TheSkyNet news thread - 7/11/2011

Oh ok,

Of course if you are buying old kit from the MM and making two machines from old motherboards then its going to be a lot cheaper. :)

I was assuming you wanted to build something like this:
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So, would it be correct to say that at the moment the relative performance of each core of a processor that you use for Skynet doesn't make a big difference to the points you get? In other words there isn't a big difference between one core of an Athlon x4 compared with one core of an i7 cpu in terms of skynet ppd?

I haven't seen anything discussing relative performance of cpus on this project. I had a look on the Skynet forums but didn't find anything.
 
No idea either, I like the premise of the project but it doesn't seem to lend itself that well to those of us who are more ... er.. enthusiastic.. in our hardware approach to crunching :p
 
verbal said:
In other words there isn't a big difference between one core of an Athlon x4 compared with one core of an i7 cpu in terms of skynet ppd?
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The longer you are connected, the more you will contribute and the faster you will earn credits.
You earn one credit per 15 minutes you are connected (so power of cpu has no relevance here)
Also, you earn one credit per 15MB your computer processes (here I suspect Intel cpu's will fair slightly better but I have no data to support this assumption)

Also -

Ageotas said:
The Nereus client is not hyperthreaded, so it will only reliably use physical cores, meaning that yes, an i7 Gulftown CPU will only use 6 clients simultaneously

Tim - theSkyNet Team
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But you can use VMware to use the hyper threads.
Bandwidth with be the biggest problem for a skynet stompy - massively more data downloaded that any other DC project

like the sig update halz
 
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halz said:
The longer you are connected, the more you will contribute and the faster you will earn credits.
You earn one credit per 15 minutes you are connected (so power of cpu has no relevance here)
Also, you earn one credit per 15MB your computer processes (here I suspect Intel cpu's will fair slightly better but I have no data to support this assumption)
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Thanks for the answers. This leads to two more questions:

1. Is the increase in credit the longer you are connected an exponential increase? Is there a limit? I would assume so.

2. What factors determine how fast each computer processes a 15mb chunk? Is it all down to the speed of the cpu or does RAM and HDD performance play a significant part. Perhaps the speed of a contributors internet connection is a factor? As Skynet does not fully stress each core it makes me wonder how CPU-performance dependent the project is.

...sorry that second question is a bit of a beast. I'm interested in the project and weighing up a possible PC purchase with Skynet partially in mind.
 
verbal said:
Thanks for the answers. This leads to two more questions:

1. Is the increase in credit the longer you are connected an exponential increase? Is there a limit? I would assume so.

2. What factors determine how fast each computer processes a 15mb chunk? Is it all down to the speed of the cpu or does RAM and HDD performance play a significant part. Perhaps the speed of a contributors internet connection is a factor? As Skynet does not fully stress each core it makes me wonder how CPU-performance dependent the project is.
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1. Time connected credit rate is a constant - even if idle waiting for work

2. I would imagine all the above play a part but to what extent I do not know as I have not seen any information on the subject, maybe you could find something?

This is my laptop as I write this (Intel Core Duo 2.2Mhz with 4Gb of ram)

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