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Originally Posted by Rison there is a huge issue with installing this on regular desktops - no matter the business, school or institution.
I strongly recommend not installing them at a school site - because there will be issues, and you will lose your job when upper management/school board finds out. It's not allowed, even if it's not specifically written down anywhere. Distributed software that runs processors at 100% and uses network bandwidth = bad. |
That's a complete different situation than the one I'm in. I'm actually a compsci student... I didn't take gr10 compsci but the guy is letting me join his class next year. I'm actually only good with hardware, I don't know about software but I think I'll survive. oh yea and UT runs it, they haven't had any problems so far. That's not a problem, they won't expel me or anything, we're still writing a letter of proposal for the principle, who will probably contact the higher ups. The admin has already approved of it. Why not? These are idling e8400, the difference is 50 to 75 watts. It's actually going to use 80% and yes it uses some network bandwidth, but so does everything else on your network. Unplugging everything would ease the load on the network... but that's not going to happen right? Every loggon, the entire 'users/document settings' folder is transfered over the network, and there are a couple hundred logons a day over the 1000base-T network, so I don't see any problems...
I asked the guy today, and I just found out that all the desktops support vPro, something that the school isn't using right now!!

I've done research on what vpro is, does anyone here know how to use it, such as configuring? Would this be our solution to shutting down and starting computers on schedule? (right now they're set to sleep in 5 minutes so they 'sleep' throughout nights and weekends) Would vPro allow a batch command such as running the folding client with -oneunit flag on fridays?