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Been away from DC a long time, what's out there?

Blue_Max

Blue_Max

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I used to be into F@H for the good cause of finding a cure for cancer. Is this still the end goal?

I suppose the real question is what else is out there today? (Besides mining for "free" money in bitcoins.)

I'd like to support some kind of noble cause for science or medicine.


Currently have an i5-2400 and will get ONE good video card. (No SLI on this board.) Considering the cost of power, I'm thinking of the GTX 960 or 970.

An option I'm also toying with are some older Dell workstations which will take two X5650 processors for 12c/24th on a pretty cheap budget... if CPU cores are somehow "better" than video power.


Appreciate your feedback, folks. Will be happy to join Team AT on whichever DC project I adopt. :thumbsup:
 
Welcome back to DC!!! I too crunched for years and years, and have only recently gotten back into it.

Medical sciences eh? Lots of those out there to chose from, and they run better on Nvidia cards than AMD cards, for the most part.

I've recently picked up some workstations too for DC and the output is impressive for the price, and they are more versatile due to being able to run any project, as (to my knowledge) even 'GPU' projects allow CPU use too.

Medical sciences:
Folding at Home
BOINC projects:
GPUgrid
POEM
Rosetta
World Community Grid (multiple sub-projects, many medical)



Again, welcome and hopefully some others will be online by nightfall to also welcome you and share their thoughts as well!
 
Welcome back to the TeAm, Blue_Max 🙂

Tony did a good job pointing out what projects there are to crunch. For BOINC there is also Malaria Control Project and FiND (the old FightMalaria).

I see you had 300K+ points in Folding ... a good desktop can almost do that in one day now! So it will take some getting used to.
 
Welcome back! Most projects these days use BOINC as their "host" application. Folding still has their own client.

I believe, that you can even choose your preferred disease research area in F@H now.
 
Heh... debating video cards now. The GTX 960 ($250CDN) is low-wattage and can run all day long, but the GTX 970 ($400CDN) would get more done in a shorter time so the electricity bill won't be all that much larger... I think.

Of course, gaming would be much nicer. 😉

Sounds like F@H isn't dead yet... I remember when the BIG-adv-something jobs were available to a standard i7... then only a six-core i7... then to nothing except 24+ threaded workstations and servers.

Last I heard, even a pair of six-core X5650 Xeons wouldn't get those big-bonus jobs -- and that was over a year ago at least.

I guess it's ALL about the video cards now. The GTX 970 would be my contribution to cancer research (and fun time on the side!) 😀
 
WB Blue Max 🙂
You said 'for science or medicine', which sciences are you interested in?

Markfw would be the man for your F@H questions 🙂
 
Jim Race drive by ...

whoosh -===-=-=

-jim

p.s. I have an interview at Corsair today, so I may get back on the DC horse.
 
w00t! A caferace sighting 🙂 What's it been - 3.3 years?

Good luck on the interview :thumbsup:
 
GLeeM said:
w00t! A caferace sighting 🙂 What's it been - 3.3 years?

Good luck on the interview :thumbsup:
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Yup. Been a while. Nice to see TAS still underway. 🙂

I'll let you know how it goes. Corsair has some nice toys to play with.

-jim
 
Even with BigAdv gone, it looks like F@H is still the project I want to support. I remember having the option of specifying which of the "big three" diseases to focus on and I'd like to keep focusing on cancer as tribute to my dad (and possibly my own hide in another 20 years!)

With bigadv no longer an issue, it looks like I can concentrate on pure video power.

Hey - anyone know how much internet transfer is needed for this? I want my more powerful computer to be an ITX cube I take to work in a remote location with no internet except through my cell's data plan. Surely I can have it crunch a package at work, then UL/DL when I get home? I hope there's a setting to allow UL/DL ONLY when I tell it to...?

The guys at [H]ard were good at answering all my noob questions which is why I was on their team last time... I'd like to support AT since I've been around for much, much longer. (I miss my first account...) 😀
 
F@H can only download one WU at a time.

And I think they are time sensitive - meaning good bonus for fast return of results? (at least on some WUs)

An UP/DL setting isn't needed if there is no connection ... it will just keep trying until there is a connection.
 
Good to see you Jim 🙂.

Blue Max
I'm not sure an ITX cube would be good for GPU crunching, especially if it's a high end 1, I would think cooling would be a problem.

I'm no expert on F@H but I do know you can select 'finish' for a WU which will stop it DL another WU when it's done, but that's not going to allow much crunching!
I expect someone more knowledgeable will answer soon 😉.
 
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