Subj : Re: The BOINC Project
To   : pokeswithastick
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 08:10:00

-=> pokeswithastick wrote to Nightfox <=-

 po> On 16/07/2022 10:52 am Nightfox said...
 Ni> I don't run it all the time (plus, of course, it can push up your
 Ni> electric bill).

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

My workloads are light enough that they run on a laptop maxxd out with ram 
and CPU throttling enabled. Built-in UPS, too!

:)




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