Hi, I have this really nice computer and I want to let my computer help give back to society. I have a 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 16 GB DDR3, & ATI RADEON HD 5870 1GB. HOW CAN I MAKE THIS COMPUTER GIVE THE MOST TO BOINC? What settings do I need to tweak basically to make this program run these applications run as fast as possible?

My second question is can this program even utilize the full capacity of my computer? 16 gigs of Ram, and a quad core processor? I was reading something about GPU with my graphics card, but that it only kicks in once the computer is idle... I'm guessing I could just leave that setting alone?

Thanks for the help!

Oh, it's a new mac pro btw.

these applications

Which applications are you talking about?
BOINC itself? It doesn't do any science. It's the managing program.
Science applications then? Which projects are you attached to?
Do they make use of your CPU or GPU, or both?

My second question is can this program even utilize the full capacity of my computer?

Normally, on most projects it'll use all 4 CPUs/cores and whatever amount of memory the applications take times 4. Meaning that a CPDN for instance can take up 4GB, when one of their models takes 1GB (time 4, one for each CPU core).

You don't really need to use full capacity either. Totally useless, as then you can't use half your computer anymore (slowdowns) and then you come complain that BOINC slows you down, and how terrible the program is, etc. etc.

And then we're not friends anymore. ;-)

Oh, it's a new mac pro btw.

Running what? OS X 10.6.6?
Then you're limited in the use of the GPU.. as in no project at all using an ATI GPU yet on Mac OS X, as far as I know. Perhaps that someone else knows more.

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