Universe at Home official project launched

[Dirk Broer]

Welcome back Chris Icide!

Still our team champion with Cosmology@Home -with 14+ Million credits still out of reach for us, mere mortals- and Malaria Control -with 4.5 Million credits still the target for Meshmar, who has approached you the closest but is still at a respectable 1.5 Million credits distance.
Universe is split in two nowadays, as the original project is now the test project and there is a new production project -though with both these projects there is no Chris Icide amongst our members with points. I did find a USA-based 'chris' in our Universe@Home team though, still without credits...

As for that 7 rack mounted servers sporting 16-core Opterons....can't you connect them to something that actually makes energy? Solar panels, wind mill, water turbine, etc.?
A combination of those three would be even better and provide energy no matter what the weather is...It would be nice to collect all available badges with a rig like that!

[cicide]

I did find a USA-based 'chris' in our Universe@Home team though, still without credits...

Unfortunately the folks in poland won't give me any work. I added a couple other projects while I'm waiting on work. I'll fire up a server or two in the rack and see what kind of work they can do over a couple weeks.

I'm currently building a small pod in a data center for my current employer, and we are installing HP Blade chassis with 166 dual cpu (intel E5-2697v2 procs) and 74 quad cpu (intel E5-4640v2 procs), 40Gbps core network, dual 10G links from each blade, boot from SAN over Fiber Channel, and other fun stuff. Every time I look at those servers, I wonder what kind of damage I could do to a project that could give me enough work... Call it a "burn-in test". It's a duplicate of a pod I built for this same company last year. It draws ~ 150kW while actually running live traffic... Thats only about $25,000 per month in power bill....

[Dirk Broer]

As your interest seems to be in astronomy projects I'd suggest Universe@Home Test -they are testing something for the production project that seems halted at the moment-, good-old MilkyWay@Home -but do use it GPU-only if possible, as with the two next projects-, Einstein@Home, Albert@Home, the SkyNet POGS, Asteroids@Home, Constellation@Home.