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skippy70
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2012 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline |
Has anyone tried to use these devices? Quad-core Android boxes that can be quite cheap. Any success?
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Going by this 5 day old code check-in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/d70064205256ca7d2865a6cb040d01c80d3df2b9 you will be one of the very first to try, once a new alpha build client apk is made available.
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skippy70
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2012 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline |
So, are you saying the current BOINC client app doesn't work with these boxes?
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm running a android tv box since 2.5 years with native boinc.
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skippy70
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2012 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline |
It looks to be a success. My Android TV box has returned a few results and the server accepted them.
----------------------------------------The box I'm using is a Generic MXR w/a RK3229. I admit I've installed virtual RAM on an SD card, but other than that it's stock. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EO5YJSU/...o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I wonder what a small army of these would do to crunching....? Remember those VCR tape storage towers? Just a thought.... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Skippy70 at Jul 25, 2016 3:16:08 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
How hot does it get while crunching? Are you running all 4 cores?
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skippy70
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2012 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline |
Although I don't have any temp probe on the CPU, the outer box is warm (90-100F). All four cores are running at 90% load.
----------------------------------------Today's output only consisted of 7 results and 2200 points. But, get 9 more small boxes like that and stack them in an old vcr vertical tower....that would be a fairly good output for $300.....in a small space. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Skippy70 at Jul 27, 2016 3:55:06 AM] |
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