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Dave Turner
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