Twenty Four, Seven
A check of BOINC yielded these results. After instituting a policy of never shutting down the PCs under my care, this is what I have to show for.
Get back to work!
And that was four years ago. Since then, the computing power of central processing units has grown exponentially. Many globally distributed computing projects have sprung up like mushrooms under the unified BOINC architecture. All of them tweaked, or re-tweaked, for greater workloads given the heft in recent processing power.
For comparison, a 400MHz G4 Titanium PowerBook with 1 GB of RAM, took an average of 12 hours to complete an Einstein work unit three years ago.
More than you can chew?Today it takes a whopping 107 hours! Such is the scale of progress and demand. So you can bet 24/7 that with the next generation of Intel multi-core CPUs being rolled out like hot chips, these distributed work units will get bigger and more complex.
posted by Teutoburg @ 11:44 AM
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