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> That is one part of the bifurcation. The other part is the mass movement to cloud infra, where there is much less "spare compute" available. What was moved t
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> That is one part of the bifurcation. The other part is the mass movement to cloud infra, where there is much less "spare compute" available.
What was moved to cloud infrastructure are rather servers that were on-premise in the company's data center in the past. These on-premise servers did never really have any "spare capacity" that would have been allowed to be used for such scientific distrubuted computing projects.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThere were some folks contributing to distributed.net that had entire corporate server fleets contributing. It was a different time. I don't know if the leaderboard is still available or archived, same with mailing list and IRC where people were admitting to it. Similarly, people in an IT admin capacity might push out a background process (distributed.net had a binary that would run as a service with no user interface exposed) to fleets of corp desktops with their identifier in the config for leaderboard purposes. https://www.distributed.net/Policy https://www.distributed.net/Policy ("distributed.net does not condone the unauthorized use of its software on any computer system. You may not run any distributed.net software on a system unless you own the system or have received permission from the owner to run distributed.net software. Running the client on a machine without authorization will result in your removal from the project and will disqualify you from winning.") [My note: This exists because of the above mentioned naughty behavior] I should go digging for those EFnet IRC logs.
- bdhcuidbebe 3y agoPeople got fired for running distributed.net on company/school infra more than once.