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Thread: It's not really correct to say we use idle time |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have seen on both WCG and BOINC the expression "idle time" referring to how the process works.
----------------------------------------It is not really correct to say idle time, which may be a correct terminus technus to an I/T person but is misleading to the average user. It would be more correct to say that the process uses "unused resources", meaning that the user might be doing an activity, like (ugh) work, but that the activity is leaving resources available. I am getting non I/T people, common people, to join my team, and I need to disabuse them of the fact that if they are doing something, the machine is not idle in the common sense. >>RSM |
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Former Member
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Since BOINC can be configured to work that way, I don't think there's any problem.
World Community Grid actually use the term "unused computer time". |
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Former Member
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Since the WCG applications replace the 'Idle Cycle' with useful work, it would be correct to say that we use 'idle cycles' - - 'idle time' seems close enough.
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