I by no means am telling anyone what they should or should not crunch, but the more and more I have been looking into various projects the more I am wondering why some projects have such massive appeal. So I am a mathematician by training, so you would imagine I would be all over prime grid and a number of other mathematical based projects. In fact the state of things as they currently stand I
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Should you Beta?
Posted on 17:14 by Unknown
I have really been going back and forth on the question of "should I allow beta tests on my machines?" When I first set up machines specifically for boinc crunching, my initial thought was these I really wouldn't mind allowing Beta tests to run on them. Though the more I read beta test support forums there are quite a few things that give me pause. So lets start with a Pro and Con list.
Pros:
Pros:
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/
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Be Active On Forums
Posted on 19:36 by Unknown
I will admit when I first started crunching I was a little stir crazy, I didn't quite find my "calling" yet so to speak. In fact for someone viewing my stats, it looks like I crunched a little of almost everything for awhile, and I admit it certainly felt that way. While being a mathematician, at first I felt I should crunch mathematics based projects, but upon a bit of an epiphany I realized,
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Happy 8 years to World Community Grid!
Posted on 08:21 by Unknown
I have almost exclusively been dedicating my CPU's to World Community Grid for the past month now. Why? It offers a large variety of projects run by very impressive teams, with potentially profound implications to the sustainability, and over all living conditions of our planet.
While this post is a little early, their official birthday is November 16th, I would just like to encourage anyone
While this post is a little early, their official birthday is November 16th, I would just like to encourage anyone
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
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