Pirates Ahoy!

edgedemon · 12 Mar 2009 at 16:08

Hold off on that for the moment TT - Im gonna find the post I placed and edit with the link...

edit

cant find my post, but it was a link to the seti roadmap where it clearly stated ati crunching is coming to seti....

TheTross · 12 Mar 2009 at 16:38

Thanks for the tip edgedemon! After searching around I found this, if that's what you were referring to. Sounds good, but the card I have is a fanless 3650 so I doubt it'd be any good even if it was supported (Milkyway@home doesn't support it, so chances are SETI might not either).

Biffa · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:45

Think for Seti its not worth using anything less than a 260

Happy · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:19

The 250GTX and the 9800GTX+ are the same thing, just with different amounts of ram. Nvidia being lazy and relying on new uninformed customers :rolleyes:

TheTross · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:35

Happy said:
The 250GTX and the 9800GTX+ are the same thing, just with different amounts of ram. Nvidia being lazy and relying on new uninformed customers

Aye, I noticed that on a few reviews I read shortly after I posted

The 260s are a little on the dear side for me unfortunately, so will give it a miss for now and see where Berkeley go regarding ATI.

Biffa · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:36

Yup, think you get a 3 or 4 fold increase with a 260 or 280 but not so good with a 8/9800 type

edgedemon · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:41

I crunch on a 8800GT and its well worth it, I have an 9800GTX to install as well, but I didnt realise they need 2 x 6pin power, so have had to order a molex converter, but I cant wait to see what it does.

TheTross · 12 Mar 2009 at 20:54

What sort of performance do you get with the 8800GT edgedemon, and do you know how much power it draws at 100% load?

I'm also toying with getting an ATI card and running Milkyway@home on it, keeping SETI on the CPU. Not sure what to do, but if SETI are to release a client for ATI cards then I'll go down that route.

NightmareXX · 12 Mar 2009 at 21:44

Well according to Toms Hardware, the 8800GT draws 94/135W depending if it's the 1024/512MB version. Yes, the 1024MB version uses less power on load.

edgedemon · 12 Mar 2009 at 22:02

I have the 521Mb version and at a rough guess Id say about 60 WU a day, plays all my games, love it. If they do release an ATI app, then I will upgrade and buy one...

DarkJedi · 12 Mar 2009 at 23:14

Has anyone got any experience/know if it's possible to use BOINC on a HPC Rocks cluster? - Is it possible to set up BOINC and Rosetta purely through the command line?

If so, will be able to get quite a few points for us - currently using the HPC for F@H, if switching is a possibility I'll take the time to switch over temporarily.

Thanks

Berserker · 13 Mar 2009 at 00:08

I've no idea what an "HPC Rocks" is, but if you can install F@H, you can probably install BOINC.

edgedemon · 13 Mar 2009 at 06:20

HPC???
High performance cluster?

platypus · 13 Mar 2009 at 09:30

Can you use graphics cards for Rosetta?

Edit: Nearing the 10,000 credit mark :cool:

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verbal · 13 Mar 2009 at 09:51

There's no graphics card support in Rosetta yet unfortunately

Mp4 · 15 Mar 2009 at 08:51

how are we doing ?

I have an x1900 can i use this gfx card for anything ?

Beansprout · 16 Mar 2009 at 17:29

I remembered about BOINC when searching for something to stress-test a new 8-core Xeon system with. Rosetta can haz my corez for a week

Ben M · 16 Mar 2009 at 21:38

How is 114 as an average guys?

MGP · 16 Mar 2009 at 22:42

If that is your RAC, it takes a few days to settle down, since that is an averaged cobblestones (points) being returned. As per a well known slogan "Every Little Helps". so that isn't spectacular, but it will depend on how long your PC is running, and what sort of CPU you have.

Have a look at Berserker's stats to get an idea of what many are returning.

Ben M · 16 Mar 2009 at 23:25

MGP said:
If that is your RAC, it takes a few days to settle down, since that is an averaged cobblestones (points) being returned. As per a well known slogan "Every Little Helps". so that isn't spectacular, but it will depend on how long your PC is running, and what sort of CPU you have.

Have a look at Berserker's stats to get an idea of what many are returning.

It's a c2d laptop @1.6ghz (low power mode) but I run the programme only when I'm not using the laptop (overnight + during day, so quite a while)