Folding/BOINC on 48-Core Opteron

[Guest SkyFall]

I can get my hands on a server sporting 48 opteron 6180SE cores, in which project will it perform best?

[ThatOneRussian]

arent they both more gpu based?

[Guest SkyFall]

GPU WU's are worth more, but CPu WU's are valuable too

 

OP, run NaCl folding for all of those WU points

 

Thanks for your reply.

Would it make sense to use NaCI or the full desktop-client?

[Imakuni]

I can get my hands on a server sporting 48 opteron 6180SE cores, in which project will it perform best?

World Community Grid (Boinc) seems like the right project your best bet. They are a CPU only project, and their apps, with the exception of the newely release FAH Phase 2, don't make use of newer instruction sets that your CPU lacks, so performace will be very acceptable.

 

Have peek if oyu want: http://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=601677

[tobben]

Saying what would perform best is a question that is very hard to quantity. When it comes to folding

you would just add the bigadv flag, and you will still get some bigadv wu's but following the traditional

point scheme, no bigadv bonus. The point return would leave much to be desired. But you would

likely see proper utilization with 100% on all cores.

 

Boinc, going for more cpu, or exclusively cpu oriented projects you would probably be reasonably

competitive point wise within the project, while again, leaving much to be desired in the global bam

stats for example. 

 

You will probably get the most out of your hardware in both scenarios, just depends what you care

the most about. You will be running a linux distro in both scenarios btw, just fyi.

 

You could try Einstein@home, asteroids@home, maybe milkyway which requires 16 cores for each

project.

 

I had some problems getting boinc to run properly on my rig, i assume it is because i have some iffy 

ram. I ran p95 and memtest overnight with no issues, but oh well.