OT Re: ComputerGiving - CamLUG project

[Dom Latter]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 15:55:45 Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Dom Latter <dom at latter.org> wrote:
> > Even if they've got the money to spend on the electricity I cannot say
> > I really approve of using energy so inefficiently!
>
> But not worst than watching TV or playing [computers|video] games  ;)

People tend to only watch one TV for a few hours at a time, not two or
more 24/7!

My point (if I need to make it clear) being that using old Pentiums
purely for distributed scientific computation is a very poor use of 
energy when a collection of modern chips in a cluster or super computer
would do much more per kWh.  (At least at first glance; what happens
when you factor in the cost of manufacture, I don't know).