Combined home computers reach exaflop levels
Cutting edge scientist's are working on a molecule to block Covid19's ability to attach to a human cell. They are also working on other disease's such as Parkinson's and cancer. Their goal is to combi...
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Hmm.. Allow unknown external programs to install and run in the background on your minimally secured PC..
What can possibly go wrong?
A Hackers paradise!
Makes the "IT" type of security guy in me cringe to think about it that folks are willing to give up personal privacy and security of their PC and data..
Folks, wake up!
Powerful PCs are dirt cheap now days, we are not talking multi million dollar mainframes from the 1960s that had the computing power of a 4 function calculator..
Not to mention someone else using your data bandwidth..
$100,000 worth of two or even four 8 core processor servers wired internally and privately together via 10 gigabit network will end up with faster and more consistent results than employing millions of unsecured public PC idle processor time and week/poor Internet connections..
If modern "science" is relying on public unsecured processing to get things done it will take longer and will be a high security risk to both sides of the coin.
Tread lightly..
What can possibly go wrong?
A Hackers paradise!
Makes the "IT" type of security guy in me cringe to think about it that folks are willing to give up personal privacy and security of their PC and data..
Folks, wake up!
Powerful PCs are dirt cheap now days, we are not talking multi million dollar mainframes from the 1960s that had the computing power of a 4 function calculator..
Not to mention someone else using your data bandwidth..
$100,000 worth of two or even four 8 core processor servers wired internally and privately together via 10 gigabit network will end up with faster and more consistent results than employing millions of unsecured public PC idle processor time and week/poor Internet connections..
If modern "science" is relying on public unsecured processing to get things done it will take longer and will be a high security risk to both sides of the coin.
Tread lightly..
