"Nightlife" Harnesses Idle Fedora Nodes For Research

A. B. VerHausen writes "If you've given up on SETI, now you can let your idle computer help with other kinds of scientific research. Red Hat employee Bryan Che started a project called Nightlife. He wants people to 'donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.'" Che hopes to have more than a million Fedora nodes running as part of this project.

Re:It's not the idle capacity I'm worried about

[Yvanhoe]

Don't see it as free, see it as a really easy way to give some money that you know will go into CPU cycles quickly and efficiently.

And to donate your company's money as well ;-)

Re:SETI

[mwvdlee]

I guess that's irony; letting your computer consume large quantities of environmentally unfriendly produced electricity in order to calculate climate change.

Che Fedora!

[WheresMyDingo]

Greedy capitalists, share your idle cycles! Power to the people!

Re:SETI

[somersault]

It's better to think of it as job security.

Re:SETI

[somersault]

Nightlife is usually what you do before you boink.