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Purdue Doubles Work Life of Computers With Overtime.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, December, 2006
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAYFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computers are lazy - they only work when they have to, and almost all of them spend most of their time loafing.
Computers at Purdue University, however, have developed the ethic of hardworking hardware. The university's computers are in use almost continuously, thanks to an innovative approach to distributed computing that sends work to the computers day and night.
"A corporation's CFO sees that computers are 1,000 times more powerful than they were 15 years ago and wonders, 'Why aren't we producing more with them?' If you think about it for more than 90 seconds it doesn't make sense," says Gerry McCartney, Purdue's interim vice president for information...
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