There seems to be several different types of people in this world, those that always want the newest of everything, and those that like to see what kinks each product has and wait for them to be either worked out or written off as design flaws. Maybe its because I was one of the early adopters to a particular smart phone, way back several years ago, lets just say anyone that ever had one, mostly
Showing posts with label gpu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gpu. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Friday, 15 February 2013
Noise Concerns
Posted on 16:09 by Unknown
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,
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
Posted in Building a computer, computers, cpu, cuda, gpu, hard drives, processors, Troubleshooting.
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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!"
Friday, 11 January 2013
Pending Upgrades
Posted on 18:58 by Unknown
Well this week has been disappointing into receiving shipments, but I won't completely go into that. The one that matters on this blog is not that major, but I caved an decided to upgrade the GPU in my Tower, also known as the Frankenstein computer, or the Workhorse computer. This worries me slightly as while I hear from my friend that the GPU works fine with the PSU in the system, and all
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/
Friday, 21 December 2012
Graphics Cards (if I could dream)
Posted on 19:53 by Unknown
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I have been reading a lot about graphics cards lately, and comparing oh so many of them. I have been fighting really hard to resist the urge to not buy all the parts for a new computer. Of course what graphics card you use really depends on what you will be using the computer for when you are not crunching away. Maybe
I have been reading a lot about graphics cards lately, and comparing oh so many of them. I have been fighting really hard to resist the urge to not buy all the parts for a new computer. Of course what graphics card you use really depends on what you will be using the computer for when you are not crunching away. Maybe
Saturday, 8 September 2012
A funny thing happened
Posted on 09:37 by Unknown
Just when you think you understand computers and certain sets of commands, weird almost nonsensical things can happen. So to tell the full story on Wednesday my AC broke down, so trying to keep things as cool as possible in my place, I turned off all my computers when they were not in use, that included my desk top. I turned it back on on Friday, then checked on it a hour or so later.
Well my
Well my
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Always Check Your Machines
Posted on 16:07 by Unknown
I feel like I have taken for granted the fact that computers have gotten to the point where they basically just work, and just work wonderfully at least 90% of the time. Well I recently got back from a trip to my parents in which I had my tower turned off the whole time. One of the first things I did upon returning was turn the machine on, which is basically set up to not require any other
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, 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.
Friday, 29 June 2012
Optiplex 745 Signing on
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
In my very first blog post I mentioned that I was expanding my "farm" and the first machine I got almost solely for the purpose of crunching number ( will likely be used as a back up machine too), is an Optiplex 745 which in among itself is not the highest powered tower available. But as my second post indicated I got a CUDA enabled GPU with 144 CUDA cores, a nvidia GT 440, which at 80 dollars
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Why you should care about CUDA
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
I by no means started crunching projects expecting to get any sort of reward out of it other than knowing that I helped progress science. But lately I have found I have gravitated towards projects that offer some sort of reward, even if it is a measly graphic "badge" recognizing some level of accomplishment in the crunching. I do not know why but its nice to feel like you are getting recognized
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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