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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Amithony on November 29, 2008, 11:39:18 AM
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I reckon we should form a team to help somewhere like the folding@home, BOINC project or similar to help get the Amiga name up in lights when interesting discoveries are made. I'm sure there are teams ready to go on this one.
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Read my sig...
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Has been BOINC ported to Amiga? :-?
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Fransexy_ wrote:
Has been BOINC ported to Amiga? :-?
Only if your running M68K Linux. You could also download the source (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Anonymous_platform) and port it yourself.
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adz wrote:
Read my sig...
Love your work. We should really push this one as hard as possible. It would be great to reach number one. :)
What team number are you on?
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I wonder if folding@home will find a cure for the problems caused by wasting lots of electricity to do heavy computation for no apparent reason. mmmm
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cantido wrote:
I wonder if folding@home will find a cure for the problems caused by wasting lots of electricity to do heavy computation for no apparent reason. mmmm
Is there really any more electricity being used than if the computer is just sitting there being on while nobody is using it?
Edit: I think the reason for the computation is apparent. It's really apparent. Took me not even 5 seconds to ascertain the reason from the website.
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Is there really any more electricity being used than if the computer is just sitting there being on while nobody is using it?
Yes - lots. My PeeCee draws 65 W idle, with full load (F@H GPU and CPU clients) power consumption grows to 254 W.
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cantido wrote:
I wonder if folding@home will find a cure for the problems caused by wasting lots of electricity to do heavy computation for no apparent reason. mmmm
Hippies that smoke pot don't care about cancer do they? :) The Earth doesnt care if people live on it. People care that they survive. I can sense someone is part of the inconvenient truth religion. Why use a PC at all if you can save the environment or lights for that matter? Never mind that industrial countries are pumping pollution in the air at billions of times greater than a PC. Even the humble cow emits as much as a car, so what are you going to do about them, try to cull the numbers to reduce the number of cows to save the environment? If someone you know suffers from cancer or alzheimers, im sure you wont be thinking about the environment when a cure is available. I guess i was wrong about all amiga users being fairly intelligent.
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What if we run our mains off solar panels? :)
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Amithony wrote:
Why use a PC at all if you can save the environment or lights for that matter?
You can use a machine to achieve a task that would otherwise take more time and consume more energy if it were done manually. For example the energy used to send an email is probably a fraction of what it would take to deliver a normal letter, especially if it was international mail. That doesn't mean to say you should leave that machine on all the time.
Never mind that industrial countries are pumping pollution in the air at billions of times greater than a PC.
So non-industrial countries have PC's that are made by processes that produce little pollution and run on clean energy... or maybe producing machines like PC's are a major cause of the waste industrial countries produce and the energy used to operate those machines goes on to further the waste generated.
Even the humble cow emits as much as a car
Emit what -- co2? Well the cow problem isn't the cows fault is it? It's not like cows by nature bread themselves in high densities in order to supply the human population with meat. But they are tasty.
im sure you wont be thinking about the environment when a cure is available. I guess i was wrong about all amiga users being fairly intelligent.
Maybe a lot of the problems we have today are a result of all the energy we've wasted? Whats the point of curing people when we might not have enough food to keep even the originally healthy people alive? Has anything worth while been found by any of these distributed projects yet?
If all Amiga users were intelligent they wouldn't be on forums ranting about the second coming of Amiga now would they?
n.b. I was originally joking. There are figures somewhere of how much energy gentoo users waste rebuilding their software somewhere. Might be interesting for you to have a look at.
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Amithony wrote:
What if we run our mains off solar panels? :)
- made of nasty materials that could cause cancer... its a cruel cruel world eh?
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cantido wrote:
Amithony wrote:
What if we run our mains off solar panels? :)
- made of nasty materials that could cause cancer... its a cruel cruel world eh?
Yup, straight into the dont give a hoot basket. Until countries like the US, India and China hop on the bandwagon on cutting their emissions, a pissy PC running all day is the last of my worries. Heres looking forward to the high tides and warmer climate. Bring it on.
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Amithony wrote:
What team number are you on?
Who else but Team Amiga (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=2190) ;-)
Team 2190 BTW :-)
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Im in ... burn baby burn :)
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I joined... I don't know how much good I can actually affect, but it doesn't hurt to help.
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It all adds up :)
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http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=2190
Woohoo! First parcel completed. I tagged Amiga.org to my name to help with identification. :)