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9maMSSuNWXgttyKdZhMemeXmEx8
Senior Cruncher Puerto Rico Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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So, as the title says, I'm in charge of a room which itself has 2 Pentium III servers and the third one was a server that was going to the trash, so I got that one too and decided to crunch on that server too. In fact, 2 of those servers have 2 Pentium III processors, meaning that in total I have 5 Pentium III crunching for World Community Grid.
----------------------------------------I was shocked to find out that the servers had a Pentium III and were running Server 2003 so nicely, and so since they were not used for some general tasks, in fact they were absolutely doing nothing, I decided to install BOINC on those machines. I'm currently crunshing Help Fight Childhood Cancer on those servers and in almost 10 hours they are at a 35% progress! I'm just keeping crunching every PC and server I get my hands on!    |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7659 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Would you care to post any benchmarks ?
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9maMSSuNWXgttyKdZhMemeXmEx8
Senior Cruncher Puerto Rico Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R)
----------------------------------------III CPU family 1266MHz [x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1] 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc sse mmx 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003: Standard Server Edition, (05.02.3790.00) 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Memory: 1023.48 MB physical, 2.41 GB virtual 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Disk: 33.89 GB total, 31.13 GB free 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Local time is UTC -7 hours 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 511.74MB 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.14MB 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects 8/17/2012 9:06:20 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions 8/17/2012 9:06:40 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php 8/17/2012 9:06:54 PM||Running CPU benchmarks 8/17/2012 9:06:54 PM||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks 8/17/2012 9:07:26 PM||Benchmark results: 8/17/2012 9:07:26 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 8/17/2012 9:07:26 PM|| 1162 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 8/17/2012 9:07:26 PM|| 2010 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7659 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks.
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mikey
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So, as the title says, I'm in charge of a room which itself has 2 Pentium III servers and the third one was a server that was going to the trash, so I got that one too and decided to crunch on that server too. In fact, 2 of those servers have 2 Pentium III processors, meaning that in total I have 5 Pentium III crunching for World Community Grid. I was shocked to find out that the servers had a Pentium III and were running Server 2003 so nicely, and so since they were not used for some general tasks, in fact they were absolutely doing nothing, I decided to install BOINC on those machines. I'm currently crunshing Help Fight Childhood Cancer on those servers and in almost 10 hours they are at a 35% progress! I'm just keeping crunching every PC and server I get my hands on! IF you wish to crunch faster you could switch projects to one that finishes sooner, here is the link to one of SekeRob's stats pages: [url]http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q210/Sekerob/WCGDashboard.png[/url] It shows that HFCC takes on average 5.99 hours to finish one unit while HCC only takes 1.54 hours, while C4SW is the shortest on average taking only 0.78 hours per work unit. Seeing at that is an older pc you might consider the shorter units as long as you are not tied to a project for any particular reason.   |
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9maMSSuNWXgttyKdZhMemeXmEx8
Senior Cruncher Puerto Rico Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Actually I crunsh projects based on how much days is left for a project. I actually don't care for the workunit length, I'm just crunshing the project that will finish sooner, so I can have a better chance of getting some barges
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9maMSSuNWXgttyKdZhMemeXmEx8
Senior Cruncher Puerto Rico Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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So, a HFCC took 21 hours 32 minutes on the Pentium III server. Also, just noticed that the servers actually have Pentium III Xeon Processors.
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
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The extra L2 cache will significantly improve your performance. My last PIII was retired nearly a year ago now, if I remember right 24-30 hours was typical for HFCC - then they started on harder targets and my times went to two days.
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9maMSSuNWXgttyKdZhMemeXmEx8
Senior Cruncher Puerto Rico Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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All of my HFCC stayed between 19 to 24 hours.
----------------------------------------Here is the final server setup: Server 1: 2x Intel Pentium III @ 1.26Ghz 512Kb L2 Cache Server 2: 1x Intel Pentium III Xeon @ 1.00Ghz 256Kb L2 Cache Both servers have an SCSI 40GB Hard Disk @ Volume config on the RAID controller. While the Xeon is lower in Ghz, it performs a little faster (1 to 2 hours less time per HFCC workunit) than the regular Pentium III which is clocked higher and has more cache. Of course Server 1 processes 2 workunits at a time since it is dual processor. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7659 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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All of my HFCC stayed between 19 to 24 hours. Here is the final server setup: Server 1: 2x Intel Pentium III @ 1.26Ghz 512Kb L2 Cache Server 2: 1x Intel Pentium III Xeon @ 1.00Ghz 256Kb L2 Cache Both servers have an SCSI 40GB Hard Disk @ Volume config on the RAID controller. While the Xeon is lower in Ghz, it performs a little faster (1 to 2 hours less time per HFCC workunit) than the regular Pentium III which is clocked higher and has more cache. Of course Server 1 processes 2 workunits at a time since it is dual processor. The nice thing about the servers is they are built to run 24/7 for long periods of time. I hope they give you long and productive service. Cheers
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