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What should I use my spare clock cycles for ?

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Kniteman77

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Just built a new dual 3.4 ghz Xeon machine . . . .

Lots of processing power to spare, what should I crunch with this thing ?

Give me options and reasons why and a poll will follow 🙂
 
To see how fast she runs projects Join tas we do em all (a new project every month)

Not only that But I would love to see what she produces on SB lol

I'll bet she'll tear up the field 😛

Mike
 
What Wolfsraider said. TeAm TAS does a project for a month and then moves on to the next. It's great fun. You crunch under your own name and you help out in many projects. 😉 Oh and TAS has got the best girls and :beer: in TA!
 
We could always use the help in Find-a-Drug. TechIMO is coming up... Ukraine is close.

I am absolutely biased.
 
Joining tas, you see each project as noted before, but you can find the project you like and stay there when we move on 😛
🙂
 
Dual 3.4GHz Xeon, will this mean 2x 3.4HT, meaning 4 logical cpu's?

Anyway, BOINC is a good choise, you'll have built-in service-install, multi-cpu-support, multi-project and caching, so don't need to run multiple clients.

As for choise of projects, SETI@home and ClimatePrediction is the released projects, can also run Predictor@home, while Einstein@home will "soon" be released and LHC should start handing out work again any time now.
There are also other projects in development, so your choises will expand, Lattice is one of these already in closed testing.

How you will share between projects, or only aim on one of them is your choise. 🙂

SETI@home "classic" will end "soon", so wouldn't be a long-term-choise.

CPDN "classic" is a bad choise, partially due to can only run on one cpu so must share with other projects, but also since on Intel-cpu's the BOINC-version is faster. Also, 90.3% of all computers is now running the BOINC-version, and new models like the Sulphur Cycle currently in alpha will only be for BOINC.



 
Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Dual 3.4GHz Xeon, will this mean 2x 3.4HT, meaning 4 logical cpu's?
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Yep 4 logical CPU's. I like them 🙂

Another question is what programs even support multiple CPUS and which can actually utalize them in an efficient manner?
 
As already mentioned, BOINC does support multi-cpu. 😉

For others, seti "classic" can run multiple instances, folding@home can run multiple instances.

CPDN "classic" can not, and UD can not.

No idea on the other projects.
 
I'd really appreciate if you could throw all that processing power into Folding@home. Cancer sucks, I was diagnosed with it at 21, but I was very lucky that I had something that was treatable. Unfortunately many people are not able to be treated, so that's why I do this. Who knows if these folding projects will ever find a cure, but we'll never find out if people don't join. You'd be a huge addition to our team and I'd be very thankful.

Jeff
F@H: DainBramaged
 
Originally posted by: Kniteman77
Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Dual 3.4GHz Xeon, will this mean 2x 3.4HT, meaning 4 logical cpu's?
Click to expand...

Yep 4 logical CPU's. I like them 🙂

Another question is what programs even support multiple CPUS and which can actually utalize them in an efficient manner?
Click to expand...

FaD does and sets it up for you during the install.
 
FaD also has the built in ability to do network client installs. Extremely easy to do. My issue with BOINC, and specifically ClimatePrediction was the Memory overhead. I really liked the project, but did not like the idea of 50MB of RAM being used. Plus, it really seemed to slow down my other apps. FaD in my experience is low overhead, and very friendly to the other applications running. I have not tried F@H for any length, so I cannot comment on it. Seti@Home classic was my first DC project, which I did for over a year. But it is ending very soon, so there is no future in it.
 
Originally posted by: Kniteman77
Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Dual 3.4GHz Xeon, will this mean 2x 3.4HT, meaning 4 logical cpu's?
Click to expand...

Yep 4 logical CPU's. I like them 🙂

Another question is what programs even support multiple CPUS and which can actually utalize them in an efficient manner?
Click to expand...
For Folding@Home you would have to install the client four times but it would use each CPU to its maximum potential. I wrote a setup guide here for TAS when they were on Folding@Home, complete with instructions on how to set it up for multiple CPUs.
 
We could really use some extra CPUs on the F@H team. It's my favorite DC project by far. The researchers behind it seem to really know what they're doing, and they've already seen some results. But every biotech project seems to be worthwhile, including Find a Drug and World Community Grid. It's up to you.
 
Join TeAm Anandtech Sentinal (TAS) the rally team and see the world.

I have a dual Xeon too. 😉

I'm running four different projects' clients on it right now.

Some clients use different resources of the CPU and I find this to increase the output. I would would pick a project for two instances and put two for TAS.

I have one HT CPU on SB for TAS.

Thanks
 
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