Moving across to the dark side

magman · 4 Jul 2006 at 14:25

I've decided to give BOINC a rest for a while and see what all of this FAH Malarkey is all about.

I've already got my Dual Opteron system crunching at FAH, though only at 50% at present as this cruncher finishes of some SETI and Rosetta WU's. In a couple of days this should be up to full speed.

One of my P4's, a 3.0 HT system, has just been moved across completely (BOINC was misbehaving anyway, though this may be due to the heat and not being rebooted for a couple of months).

I'll look at moving the other crunchers (another 8 systems) across over the next few days and we'll see what I can get out of them. I've been averaging something around 2000 CS a day on BOINC, so it will be interesting to see what my results end up like whilst doing FAH.

magman · 4 Jul 2006 at 19:39

BillytheImpaler said:
Mr. Scotland, I think you're underestimating Mr. Magman's true crunching mojo.

No mate, The Stompmonster is strictly off limits, this has to keep on crunching SETI as a condition of me hosting it.

My other crunchers should make things a bit interesting in a few days though.

I've got 7 clients running on 5 systems so far and EM is forecasting about 500 PPD and this is with 4 of the systems still crunching some BOINC work. It will be interesting to see what my overall production levels out to when I have the systems suitably tuned and everything running.

magman · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:21

VeNT said:
gah I wish we could get stompie running folding, drop another 512 in each layer and you'ed be AWAY!

TBH, the processors in the stompy layers are getting a bit old hat, in the crunching per Watt of electricity level anyway. Most of the layers are XP1600's with 128 Meg of RAM, a modern P4 or Athlon is likely to be more than twice as productive for a similar level of power consumption.

People seem to forget that most of these layers are getting on for 4 years old now. I've been hosting some of them since April 2003 and they weren't new when I got them. They have also been running at 100% utilisation for the vast majority of this time, so in the near future, reliability is going to suffer (one layer has already died after cooking the processor when the motherboard CPU fan supply failed).

magman · 5 Jul 2006 at 23:26

kinnison said:
Are you Gazzza then, Magman??

Nope, as diogenese said, we must have another farmer onboard.

I'll let you guess what my username is (only 165 points so far)