Distributed computing for CPU's

[Now Thats Damp]

Hey all, simple question.

 

So I've been folding with my 780ti for quite some time now and have racked up a bit of points. I was looking atound today and found 4 Pentium G3250's (The version of the famous G3258 with a locked clock multiplier) just sitting in boxes doing nothing. I don't want to use them to fold, because CPU's are horribly inefficient at that (The four of them together might get 3k PPD while using the same amount of power that my 780ti uses while smashing 250k PPD)

 

So I was wondering if anyone new of distributed computing projects I could put these guys on that are naturally optimized for CPU's, ones that run more efficiently on CPU's rather then GPU's. I don't want my four Pentiums to suck 400 watts dragging a heavily GPU optimized task and doing barely doing anything at all, like they would be if they were folding.

[brandishwar]

There aren't any that will run better on CPUs compared to GPUs, but that doesn't mean you don't need to leave those sitting around. Look at the BOINC catalog of projects to see where you could potentially put those to use.

[Now Thats Damp]

There aren't any that will run better on CPUs compared to GPUs, but that doesn't mean you don't need to leave those sitting around. Look at the BOINC catalog of projects to see where you could potentially put those to use.

 

I know that there are some math enthusiasts out on some wild goose chase for various types of primes. Do you think any of those will yield more performance per watt compared to a GPU?

[TheRandomness]

I know that there are some math enthusiasts out on some wild goose chase for various types of primes. Do you think any of those will yield more performance per watt compared to a GPU?

Said program that does that is called prime95 which tries to find mersenne primes...

[tobben]

They aren't necessarily inefficient at folding. But yes i understand your concern. I would look at some cpu specific 

boinc projects. Asteroids@home does pretty good on cpu's last time i did it. I think Climate prediction is cpu

specific, also says on their page that they don't think they will ever be able to support gpus. Cosmology@home,

LHC(Large hadron collider) but it isn't that active. Look into it, you will find more.

 

There is a resource over at hardforum, but i am not sure exactly how up to date it is. 

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1801908

 

There is also P95, not run as a stress test as someone mentioned above

[Imakuni]

So I was wondering if anyone new of distributed computing projects I could put these guys on that are naturally optimized for CPU's, ones that run more efficiently on CPU's rather then GPU's. I don't want my four Pentiums to suck 400 watts dragging a heavily GPU optimized task and doing barely doing anything at all, like they would be if they were folding.

First bet: World Community Grid. Right now, they are researching Ebola, Aids, Cancer, Solar Cell Materials and Genome Sequences - all of which is purely CPU work. If you are interested, give it a look: http://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=601677

 

Another project I'd recommend would be PrimeGrid, which researches theories involving prime number (over 10 CPU only subprojects).

 

Both of the above are done through the Boinc platform, so if set up with the LinusTechTips team, you'll be awarded a Boinc badge here on the forums. Btw, if oyu set up folding for the LTT team as well, you should probably be able to claim your Folding badge as well.

[iBeast_M0de]

Hey all, simple question.

 

So I've been folding with my 780ti for quite some time now and have racked up a bit of points. I was looking atound today and found 4 Pentium G3250's (The version of the famous G3258 with a locked clock multiplier) just sitting in boxes doing nothing. I don't want to use them to fold, because CPU's are horribly inefficient at that (The four of them together might get 3k PPD while using the same amount of power that my 780ti uses while smashing 250k PPD)

 

So I was wondering if anyone new of distributed computing projects I could put these guys on that are naturally optimized for CPU's, ones that run more efficiently on CPU's rather then GPU's. I don't want my four Pentiums to suck 400 watts dragging a heavily GPU optimized task and doing barely doing anything at all, like they would be if they were folding.

What u could do is build a few small rigs and put some cheap gpu's in them (like a gtx 750 ti, those will get around 75k-80k ppd one core 18 and 21 WUs) the 750 ti is pretty efficient.