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crooks_uk
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its amazing what these dual core and quad core machines can do. looking to buy a new laptop, but waiting for the cost of quad core cpus to come down in price.
----------------------------------------how much memory do you need in a quad core running wcg and other applications.
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I like two gigs for a quad. I remember back when we were running Cancer work units, sometimes a machine with two cores and only 1 GB RAM would get a little bogged down. So far I haven't seen any of the quads, here, get bogged down with 2 gigs. Then again, if they ever run Cancer WU's again, like those monsters of old, I'd hope they get he coding/RAM usage tightened up from how it was before.
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Hi DCManiak,
I was told that the Cancer application ran in 1.3 Gb in the research lab. The WCG staff cut out more than 0.5 Gb before releasing it on the World Community Grid. A decade from now, you are probably going to be surprised at how many old time programs could be squeezed into less than a gigabyte.  Lawrence |
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Hi DCManiak, I was told that the Cancer application ran in 1.3 Gb in the research lab. The WCG staff cut out more than 0.5 Gb before releasing it on the World Community Grid. A decade from now, you are probably going to be surprised at how many old time programs could be squeezed into less than a gigabyte. Lawrence Thanks for joining in, Lawrence. So, that means it was still using 80% of a gig? Sounds about right. I definitely remember rigs being sluggish with 1 GB of RAM installed. For me, Cancer projects are what got me involved with Distributed Computing to begin with. So, I ran 'em anyway. |
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Hello DCManiak,
I am quite pleased with the results from Help Defeat Cancer. It was a very satisfying project since we helped to quickly advance research on a method of cancer diagnosis intended for clinical use to directly help cancer patients. Our next (projected) Cancer project will be back to basic research. But it is intended to (hopefully) validate a much improved lab technique in order to speed up research. The computer power we can supply is very expensive and a lot of research projects stall when they hit the need for massive computing. Ordinarily scientists have to avoid research directions that need a lot of computing to validate. It is like the old joke about the drunk who searches for his dropped keys under the street light where he can see rather than where he actually dropped them. Lawrence |
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