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[porina]

I'm a long time PrimeGrid cruncher for a different team, but weather is starting to warm up again now and I can't run 100% for much longer without melting my house. So I'm debating what other options to take. Open question: what are the most active Boinc projects here? I'd be particularly interested if some or more of the following are met:

• less CPU intensive than Prime95 (or equivalent)
• runs well on CPU, that isn't made pointless by GPUs
• is actively participated by members of this forum
• shorter work units are a plus (hours)

So far I've joined Seti, Einstein, and World Community Grid in the LTT team. Any other suggestions?

[Imakuni]

3 hours ago, porina said:

I'm a long time PrimeGrid cruncher for a different team, but weather is starting to warm up again now and I can't run 100% for much longer without melting my house. So I'm debating what other options to take. Open question: what are the most active Boinc projects here? I'd be particularly interested if some or more of the following are met:

• less CPU intensive than Prime95 (or equivalent)
• runs well on CPU, that isn't made pointless by GPUs
• is actively participated by members of this forum
• shorter work units are a plus (hours)

So far I've joined Seti, Einstein, and World Community Grid in the LTT team. Any other suggestions?

Well, my go to recommendation is always WCG. And I guess you know this, but the sieve projects for PG are also pretty low on consumption. In particular, the recently open GCW manual sieve, which doesn't use modern instruction sets (= runs cool).

[MillerPanda]

I would say WCG

[porina]

Sounds like WCG it is then. There's a 9 day challenge on PrimeGrid starting later today, so I'll probably divert power to WCG after that is finished.

[porina]

The challenge over at PrimeGrid is now over so I'm redirecting my power to WCG as soon as I do some maintenance and reconfiguration. Let's see how quick I can climb up the ranks   Quite pleased to see my work phone alone has produced some credits itself up to now.

 

Anyone know if WCG tasks benefits from hyper-threading? I'm re-enabling it now since the PrimeGrid tasks I did work better without. Even if not, I think it would inflate my hours count.

[MillerPanda]

I have HT turned on and it seems to help

[Imakuni]

On 28/04/2016 at 5:28 PM, porina said:

Anyone know if WCG tasks benefits from hyper-threading? I'm re-enabling it now since the PrimeGrid tasks I did work better without. Even if not, I think it would inflate my hours count.

If you are aiming for medals, HT pretty much doubles your runtime.

 

If you are talking about raw work done, I believe it does. I once did some research on it, and it seems HT does help; however, since you can't do controlled tests like we can on PG, take it with a grain of salt.