I wonder if there is a way that if you have an older/slower computer you could get units that other slower/older computers are getting. Seems like my older one is taking 5 hours to do a unit and is hardly ever getting the amount of credit requested.

Nick

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I wonder if there is a way that if you have an older/slower computer you could get units that other slower/older computers are getting. Seems like my older one is taking 5 hours to do a unit and is hardly ever getting the amount of credit requested.

Nick

My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

I wonder if there is a way that if you have an older/slower computer you could get units that other slower/older computers are getting. Seems like my older one is taking 5 hours to do a unit and is hardly ever getting the amount of credit requested.

Nick

My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

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I wonder if there is a way that if you have an older/slower computer you could get units that other slower/older computers are getting. Seems like my older one is taking 5 hours to do a unit and is hardly ever getting the amount of credit requested.

Nick

My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

Thanks, I will give that a shot.

Nick

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I also run an older machine, (P4 1500, takes 5-6 hrs per wu) but my credits are usually close to the claimed credit, no matter what the other "crunchers" are. Some are slightly lower than my claimed credit, but on average, my "box" seems to always be around the "middle ground"

Dec

could this be a benchmark issue? (I'm no expert...)

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I also run an older machine, (P4 1500, takes 5-6 hrs per wu) but my credits are usually close to the claimed credit, no matter what the other "crunchers" are. Some are slightly lower than my claimed credit, but on average, my "box" seems to always be around the "middle ground"

Dec

could this be a benchmark issue? (I'm no expert...)

That's because you have a machine which is closer to average than my P3 500 which claims alot or my AMD athlon64 3700 which claims little, and my P4 1.8 which also is about average.

I also run an older machine, (P4 1500, takes 5-6 hrs per wu) but my credits are usually close to the claimed credit, no matter what the other "crunchers" are. Some are slightly lower than my claimed credit, but on average, my "box" seems to always be around the "middle ground"

Dec

could this be a benchmark issue? (I'm no expert...)

Some of TMR's optimized clients will request more credit, others will request about the same amount of credit, but crunch the wu faster...

Part of it is the benchmark, but also in the instuction set used or the way in which the optimized client was compiled.

My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

If you have a spair P3 hanging around I could use it to have a 2nd system running. My P1 133 is just to slow, about 90 hours on classic, not enoughf memory for BOINC, to old to invest in memory.

But my P4 2.4 is happely crunching away.

If anyone needs a system I have an old XT Clone (8088 processor 4.77 MH) with a whopping 64K ram. All ready for someone to pick up. Has DOS 6.2 loaded on a gigantic 65 Meg hard drive. (was very large 20 years ago)

Ray

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My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

If you have a spair P3 hanging around I could use it to have a 2nd system running. My P1 133 is just to slow, about 90 hours on classic, not enoughf memory for BOINC, to old to invest in memory.

But my P4 2.4 is happely crunching away.

If anyone needs a system I have an old XT Clone (8088 processor 4.77 MH) with a whopping 64K ram. All ready for someone to pick up. Has DOS 6.2 loaded on a gigantic 65 Meg hard drive. (was very large 20 years ago)

Ray

I have an Apricot F1 8086 (no hard drive, 4.something MHz) IBM Incompatible. Runs on DOS 3.2.
No good for BOINC?

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My Pentium III 500 MHz takes way longer to do a work unit but never asks for that much credit. I am using the optimized client and application for Linux, though. This might be the fault of the Celeron.

Maybe you could use the generic optimized client here.

http://www.pperry.f2s.com/downloads.htm

Instructions for installing it are in the BOINC Wiki.

http://tinyurl.com/b4f22

Happy crunching,

Pam

If you have a spair P3 hanging around I could use it to have a 2nd system running. My P1 133 is just to slow, about 90 hours on classic, not enoughf memory for BOINC, to old to invest in memory.

But my P4 2.4 is happely crunching away.

If anyone needs a system I have an old XT Clone (8088 processor 4.77 MH) with a whopping 64K ram. All ready for someone to pick up. Has DOS 6.2 loaded on a gigantic 65 Meg hard drive. (was very large 20 years ago)

Ray

I have an Apricot F1 8086 (no hard drive, 4.something MHz) IBM Incompatible. Runs on DOS 3.2.
No good for BOINC?

I got an old commodor 64 laying around somewhere, no hard drive, has a 5.25 inch disk drive, no memory at all, dunno what mhz it runs. :-) Doubt it will run BOINC though. :-)

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I got an old commodor 64 laying around somewhere, no hard drive, has a 5.25 inch disk drive, no memory at all, dunno what mhz it runs. :-) Doubt it will run BOINC though. :-)

As a good friend told me recently about a couple of Pentium S 166Mhz 'puters (1 is a dual processor) I have, they'd make good boat anchors. I personally would hold on to them for nostalgic value, something to show the kids, or grandkids later...your call... but it will not run BOINC, sorry :-(

I got an old portable, Osborn. No harddrive 2 x 5.25 floppy 2.5 inch scrolling mono screen. It weighed so much I did not lug it around too often. What a differance 20 years makes. Used to have fun playing text based Dungeons and Dragons on it. LoL :)

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