For those of you that have a decent sized place to live, and your computers are no where close to your bed, this post will not apply to you. But I live in a small studio apartment. So basically everything I own is on one large room, and the only other rooms are a closet and a bathroom in my place. What that means is all the computers I have on my "farm" are located in the same room I sleep in,
Showing posts with label cpu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cpu. Show all posts
Friday, 15 February 2013
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Building a Computer Part 2: The Build!
Posted on 16:53 by Unknown
I am not sure what to believe any more, the more you watch videos on building a computer the more and more the emphasize what goes wrong. ( New Egg has a nice 3 part series, part 2 features the actual building. ) These issues, seem like they can be so accidental, and not actually something you consciously do. Static electricity being the biggest one. Keeping this in mind probably pointed to my
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Friday, 18 January 2013
Building a Computer Part 1 Finding Parts
Posted on 16:03 by Unknown
In the past week, I sourced the parts for a new Crunching machine, had the parts arrive, assembled them and set up the entire computer. This is going to be a post detailing my thought processes behind finding the parts.
Step 1: Find your favorite computer parts supplier.
I went with new egg because they have worked wonderfully for me in the past, and I figured "if it ain't broke don't fix it!"
Step 1: Find your favorite computer parts supplier.
I went with new egg because they have worked wonderfully for me in the past, and I figured "if it ain't broke don't fix it!"
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
World Community Grid Badge System
Posted on 16:13 by Unknown
Based on a post on the World Community Grid statistics system, I have decided to write this post hopefully starting a discussion on the pros and cons of each system. World Community Grid uses total run time dedicated to each project instead of relying on the point system that basically every other badge awarding project uses ( though there seems to be no firm set standard for what gets a point/
Saturday, 29 December 2012
BOINC: CPU Time vs CPU Utilization
Posted on 15:39 by Unknown
I mentioned I was going to run this experiment awhile back, and while I have been running it, I forgot exactly how my computer initially behaved, so switching a few settings back, I can now give a report on whether it is best to cut back on CPU Utilization or cut back on Percentage of CPU time BOINC uses.
Results: I have found that in terms of both temperature control, and credits earned in a
Results: I have found that in terms of both temperature control, and credits earned in a
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Dream Machines
Posted on 15:05 by Unknown
One of the few magazines I subscribe to is MaximumPC, and I got around to reading part of the latest issue, which is this Dream Machine issue. I could not help but imagine how incredible such a machine would be or crunching BOINC projects, though at about 14-15 thousand USD, it is definitely completely out of my price range. It used an 8 core Xeon chip, which some googling indicates that it
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Which projects should you crunch? Standard office Desktop
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
If the Desktop is over 5 years old you may want to refer to my previous post, but some parts of this post might be useful. Also by Standard office desktop, I do not mean a gaming rig, i.e. something that likely contains one if not more high quality GPU's, that has added features up the wazoo, and potentially has certain items overclocked. I mean something you'd likely find in your office ( if
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Which projects should you crunch? 5+ year old System
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
While we all have our own interests, and as such different projects strike each of us as worthwhile, I will give my thoughts on a few Boinc Projects, and their suitability for a given system. As I cut down and refined the projects I am running, I have only run a hand full of them across most of my machines. As such the projects I will focus on in this post are: Prime Grid, World Community Grid
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
I Created a Monster
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
The very first project given to my GPU was a GPU grid long run project, which it says top notch cards could crunch in 8-12 hours. Well I knew for certain my card is not "top notch" especially with the price I paid. But after a little more than 39 hours of crunching it completed a project whose BOINC credits amounted to about 5 months of credits with the typical running of m other two machines.
Monday, 25 June 2012
Expanding the Farm
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
If you want to use GPU's to crunch projects, and are a fan of NVIDIA graphics cards, then CUDA is essential, and might as well be your best friend for your crunching projects. CUDA is a parallel computing architecture which makes programs written in higher level languages (C and above, but mostly C) to be able to be executed on a GPU easier than it ever has been before. If you have a CUDA
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