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sad What now?

One of my PC's that is/was running the Genome Comparison program has a 466MHz proccessor and 128 MB ram.
What can I use it for now??
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Re: What now?

We're having to fail the answer GM, as we dont know what the minimum system specifications are for the coming projects..... stand by as just see a post elsewhere on an other upcoming project. For now FA@H phase 3 and Dengue are likely in similar SR league of FA@H phase II, Cancer is not going to be light either, leaves this other one.

Added: Nothing specified for the Climate project.
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GC was great my old Pent 3, 1 Ghz 512 MB box Outputing a good chunk of results a day.. over 10 a day..
Switched it to HPF-P2 for now only since it seems to be less heavy at times then FAAH Work Units.. I hope there will be more GC work in the future it is fast and fun and I am sure many other members used it to capitalize on results score. I am waiting for more work like everyone else.. but as long as the current work is available and my systems are not idle all is good.. I personally wouldn't use any system less then 1 Ghz. for any Grid project out there.. the power consumed based on system output would be too great to put time in.. I agree tho with the GC project and a 466 Mhz system still pushes out a good amount of results for the setup.. always when new projects come out.. I see how they run and adjust them to work on the right system. I know the Cancer one is going to take some good horse power RAM wise. not a issue with 4 GB on one rig and the other stuck with 512 MB due to BIOS limits.. got a old laptop with 1 GB of RAM.. I could use that but it runs hot I would need to get a chill zone for it first.. hope there is something you can crunch with us soon..
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Re: What now?

In the same boat here too, GM, with a couple of machines. One of the reasons I chose WCG as the fact that there was work for these somewhat underpowered machines. Hopefully WCG can replace the GC WU's with something similar in resource requirements.

Other than that, can anyone supply links to sister BOINC projects that these "lowly" machines can process?
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Re: What now?

Here's what I am connected to myself. Some of these are as intense or more than here. The projects that I have highlighted all have small workunits. Due to changes, others may or may not work. There's no graphics, though on some of them. crying
Dependency Spider is a special case, and can run in PARALLEL with this or any other BOINC project, rather like DIMES. It checks internet sites while you are online, but doesn't take much % of the computer.

Not all projects have work all of the time. You may have to hook up to more than one. In the advanced BOINC view go to Tools, attach to project, and enter a URL in the box. Register. Join a team. There is a Vulture Central Team at all of these, so I've been there. A few, like one of the climate projects may be closed by now, but you never know. Some have never even gotten started, and there are a few more not on this list that cannot even be connected to and registered.

I just finished a 2.5 minute Chess960 workunit on the fast computer while I was writing this, so you should be able to kick one of those out in 10-20 minutes, I would think.

Hopefully, we will have something useful for you here now and then, especially if GC sends us anything else to play with.

ABC@home|URL: http://abcathome.com/
ABC@home beta|URL: http://abcathome.com/beta/
CPDN Seasonal Attribution Project|URL: http://attribution.cpdn.org/
BBC Climate Change Experiment|URL: http://bbc.cpdn.org/
wanless2|URL: http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/
BelgianBeerAtHome|URL: http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/
proteins@home|URL: http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/
rosetta@home|URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
HashClash|URL: http://boinc.banaan.org/hashclash/
boincsimap|URL: http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
Leiden Classical|URL: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
Riesel Sieve Project|URL: http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/
The Lattice Project|URL: http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/
vtu@home|URL: http://boinc.vtu.lt/vtuathome/
BURP|URL: http://burp.boinc.dk/
climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/
Rectilinear Crossing Numbers|URL: http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/
Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
TMRL DRTG|URL: http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/
Cunning Plan|URL: http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/cplan/
Project TANPAKU|URL: http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/
lhcathome|URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/
Project Neuron|URL: http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/
orbit@home|URL: http://orbit.psi.edu/
Pirates@Home|URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/
Predictor @ Home|URL: http://predictor.scripps.edu/
QMC@HOME|URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/
ralph@home|URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/
RenderFarm@Home|URL: http://server2.povaddict.com.ar/pov/
SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
SETI@home Beta Test|URL: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/
Spinhenge@home|URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/
SZTAKI Desktop Grid|URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/
chess960@home alpha|URL: http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/
DepSpid|URL: http://www.depspid.net/
gerasim@home|URL: http://www.gerasim.boinc.ru/Gerasim/
malariacontrol.net beta|URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/
NanoHive@Home|URL: http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/
PrimeGrid|URL: http://www.primegrid.com/
uFluids|URL: http://www.ufluids.net/
World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
XtremLab|URL: http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/
zebrabrute|URL: http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/
Zivis|URL: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/
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Re: What now?

GM

Did you use UD agent?
I've changed my old laptop (600MHz and 128MB) from UD to Boinc and it has started running the FigthAIDS@home project. It is better than nothing.
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GM

Did you use UD agent?
I've changed my old laptop (600MHz and 128MB) from UD to Boinc and it has started running the FigthAIDS@home project. It is better than nothing.
This project has very tiny download/upload files, so is good for dialup users with metered traffic quota.
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just did another monthly five of the SIMAP version of Genome Comparison.... those are real fun-packs. 5.9 mb download each and barely lasting an hour to crunch. Think retsof would be endeared on dial-up.

As DA states where you will not get FA@H on UD, you might get it on BOINC.... lesser overhead. Used to be 128mb free ram to get it going, regardless what the System Requirement page says (the only known exception), that is, long as the CPU is 550mhz. Memory sticks of 256mb barely are the cost these days, but it requires an amount of addiction to crunching to spend the money and speed up the crunching at that.
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Thanks retsof for the extensive list. I'll peruse that for some medical related projects if my slower machines can't cut the muster.
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I posted this in another thread, but it has some relevance here also.

Hope this helps some of those with low end machines now that GC is done. I have 500mhz PIII with 128mb RAM. I needed to adjust the virtual memory up in order to get FAAH going on BOINC. With too little virtual memory it would choke on the download, but with virtual memory increased to 500mb, it took off OK. It has has been happily crunching away for about two hours now. On this low end of a system, the jobs will be long, but they appear to run fine. Also, just to make sure the new settings take, you should reboot. The advice about checking the device profiles is good also if you had been exclusively crunching GC.


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