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ArsTechnica: Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Much of science is broke/underfunded and home computers have collectively a shit load of idle computing power on traditional processors and GPUs which are harder to get and more expensive in DCs. The idea of distributed computing for science is sound.

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