AMD Users just passed 60,000,000 credits on the Einstein@Home project

[Steve Lux]

Just trying to scratch out a living like everyone else. For another $1,000 I could fill up the other half of my big Linux cruncher system and get about 70k/day out of the box, but money is very tight now days. You know, Ubuntu is OK I suppose and a little faster in Einstein, but I miss a GUI. Linux reminds me of the old DOS days and I find that as I get older I'm less interested in bothering with all the hoops you have to jump through to get a distro up and running.

Still haven't got my main 4-core user system going yet. Perhaps I'll work on it again this weekend. If I can get it up and running it should be good for another 25k/day or so in Einstein. We've lost about 50k or more per day in Einstein production over the last few days. I can't make up for all of that, but perhaps I can help a bit more. It's been getting cooler lately so it's time to get all of my heaters (crunching systems - one in each room) up and running again. Local electricity is about 6.9 cents per kWH, so using crunching systems to both do research and heat rooms at the same time is kind of handy.

My youngest son is getting married next month. Any extra I have is going into that event. I got tired of wrapping all the pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters I've saved over the years to help pay for the wedding, so I came here to poke around.

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Steve,

Linux has a GUI Boinc client, used it myself on Fedora.

I'll see how high my Einstein score is next weeks using a bunch of low end and mid range GPUs/APUs, but 70k a day might be possible