Seti computational farm

I don't think the problem would be HOW to build them, but how to tell Boinc Manager to activate-see those computers, or any other computer.

You may build as many you want but how BM will understand them?

Is there any setting to tell BM that you are working on a farm computer, and use all of them at the same time?

As Tron says, BOINC manager can view/control remote hosts as well, but only one at a time. Much better to use a third-party tool like the venerable Boinc View or the newer Boinc Tasks, which can manage multiple remote hosts on a single consolidated console screen.

As Tron says, BOINC manager can view/control remote hosts as well, but only one at a time. Much better to use a third-party tool like the venerable Boinc View or the newer Boinc Tasks, which can manage multiple remote hosts on a single consolidated console screen.

Would building a super cruncher like that actually be the most cost effective?

Those high end components are NOT cheap, maybe 5 or 10X what common or garden components will cost. So even if you need to buy 3X of them, so what?

I would suspect that using 3 lower spec machines, with $50 parts, motherboards / CPU / PSU etc. Just enough to feed your single slot high end GPU properly. But a basic 4 core AMD would keep that CPU humming. It has nothing else important to do, and you don't have the bus and RAM contention that a machine with more cores and GPUs probably have. So even if the system board isn't as fast, it's also under much less load, so I suspect that performance would be similar?

Ian

Would building a super cruncher like that actually be the most cost effective?

Those high end components are NOT cheap, maybe 5 or 10X what common or garden components will cost. So even if you need to buy 3X of them, so what?

I would suspect that using 3 lower spec machines, with $50 parts, motherboards / CPU / PSU etc. Just enough to feed your single slot high end GPU properly. But a basic 4 core AMD would keep that CPU humming. It has nothing else important to do, and you don't have the bus and RAM contention that a machine with more cores and GPUs probably have. So even if the system board isn't as fast, it's also under much less load, so I suspect that performance would be similar?

Ian

Would building a super cruncher like that actually be the most cost effective?

Those high end components are NOT cheap, maybe 5 or 10X what common or garden components will cost. So even if you need to buy 3X of them, so what?

I would suspect that using 3 lower spec machines, with $50 parts, motherboards / CPU / PSU etc. Just enough to feed your single slot high end GPU properly. But a basic 4 core AMD would keep that CPU humming. It has nothing else important to do, and you don't have the bus and RAM contention that a machine with more cores and GPUs probably have. So even if the system board isn't as fast, it's also under much less load, so I suspect that performance would be similar?

Ian

Well, as they always say: Your Mileage May Vary, but 1 high-end single
or double GPU card, compaired to 2 or 3 GPUs, with the same amount of CUDA-cores
or Compute Units altogether, is more efficient and gives more choice of mobos
and a CPU. Also easier to build.
Also, when you're in a warmer climate and water/other cooling will be simpler.
This also applies to the case, a good PSU with enough amps on the +12V rails
remains necessary.

I think dancer42 confused credits per day with WU/day. At Primegrid his/her host 293503 has a RAC over 100000, but the tasklist shows work earning about 50 credits per hour. I know nothing about the various kinds of tasks there, perhaps there's an ATI GPU app which earns credit very fast when there's work for it.