Hard drives are the part of a computer that really drives me nuts. While their are far more important parts of a computer, the hard drive seems to be the essential component of a computer that just calls it quits like a prima donna drama queen of computer components. While I as a rule try to avoid dragging my computer from place to place unless absolutely necessary ( as a student when I spend
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Sunday, 5 August 2012
MSL Curiosity Rover
Posted on 23:15 by Unknown
Breaking with the general theme of this blog, but still incredibly related to science an human understanding of our universe. I would like to congratulate the MSL Curiosity rover team, on all their incredibly hard work and successful landing of the rover on mars. I did not expect watching the feed would be as exiting as it was, nor prior to watching the feed did I realize exactly how involved
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
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Being a dedicated Cruncher is not free
Posted on 12:00 by Unknown
All the joy that came from releasing my first few batches of projects on my tower complete with CUDA enabled graphics card, basically came to a near grinding halt when my utility bill came at the end of July. While not outrageous, and not un-affordable, it lead me to step back and consider a few things.
First things first, while the bill was almost double what I expected, I can not blame it all
First things first, while the bill was almost double what I expected, I can not blame it all
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.
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