Go to the apple store and set up the mac pro in each store to fold.
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
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#12Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that would be much more energy efficient than a desktop computer
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#13Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
While true and while phones are considerably more powerful now than they used to be, modern ARM SoCs don't come close to their x86 counterparts.
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#14Why are they not appealing to the major cloud providers at this time to use any spare resources couldn't they set it up so that the cloud providers could count using resources as donation to a charity?
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#15Why are they not appealing to the major cloud providers at this time to use any spare resources couldn't they set it up so that the cloud providers could count using resources as donation to a charity?
Cloud providers do not have much unused resource. Tricks like spot instances make sure that they are as close to 100% utilization as possible while still being able to handle a spike in demand.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#16Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that would be much more energy efficient than a desktop computer
Energy efficiency doesn't necessarily comes from being better on full load. Smartphonechips provide tons of power saving mechanisms, true but also are quite limited on how they operate.
I assume that generic code on a x86 desktop cpu should be more efficient by watt/work in comparison on a mobile chip. I'm also not sure how a smartphone is rated for 100% cpu load 24/7
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#17Why are they not appealing to the major cloud providers at this time to use any spare resources couldn't they set it up so that the cloud providers could count using resources as donation to a charity?
Cloud providers do not have much unused resource. Tricks like spot instances make sure that they are as close to 100% utilization as possible while still being able to handle a spike in demand.
Can I spin up instances and write it off for charity as a business?
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#18Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that would be much more energy efficient than a desktop computer
Not really actually, as a ARM cpu is not as powerful as a x86_64 one : the "compute power / electrical power" should not be really better I guess
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#19Go to the apple store and set up the mac pro in each store to fold.
Doing that on your own would probably get you in trouble. However, if Apple chose to do it themselves, then it would be a both a good PR move and of possible help to humanity. Same goes for Microsoft and the Microsoft store, and every store that has computers running on idle (Best Buy, Office Depot, etc). Who can we tweet at?
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#20A friend tried this in the last week and was frustrated that there seemed to be no way to limit CPU/GPU use to only work relaed to Covid. Is there a way to limit work to Covid?
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