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Labinopper
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 5, 2013 Post Count: 74 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Heey there, I'm fairly new to the whole BOINC craze, but I am quite fascinated by all that it stands for, and the idea of making a difference, no matter how small, means something to me (Plus I can be a huge nerd and make stupidly indepth Excel documents showing all sorts of random details about my crunching etc... haha)
----------------------------------------I currently have a 8core i7 with a AMD 7770, and I want to invest some money into being able to crunch more, but I'm kinda at a loss as to how to do this, for me to get another computer similar to what I have I'll be looking at £1,000, whereas I can get another AMD 7770 for just £100, so the question is, what would make more of a difference to the entire BOINC project? do I save up for a year or so and buy a whole new computer, or do I just invest in a new GPU or two? is the AMD 7770 a decent GPU? I know it computes very quickly, but I haven't computed on any other GPU so I don't know how it is in comparison. Yes, I am aware that currently WCG has no GPU projects, and has no new GPU projects in plan for now, but I can't see a way of increasing what I can give to WCG without buying an entirely new computer and running both, so if there is something that I'm overlooking please feel free to inform me =D Hope everybody is well and crunching away Thanks for your time in reading and replying Andy (Labinopper) ![]() |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Andy,
----------------------------------------As far as we know, there is no GPU capable project in the development pipeline. There was a vague suggestion that the forthcoming new Cancer project might become GPU capable at some point in the future but nothing definite and certainly not from day one. knreed published a snapshot of GPU card performance taken from when HCC GPU was running (in Oct 2012). And of course there's the list of cards which which wereunable to participate in HCC GPU for various reasons |
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Labinopper
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 5, 2013 Post Count: 74 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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What about building some form of CPU grid? like a server station, with say 2-4 Intel i7's or AMD Bulldogs hooked together sharing RAM etc..? could that work? I have tried looking onto but I don't really know what to search for haha
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Labinopper
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 5, 2013 Post Count: 74 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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wrong link =P that just takes me to putting a reply on here haha
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dskagcommunity
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: May 10, 2011 Post Count: 219 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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the cheapest way is to build more single CPU multicore systems. The morecost on hardware for multiCPU dont stand in any relation to the usage on BOINC ^^
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Why buy new when used will do ? If you shop judiciously you will spend considerably less and still get good crunching power.
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Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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