1) Message boards : Number crunching : no more work? (Message 23768)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by Rechenkuenstler
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Einstein@home has always work to crunch.


Einstein@home is the best project with tasks for CPU and GPU to crunch.

You can also join Milkyway@home. They are sometimes down over weekend, but they offer singele threaded and multi threaded CPU tasks and GPU tasks, which can only be crunched with video cards, that have double precision capability
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Too low credits granted in LHC (Message 23419)
Posted 9 Oct 2011 by Rechenkuenstler
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This is obviously a dangerous subject. I hope I don't get banned for posting, or for laughing at some of the posts.

I am a noob at BOINCing, just 6 weeks at work. The credits have two values to me: psychological so I can see how I am doing, and descriptive so I can compare projects. So if I spend equal amounts of time at LHC and MilkyWay, but get vastly different amounts of credit, I tend to wonder if one project is better than the other, or if my computer is somehow not as good at one as the other. Either way, the psychological effect is that I want to do the project that gives higher credit first.

Now I must consider all these arguments. Fine. I will continue to try to give equal time to each project, will still be happy when I receive credits, and have now started to covet a GPU.


Kathrin

it is only up to you to chose the projects for your personal preferences. There are many people here, gaining for credits, as they would become rich. Others measure the effency of their computational donation on credits/second or GPU GFlops/credit or......

Even if I'm lokking on the granted credits, this is not my primary aspect. For me it is important to have a link to practical science in physics. That's why I'm crunching for Einstein@home and LHC@home. And since LHC@home does not have very work to do, most of my work is for E@H.

To detect gravitional waves would be a breakthrough in physics, even if the detectors might not yet be sensitive enough. Finding (binary) pulsars, which might create gravitational waves, that are detectable is very interesting. And to evaluate the data of the Fermi telescope to detect gamma ray pulsars is also very interesting.

I don't know, if LHC does realy need the computational power of home users for sixtrack. They are crunching much higher data workload in much shorter time steps. But if it is a very very little piece of contribution to make breakthrough detection of e.g. Higgs bosons, then it is worth it, regardless the credit granted.



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