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genhos
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2009 Post Count: 1103 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This page http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php gives a list of the mian BOINC projects, some are Pi supported. Just happens that there is a UK team for Asteroids, Einstein & Enigma is you fancy helping our overall BOINC score
---------------------------------------- You'll find me in Asteroids & Enigma and I think Scribe setup the Einstein team. Our other projects can be found here http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/34360/projectList ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by genhos at Feb 4, 2015 8:38:05 PM] |
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Congratulations on New Badges at the last update: Congrats Mr Wild!  |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The latest on OET1 from uplinger:
----------------------------------------Feb 4, 2015 9:48:22 PM We are currently testing a release candidate for the application on our alpha servers. Pending the results of that test, the applcation would then need to go through a beta test. Best case is early next week, but this is pending good results from alpha so I can not give a proper ETA. |
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1168 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This page http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php gives a list of the mian BOINC projects, some are Pi supported. Just happens that there is a UK team for Asteroids, Einstein & Enigma is you fancy helping our overall BOINC score You'll find me in Asteroids & Enigma and I think Scribe setup the Einstein team. Our other projects can be found here http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/34360/projectList Thanks for the list genhos. Really useful. I've just tried FiND, an anti-malarial project (which is the kind of thing I'm interested in). Problem is, the Autodock Vina units from this project take (wait for it...) about 3 minutes each on my Core i7, and appear to be forecast to take 37 hours on the Pi. I only have Intel HD 4600 graphics, but I'm guessing my desktop PC must be using the OpenCL driver or something? The units are supposedly 60000 GFLOPS each. Anyway, I'll see if the Pi catches fire overnight, but with that sort of performance it's probably not worth even the measely couple of watts.
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1168 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It appears that the FiND project divides the work units into subtasks, some of which are very short and some of which aren't. The Core i7 (3450S) takes ~50 seconds for a short one, compared to ~870 seconds on the Pi, peaking at ~4 GFLOPS and 0.44 GFLOPS respectively.
----------------------------------------That's not so bad as it first appeared, and I guess a fast SD card would help too (I just shoved a Class 4 one in).
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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Mamajuanauk
Master Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Dec 15, 2012 Post Count: 1900 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Morning All...
----------------------------------------100 Years on MCM!
Mamajuanauk is the Name! Crunching is the Game!
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dcrobinson
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I'll retract my previous comment. BOINC now decided that the 37 hours tasks are really 36 minute tasks. So basically, it's doing these units at a tenth of the speed of my 3.5GHz i7, all powered off a USB3 socket on my main server, so < 900mA, probably.
----------------------------------------I think that's pretty good... it's just a shame that there aren't any WCG projects that will run on the Pi.
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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Darkmatter.NI
Veteran Cruncher Northern Ireland Joined: Jun 6, 2014 Post Count: 783 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have my Raspberry PI 2 on order but may not get it for 3 weeks, Was late on ordering it. I use mine as a Media Center, the first Raspberry Pi was too slow to use it as a web browser as well, but hoping this version will suffice.
----------------------------------------OSMC looks very interesting, with the new plugin framework, running a browser as plugins. Also Kodi is fast enough on the original PI so looking forward to seeing it on V2. Only real problem I had with the original is that it is a bit slow retrieving network directory structures after playing a video. If you can't find a use for it, I could buy it off you.  |
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dcrobinson
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Mar 10, 2009 Post Count: 1168 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have my Raspberry PI 2 on order but may not get it for 3 weeks, Was late on ordering it. I use mine as a Media Center, the first Raspberry Pi was too slow to use it as a web browser as well, but hoping this version will suffice. I am impressed by how fast it boots, and how snappy the stripped down desktop UI is. I can't comment on media serving etc, but certainly applications start really quickly, and web browsing seemed fine - certainly comparable with my smart phone. I already have a proper server, running all sorts of stuff on VMs including Plex and ownCloud, so I'm struggling to think of what to do with what was, basically, an impulse buy. It's going to take a while before I give up and sell it though, I'm afraid
Dave Robinson, Malvern, UK
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