Posts by wumpus

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1) Message boards : BOINC client : Request: Add'l Multiprocessor Settings
Message 3523
Posted 16 Mar 2006 by wumpus
What is wrong with using the settings for using the computer only when idle? Are you having any specific problems you can explain? Why do you want this?
2) Message boards : BOINC client : new client for sparc-solaris
Message 3389
Posted 7 Mar 2006 by wumpus
It is rock solid on my Sunblade 100 also. I think he plays with the boinc setup and over manages it instead of just letting it run.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Clustering or Single Systems?
Message 3296
Posted 2 Mar 2006 by wumpus
Running on each is best.
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : multi-core processors?
Message 3104
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by wumpus
I don't think Windows is really counting it as 4. That's why I am wondering what will happen with 2 true, dual core chips. The task manager counts the HT but when you watch the processor usage it doesn't match on some tasks. I was just accessing a CD and moving data files with a 2.8 P4 and it was showing 50% in the graph but in the listing, 96% idle. When Microsoft say Xp is for up to two processors, do they count cores or physical chips?
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : multi-core processors?
Message 3094
Posted 15 Feb 2006 by wumpus
What happens if you run two dual core AMD processors? HT isn't really a second processor. I can't find information on Microsoft about if they are using cores or physical processors in the computation.
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Resolving Computer Hostname
Message 3059
Posted 14 Feb 2006 by wumpus
All the Media States say Media disconneccted.
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : multi-core processors?
Message 3053
Posted 14 Feb 2006 by wumpus
I think it will also be held back by the OS. If you had Windows XP Pro on a workstation with two dual core processors, only two 'processors' would get used because of OS limits.
8) Message boards : BOINC client : Linux vs. Windows benchmark stats Feb. 2006
Message 3049
Posted 14 Feb 2006 by wumpus
It is funny you have them sorted by the Windows column and the Celeron is doing better than a lot of the other chips. I think you need to break apart the FPiops and the Iops and compare separately. If you sort by Linux, the order looks better. If the method you used is sound, I would have to wonder about the validity of the benchmarks in Windows. I was playing the stats too but just SPARC/Solaris and there aren't enough to make a good conclusion on but the benchmarks look funny there too. I was looking at the comparison of a Sunblade 100 500 Mhz to a Sunfire 2500 1.2 Ghz and the SPEC benchmarks. I expected a lot more of a difference between the models but it doesn't show in the Boinc benchmarks.
9) Message boards : BOINC client : 5.2.13 - Low benchmark results on linux 64bit, Intel platform
Message 3046
Posted 13 Feb 2006 by wumpus
I see this on Solaris/SPARC benchmarks too on E@H. Even comparing just the Solaris/ SPARC machines to one another seems funny. I would expect a 500Mhz Sunblade 100 to be way behind a Sunfire 2500 with a 1.2 Ghz US IIIi in Floating Point. According to the benchmark, it about 1/2 as fast where according to spec.org, it is about 1/5. Either that GCC is really bad compared to the Windows /Intel one.


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