On the Road Again

[Terry1953]

Hi All. Long time no see. I have a few fat and lazy cores just lying around here sucking electricity. I guess I can point a few of them at this Skynet project. Oh and Neo I don't worry about the new kids. For every wingnut in the bunch I see 50 or 100 great kids that the press ignores. My son just turned down a free ride to the Air Farce Academy in Colorado Springs because he wants to attend University of TN. M daughter is starting a local college here in a few days. (Austin Peay. I think Jeff knows where that is) The point I'm making is that the youngsters that I meet are the ones that run around with my kids and I can't say I see a really bad one in the bunch. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a Very Happy New Year.

[Nflight]

A free Ride to the Air Force Academy oh for Pete's Sake! Please do the NCIS Dinozzo head slap a few times for me on your Son, Thanks in Advance! Thanks for joining us on SkyNet Pogs and dishing up some good points values already. If I could ask I would love a helpful hand in getting more help on my one main project I can't get anyone else to join me on, That one project is Quake Cather Network. You have to purchase a seismic unit and tape it to your outside foundation wall or floor but then leave the system on for ever and ever and I know that is not hard to do. Even for us old guys ! Its great that your back on the saddle Terry Welcome back, Great to hear your voice and your stories!

[Jason1478963]

Looking into it Nflight. Welcome to the team Terry1953.

[Dirk Broer]

"A few fat and lazy cores"
Well, that sounds interesting...want to enlighten us?
16-core Opteron 6300-series? Or is that just asking too much?

[Terry1953]

"16-core Opteron 6300-series? Or is that just asking too much" LOL yep that's asking wayyyyy to much. Just some old junk that we threw together out of parts laying around.

[Dirk Broer]

Just some old junk that we threw together out of parts laying around.

Know that, did the same and have a room full to prove it. Just remember that to be able to crunch successfully
-both credit and powerbil wise- the CPUs must not be too old, or it takes either forever to complete a WU of a given project,
or you will not get work from some projects, because the CPU is lacking a mandatory instruction set
(e.g. POEM needs at least SSE2 from now on).

My old IBM PS/2 collection is nowadays just museum material, as is my Apple G3 and my RS/6000.
Some 10 years ago I had a Seti-pharm build from eight Pentium MMX-200's
which I had to dismantle for lack of results and bankrupting me with the daily wattage.
And don't underestimate the constant power hunger of otherwise mediocre GPUs either.....