Hello Δv,
Re: your Azure experiment.

A quick and nasty calculation makes that approx 114 points per hour, which is very similar to my experience with Faah on a cheap KVM vps.

Thanks for sharing deltavee

Thanks Safak,

Yesterday (well, yesterday UTC - it was after midnight my time ) I set it up.

I will also post performances here (or in the new thread).

Cheers

I've also had my WSI server (dual-X5650) crunching for just under 2 weeks, so far - apart from a 15-minute network-blip, last weekend, it seems to have been rock-solid up to now:

Machine Name: leviathan
Last Result: 08/06/2014 12:00:18
Run-time: 0:292:12:59:41
Points Scored: 858,893
Results Returned:: 1,565

It's just starting to settle down after I started it out with a work-cache of 5 days, and it grabbed lots of MCM1, FA@H, and CEP2 units to churn through. By overall stats above, I work that out to be just over 122 points/hour, but I'm sure that'll change a bit as it starts to settle down into just running MCM1 for a few weeks. Current daily-stats are:

   Date           Total Run Time        Points      Results
08/06/2014		0:014:07:43:41		39,697		39
08/05/2014		0:021:11:28:39		61,620		62
08/04/2014		0:023:22:58:52		70,146		90
08/03/2014		0:024:16:51:14		73,228		96
08/02/2014		0:025:22:04:30		74,836		116
08/01/2014		0:021:17:15:05		62,145		105
07/31/2014		0:022:23:44:45		70,115		136
07/30/2014		0:023:10:03:28		72,466		183
07/29/2014		0:026:01:53:12		68,510		168
07/28/2014		0:025:05:49:52		68,925		178
07/27/2014		0:021:17:04:54		62,345		147
07/26/2014		0:023:23:43:31		80,578		157
07/25/2014		0:017:00:17:58		54,282		88

Well, the operating system comes pre-installed by WSI, you choose which you'd like - I went with 64-bit debian-Linux as it's what I'm used to using & looking after with work. After that, and my usual tinkering (security config, etc), it was a few commands to get BOINC installed, adjust a few config files, and away it goes...


Back when I used to run BOINC on an old i7-920 (4c/8t 2.66GHz), judging by the stats, imagine 3 of them running side-by-side, somewhere where you don't have to care about electricity costs or cooling-ability. I used to get 15-25k points per day, so it's not too bad a comparison judging by my stats with the new server so far.


Start off with paying for just a month, to get it set up and settled, and to give yourself an idea how much work it'll do. After that, if you feel like keeping it, you can pay for 6 or 12 months' in one go and save yourself some money in the process (you only pay for 5 or 10 months, respectively).


You can pay for a RAM upgrade, but it will cost you extra per month (from $5/month extra for 16GB total up to an extra $40/month for 72GB total for the server I went for). Same if you need bigger/more disks for storage. I've not run it on CEP2 (apart from when it downloaded a single work-unit at the start), as I'm concentrating on MCM1 and will be for the foreseeable future, so I couldn't answer whether the 8GB will be enough to run it consistently/efficiently. However, 24 threads of MCM1 is only using around half of it, so plenty to spare yet...

Try to be patient and get the 5650, it's far better for the money...

And yes, I'll assist as far as I can with the setup.

I used this to assist