re: #145 Pawn of the Oppressor

I was just reading about distributed computing projects (I had a mind to participate in something with my computer’s idle time)

Do you know about the consumptioned energy by this?
That all these distributed computing projects waste many times more energy than a fitting supercomputer would ever use?

Just saying - not that these things are bad at all, but I really started to belief this is just a hype from your local utility company.

I decide to use a smaller and older computer just longer (refittet Notebook as desktop-replacement that uses just 15% of the energy a big one would need.) I can do everything I want need with it but Boing and Co. will steal to much.

That is the decission - contributed computing or conserving of energy - I choose the last on.

And than using FCPGAs for this would be much more effective and would reduce the necessary power big times.