Using Grid To Generate... Heat!

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By nivanov
via westcoastgrid.blogspot.com
Published: Apr 28 2008 / 09:53

Using Grid To Generate... Heat!

...paul then described a fascinating idea: placing low-cost (but high-heat) "grid heating appliaces" (CPU+memory+network) in campus offices... By scheduling jobs only to cold rooms, a grid scheduler can do double duty as a source of both low-cost computing and free heating (or is it heating and free computing?).

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