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J3115
January 11th, 2009, 10:36 PM
Are any of you guys/gals into (DC) computing a la
SETI/Rosetta/ABC-Mathematical computations etc?
If so PM me.....


I just run a cluster of six-boxes..Received around 600-credits in less
than 4 days..I've got around 600-credits pending..

The problem.... BOINC gave only one WU/work unit per-cpu instead of
b/F 10Ghz per X-1= work unit..Apparently, that's the way it's set up - I
can run lapac and linear computations all cpus's on the cluster is being
utilized to find a solution/s. BOINC will distribute one workload
per-cpu. (Yeah that sucks)
With enough credits we/VNN could form our own team..That is if enough
people are willing to do it...

Download...Windows etc....
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

FreeBSD users:
http://people.freebsd.org/~pav/boinc.html

Ed in CT
January 12th, 2009, 01:15 AM
So it spawns just one thread on each box/die? A shame as I have 2 quads and 2 dual core machines and one single core.

I see they can work with Nvidia graphics cards. I guess is uses CUDA for massive paralell computations.

For several years, I was a part of the SETI @ Home project but haven't messed with it in years.

8Man
January 24th, 2009, 01:09 AM
Yes, I've run SETI / BOINC on several systems for a while, but not recently. I could take a look at the latest client and try it out. Team VNN - I like the idea.