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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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With that many getting axed, the money saved on the electric bill could go for another cruncher. The newer processors are way better on the juice bill compared to 4-5 years ago. Plus more powerful is a bonus. Sandy bridge will bring us better savings plus power to boot. If what I saw on price of these chips, should be my next build.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Finally upgrading all my crunchers to ubuntu 10.10. And updating boinc. Figure it was about time. Will have to wait a bit on gpu crunching. Grabbed a xeon e5472 on eBay. Only one so hopefully find another decent deal on one. $202.00. Not bad compared what's been out there.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I did find something interesting on my small cruncher. A friend sent me a raptor drive he had laying around. Running CEP2, my differences on run time vs actual time is around 10-15 minutes compared to my other crunchers having a difference of around an hour or more using 7200 rpm sata drives. Called micro center about the ssd drives I ordered but put on back order. Should be in stock in about a week. Anyone know how to clone ubuntu from one disk to another?
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just read the link. Looks good. Thanks. It states under limitations that the Destination disk must be equal or larger than the original disk. If this is the case, won't work for me. I have a 250gb drive now and the ssd is only 32gb. Is there a work around or am I not reading this correctly?
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I would try a GParted live cd and see if you can't boot with it and shrink your partition to say 31gb. Then in clonezilla clone the partition instead of the entire disk. I think it's doable.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I will give it a shot. Thanks.
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I did find something interesting on my small cruncher. A friend sent me a raptor drive he had laying around. Running CEP2, my differences on run time vs actual time is around 10-15 minutes compared to my other crunchers having a difference of around an hour or more using 7200 rpm sata drives. Called micro center about the ssd drives I ordered but put on back order. Should be in stock in about a week. I like to hear that about the efficiency improvement for CEP2! I've been getting around 40 mins difference, and had been thinking for a while about trying an ssd to speed that up. So, after snooping around on your team list the other day, I placed an order to Microcenter earlier today for two of those 32 GB ssds. No indication on the site that they were out of stock. I hope that the fact that they're running another special on them means they're very certain that more are coming in soon. It's snowing enthusiastically down here in Iowa, but nothing like what you all got this past weekend.  |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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When running all processors on cep2, my times increased to 40-50 minutes. Will have to wait for my ssd's to come it to run this project 100%. Backing off to only a few for now.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7700 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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A sunny day here. Dusted with snow, so it looks very bright outside. Probably get more snow later in the week. 15F(-9C), but no wind, so fairly pleasant. Maybe Santa will be nice to me and I will find a new cruncher under the tree
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