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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 04:46 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:36:21 BST Michael Jones wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:02 PM Gregory Rudolph <rudi@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > I would also offer up some computing power for that, on VMs, or |
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> physical |
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> > > hardware with different configurations. I'd like to be more involved |
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> with |
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> > > the Gentoo Development community, but time is rarely ever on my side. |
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> > > Best wishes, gentoo's not dead, |
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> > Right, I'm sitting on several big-beefy x86_64 machines (They're older |
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> > machines, but they check out...) that typically are powered off. |
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> > I would be happy to donate CPU cycles from one of them. |
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> Have you thought of contributing their power to BOINC projects? There's a |
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> choice. |
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> https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ |
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> "BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered |
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> resources." |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Peter. |
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They don't have GPUs (headless servers) so the calculations they can manage |
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for boinc are going to be on the lower end. If it works similarly to |
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folding at home. |
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Not a bad suggestion. But at the moment I'm.more concerned with Gentoo QA |
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