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Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts

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
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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/
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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
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