Posts by Doug

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : what new machine specs? (Message 110488)
Posted 18 Nov 2022 by Doug
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Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a new machine that would be mostly or entirely dedicated to BOINC. I'm just your average retired guy, and I can't afford the phenomenal many-many-many-cored machines that a surprising number of people running BOINC projects have. I was thinking about something along the lines of this Dell XPS desktop: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/xps-desktop/spd/xps-8950-desktop/xd8950adl40h?configurationid=c53b3029-a7b8-4a36-8c8e-681cf115b440. I would consider increasing the RAM to 64 GB and also increasing the "level" of the graphics card (i.e., to the 3080 or 3090) - the point of the latter would solely be to run BOINC GPU projects/tasks (*not* games).

I do want to get the most BOINC bang for the buck, and I don't want to pay for features or upgrades or whatever that BOINC can't use. Is there a document or post or other article of some kind that discusses hardware for BOINC? Or, probably better, can anyone here give me some guidance on this? I run Windows.

The projects I'm currently enrolled in are:

Cosmology@Home
Einstein@Home
LHC@Home
MilkyWay@Home
Rosetta@Home
SiDock@Home
Universe@Home
WorldCommunityGrid (OpenPandemics - COVID-19 only, for now)

I've in past been enrolled in Seti@Home (now on indefinte pause) and ClimatePrediction (which no longer seems to have Windows work).

In essence, I'd want a machine that is at least reasonably optimized for running BOINC projects - as many as possible (CPU and GPU) within my budget, as fast as possible (CPU and GPU).

I'd appreciate any help or advice or pointers anyone here could give.

Thanks.

Doug
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : how to insert an image in a post? (Message 107518)
Posted 21 Mar 2022 by Doug
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I have a dumb newbie question, even though I'm not a newbie.

I've seen posts with images that the poster inserted, along with text. How do you insert an image in a post? It would be very useful to illustrate problems, questions, etc. I see there is an "Img" formatting tag, but if that is the means, I don't understand how to use it.

Windows 10 (21H1, Version 10.0.19044.1586)
BOINC 7.16.20 (x64)

Thanks.

Doug




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