Is there anything preventing them from mining crypto as a burn-in to help subsidize the costs?
Also, actual science work that they have to do.
Could you explain
> Also, actual science work that they have to do.
Presumably these clusters aren't 100% utilized 100% of the time. They certainly weren't at the national lab I had access to ages ago...
My question was more inquiring if there's any red tape preventing the laboratory from paying the bills with mining, if it could do so profitably. Let's just assume there's idle time where this could hypothetically occur.
I'm not even trying to suggest that they should do that, it's just an interesting relatively new possibility and these things are quite expensive.
Sitting idle, the machine is not using nearly the power draw of when it's running full-tilt.
Source?
It still depends on scientists to produce code that can run during off hours. (And how well are scientists known to code?)