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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This thread is for us to discover the oldest host ever, crunching on WCG and returning results on a regular basis. Even if it runs a mix of WCG and other projects that's Ok.
----------------------------------------So post here your Mathusalem Champion: Device Type: Colossus, Eniac, PC Desktop, PC Laptop etc.. CPU type: Vacuum Tube, Zilog, Pentium III, P4 etc...... Year : 1941, etc....  |
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Uhm, are you after the "Date Installed & Registered" here at WCG for a still-active device, or is you after "that old box has been running DC since 19xx, but didn't join WCG before in 2010".
---------------------------------------- If the former, I've got an active WCG-device listed at... 20.05.2007. If the latter, my oldest still-active computer is an Opteron-242, that's been running since... if not mistaken 2003... So, neither is by any means close to being the oldest active WCG-devices.   "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Uhm, are you after the "Date Installed & Registered" here at WCG for a still-active device, or is you after "that old box has been running DC since 19xx, but didn't join WCG before in 2010". You are right to comment Ingleside. Both are interesting to know. So yes we have two categories here: 1) The oldest in term of Date Registered at WCG and still crunching today. 2) Oldest machine, device or system that today crunches for WCG partly or fully even if it registered in 2010. I find it interesting to see up to what past technological generation is still able to contribute. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
According BOINCStats there are still some W98 contributing here, so it is likely something from the previous previous decade. My oldest active registered device, not loosing the identity when rebuilding with clean W7 is (restored the data_dir):
----------------------------------------95711 work 27-12-06 last returned result per device statistics: 15-3-10 4:020:03:57:23 2,619,218 6,153 i.e. 40 months known as the one and same.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
tech wise, old compaq deskpro, PIII-600 kicking about 1 wu/day running 24/7. got pressed into service about 6 months ago after a crash. will continue to crunch but is coming off my desk (yes it is my prime work box atm) soon. This box runs Win 2000 ;) and will continue crunching and collecting my weather station data. its replacement is already crunching
----------------------------------------Edit: crunches everything I throw at it, just takes forever, ie up to 72 hrs for HFCC [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 15, 2010 4:03:15 PM] |
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PecosRiverM
Veteran Cruncher The Great State of Texas Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 1054 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hum Maybe I should go out to the garage and get my 8088 or 286-16 and see if I can get them to crunch.
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hum Maybe I should go out to the garage and get my 8088 or 286-16 and see if I can get them to crunch. PecosRiverM that is a nice idea. If you can just get the 8088 to crunch and return just one result than you may well win the Mathusalem Cruncher title.  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7668 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hum Maybe I should go out to the garage and get my 8088 or 286-16 and see if I can get them to crunch. PecosRiverM that is a nice idea. If you can just get the 8088 to crunch and return just one result than you may well win the Mathusalem Cruncher title. Sorry to break your bubble, but that box will run DOS with 640K memory. I know it will not be capable of running anything on WCG. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the minimum memory requirement is 128 M. I think the lowest box capable of that memory is a first generation Pentium 60. I think the 486 boxes maxed out at 64M memory. I had an AMD K2 for while, but retired it because the work units were taking several days. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sorry to break your bubble, but that box will run DOS with 640K memory. I know it will not be capable of running anything on WCG. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the minimum memory requirement is 128 M. I think the lowest box capable of that memory is a first generation Pentium 60. I think the 486 boxes maxed out at 64M memory. I had an AMD K2 for while, but retired it because the work units were taking several days. Cheers The Rice-requirement is 50 MB, and would expect HCMD2 is even lower than this. The actual memory-usage on Rice seems to be around 22 MB max, and HCMD2 is lower. Appart for the memory-usage, all the WCG-applications are 32-bit, so an 808x wouldn't be an option at all. A 386 is 32-bit capable, but even it can run 32-bit, it's not certain it can run the WCG-applications without crashing-out... "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I had one of those W98 computers crunching until I broke it by deleting a critical system file last year. One of these days I'm gonna have to pull the HD out and plug it into something else and undelete it. Now if I can only remember what I deleted.
---------------------------------------- What is the oldest OS that BOINC will support? That will give a good hint of what the oldest might be. I've got some real old computers in the garage (CP/M), but I think that they are too old to BOINC. If they did it would probably take 100 years to complete 1 workunit. Cheers   |
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