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To: Jon Tara who wrote (12994)	11/26/2001 9:30:34 PM
From: Nick Morvay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Jon, no argument with the power consumption, it's a fact. But, if a P4 does 10 times more work than a P2, does it use 10 times more power? I put it to you that it does not. Therefore, the energy utilization of a P4 system is much more efficient. Furthermore, energy utilization increases with multi-processor systems even though it uses more energy. However, if the world stopped doing things because it requires more energy, or more work, we would be in a sad state of affairs. All my systems run some sort of distributed processing job mersenne.org such as cancer research, protein folding etc. I believe in using the full potential of resources, in this case the idle time of my systems. I can shut it down, but that would be a waste of resource that could be used to further good science. As the late Dr. Carl Sagan said "...do something worthwhile..." And these are definitely worthwhile science projects. I am willing to pay the few cents per day in extra energy costs that the heavy CPU/memory activity will impose. It's my way of giving to science that otherwise I can't because of my lack of qualifications in these particular fields. We will all benefit from it. So, did I miss something? I belive not. Regards, Nick