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oliverstirling
Advanced Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: May 7, 2007 Post Count: 107 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Am considering adding my work Netbook to my grid pool. Any thoughts for/against?
----------------------------------------Vital Stats: Intel Atom N550 Dual Core with H/T @ 1.50GHz 2GB DDR3-1066MHz RAM 250GB HDD Win 7 Starter All comments greatly appreciated (and my apologies if this has been covered elsewhere) Edit - set subject to resolved [Edit 1 times, last edit by oliverstirling at Jun 10, 2011 8:59:19 PM] |
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sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Add it.
Suggest just crunching for HCMD2 and keeping a very low cache (0.01 days). |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I would add it, just compare WU's to your faster machines and be sure that the ATOM can finish in time. I am crunchin with an ATOM 450 1.65 gig, hyper threaded, with 2 gigs DRAM.
----------------------------------------I am crunching CAS@home and eOn, two projects not in WCG. Results are good. I am not saying don't crunch WCG, just check the times. I am on seven machines, WCG is over-weighted on the others. |
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I agree. A small contribution beats no contribution!
----------------------------------------Two of my crunching machines are dual-core Atom mini-desktops, one a D510 at 1.6 GHz and the other a D525 at 1.8 GHz. They were bought for purposes other than crunching, but there's no reason they should be idle when not in use for those other purposes so they crunch most of the time. They're not fast, but they're reliable, and they run cool enough that I can keep them crunching in summer. I run mostly HCC, HCMD2, and C4CW on them. After posting this message, just for the heck of it, I looked up the device statistics on my Atoms: kate-zotac64 6/6/11 3:100:01:56:15 704,970 2,072 kate-jetway64 6/6/11 2:159:23:55:56 625,262 1,605 So between the two machines there are over 3600 valid results returned and 1,300,000 points earned. To me that's worth it. Edited to add device stats. ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by kateiacy at Jun 6, 2011 11:24:05 PM] |
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oliverstirling
Advanced Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: May 7, 2007 Post Count: 107 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for all the advice, netbook is now crunching!
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