#apptamer — Public Fediverse posts

@stfn I've contributed off and on to #boinc #foldingathome and other #distributedcomputing projects for many years but now don't want to run up my electric bill or warm the planet for them.
Are there any data showing energy efficiency of distributed computing options? I can run Folding@Home on just my high efficiency cores 24/7 with #AppTamer but I've no idea if that is "green" compared to a server. BOINC uses high power/low efficiency cores so I uninstalled it.

@stfn I've contributed off and on to #boinc #foldingathome and other #distributedcomputing projects for many years but now don't want to run up my electric bill or warm the planet for them.
Are there any data showing energy efficiency of distributed computing options? I can run Folding@Home on just my high efficiency cores 24/7 with #AppTamer but I've no idea if that is "green" compared to a server. BOINC uses high power/low efficiency cores so I uninstalled it.

I tried #foldingathome and #boinc on my M1 and M2 macbook airs to see how they work without fans.
None of them use the efficient cores of the #applesilicon CPUs, even #einsteinathome, which supposedly is written for these.

#apptamer can force #foldingathome but not #boinc to run on the efficient cores and #primegrid can use the GPU.

Makes me wonder again how green is #distributedcomputing compared to projects just building or leasing larger, more efficient computers. #greencomputing

I tried #foldingathome and #boinc on my M2 MacBook Air to see how they work without fans.

None of them use the efficient cores of the #applesilicon CPUs, even #einsteinathome, which supposedly is written for these.

#apptamer can force #foldingathome but not #boinc to run on the efficient cores and #primegrid can use the GPU.

Makes me wonder again how green is #distributedcomputing compared to projects building or renting larger, more efficient computers. #greencomputing