Comments on: Geeky Environmentalist http://www.groveproject.org/2008/03/31/geeky-environmentalist/ A concentration of local citizen journalists Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Ian http://www.groveproject.org/2008/03/31/geeky-environmentalist/#comment-2797 Ian Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:39:56 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2008/03/31/geeky-environmentalist/#comment-2797 <a href="http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html" rel="nofollow">How to participate in volunteer computing projects that benefit humanity</a> How to participate in volunteer computing projects that benefit humanity

]]> By: Ian http://www.groveproject.org/2008/03/31/geeky-environmentalist/#comment-2196 Ian Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:53:15 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2008/03/31/geeky-environmentalist/#comment-2196 IBM and a lot of other companies are getting into this very simple idea: The internet connects *a lot* of computers together, and most of them are sitting idle most of the time, but with a little extra connectedness (one term of art is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing" rel="nofollow">grid computing</a>), you can leverage the processing power of all these idle computers as one giant processor for some very large tasks. The SETI project is another example. 'Course, there's always TURNING OFF the computers as an environmental step forward. IBM and a lot of other companies are getting into this very simple idea: The internet connects *a lot* of computers together, and most of them are sitting idle most of the time, but with a little extra connectedness (one term of art is grid computing), you can leverage the processing power of all these idle computers as one giant processor for some very large tasks. The SETI project is another example.

‘Course, there’s always TURNING OFF the computers as an environmental step forward.

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