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Brucifer have you retired all your single core AMDs now? It is good to see that the Phenoms are doing well in D2OL. Do you or has anyone else any experience with them supporting a GPU to run the Folding at home GPU2 client? The ATI graphics cards get good reviews in bang per buck comparisons against the high end Nvidia cards. Tempted to get a 4870X2 for some gaming duties and part-time Folding.
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Yes, I don't have any single core systems left. And have also been getting rid of the X2 3800's also.
Actually at the moment I'm basically in a wheel-spinning mode. OGR is over with. I finished my sieving stuff on nplb. The moneybee fiasco really ticked me off after all the work on it and then it getting dropped from the vault. Wein-burger or whatever it is, is only a windows thing. I'm still not into boinc at all. So the range of stuff is diminishing. There have been more projects just disappear into thin air. I've been doing some d2ol to burn-in some stuff. But the thrill on that really isn't there as it once was. Sort of a computer mid-life crises kinda thing if you know what I mean. blah blah blah.....
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Yeah I know what you mean.
Then I decided to give BOINC a real try and got bitten by the DC bug again. I still try to keep eOn in the top 10 but it has been a problem child over recent months with the old ZZZs issues.
The problem with BOINC is the inequality of the points allocation between projects. After a while you just stop fighting it and realise there will be cheaters in anything touched by humans or inept admins who don't give a sh!t about their voluneteers.
Next you find something you want to DONATE your cpu cycles to and you run it. This phase is followed by competition that exists either between similarly specced "pharms" run by individuals or very occasionally we work as the AMD Users Distributed Computing Team and we crunch competitively.
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DPAD is your friend Bruce. At least its mine anywayOriginally Posted by Brucifer
Yes, I don't have any single core systems left. And have also been getting rid of the X2 3800's also.
Actually at the moment I'm basically in a wheel-spinning mode. OGR is over with. I finished my sieving stuff on nplb. The moneybee fiasco really ticked me off after all the work on it and then it getting dropped from the vault. Wein-burger or whatever it is, is only a windows thing. I'm still not into boinc at all. So the range of stuff is diminishing. There have been more projects just disappear into thin air. I've been doing some d2ol to burn-in some stuff. But the thrill on that really isn't there as it once was. Sort of a computer mid-life crises kinda thing if you know what I mean. blah blah blah.....
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I'm still cranking out D2OL/TSC wu's because it's easy. And I don't have to 'watch over' the client (like boinc sometimes, or at least the wu servers). I am sort of stuck with PS3Grid because of my 2 PS3's. But this project is turning into a sort of 'Folding' clone. Everyone seems to love crunching with GPU's. And they are way faster than the PS3's.
I may wind up actually plays movies and games on my PS3's, as the GPU's take over crunching...hehe
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Well the speed thing is the whole technology thing that just keeps on going..... (and doesn't need those batteries... <grin>). What is the power consumption difference between the GPU's and the PS3's per comparable amount of work? Anyone done any checking on that?
The other thing that would be nice would be if they ever came out with the double precision PS3's so a little more adaptation to some other projects might be helped.
I'm not really a fan of folding either. I spent some time at it in the past, but always ended up leaving it cause I just got bored with it. D2OL/TSC are much more interesting in my opinion.
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And that's where I'm at now, looking around at the donation thing....
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I've looked hard at it a couple times in the past, but ended up on the d2ol/tsc thing just because I'm more inclined towards the medical/humanity thing.DPAD is your friend Bruce. At least its mine anyway
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Agreed, but if you're bored of d2ol/tsc, you might just give it a spin because not a lot of medical projects non boinc anymore... in fact not a lot of non-boinc projects at all!
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The bird flu has appeared up the road in BC, Canada.Not a good thing at all. So I fired off D2OL again as that is the only project working on the problem. It's moved a long was from the rural chicken farms in China or wherever it first appeared in Asia.
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