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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 you are getting 200'000 or more points per day at home on a "regular basis" and with your personal machines (owned by you and not your company) then this thread is for you.
----------------------------------------Let us know who you are, your motivation, what is your hardware setup, and how did you get there. By "regular basis" I mean your last average over 30 days. Ok here I start: Heard about WCG in 2008, and instead of writing checks to charities, I found that to have an active contribution to research that tries to solve major issues in the interest of humanity was more rewarding, and more fun too. I am 52, married three kids. I always built my rigs at home for myself and my kids, so WCG was a perfect alibi to build more rigs and experiment with hardware and performance. Slowly, rig by rig I reached the total of 21 rigs in my home, all active: 8 mini-tower boxes, 10 medium-tower boxes and two big-tower, no laptops. The 10 medium-tower boxes are GPU crunching ready. 17 rigs are exclusively devoted to crunch WCG. The other 4 have also a personal usage, but hey stay always on, and when idle, Boinc/WCG kicks in. The cpu's are all Intel 980X, except three 950 and one 3960X. OS is W7 Ultimate. One day those machines will be donate to a charity for a computer class in a developing country. The objective is to be in the All-Time top 50 crunchers. P.S. Many thanks to my wife that is very very cooperative despite the nuisance that my activity generates at home. She supports WCG type initiatives. On her personal machine (one of the four mentioned above) she has accepted to have Boinc running.  |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
I may have to fire up some machines to be able to post in this thread!
---------------------------------------- I think a lot of us share your motivations. Happy New Year my friend. Safe, healthy, happy and prosperous year to you and yours. Dave  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Movieman at Jan 1, 2012 9:25:14 AM] |
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OldChap
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jun 5, 2009 Post Count: 978 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hope to be on this list this year... the sooner that IB is released the better :)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I'm definitely out of my league here but you guys are awesome. Keep up the good work!
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I may have to fire up some machines to be able to post in this thread! I think a lot of us share your motivations. Happy New Year my friend. Safe, healthy, happy and prosperous year to you and yours. Dave How am I going to catch you if you fire up more machines? @Hypernova. I would guess that most people who crunch share your sediments. I also build my own machines and have been refining the process as I go along. All caseless, except the 2 family desktops, and running 2 boards off 1 PSU each for the dedicated crunchers. My wife has also been very understanding and supportive. I would probably get the look if she ever saw the electric bill. 
In 1969 I took an oath to defend and protect the U S Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and Domestic. There was no expiration date.
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If you look at the stats tables you will soon work out that not many people fit your 200K criteria!
My best system only gets around 40K per day, so to reach 200K at WCG I would need 5 such systems all solely committed to WCG. Alas that is not the situation at present, partly due to electric concerns, partially due to crunching elsewhere and partially due to having to build/rebuild two rigs. I often get around 100K though. My HD 5850 can get over 200K at POEM (not always on), and my GTX470's can get over 120K at GPUGrid (that's Boinc credits), so your 200K per day could soon be readily attainable for many here! With similar credit systems I could in theory get >2M WCG credits when GPU tasks turn up. I think your general idea of being more hands on and involved is sound, and many people contribute for the same reasons. Beats buying lotto tickets anyway! "One day those machines will be donate to a charity for a computer class in a developing country". Was loosely involved in this at one stage. If you send a $1000+ system to a 'war torn' or just 'impoverished' country, you would be adding to the problems. Acceptable systems tend to be worth ~ $50. In poverty stricken areas jobs are scarce and wages low, so anything of value is a target for theft and this often comes with violence. Your systems might be of more use to a similar local charity, in several years, as would a contribution to developing countries; the people on the ground know what's needed and need donations to get it. |
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petehardy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 318 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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On a fully productive day I get 200,000 points.
----------------------------------------In the last week I've had an 8 month old, Boinc dedicated SSD fail and (this is a new one for me) a heatsink/fan mount fail. I have 9 self built boxes, all AMD:- 6 x 1090T = 36 cores 4 run Windows 2008 R2 and are used as file/media servers. The rest run Windows 7 Ultimate X64 and are used by me and my family daily. The Windows 7 machines are ready for GPU crunching.  "Patience is a virtue", I can't wait to learn it! |
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mikey
Veteran Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2009 Post Count: 826 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I do not get 200K per day here but I get over 2 MILLION per day average on some other Boinc projects, does that count?
----------------------------------------Here are WCG I am closer to the 10 to 20k per day range, I just have older cpu's and even then not all are quad core and none are more than that right now. I DO however have a gpu in all but 2 of my crunching machines and I have 13 of those running right now. I have four AMD 5870's and seven AMD 5770 gpu's all crunching like mad. I too build my own pc's, usually from other peoples discarded parts, due to me upgrading their old pc's. I have a mixture of both AMD and Intel cpu's.   |
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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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I do not get 200K per day here but I get over 2 MILLION per day average on some other Boinc projects, does that count? Here are WCG I am closer to the 10 to 20k per day range, I just have older cpu's and even then not all are quad core and none are more than that right now. I DO however have a gpu in all but 2 of my crunching machines and I have 13 of those running right now. I have four AMD 5870's and seven AMD 5770 gpu's all crunching like mad. I too build my own pc's, usually from other peoples discarded parts, due to me upgrading their old pc's. I have a mixture of both AMD and Intel cpu's. The 200'000 ppd is for WCG average daily score only, and not general Boinc score. Nevertheless all comment are welcome and yours does set an important point. With your hardware you score 20'000 ppd at WCG but your hardware is 2'000'000 ppd capable (factor 100) if only WCG would go the GPU way. I think that this fact is very interesting. You show that behind a cruncher that posts a small daily score on WCG is hidden a very powerful potential cruncher. Admin and Tech should take notice, and probably they are already aware of that. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Hypernova at Jan 1, 2012 5:46:49 PM] |
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 8, 2006 Post Count: 1585 Status: Offline |
I've hit your 200,000 goal once or twice. My current daily average is just over 100,000 with 9 random systems anywhere from not yet arrived to over six years old. I upgrade them when I get a chance and managed to add a Phenom II 1190t and an i7 2700k in 2011. My FX 8150 won't arrive for a couple days so it's a good start for 2012.
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