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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 am happy to see that many old names are still there and crunching. Hello to you all, and hello to all the new contributors.
----------------------------------------My little personal cluster dedicated to WCG (20 machines originally) is gone but for the good cause. This year the second and last batch left home. They went to two welfare foundations (each got 10), one for kids and one for adults. I think this is an excellent solution. Building the machines, then put them to hard use and abuse  (running 24/7 365 days/year) at WCG for the benefit of humanity and finally let them retire for use directly by people to help others. It is a kind of win-win-win solution.  For those who have built dedicated machines I can only advise you a similar pattern. I regularly look at the hardware evolution and it is very promising. CPUs are less and less power greedy, and the number of cores is increasing. From a max of 6 we are now to 18. A little expensive still. This time I am looking to build just one machine but "powerful enough". I have not yet decided what form it will take. Congratulations to you all for your volounteer contributions and keep up crunching    |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Wow, very good job you did there!!!
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4894 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Please let us know what you end up building. It's good to have you back.
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yes Hypernova, it's good to see you still around.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wow nice well done. Yea do let us know what you end up building, I mostly crunch on crappy laptops but will probably build something dedicated to BOINC next year.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am happy to see that many old names are still there and crunching. Hello to you all, and hello to all the new contributors. My little personal cluster dedicated to WCG (20 machines originally) is gone but for the good cause. This year the second and last batch left home. They went to two welfare foundations (each got 10), one for kids and one for adults. I think this is an excellent solution. Building the machines, then put them to hard use and abuse (running 24/7 365 days/year) at WCG for the benefit of humanity and finally let them retire for use directly by people to help others. It is a kind of win-win-win solution. For those who have built dedicated machines I can only advise you a similar pattern. I regularly look at the hardware evolution and it is very promising. CPUs are less and less power greedy, and the number of cores is increasing. From a max of 6 we are now to 18. A little expensive still. This time I am looking to build just one machine but "powerful enough". I have not yet decided what form it will take. Congratulations to you all for your volounteer contributions and keep up crunching great thing u did...we also did similar thing, with WCG account still on those computers! some of them are still crunching... check here: http://tinyurl.com/okjgtp5 actually, we do it over a non-profit org...hopefully u do it also?!  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KLiK at Sep 30, 2015 1:28:41 PM] |
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pramo
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Post Count: 716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Good to see you are alive and well. When you decide what you're going to build let us know. Judging from your past it will be a killer.
---------------------------------------- This time I am looking to build just one machine but "powerful enough". I have not yet decided what form it will take. 20 core HT CPUs are coming. How about a 4P board with 4 of them. 160 cores. Throw in 4 R9 390X GPUs and you're ready to rock and roll 
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Hypernova!!
----------------------------------------Do let everyone know what you build! And welcome back!  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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