heads up on http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ programs

Just a heads up on these programs (like etc)...

While they appear to be good, they do a few things that isn't brought to
your attn by them.

- They hog your CPU, even on the 'low' settings. This causes the CPU to
work hard and causes more heat and more power to be used, as the CPU
can't sleep. So working out power usage, assume higher cause of it.
While low means low, it still uses all 'spare' CPU cycles, and this is
the same as pegging the CPU.

- They use internet bandwidth to gather data and send results, something
you should be aware of.

- Do you REALLY know what they are processing?? (really do you?)

Andrew




Douglas P. Milone wrote:
>         For those of you that just leave the computers running 24 X 7
> like me you can install this program at
> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ and use the spare computing power for
> some good deeds...  I've been running it on a few of my computers and it
> doesn't interfere with anything, they have the priority set to low so it
> doesn't interfere with anything....  Just a thought...
>
> d
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Turtle Beach Audiotron User Forum
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Lemke
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AT] Why not more enthused about Roku? (other devices)
>
>
> Recently, Michael replied to a posting of mine, and said:
>
>>>The benefit is that I can now listen to music anywhere in the house
>>>without having to first go down to my office and fire up the PC (or
>>>leave it on 24x7 which is unacceptable to me).
>>
>>But you leave the linkstation on? Why is that better?
>>I leave all my PCs on 24/7. It's better for them.
>
>
> Well, funny you should ask.  I put the Kill-A-Watt meter on my
> LinkStation about a week ago and it seems to be averaging about 7.6
> watts power draw (12 watts when running, and 5 watts when idle).  So, in
> CA, where power can cost $.23/KWH (or more, especially if you have lots
> of PCs and other things drawing power 24x7 such that you end up in a
> higher cost bracket), that figures out to 182 watts per day, or 5.5 KWH
> per month, or a little over a buck's worth of power for the whole month.
>
> How much does your PC draw?  I'd guess no less than 10 times what the
> LinkStation draws.  Compare that to a PC which could cost (here anyway)
> $12/month to run 24x7.  Of course, power may be cheaper where you live,
> but your PC may also draw more than 50 watts when sitting there doing
> nothing other than warming your room, so I think $10-$15/month for a PC
> running 24x7 is probably a reasonable estimate.
>
> If you think about how many millions of computers there are on the
> planet, running all the time, just so they're ready to go whenever you
> need them (even if you don't use them much), there's a ton of wasted
> power being generated and consumed all over.  It's really a shame.  :-(
> --Steve


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