- Dec 14, 2004
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Hopefully y'all can help me make sense of what I've been reading about DC projects.
I need to assemble a computer that will be used approximately one hour per day for office productivity, five days per week. I will not be paying for its electricity consumption so I figured I'd try out distributed computing. I have a firm $500 budget, and this must include the monitor, so really I have about $400 left for the computer itself. I do not need to buy an OS.
Right now I'm trying to decide between F@H, MW@H, and SETI@H. It seems that F@H is the most popular and most well-developed and supported. As far as I can tell, all three projects have 'click run & done' settings that are very easy to setup and use, and require little if any additional monitoring and maintenance. All three also have more complicated (but more rewarding) apps that utilize GPUs as well as CPUs. However, from what I can tell, only 6000-series AMD GPUs (which are out of my price range) are supported by the three programs? And from what I can tell, Nvidia GPUs seem to outperform AMD GPUs.
So if you could clarify these provisional ideas and recommend me a nice setup, I'd appreciate your time. Thanks!
I need to assemble a computer that will be used approximately one hour per day for office productivity, five days per week. I will not be paying for its electricity consumption so I figured I'd try out distributed computing. I have a firm $500 budget, and this must include the monitor, so really I have about $400 left for the computer itself. I do not need to buy an OS.
Right now I'm trying to decide between F@H, MW@H, and SETI@H. It seems that F@H is the most popular and most well-developed and supported. As far as I can tell, all three projects have 'click run & done' settings that are very easy to setup and use, and require little if any additional monitoring and maintenance. All three also have more complicated (but more rewarding) apps that utilize GPUs as well as CPUs. However, from what I can tell, only 6000-series AMD GPUs (which are out of my price range) are supported by the three programs? And from what I can tell, Nvidia GPUs seem to outperform AMD GPUs.
So if you could clarify these provisional ideas and recommend me a nice setup, I'd appreciate your time. Thanks!