Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
Very much the theory used by groups such as SETI@Home
Yep, they have there data crunched using BOINC...

BOINC is the same principle as a cluster, except it uses the Internet as the network instead of a LAN...

Been involved with that, on and off for about 15 yrs...

I did over 6 yrs heavy crunching for different projects... Was in the top 10 in WA for about 6 months...

I stopped for about 5 years, completely stopped...

Setup my laptop up to see how it performs under heavy constant loading and how high I could get the cpu temp.. before starting tho, I stripped the laptop down and redone the heat sinks with paste, cleaned it all out and made sure the vents where clean and the fan bearing was ok...

With all the changes I did to my OS as well, I was able to increase my processing unit credit to 4 times what I did before, in a matter of 4 weeks total...

These new computer chips do make life quicker, and the graphics processor gives you an edge in unit credit...

Mind you, I have a quad core with multithreading, plus the OS boosts the cpu to turbo speeds... I have considered over clocking, but this laptop is over 5 years old now, so to replace with what this can do, I would need 4 times the money, but would get a better graphics processor....

Well thats it for me tonight, Friday night and the scotch is calling loudly....