Special thanks to all who recently joined the team

[Tiltevros]

one stupid question

is there any difference if i use 6GB of ram instead of 12GB?

[D_A]

Yeah ... about 6GB.

For crunching purposes, no. 6GB is more than enough even on a 12 threaded machine.

[Tiltevros]

i have 16 threads

[D_A]

It should still be fine. Some units don't use much RAM at all, say 10MB. Others are much larger but on average 6GB will be plenty.

[Tiltevros]

nice any other secrets for tunning griding pcs???

[D_A]

nice any other secrets for tunning griding pcs???

Fastest tune up is to use these settings:



More in next post.

[Tiltevros]

ATI users cant use grid??because my client grid doesnt show the GPU settings. i could put my VGA's too

[D_A]

After that there's things you can do in terms of tuning your system, like stopping unnecessary system processes, getting rid of unused apps in your task bar (digital camera software is terrible for sticking around and wasting RAM and CPU cycles) also set your screen saver to either "blank screen" or "off". Pretty much shut down anything that takes cycles away from the WCG applications.

RAM speed and HDD speed are close to irrelevant, generally. Don't bother buying high speed ram/HDDs for a cruncher, it's wasted money. So long as you have enough RAM that you don't need to page out to the HDD you're golden.

After you've got all that right, you might MIGHT want to consider looking at your individual machine's performance on different types of work units. Different machines tend to do better on different projects, but the difference isn't huge.

[D_A]

ATI users cant use grid??because my client grid doesnt show the GPU settings. i could put my VGA's too

WCG doesn't use ATi or nVidia GPUs ... or any other kind. Maybe in the future but not now.

[Tiltevros]

belive me HDD speed is not a problem! my reading speed is very close to Ram speeds of a dual channel pc
no problems with HDD cpu usage cause of a Raid controller and no problems with loosing cycles i think :S

[felix_w]

With all the added ppd's from the newcomers like me, how much has the ppd of the XS team increased % ?

Just curiosity for what joined power can do when there's a good purpose....

Thanx

[D_A]

belive me HDD speed is not a problem! my reading speed is very close to Ram speeds of a dual channel pc
no problems with HDD cpu usage cause of a Raid controller and no problems with loosing cycles i think :S

That's my point. HDD speed matters very little. Crunching is a CPU bound activity. Once you've decided on your hardware and operating system about all you can do is remove other processes that compete for CPU time. From there it's all about consistency.

[mAJORD]

well add another member, just in time I guess (typical). Atm I'm 90-100% crunching with:

Phenom II X6 1055T @ 4Ghz
Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.8
Athlon II X4 @ 2.6

Tommorow i'll get a couple more machines on board too.

[pirogue]

With all the added ppd's from the newcomers like me, how much has the ppd of the XS team increased % ?

Just curiosity for what joined power can do when there's a good purpose....

Thanx

Both the PPD and results per day have approximately doubled in the last month:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/te...ordsPerPage=30

[sierra_bound]

1,859 team members.

Welcome to:
Lagg Master
quilty
air_ii
mAJORD
misteryro
02-J

[felix_w]

Both the PPD and results per day have approximately doubled in the last month:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/te...ordsPerPage=30

Impressive! Just added one Q6600@3.7 machine

[sierra_bound]

1,861 team members.

Welcome to:
NewMaxx
papmech

[sierra_bound]

1,863 team members.

Welcome to:
Aver
stephenak

[sierra_bound]

1,865 team members.

Welcome to:
Lee Ann
ppiippo

[sierra_bound]

1,867 team members.

Welcome to:
Daveburt
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[Movieman]

The "Wave" is building..
Many thanks to all that have come to help.
My only regret is that I can't thank you all personally.
Yea, it means that much to me.

[Wezly]

You're welcome Movieman!

[sierra_bound]

1,868 team members.

Welcome to eity.

[Angmaar]

Welcome to the team!
We are almost at 2K members!

[felix_w]

Many thanks to all that have come to help.
My only regret is that I can't thank you all personally.

I am personally insulted that you're not flying instantly to Greece to thank me in person.

I hope you arrange this now.


























Obviously joking...

Doing the least i can for WCG with the proc. power that would be unused if i didn't crunch...

I hope in the near future i/we can do more for the community....