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SETI in Trinity

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  • #32
    rsynnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    DrIndy wrote:
    To be frank, why does TCD share a supercomputer with Belfast when they have a supercomputer of their own if they set up a parrallel processing grid with all the unused PCs at night?

    This type of parallel processing really is only really appropriate for tasks that can be divided into many small pieces with little communication between the processors.

    And RE putting SETI@home on library computers, computers that are doing something use more electricity. Ultimately someone would have to pay for it.


  • #33
    vinks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭vinks


    DrIndy wrote:
    To be frank, why does TCD share a supercomputer with Belfast when they have a supercomputer of their own if they set up a parrallel processing grid with all the unused PCs at night?

    the machine that you are talking about got decommissioned about a year or two ago and was in production for ~4yrs, that's quite old news :P we dont share our machine with QUB anymore. the funny thing about that machine was that it's peak performance isnt even worth one or two nodes on the current new cluster.


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