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> It's not dead. We just call it cloud computing now. Cloud computing is different: I cannot provide computation time of my idling computers to cloud computing
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> It's not dead. We just call it cloud computing now.
Cloud computing is different: I cannot provide computation time of my idling computers to cloud computing (like I can for, say, SETI@home).
- wkat4242 3y agoIt's still distributed and still running on someone else's computer. It's kinda the same thing. Just the evolution of it. And your idling computers won't be idling anymore when they're running SETI@home. These days there a huge energy difference between idle and load. It just doesn't make sense anymore for people to contribute that way. And for institutions that need compute to set up the whole infrastructure, software toolchain, enduser support etc around making it possible. Better to just pay Amazon.