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[PSUs]| Wednesday 1st February 2006 |
Bank turns to idle PCs for computing power
6:16PM, Wednesday 1st February 2006
A French bank has come up with a cheap and easy way of boosting its total computing capability.
BNP Paribas is using off-the-shelf grid software to harness the power of all the PCs that sit idle on its desks overnight. From 700 machines it is getting an extra 6,000 computing hours and the cost amounts to little more than the price of licensing Symphony grid software from Platform Computing.
'It's an economical reason - we have a lot of PCs which are doing nothing during the night,' said BNP IT manager Denis Esnault. 'We have this free resource which we can use.'
Platform Computing estimated that financial organisations have an average of 20,000 PCs running at just 10 per cent of their capacity.
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