Hey whats up?

[AQUAJOE]

What have I been missing? I turned to the darkside and built my first Intel machine since the Pentium II 200.:sad5:

I was looking to toss it at a project to see how it does. Any suggestions?

[NeoGen]

Hey Aqua! Long time no see! :)

There's been plenty of projects popping up out there in the last several months, the amount of projects to crunch on is nearing 100. Gone are the days when there was no more than a dozen of projects to choose from.

Do you prefer life sciences, searching for aliens, searching for solutions for games, maths, physics... etc? There's a wealth of projects to choose from. :)

If the machine you built is based on the i7, then it's great for crunching anything you throw at it. I recall hearing in the old days that Intels were favorites for maths projects, specifically prime finding with LLR applications, but I don't know if that still applies these days.

By the way, what do you think of the new look of the website? :)

[AQUAJOE]

The site is not bad not bad at all. It is built on the I7 920. I built this one for windows 7. I am trying to remember the name of some the sites that will grab machines specs so you can put them in your signature in the forum.

As for the projects you know me I will throw cycles just about anywhere. No more alien searches though. IMHO a waste of time. To many things here on earth we could be solving.

[NeoGen]

Does it come with a Nvidia or ATI gpu? there's some really interesting developments in projects using CUDA and ATI Stream, and they give out alot of points. With the latest stable version of BOINC it happily works with CUDA, but with the development version you can already work with ATI gpu's too.

I can think of a few very good projects... Folding@Home is non-boinc but already works with both ATI and Nvidia gpu's. On the other hand Rosetta@Home only works with CPUs.... Einstein@Home is also a very solid and stable project
But hey... for you I know the perfect project: AQUA@Home :icon_mrgreen: :icon_lol: (http://aqua.dwavesys.com/index.php)

But you know you can see the full list of projects here: :icon_wink:
http://stats.amdusers.com/amd_users_position.html

[AQUAJOE]

Tripple- Nvidia GTX 260 Core216 SSC Edition They have CUDA.

So a project that is InTEL Strong and can do multiple Cuda Gpu's what do you think?

[NeoGen]

Boinc can work with multiple gpu's but I think there's a few oddities... if I recall they cannot be in SLI... and there may be a few more quirks.

A good CUDA project for BOINC, that I am running also and it is very generous with credits, is GPUGrid (http://www.gpugrid.net/)
Takes no CPU while running, so you can run other projects for the cpu cores at the same time. :)

[AQUAJOE]

I put the 3 260's on GridGPU so we will see how that goes. I put the CPU on Aqua@home.

[AQUAJOE]

Oh and it figures aqua@home has no work!!

[NeoGen]

Wanna try Astrophysics? :)

http://www.cosmologyathome.org/

(It's CPU only)
We're ranked #2 on that project but we've got very few people crunching, we're going to lose that spot soon.

[AQUAJOE]

That works. I had an account there already so I just turned it back on.

[liuqyn]

welcome back, my current fav project is Collatz Conjecture (http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/index.php) good math project that supports CPU and both NVIDIA and ATI GPUs. gives very good credit for both, GPU is even better than GPUGRID. and with much smaller download sizes, if that's a concern.

[AQUAJOE]

Ok I signed up for Collatz Conjecture (http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/index.php) as well that should get her going.

[NeoGen]

There's an interesting project for CUDA too, Milkyway@Home (http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/) but I can't tell how well it does because it only works for higher end nvidia gpu's, and my GeForce 9600GT isn't capable of running it.

You should also consider running FreeHAL@Home (http://freehal.net/freehal_at_home/) because it takes very little cpu usage and so boinc allows it to run in parallel with other cpu intensive projects. And in the preferences you can set how many instances (WU's) you want to have running at once, between 1 and 25, but beware that each of them takes around 30Mb of RAM.

[liuqyn]

Milkyway runs pretty good on the GTX260 and ups, unless you plan to use your computer at the same time. it really hogs the GPU, but you can set boinc to only run gpu when idle. credit is on par with GPUGRID.

[Nflight]

Welcome Back AquaJoe, LTNS.... You have been missed but, we will wait for everyone to find the breadcrumbs and come home eventually.

:wav: :hello::blob3::blob3:

[AMDave]

Luckily Nflight eats while he walks and eats messily :icon_razz:

Hi aquajoe!

PS: aqua just came back - see my other post

[Nflight]

Luckily Nflight eats while he walks and eats messily

You know if I sat down to eat, and then stood up to get work down, I would be late at all events due to feeding my face. But since I walk, and eat, and leave behind me a trail of everything I eat, others find this amusing too. Sometimes I feel like the pied piper, ya know! Or maybe its the seven dwarfs, or Larry, Moe, and Curly. Anyway I think we are still on the right track... :sad5:... and we have a lot of fun too... :blob3: