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CarcinogenX
11-29-2007, 11:59 PM
My employer upgraded our 286’s to something a little more modern. I got a “Graphics Workstation” consisting of a Dell with an E6600 and 2 gigs of ram and more impressively, a Mac with 2 Xeon 5160’s running at 3ghz. So, in Ebay terms it’s a 12ghz computer!!. I also got a nice huge Dell monitor connected with a KVM switch. The bad part (and the part that is typical of my employer) is that no software will be purchased until mid-January 2008. So until then I was thinking of using them for BOINC. I can’t let nice computers like that just sit there dormant.
Right now I have them running milkyway@home and my question for you people is what project works best on a Mac? Does it even matter now that they have Intels?
meshmar
11-30-2007, 01:02 AM
I like http://www.malariacontrol.net/ and http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

http://hydrogenathome.org/ and http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ are also possibilities on a mac.
Bender10
11-30-2007, 11:57 AM
You could "Experiment" with a few Cosmo wu's.......:icon_mrgreen:
meshmar
11-30-2007, 12:50 PM
You could "Experiment" with a few Cosmo wu's.......:icon_mrgreen:


Sorry, he can't. There are no Mac WUs for Cosmology yet ... but it is on the wish list - I've even bumped it.
Bender10
11-30-2007, 01:12 PM
Sorry...I did not know the Dell was running Mac OS.......my apologies..:-(
meshmar
11-30-2007, 01:41 PM
The Dell isn't - and it could run Cosmo. He asked about project for the Mac, so I directed answers toward it.

We were both right - and wrong ... Sorry.
meshmar
12-01-2007, 03:56 PM
Looking at granted credits, I wouldn't go for rosetta on the mac, and have stopped it on mine.
CarcinogenX
12-01-2007, 05:06 PM
I have the Dell on Cosmo and went with Milkyway and ABC@home.
Let the good times roll !!!!!!