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MrS
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Sure it can: recent studies [1] have shown that Crysis features a negative cruncho-productivity charge. A GPU-Grid crunching computer develops a positive one, hence a repulsive force is felt as soon as any Crysis installation medium approaches a critical distance to any crunching PC. I haven't measured this yet, but a quick estimate on the back of an envelope suggests the distance to be about 2 +/- 1 DVDs. So we should be pretty safe, as only few Crysis installations will be able to tunnel through this barrier.

It is not yet ascertained what happens to those which actually tunnel. The lifetime of this exotic state can be rather high. On the other hand the activation energy is said to become very high after a short initial activity burst.

Further studies are needed to quantify the impact of this phenomenon on GPU-Grid throughput. This will be essential to keep crunching even when next generation Crysis' appear, which are expected to have even stronger charges and might even propagate into PCs through unshielded telecommunication lines. Currently efforts are made to combat this crunching power leak further.

MrS

[1] citation needed
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