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Former Member
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What would be the cheapest, "barebone" computer "box" in which your agent could run WCG without difficulties?aquinonpti@yahoo.com
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retsof
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I have a Pentium III/500 MHz running the UD interface, but it is not fast enough BOINC.
----------------------------------------Specifications for BOINC here indicate that a 550 MHz computer is required, so that is the slowest one allowable.
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The amount of RAM in the machine is important too. I have had UD running on as little as 160 MB but it would not run on 128MB. With 160MB the disc thrashed a lot. With 192MB RAM it thrashes very little.
Regarding disk capacity, I have UD running on a 6GB disk under a minimal Windows installation. I think BOINC would run on a 6GB disk too but I have never tried. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi aquinonpti
----------------------------------------I managed to build one for £126 It's a socket A sempron 2800+ 256Mb Ram of which part is taken by the onboard graphics. It's a SIS Chipset. It has a 6.5Gb drive I had lying around (as you do over time with PC's  ) It's in the cheapest case and supply I could find which is so ugly it lives hidden under my desk. If you run BOINC you can crunch both HPF and FAAH on it. I talk to it through windows remote desktop so no keyboard or mouse and it churns out over 3Gflops and munches through those work units, handy onboard ethernet connection too.I'd recommend this route disk drive need just enough disk space to hold the OS You could even try Linux (Ubuntu has got to be th easiest way even I can do it) and then the OS is free too maybe a socket 754 board with onboard graphics would be the cheapest route today with socket AM2 arriving from AMD Dave (For the record and so MS don't send the boys round I have an Action Pack Subscription  )  |
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