1) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation pending (Message 1813568) Posted 29 Aug 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: And there are those that are getting Guppies, but don't like them for their returns so are ghosting them (or other measures) so they can get Arecibo work I don't understand people who do this. Are these fictional Internet credits really so important that they spend hours ghosting WU's and leaving other crunchers hanging out to dry? Very unethical. Me, I just turn my old laptop on, start BOINC, and check it once a week to make sure it's not totally dead.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia-Ubuntu 14.04 fail with latest kernel (Message 1799735) Posted 30 Jun 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: So far my experience with nVidia drivers on Linux is you get it to work once, then don't touch anything again.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Burning rubber... err, CPU's... on an Android phone. (Message 1795228) Posted 10 Jun 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: I've got some cheap Walmart tablet that doesn't even get warm to the touch when running all four cores flat out. Battery sits at ~30C and the CPU at ~52C from what I can tell. It's been running for 16hrs and it hasn't even spit a finished WU out yet. I'm not worried since it pulls not even 5W and is just sitting under my bed for now, but heat is for sure not an issue (ambient temps average 21C) It's only an A7 core, though, and barely spits out 1GFLOP. I'd expect the newer (and more expensive) phones and tablets to do more and heat more.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Wars 2016: GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050: October 25th (Message 1792665) Posted 1 Jun 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: $200, only 150W TDP, and greater than 5 TFLOPS of performance. This might be one cheap beast for us crunchers!

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Raspberry Pi results (Message 1791836) Posted 29 May 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: Thanks Brian and Sidewinder. I'm not too worried about the computer, since I was only going to run one Pi and it's basically a burner system at this point anyway. I was actually considering tapping straight off the PSU's 5v rail and making a dedicated set of charging/Pi ports, since there's obviously plenty of amperage there. Sad that the onboard GPU isn't used yet! It seems like it's where most all of the power is. I'm not worried about upping my RAC, more just for spitting out a few WU's here and there. I think I'll order up a Pi3 and a heatsink in the next week or so. I've got a couple server side projects that would be much more efficient to run on a Pi instead of my power-hungry Athlon, besides just for tinkering and/or BOINCing. For the sake of conversation: What distros do you use on your Pis?

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Raspberry Pi results (Message 1791325) Posted 28 May 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: So for those who already have a Pi going - how's your average power consumption? What do you use to power it? I'm considering picking up a couple Pi 3's and running them off the USB2 ports one of my computers has to give it a little boost for the power it's already using while crunching. I'm just not sure the USB2 bus will supply enough power to run one, or maybe two, of these Pi's simultaneously under a high load. Also, does BOINC utilize the GPU on board? The spec sheet says it has a 24 GFLOP general purpose compute ability and I'd rather not have that go to waste.

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Using Android mobiles to crunch BOINC stuff (Message 1791317) Posted 28 May 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: ARM processors are inherently inefficient at compute tasks like SETI@home since they're designed for low power consumption, not number crunching. At only 1.20 GFLOPS I don't really see you gaining much by using even multiple old phones. Then again I run BOINC on an old Athlon 64, and the phones only use a couple watts each, so each to his own :-P You don't have to have a SIM card or anything, the phones just need a WiFi connection to the internet. As for the battery, you can remove it and run it strictly on the charger without much issue assuming your charger has a high enough amperage rating. Of course assuming your phones have removable batteries. A good rule of thumb for chargers is that it needs to put out at least 1 amp (5 watts), but more is better.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (Message 1791056) Posted 27 May 2016 by Empire_Builder Post: I say Nay... Win10 forced an update on my parent's machine, failed midway through, destroyed the bootloader on its way out and left me with a mess that took 6 hours to fix. There's definitely times that Microsoft makes me want to go back to Windows XP, and I keep a Ubuntu dualboot for a reason.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stop BOINC from using the Intel GPU? (Message 1680646) Posted 17 May 2015 by Empire_Builder Post: WAIT - Nevermind! It was under the SETI@Home preferences, not computing preferences! Derp! Nevermind, thanks!

10) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stop BOINC from using the Intel GPU? (Message 1680643) Posted 17 May 2015 by Empire_Builder Post: Sorry - Nowhere in computing preferences do I see an option to choose which GPU I want projects run on

11) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stop BOINC from using the Intel GPU? (Message 1680638) Posted 16 May 2015 by Empire_Builder Post: While it does produce some points, it's pushing my CPU over it's thermal limit when running other CPU projects and the Nvidia GPU projects as well. without the iGPU running, I can utilize my laptop much more effectively (and yes i'm moving to a desktop this summer).

12) Message boards : Number crunching : YAY! Just passed 10K RAC... (Message 1680191) Posted 15 May 2015 by Empire_Builder Post: And I can't even break 1K. So goes the life of a laptop owner...

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Estimated production from R9 280x? (Message 1505608) Posted 18 Apr 2014 by Empire_Builder Post: Thanks, seahawk. Looks like I'll be getting more from that one GPU than my measly month's worth of CPU time on my Pentium 4 did!

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Estimated production from R9 280x? (Message 1505041) Posted 17 Apr 2014 by Empire_Builder Post: Hello, everyone, just recently I've finally gotten back into BOINC processing. To get straight to the point: Has anyone had any experience with the avg. production from a single R9 280x? It doesn't matter that much, My mind's already made up for my new PC build this summer, but I'm curious as to see if anyone else here has this particular card (most people seem to either have Nvidia or much older cards) and what they think of it. Gonna also be paired with a i5 4670K.

15) Message boards : SETI@home Science : did i find the Vulcans? IDK! (Message 1151169) Posted 11 Sep 2011 by Empire_Builder Post: i was only looking for input on the score 4.23 pulse, really......but...ah, whatever.

16) Message boards : SETI@home Science : did i find the Vulcans? IDK! (Message 1150218) Posted 8 Sep 2011 by Empire_Builder Post: umm....my SETI project just picked up a Gaussian pulse with a score of 4.23 or so..... :O BTW, i'm working on a second-hand computer to run for SETI. any reccomendations on upgrades?

17) Message boards : SETI@home Science : 'What-if' an advanced ET were to notice Earth?... (Message 1150211) Posted 8 Sep 2011 by Empire_Builder Post: BTW, my SETI@HOME project just picked up a Gaussian pulse with a score of 4.2....:O

 
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