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Message 16812 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 3:15:17 UTC

Any projects worth crunching with this hardware?

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Message 16814 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 4:14:17 UTC - in response to Message 16812.  

Any projects worth crunching with this hardware?

APS@home and ABC@home should run OK on that computer.
Whether or not you consider them to be worth your time is another matter.


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Message 16822 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 12:17:33 UTC - in response to Message 16812.  

Any projects worth crunching with this hardware?

Most of them. Usually their tasks should finish within deadline. For some projects a plenty of RAM+swap is worth or even necessary, so check your HW and corresponding message boards first.

You should also consider the power eficiency, in other words the crunching speed / power consumption ratio.

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Message 16823 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 12:19:17 UTC - in response to Message 16812.  

Any projects worth crunching with this hardware?

Asus Eee PC?
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Message 16824 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 13:52:22 UTC - in response to Message 16812.  

Any projects worth crunching with this hardware?

I ran a 400MHz with 192MB of RAM until recently... Mostly doing PrimeGrid.

The biggest problem choosing projects was RAM. And sometimes meeting deadlines; not because of it's speed, but because it wasn't running all the time.
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Message 16837 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 19:57:28 UTC - in response to Message 16823.  
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Asus Eee PC?


That sounds like a neat device but no, just a dual PIII box I put together. (1 GB ECC RAM, 32MB Video card)

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Message 16840 - Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 22:22:28 UTC - in response to Message 16837.  

just a dual PIII box I put together. (1 GB ECC RAM, 32MB Video card)

I have a remotely used 733 MHz P-III Linux server since June 2005 and it is still crunching fairly well - in the 3 years it earned over 88,000 cobbles, nearly 100 daily, no problems with deadlines, active now on some 9 projects.

Let it go on!

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Message 16847 - Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 7:10:30 UTC - in response to Message 16840.  

Let it go on!

Agreed. I have a dual CPU PIII 500Mhz (linux) that has been running various projects a few months longer than Peter's. Lately it runs malariacontrol.net almost exclusively. Takes a while to complete wu's, but can still meet their 3 day deadline without problem.
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