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Failure in understanding concept.
These programs don't solve anything by themselves. They mean that the people conducting the research have access to (a) much more powerful and inevitably cheaper/more cost effective supercomputer(s) for their number crunching.
Cheaper means that grants get spent on actuall research, not on leased time in processing centers. Not leasing time in a processing center means more productivity. Power, obviously, pays for itself in productivity as well.
This doens't mean that the "cluster" supercomputer made of everybody that joins the program actually solves any of this world's problems with it's ever growing power. It means that the people doing the actuall research can "possibly" reach those miracle solutions faster and cheaper.
Once the concept is understood, it's a win-win for everybody
Cheaper means that grants get spent on actuall research, not on leased time in processing centers. Not leasing time in a processing center means more productivity. Power, obviously, pays for itself in productivity as well.
This doens't mean that the "cluster" supercomputer made of everybody that joins the program actually solves any of this world's problems with it's ever growing power. It means that the people doing the actuall research can "possibly" reach those miracle solutions faster and cheaper.
Once the concept is understood, it's a win-win for everybody
Edited by blackepyon01@...
Updated - 27th Jul 2011
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Has anything ever come of this?
Has there ever been any useful discoveries out of these services such as folding@home? These are supposed to do big stuff like help cure cancer, but I've never heard of anybody ever saying a big discovery was possible even in part because of one of these services.
Posted by zackers
Updated - 26th Jul 2011
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Great question
I'll contact folding@home tomorrow.
Posted by David Worthington
26th Jul 2011
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Failure in understanding concept.
These programs don't solve anything by themselves. They mean that the people conducting the research have access to (a) much more powerful and inevitably cheaper/more cost effective supercomputer(s) for their number crunching.
Cheaper means that grants get spent on actuall research, not on leased time in processing centers. Not leasing time in a processing center means more productivity. Power, obviously, pays for itself in productivity as well.
This doens't mean that the "cluster" supercomputer made of everybody that joins the program actually solves any of this world's problems with it's ever growing power. It means that the people doing the actuall research can "possibly" reach those miracle solutions faster and cheaper.
Once the concept is understood, it's a win-win for everybody
Cheaper means that grants get spent on actuall research, not on leased time in processing centers. Not leasing time in a processing center means more productivity. Power, obviously, pays for itself in productivity as well.
This doens't mean that the "cluster" supercomputer made of everybody that joins the program actually solves any of this world's problems with it's ever growing power. It means that the people doing the actuall research can "possibly" reach those miracle solutions faster and cheaper.
Once the concept is understood, it's a win-win for everybody
Posted by blackepyon01@...
Updated - 27th Jul 2011
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Wouldn't it be better
If all PC's in a large business were so equipped to be used in such a way. My home PC is on 5-6 hours a week, if that. That isn't going to add much to anyone's proceesing power. My work computer is on 9-10 hours/day and many times it is just logged off in the evening, because of the 5-10 minutes of network scripts run everytime it is turned on take over 5 minutes of time to run and make the computer useable.
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29th Jul 2011
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Updated - 24th Aug 2011