<div>thats always nice. i have a duel core machine on this laptop and when i have boinc projects utilizing 100% of my processor with no impact on responsiveness wchi is nice.</div>
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<div>off topic but i noticed u work for intel. are you guys looking for people to test future chips?<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Lombard, David N <<a href="mailto:dnlombar@ichips.intel.com">dnlombar@ichips.intel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:19:32PM -0700, David Mathog wrote:<br>> Carsten Aulbert wrote<br>> > Robert G. Brown wrote:<br>> > > What exactly is bonic/boinc?<br>> ><br>> > First hit with Google:<br>
> ><br>> > <a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank">http://boinc.berkeley.edu/</a><br>><br>> I have a nit to pick with them. Their web site implies (but does not<br>> explicitly state) that giving them access to your wasted computing<br>
> resources costs you nothing, that everybody wins and nobody loses.<br></div>...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> My point being, with respect to the original poster, letting something<br>> like boinc run on a cluster for outside use could easily end up costing<br>> the cluster's owner many thousands of dollars a year.<br>
<br></div>Along these lines, I had a prime number search running in the background<br>on my home desktop. It ran so well--99% utilization with no impact on<br>interactive responsiveness--that I completely forgot about it. I only<br>
rediscovered it when I wondered why my CPU was running so hot.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA<br>I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.<br></font>
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