On 26/03/07, David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:27:44 -0600 Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > > > > Also, just for fun, has anyone tried the PS3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] client? > > > Dang fast. If anyone wants to join, my team number is 59478. > > > > CNN had a story on that, fast as heck but it also draws considerable > > power, on the order of 200 watts. Running that 24/7, especially > > someplace like California or NYC, would start to add up fast. > > Compared to my Athlon 3000 which is running over 200 watts, but doing > only about a tenth of the work in it's folding at home client. > > A 200 watt power supply is about the minimum you will get in a low end > PC these days, so it's not really "considerable power" for the huge > amount of number crunching you are doing. That's one of the reasons > Cell processors are attractive for clustering, more bang per watt. > > P.S. My Athlon actually has a 400 watt power supply, but it could > probably get away with 300 when all parts of it are running hard.
Your 200 W power supply won't draw 200 W all the time. It's just rated to go up to 200 W. Chances are it's drawing 75-100 W when idle and 100-150 W when doing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'm glad to see people devoting their CPU cycles to a worthwhile project (vs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] which has been far less productive vs. FAH)). Maybe a little more when your video card is doing stuff. Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
