Byline: Tim Moran
When some Ford Motor Co. engineers leave their desktop computers for lunch, an invisible user gains access for some high-powered processing.
The same thing happens after working hours, both at clusters of desktop computers and inside data processing centers. It's called cycle harvesting.
The concept is simple: If computers are snoozing, the company is losing. In other words, even if an employee is not at his or her workstation, the computer is available to crunch data.
Vincent Scarafino, manager of Ford's Numerically Intensive Computing operations in Dearborn, Mich., says cycle harvesting may offer promise for some …
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