Re: [LUG] Folding

["Ben Goodger" <goodgerster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/3/07, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can I play Devil's advocate.

Since vast chunks of the computation to most of these project is
provided by spare supercomputer cycles, wouldn't it save the planet a
lot of grief if we focused on ensuring that CPU scaling and other power
management features worked on Linux properly on people's desktop
systems, so they consume minimal power when not actively in use? Rather
than running at full pelt.

I can't see that this will help save the planet, for a number of varyingly pedantic reasons. Also, I don't know of any scaling systems that fail to work with Linux...

I have a horrid feeling that MS Windows might be a tad greener in it's
power support, although that may be more down to Intel and hardware
vendors than MS.

MS Windows doesn't support CPU scaling at all unless you use a third-party app afaik.
On ubuntu, it works out-of-box; on debian, it's a matter of loading a module...

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