Subj : RE: The BOINC Project
To   : pokeswithastick
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 08:51:00

 po> As energy prices go up these wasted CPU cycles become quite expensive. My
 po> bbs is running on an old Xeon X5690 and I notice the energy draw if the
 po> CPU gets maxed out.  I measured my server closet at about about 160 watts
 po> in total idling which is about 1 GBP per day in UK.

Our power prices are becoming quite hideous.. already up some 160% and expect
ing more of the same.  But I noticed some time back some of my "higher
performance" systems which were pretty long in the tooth were quite power
hungry... The OctoCore sabretooth system sucked about 140W by itself I think
it was, and the quad XEONs weren't much better... I kinda down graded to
Core2s after that... made a huge dent in the power bill.

Spec


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