Posts by dieselfuelonly

1) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23712)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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Thanks for the helpful response! Thats what I've been looking for. The processors have a 512Kb L2 cache, and a 2MB L3 cache.
2) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23707)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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Ok, I'm at a bit of loss for words here. I will try to calmly restate what I have already stated.

1. BOINC is INSTALLED, and WORKING, and is running the World Community Grid project right now. I am earning points, its all working completely fine. It works fine with other projects such as PrimeGrid, etc. as well.

2. Completely forget that I ever mentioned that it is running on CentOS

3. I want to know what project would be the best match for my machine.

4. My machine has the following:

Four (4) thirty(30)-two(2) bit processors, running at two(2)-point(.)-zero(0) gigahertz.

It has four (4) gigabytes of random access memory.

The processors can hyperthread, meaning that BOINC recognizes eight (8) processors, and therefore runs eight (8) threads at once (1...nce).

The operating system is thirty-two (32) bit CentOS five(5)-point(.)-two(2) Linux.

Thank you for your advice. I'm not trying to be rude here, I just don't understand why everyone is having a fit over the fact that the machine is running CentOS Linux - BOINC is already running RIGHT NOW and its working JUST FINE - I just need help choosing the correct project for my machine.

Thanks!! :)
3) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23705)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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THANK YOU. Someone that understands. CentOS is just a linux distribution. Just like Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

It can run the BOINC client just like any other linux machine.

Maybe some of you misunderstood my original question:

Does anyone have experience with running different projects on hardware such as mine, which consists of multiple 32-bit hyperthreading processors. It seems that some hardware variations can excel in one project, but fall behind in another, and.

You guys that are "WTFing" over the fact that the machine is running CentOS, do you have experience with running a Linux operating system, or at least know what it is? If not, that could explain the confusion thats going on here.
4) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23698)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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Sorry, but I feel CAPSLOCK is required here

CENTOS 5.2 = REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX WITH THE BRANDING STRIPPED = LINUX

THEREFORE

CENTOS 5.2 = LINUX DISTRIBUTION

Here is their website:

http://www.centos.org/

BOINC is up and running just fine. I'm part of the World Community Grid project right now.
5) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23695)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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what?? CentOS is basically Redhat Enterprise Linux with the branding stripped. Like I said in about 3/4 of my first post, BOINC is already running fine.... lol. Theres no need to install BOINC through the package manager...

6) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23687)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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32-bit CPU's, I should add.
7) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23684)
Posted 15 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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Sorry, forgot to mention that.

CentOS 5.2 Linux
8) Message boards : Projects : Choosing the right project for my machine (Message 23681)
Posted 14 Mar 2009 by dieselfuelonly
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Hi all, I'm hoping someone can provide me with a little insight about which project would run well on my machine.

I have a HP ML570 G2 server -

4x 2.0GHz Xeon MP Processors
8x 512MB PC1600 ECC DDR RAM
2x15k RPM 36GB HD's in RAID 1 - OS (Everything currently running on this array)
2x10 RPM 74GB HD's in RAID 0 - Storage

Anyway, I've tried out a few different projects and noticed some interesting results. I have a friend with a Core2Duo machine, and in PrimeGrid, my machine outperformed his, and in the World Community Grid, his machine greatly outperforms mine.

So I take it that different projects utilize the CPU's in different ways. BOINC by default runs 8 threads at once since there are four hyperthreading processors. This seems to work well. I'm guessing that in some instances such as PrimeGrid, my machine was more effective even with slower processors, because it was able to run many more threads at once, and in other instances my friends C2D machine was faster (even though he only runs 2 threads) because of a different type of processing.

Anyway, what is a good project to run on a (compared to todays new machines) slower machine that can run a lot of threads at once?

Thanks for any advice!






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