If I did that with the aforementioned Dell 490, I could get *TWO* of the Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5320 1.86GHz,2X4M L2,1066(ESMT) CPU chips and the price out the door would be under $2,600 (for the $4,100 system above). If I had $5,000 (or more) to spend on BOINC contributions, I could buy multiple copies of that $2,600 machine (with a KVM switch, of course) and I bet that my total BOINC contribution (credits) would be a lot better than the person buying the Mac Pro with dual 3 GHz CPU chips.
Skip the KVM and just use VNC. Less HW to buy and cable up. It's already on the network anyway.
Yes, you will probably out crunch a single top-end 8-way with 2x low-end 8-ways. But you will also have 2x the power consumption to pay for, two times the heat exhaust to deal with, two times, the noise, and two times the footprint/space consumption.
Just the whole Mac Mini, tiny white-aluminium box with a Core Duo, without display. The Apple integrated in an LCD was the iMac, with faster Core 2 Duo CPU.
Watts are per second by definition. A Watt is a Joule/second. And a Joule is the energy needed to heat 1g of liquid water 1 degree Celcius. Bikeman converted it to the kwh's that your electricity is billed in. Joule*hours/second, a truely bastardized unit if I ever saw one.
If you are used to metric units e.g. "Liters of gasoline per 100 km", "miles per gallon" is quite painful as well :-)
Inverse units are a pain for thinking in, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with either formulation. My comment was about the fundamental perversity of the unit kwh from a strictly dimensional PoV.
If you are used to metric units e.g. "Liters of gasoline per 100 km", "miles per gallon" is quite painful as well :-)
Inverse units are a pain for thinking in, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with either formulation. My comment was about the fundamental perversity of the unit kwh from a strictly dimensional PoV.
Eh, that was such a massive mind-bending revelation! I think the gravity of it hit me at 299792458 m/s... no, wait, that was 9.8 something or another... :shrug:
Perhaps I should be made to walk off the plank for not remembering that I am carring around a cup of tea that I am swirling at the rate of 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
Eh, that was such a massive mind-bending revelation! I think the gravity of it hit me at 299792458 m/s... no, wait, that was 9.8 something or another... :shrug:
Perhaps I should be made to walk off the plank for not remembering that I am carring around a cup of tea that I am swirling at the rate of 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
What is the best operating system (?way) to get the maximum BOINCing from a DL-580 4 Xeon Piii 700MHz 2GB?
Robert
You are not alone ... you might want to add your experiences to this thread here .
I'd begin with a Live-CD Linux version to check out the system and get a first impression of the performance. I doubt you will get better performance under Windows.
Perhaps the real question should be "how many cores" is better. I'd say the more the better. For BOINC, parallelism is a great thing. 2 cores let you do two tasks at the same time; 4 cores - 4 tasks, 8 cores... you get the picture. Plus, the more cores per case means less occupied space.
And if you have a small room or apartment, a many core computer can serve as a space heater. If you live in a warm place you may want to avoid getting too many cores.
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Skip the KVM and just use VNC. Less HW to buy and cable up. It's already on the network anyway.
Yes, you will probably out crunch a single top-end 8-way with 2x low-end 8-ways. But you will also have 2x the power consumption to pay for, two times the heat exhaust to deal with, two times, the noise, and two times the footprint/space consumption.
Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA
RE: Just the whole Mac
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Exactly. In case anyone wonder about the comparatively low RAC for my Mac mini http://einsteinathome.org/host/932558: Only one core is working for E@H, the other one is here on CPDN: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=649055.
CU
BRM
Watts are per second by
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Watts are per second by definition. A Watt is a Joule/second. And a Joule is the energy needed to heat 1g of liquid water 1 degree Celcius. Bikeman converted it to the kwh's that your electricity is billed in. Joule*hours/second, a truely bastardized unit if I ever saw one.
RE: ...a truely bastardized
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If you are used to metric units e.g. "Liters of gasoline per 100 km", "miles per gallon" is quite painful as well :-)
CU
BRM
RE: RE: ...a truely
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Inverse units are a pain for thinking in, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with either formulation. My comment was about the fundamental perversity of the unit kwh from a strictly dimensional PoV.
RE: RE: RE: ...a truely
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Eh, that was such a massive mind-bending revelation! I think the gravity of it hit me at 299792458 m/s... no, wait, that was 9.8 something or another... :shrug:
Perhaps I should be made to walk off the plank for not remembering that I am carring around a cup of tea that I am swirling at the rate of 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
;-)
RE: Eh, that was such a
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...and the answer to EVERYTHING is...
...42...!
Udo
What is the best operating
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What is the best operating system (?way) to get the maximum BOINCing from a DL-580 4 Xeon Piii 700MHz 2GB?
Robert
RE: What is the best
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You are not alone ... you might want to add your experiences to this thread here .
I'd begin with a Live-CD Linux version to check out the system and get a first impression of the performance. I doubt you will get better performance under Windows.
CU
BRM
Perhaps the real question
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Perhaps the real question should be "how many cores" is better. I'd say the more the better. For BOINC, parallelism is a great thing. 2 cores let you do two tasks at the same time; 4 cores - 4 tasks, 8 cores... you get the picture. Plus, the more cores per case means less occupied space.
And if you have a small room or apartment, a many core computer can serve as a space heater. If you live in a warm place you may want to avoid getting too many cores.