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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If they did it would probably take 100 years to complete 1 workunit. We see here that there is a practical cost factor. If a very old system manages to run but takes let's say a month to finish a WU, the ratio watts/WU is absurd. To forget the machine in a corner for a month no problem, it is not lost time for us. But at WCG time is money in terms of electrical energy spent. By the way it would be very interesting to see what kind of watt/point ratio do we have. I will do over the next week-end some tests with my rigs. To make a watt/WU ratio would not mean much as the WU crunching time differs according to project and WU type. But a ratio watt/point would make sense as large WUs do bring more points.  |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If they did it would probably take 100 years to complete 1 workunit. We see here that there is a practical cost factor. If a very old system manages to run but takes let's say a month to finish a WU, the ratio watts/WU is absurd. To forget the machine in a corner for a month no problem, it is not lost time for us. But at WCG time is money in terms of electrical energy spent.  BTW it would probably take 100 years for me to get that old CPM computer to BONIC.  Cheers   |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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tech wise, old compaq deskpro, PIII-600 kicking about 1 wu/day running 24/7. got pressed into service about 6 months ago after a crash. will continue to crunch but is coming off my desk (yes it is my prime work box atm) soon. This box runs Win 2000 ;) and will continue crunching and collecting my weather station data. its replacement is already crunching Fredski you did not give any date. Please tell us the dates and maybe you qualify. Up to now here is where we are with record holders: Ingleside -Oldest device crunching for WCG 2003 Sekerob -Oldest active WCG registered device 27-12-2006 Who will do better? [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Mar 31, 2010 8:10:58 AM] |
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Former Member
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My first device on WCG was a Thinkpad registered on December 2nd 2005. At that time I had most of my computers running the UD agent from grid.org.
I wanted to use that laptop but 100% of CPU usage was too much for it. I found out that the WCG UD Agent had the option to throttle the CPU, so I tried it. But my first PC ever used for DC projects was a Dell XPS PII-400. I turned it off a month ago to save some electricity, but it works just fine (albeit a little slooooow ).That machine has been working for DC projects almost 24x7 since April 9th 2001. The last month has been its longest "vacation". In WCG it has completed more than 254 days of CPU time, 767 results returned and 75411 points (combined stats from three "versions" of the same device). |
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tech wise, old compaq deskpro, PIII-600 kicking about 1 wu/day running 24/7. got pressed into service about 6 months ago after a crash. will continue to crunch but is coming off my desk (yes it is my prime work box atm) soon. This box runs Win 2000 ;) and will continue crunching and collecting my weather station data. its replacement is already crunching Fredski you did not give any date. Please tell us the dates and maybe you qualify. Up to now here is where we are with record holders: Ingleside -Oldest device crunching for WCG 2003 Sekerob -Oldest active WCG registered device 27-12-2006 Who will do better? only about 6 mo on this box, started crunching somewhere around 2000 but all of those boxes retired with UD |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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only about 6 mo on this box, started crunching somewhere around 2000 but all of those boxes retired with UD No problem with that fredski. That box started crunching 6 months ago but it is still crunching. I understand the CPU is pretty old PIII-600. So how old is that box? |
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