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Former Member
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Those who are leading the points boards and doing the most processing, what are you running for system hardware? I am part of a project, my team has acquired part day access to 200+ CPU's, and I want to maximize processing. any thoughts from the community?
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What kind of PC's are these and is overclocking an option?
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nasher
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most the high end people are useing more than one computer... i curently have 3 computers running but in the past i had as many as 6 at one time running...
----------------------------------------multiple core computers are good as well i do not recomend overclocking computers though cause if you dont know what your doing you could cause errors in your results |
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Are those computers being used for something else during the time you have access to them? And what is their use the rest of the time? Are them servers or desktops/laptops used by people?
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They are HP machines of some sort (not sure the model offhand) No there is no overclock available, but I am going to try and fund 2 large servers for extreme processing
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Its a high school, they will be used by students some of the time, and turned off at nightm, no A/C at night, so they would get too hot.
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Here are some straightforward things you can do:
1. Set your profile to use 100% of processor time. (Default is 60%.) If this causes the computers' fans to be too noisy, or if the computers are running too hot, then dial it back to an acceptable level. Note that changing this setting will not slow down the students' response time when they are using the computers. This parameter setting is found on WCG's web site at: My Grid tab, Device Manager, Device Profiles, Default, Basic Options. 2. Leave the computers on as many hours per day as possible. 3. When you buy new computers, get as many cores per processor as possible. If you have a quad core, you can run four tasks simultaneously. If you get an Intel i7 quad core, you can run eight tasks at the same time, because each core is multithreaded. |
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