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Today, I almost pulled in 5K in Mersenne. That's with two dual cores running at 3 Ghz and 64 bit Linux.
We're almost a half way to 1M as a team. The way credits seem to be coming out now, it may be a good time to push for the team million-stone.
For those interested: http://mersenneathome.net/
Do they report both claimed and granted credit? If so, what is the ratio of granted/claimed?
Granted is 68.34 per.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxwell
It takes one of my cores a little under 1.5 hours to complete one.
Good to know. I may have to check that out again soon. Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by trigggl
Seems to like AMD a lot more than intel. My Core2 machines are getting only ~20 c/h.
That's the kind of info that would be good on a "project strategy" sticky inside the new team only forum there.Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie67
If we compile enough data on when and how to crunch each project, as a team, we would be light years ahead of the "Average Joe" in efficiency. :cool:
It looks like more of a case of it liking Linux more than Windows. Of course the project admin crunches with Gentoo. His completion times match mine pretty well.Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie67
(I think this is one that Mr. Hankey should probably jump on for a while)
Well, after further investigation, yes, AMD definitely has an advantage.
Which is the greater advantage? Linux over Windows or AMD over Intel?Quote:
Originally Posted by trigggl
My AMD box runs WinXP x64. Is it worth the effort?
Run 10 tasks, figure out the c/h average, and let us know what you learn!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
The people who are doing best by far are the ones using 64-bit Linux on AMD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
Let's get some data and find out!
Well, here's a little experiment in progress:Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie67
Dual AMD Opteron 2.6 Ghz Dual-Core
So, 48.58 and 51.72 Credit/Core/Hour so far.
NOTE: And that's an Ubuntu 10.10, 64bit machine.
EDIT2: After 26 tasks, the average is currently 46.89345536 C/C/H which is about 4.5K daily for this machine. This machine had been getting 1.5K daily on Spinhenge.
For comparison, both my machines are 3 Ghz Intel dual core running Gentoo 64. Over 20 tasks they average 46.9 Credits/Core/HourQuote:
Originally Posted by Mumps
What do you think i'm doing over here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPop
I just ran several tasks with ubuntu 64 in a VM on my Mac Pro. It paid 52 c/h. I am installing a ubuntu 64 VM on a win box now, just to double check. Both machines are Intel Core2 Xeon X53xx machines.
But yeah, it looks like linux is the primary factor in getting ~3x the c/h. At least comparing win64 vs lin64. Not sure what a 32 bit version of either OS would do.
If no one else gets to testing an AMD box running XP x64 by this weekend I'll give it a look see. I will also test Ubuntu x64 on that box using my pen drive w/persistence. I have other team stuff that I've fallen behind on.......
Update after I have 5-6 results from both machines. The two VMs are identical (ubuntu 64).
OSX 10.6.6 w/ dual X5365 (3.0 ghz): 52 c/h
XP64 w/ dual X5355 (2.66 ghz): 40 c/h
Not sure if the difference is purely due to CPU speed. That doesn't seem likely to account for such a large difference. Perhaps the underlying OS of OSX is more efficient in some way.