I want to use extra-cpu cycles to do some of my own processing, and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction as to how to get started on this?
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I want to use extra-cpu cycles to do some of my own processing, and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction as to how to get started on this?
I would suggest writing a program that runs continuously (make sure it blocks occasionally), and then simply setting it to a low priority. The OS Scheduler (Windows/*nix) should handle the rest automatically.