Sentence examples for spare cycles from inspiring English sources

(As this article was being written on a Macintosh G3, the spare cycles of its processing chip sifted through about 40percentt of the assignment).

"We would typically need all of the spare cycles on your desktop for two to three months to perform a climate simulation," he said.

So many laboratories are asking for spare cycles that computer users must pick and choose lest they bog down their processors combating H.I.V., anthrax, smallpox, Ebola, multiple sclerosis, tuberous sclerosis complex and various cancers and neuromuscular diseases.

IBM will expand its existing World Community Grid program, which harnesses the "spare cycles" from home computers and mobile devices into virtual supercomputers, to make 100,000 years of computing time (worth about $60m, according to an IBM statement) freely available to scientists, along with "a platform to engage the public on their research".

If you have spare cycles, it's a lot more beneficial than bitcoin mining these days, that's for sure.

More time can be spent designing the game and less coming up with a way to fit environmental reflection calculations into spare cycles.

One could argue that gorgeous singing is not the first thing one looks for in Mussorgsky's raw, spare cycle about death, but it was worth hearing even if the program's true highlight was the Dalilah aria, which was sensational.

Hence the appeals to donate these "spare processing cycles" to the scientific charity of your choice.

The LHC@Home project is one of a growing number of schemes which uses the spare computing cycles of home computers to add to their overall effort.

Donating spare computer cycles to worthy causes is a cheap way of helping those who cannot afford huge piles of hardware to achieve their goals.

Just like SETI@Home, the cancer project has software that comes with an illustrated screen saver and uses each participating computer's idle time and spare processing cycles to download and analyze data.