I'm Looking

[Mystic1231]

I'm looking for at least 3 more projects to crunch any ideas?:)

Val

[cineon_lut]

You leaning toward CPU or GPU?

CPU I'd recommend : The Skynet POGs (pogs.theskynet.org), Asteroids at home, and World Community Grid (good badges on all). Also, POGs will get you prepped to help in the February challenge :) . They're all good for science.

GPU I'd recommend: Collatz, and Primegrid if you want points and badges. No real science other than mathematical research on either of those. DiRT has a lot of points too, but does nothing for science and I don't have much luck running it. Collatz has good badges and runs well, it's good, efficient code, and it runs alongside CPU jobs, just make sure your project prefs are set to NOT use CPU on either of those. Go to your homepage on each project, and select "Edit <projectname> preferences" and deselect "Use CPU" and on Primegrid, you have a granular level of control on a subproject by subproject basis.

From what I've noticed, on ATI GPUs you might need to set your BOINC preferences to not use 100% of your cpus, saving a partial cpu to control the GPU. Collatz is pretty smart, but most others require more CPU allocated.

Hope that helps, I'm sure there are more seasoned GPU crunchers who will chime in. :)

[myshortpencil]

Everything Cineon said is great.

To see what team members like crunching, see http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/15755/projectList

If Poem@Home comes up with another GPU project with as big a payoff as the one that just ended, I'll crunch that, too. According to the website, http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ , "We are currently working on a follow-up project, which will start in January 2014, accompanied by a new POEM release."

[conf]

I would like to see one of the more exotic Projects too, Almere or Leiden is something nobody has in sight. Just for FB.

[Mystic1231]

Wow thanks for the info!!! But please remember I do not have mega machines like some have just 2 run down laptops. I want to help as much as I can with what I have (for now). 8-> Maybe I'm not running computer like I should with what I'm running now, maybe just maybe my input could be better or changed which is @100% cpu which gives each project 33%. Also I know what CPU is but what is GPU?

Sorry to be so green about all of this stuff:o

[shiva]

GPU is a graphics card. there are AMD cards and NVidia cards. some projects can work with them. The cards are much faster than CPU's so they generate more credit. There are laptop cards that can work on some projects. I have one that is running collatz.

[conf]

The info was meant for your new machine, whenever you will purchase it (or not).
8 Cpu cores will leave place enough for improvements.

[litehouse43]

I'm an admin over at NumberFields@Home so of course I'm going to plug us :) We're studying mathematics if that is of interest to you. We're located at: http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/index.php

[myshortpencil]

Wow thanks for the info!!! But please remember I do not have mega machines like some have just 2 run down laptops. * * *

If you have an accelerometer in those laptops, you can also crunch the Quake Catcher Network (http://qcn.stanford.edu/) without any additional stress on your computer. This project uses your accelerometer to detect earthquakes and to estimate their amplitudes. QCN is in the list of BOINC projects on your BOINC manager. After you add the project, please remember to join team SETI.USA.

About 30 members crunch QCN, which you can see at http://boincstats.com/en/stats/83/user/list/0/0/13/, but this is a growing project and very useful, scientifically.