Heating elements as processors
8 Apr 2006 14:32:09 UTC
Topic 191053
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Some of us worry about the amount of electricity we use running DC agents, the effect on the environment etc. The energy used by processors ends up as heat.
It would be handy if heating elements in kettles, immersion heaters and the like were made up of heat-tolerant processors. Every time we boil a kettle or have a bath, the electricity we would use anyway could do number-crunching as well.
Dead men don't get the baby washed. HTH
Heating elements as processors
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Say after me....I'm not addicted.....I'm not addicted....I'm not add.........
"The FUTURE is only a PARTICLE away from the PRESENT and the PAST."
RE: Say after me....I'm not
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Oh, but I am! I am a complete Distributed Computing wh*re! ;-)
Barrie and I must be on the same mental wavelength. One night a few months ago, during a stressful week at work, I woke up in the middle of the night. I was probably on the edge of sleepwalking, and was not coherent at all, but I remember trying to "optimize" the heating element in my waterbed to run BOINC on it.... I quickly fell back asleep. When I woke up in the morning and remembered that, I just thought, "That is *so* sad...".
Please note that I'm normally not insane... well.. not in any clinically diagnosed way.... ;-)
RE: Some of us worry about
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I saw this video, and immediately remembered this old post....
http://www.flixxy.com/ibm-hydro-cluster-supercomputer.htm
It's about IBM's (still theoretical) Hydro Cluster. It uses Power6 processors. What's innovative is that it uses water cooling applied directly to the processor. further, the water connects to a larger water system. The hot water is treated like a commodity, for industrial or even residential use.
So....
A machine crunching for BOINC could be used to heat water for your tea kettle!
Barrie, you're a genius! A visionary!!! ;-)
Hi! High Performance
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Hi!
High Performance Computing's role in cuisine has long been neglected, but slowly the first visionaries are leading the way:
egg frying on an Xbox360
I wish they had used a lager, plane head-spreader instead of the native heat-sink, tho :-)
CU
Bikeman