The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors. I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pi processors doing a bunch of stuff (mostly collecting data) and they all are overkill for the task at hand. They mostly send data to servers and/or retrieve massaged data for presentation. I can't imagine any of these processors ever becom
I sell my excess solar back to the grid at a rate which is a really bad deal for me - only 6c per kWh, which is al any of the utilities will pay for it I expect selling my 'spare' computing cycles will be a similarly crap deal. One day I hope there will be an energy storage solution which will allowe me to better usilise this excess solar capacity. Meanwhile, I switch offwhatever cpu's I don't actually need running, so there aren't really any spare cycles to be had, and if there were, I wouldn't want to burn t
Cycles are too cheap (Score:5, Informative)
The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors.
I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pi processors doing a bunch of stuff (mostly collecting data) and they all are overkill for the task at hand. They mostly send data to servers and/or retrieve massaged data for presentation. I can't imagine any of these processors ever becom
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I sell my excess solar back to the grid at a rate which is a really bad deal for me - only 6c per kWh, which is al any of the utilities will pay for it
I expect selling my 'spare' computing cycles will be a similarly crap deal.
One day I hope there will be an energy storage solution which will allowe me to better usilise this excess solar capacity.
Meanwhile, I switch offwhatever cpu's I don't actually need running, so there aren't really any spare cycles to be had, and if there were, I wouldn't want to burn t
Re:Cycles are too cheap (Score:1)