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It's television news guys, not real news. How do they come up with the cost of replacement parts? And don't SETI programs only run when the machine is idle?
by drhowarddrfine 17y ago
It's television news guys, not real news.
How do they come up with the cost of replacement parts? And don't SETI programs only run when the machine is idle?
- flatline 17y agoYes, but it pegs the processor(s) when it's running, so there's the potential for increased energy consumption and faster hardware burnout. Also it seems like it would be a sensible policy to have systems go into low power/sleep mode while unused rather than doing FFTs all night, though the article didn't offer enough details to determine if this was an issue or not.