Nothing prevents running the fah client on nodes of a compute cluster -- in fact my colleagues did that (while running a local F@H server), though that was a number of years ago just because they wanted take advantage of the distributed computing facilities provided by the client-server setup and built-in algorithms.
> crowd sourcing has the potential to scale to many orders of magnitude larger than what can be done in a data center.
Potential it does have, but I am skeptical of the "many orders of magnitude" claim ever having a chance to materialize.
I'd love to see a cost / benefit analysis on the effective amount of useful work contributed vs the cost of the same in a data center.
Nothing prevents running the fah client on nodes of a compute cluster -- in fact my colleagues did that (while running a local F@H server), though that was a number of years ago just because they wanted take advantage of the distributed computing facilities provided by the client-server setup and built-in algorithms.
> crowd sourcing has the potential to scale to many orders of magnitude larger than what can be done in a data center.
Potential it does have, but I am skeptical of the "many orders of magnitude" claim ever having a chance to materialize. I'd love to see a cost / benefit analysis on the effective amount of useful work contributed vs the cost of the same in a data center.