Joining World Community Grid the easy way

[Snow Crash]

Inimicuss ... nice rig ... thanks for helping out

[Angmaar]

Welcome to the team!

[Sam_oslo]

Is it possible to run some tasks now and let the points hit the server after 1. May? Any tips how I could accumulate points now and let them loose after 1. May?

[fl0w3n]

Just joined! looking forward to the may 1 through may 8 "showdown"

[Knight203]

Is it possible to run some tasks now and let the points hit the server after 1. May? Any tips how I could accumulate points now and let them loose after 1. May?

I think you can build a cache and disconnect it from the net and let them run. I don't know how to do that but I'm pretty sure you can. Just make sure your WU's get turned in within their expiration date and it should be fine. Maybe some one with more intel can chime in here and tell me if I'm off my rocker

[Movieman]

Is it possible to run some tasks now and let the points hit the server after 1. May? Any tips how I could accumulate points now and let them loose after 1. May?

Open BOINC manager and look at the "Report Deadline" for the wu and you'll see the answer is no to this..
WU are sent with a 10 day deadline on average and stockpiling them also defeats the purpose of the work we do.
We want the finished work back to them asap so they can use that finished work.
I do admit to stockpiling work myself back in October 2007 I think to try and send in one million points in a day..God that was tough and onely made it to 700,000 but it was aq mistake to do.
Sort of like putting the cart before the horse if you know that expression.

[Sam_oslo]

OK, was just checking. I'm a noob in these stuff you know. I'll try to run them normally.

[Movieman]

OK, was just checking. I'm a noob in these stuff you know. I'll try to run them normally.

NP, and that beast of yours should do close to 50,000PPD if you let it..

[Sam_oslo]

I'll do my best to hit that round number, at least for that week.

I didn't run anything in past days, we have the volcano ashes falling all over Europe. I've seen some strange fine particles on my fans yesterday, which always has been clean and shiny. I don't think it will do any harm, but trying to use the laptop until it clears up, hopefully in a few days.

[sRHunt3r]

MM, quick question, do you think it would be better to add another over clocked 920 rig or just upgrade my current to an overclocked 980? The cost is almost the same but the power draw would be double for a second rig.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Your talking about a 1500-2000 extra pts if you pick up a 920 rig over the 980x upgrade. I would personally pick up the 980x though due to power savings and the fact you'll get more usage out of your system at a later time, also the 980x does typically yield a higher OC.

[sRHunt3r]

I was thinking the same thing, I could also make it my media server for all pc's and the ps3.

ps nice sig

[Movieman]

MM, quick question, do you think it would be better to add another over clocked 920 rig or just upgrade my current to an overclocked 980? The cost is almost the same but the power draw would be double for a second rig.

The answer is what do you want to achieve?
How high is the elec rate where you live? That's a big factor.
Going from your 920 to a 980 is app a $800 net cost(1000 minus the 200 that you could sell the 920 for) and gets you an additional 15K per day(40K to 55K)
BUT the elec of one machine.
Adding a 920 that generally gets 30-35K per day for the same money but that adds elec..
The elec cost is the key, then add in additional heat generated so where you live( hot or cold climate) also factors into the equation.

[sierra_bound]

I searched around for data sheets on Gulftown and Westmere chips but couldn't find any.

I found the data sheets for the 5600 series Xeons.

http://www.intel.com/Assets/en_US/PD...eet/323369.pdf
http://www.intel.com/Assets/en_US/PD...eet/323370.pdf

Voltage limits are the same as the i7-980X which is probably no big surprise.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Great find S_B thanks!

[Detale]

Just signed up, Hope this helps. i7 1156

[sierra_bound]

Yes, every machine is important. Thanks for joining.

[ZeroOne]

Hello. Joined in prep for your week in May... and will continue after that. I'm a total noob at this but wanted to help.... that said, I have 2 questions I'm wondering if someone could help me with.

Does BOINC have to start up with windows, and is it bad to close it out sometimes? (vista 64). I have a 24/7 machine I plan do dedicate to this, but would also like to use my gaming system when I'm not busy on it and startup / shutdown of BOINC is a concern.

Also, to use the 2nd computer, do I just need to download the client to that and log in? Anything else to do?

I apologize if these have been answered before. I'm new to this and didn't know where else to ask.

Thank you.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Hello. Joined in prep for your week in May... and will continue after that. I'm a total noob at this but wanted to help.... that said, I have 2 questions I'm wondering if someone could help me with.

Does BOINC have to start up with windows, and is it bad to close it out sometimes? (vista 64). I have a 24/7 machine I plan do dedicate to this, but would also like to use my gaming system when I'm not busy on it and startup / shutdown of BOINC is a concern.

Also, to use the 2nd computer, do I just need to download the client to that and log in? Anything else to do?

I apologize if these have been answered before. I'm new to this and didn't know where else to ask.

Thank you.

Don't worry about startup/shutdown it runs in low priority so whatever application you run it will throttle BOINC back, so no point in closing it. On the install question, yes just install it and enter your login information. Don't forget to change the preferences to 100%

[D_A]

The search function towards the top right of the forum page is very helpful, but so are the members.

Once you have your account created you just need to log in additional machines with that same username and password. Simple as that.

As for shutting it down, it does no harm. You can also configure the system to stop on it's own when you start up nominated applications, though you have to make manual entries to a file to do that, or with the latest BOINC clients you can set it to suspend if other CPU use goes over a certain percentage (the default is 25% I think) so generally it shouldn't interfere with your games.

[charged3800z24]

The points are confusing me, when you say 50,000 movieman how is that calculated? I have 8 Phenom cores running 4 @ 3.5 and 4 @ 4.0ghz. How would this compute in points per day?

[=[PULSAR]=]

Mainly they are calculated because of what people have already gotten on those setups. What kind of phenoms are you running? Phenom l X4 or Phenom ll X4? There are also 2 different point standards. First one being WCG and seconds being BOINC.

[D_A]

The points are confusing me, when you say 50,000 movieman how is that calculated? I have 8 Phenom cores running 4 @ 3.5 and 4 @ 4.0ghz. How would this compute in points per day?

Dave will be referring to WCG points, not BOINC points.

Basically, WCG didn't always use the BOINC client. Originally WCG used an off-shoot of the software produced by a mob known as United Devices. They were the first lot to use distributed computing technology for bio-medical research. UD eventually became known as Grid.org and proceeded to ... do bad things to those volunteering their machines before stopping development, or at least free development, of the client software. WCG carried on using that software for a time but eventually moved to the BOINC server and client package instead. From there the old UD client was phased out but people still had the work credit that had been built up using that client and it's own scoring system. In order to not screw over it's volunteers (as Grid.org discovered that's a VERY BAD IDEA ) WCG decided to keep all the accrued credit and just multiply the normal BOINC numbers by 7 to give returns roughly equivalent to what people were getting on their machines with the old client. Hence WCG's internal stats are often different to those you see when you check the various BOINC stats lists.

[armeniandave]

Alright count me in!!!

My mother passed away from cancer back in 1992
so anything I can do to help with the research I
certainly will do it.

This is a great use of all of our supercomputers that we
normally game on or do other tasks in which our rigs
are not remotely challenged!

[Movieman]

Alright count me in!!!

My mother passed away from cancer back in 1992
so anything I can do to help with the research I
certainly will do it.

This is a great use of all of our supercomputers that we
normally game on or do other tasks in which our rigs
are not remotely challenged!

Thanks and is my memory right?
Was it you that had one of the slickest MM cases I remember?