Ok, this is probably another very naive question so I'm sorry and plead ignorance! I note that ARM processors are highly threaded, but relatively slow in terms of Mhz. however, given that the same thing also applies to a GPU (maybe 1.1Ghz versus a CPU running 4+cores at near 4Ghz) I wondered if we could make use of say, a linux cloud server sat on ARM architecture to fold with, and what the results would look like? Has anyone tried it? Pt.
Well you are talking about the principle of micro-servers. So the theory is exactly what ARM is banking on! In practice - first thought is that ARM isn't x86 (yet) so it won't support the architecture - although CPC did talk about an interface layer that would allow it to run.... Personally, I don't know!