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    Old Timer jasong's Avatar
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    Whatcha crunching?

    After being away from distributed computing for a while because of frustration with BOINC, I've recently discovered it not only started working recently, but can see my graphics card.

    So what are you guys and gals running?

    Here's the messages which might be relevant to a decision as to what projects to run, at the moment BOINC is just idling.

    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor [Family 16 Model 10 Stepping 0]
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM Memory: 7.99 GB physical, 15.98 GB virtual
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5x00 series (Redwood) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 2048MB, 520 GFLOPS peak)
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM Preferences:
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM max memory usage when active: 4091.95MB
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM max memory usage when idle: 7365.51MB
    7/16/2012 5:20:00 PM max disk usage: 10.00GB

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    Free-DC Semi-retire gopher_yarrowzoo's Avatar
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    Einstien, Poem, Constellation, DistrRTGen, VGTU project, Docking just some of what I'm running
    Semi-retired from Free-DC...
    I have some time to help.....
    I need a new laptop,but who needs a laptop when you have a phone...
    Now to remember my old computer specs..


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    what should I do with my ATI card?

    Apparently, yoyo@home doesn't use graphics cards, so I need a secondary project. BOINC wasn't that helpful, I want fresh information and BOINC doled out multi-year old posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jasong View Post
    Apparently, yoyo@home doesn't use graphics cards, so I need a secondary project. BOINC wasn't that helpful, I want fresh information and BOINC doled out multi-year old posts.
    There are several choices. Milkyway, Collatz, Primegrid and Distrtgen are some. You could also use it to mine Bitcoins.
    19 primes found. The largest: 1351*2^617684+1 (185945 digits)

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    Oops, I meant Google doled out multi-year old posts.

    Decided to do Einstein@Home. lol, sounds like they're crunching beer recipes. 100 worthless points to anyone who gets that joke. Hint: Albert Einstein is German.

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    Running 2 x Q6600 Quads here at home in Leicester, paradise of the Midlands, UK.
    (new recruit to the Free-DC team)

    Quad 1 runs 1 core CPDN + 3 cores Primaboinca + WUProp + FreeHal
    Quad 2 runs 1 core QMC + 3 cores Docking + WUProp + Freehal
    Not so much a 'farm' - more a 'window-box' or a 'hanging basket'......

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    John, it's a start and more some are running.
    Semi-retired from Free-DC...
    I have some time to help.....
    I need a new laptop,but who needs a laptop when you have a phone...
    Now to remember my old computer specs..


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