Let's see how my company's new primary server will fare at distributed computing! I'm burning it in over the weekend, so I'll hit it with some high memory limit WUs. Here's a link to some pics of it.
lol nice Well i think i've given up on folding Went away for a few weeks, didn't fold cos of hols e.t.c, now Ninja and everyone else is too far for me to reach anyway :/ And i still aint got my dual channel :O Although I have just ordered: AMD64 3500+ 90nm Winchester 1GB (2x512MB) GeIL PC4000 Ultra so im hoping its a good overclocker, as i'll hopefully be able to reach 2.6+ But as i said, not really much point in folding now in bout a month i'll have (for folding AMD64 3500+ / 1GB PC4000 GeIL Ultra Intel PIII 650Mhz / 256MB Intel PIII 1Ghz / 512MB AMD Duron 1.8Ghz / 512MB I also got a pay rise at work yay for me, so i was thinking of investing in some sort of folding farm, with some Mobile Bartons, or save and build a dual operton system.. just to be a r1ch boy and beat all of you.. but it just seems some what redundent and pointless.. lol + the fact i'm actually not insane.. So i'm buying myself a Sony Cybershot T-33 Black :good: £380 including 512MB Sony Pro Duo Mem *cries* I think everyone should either.. Stop folding and wait for me to get a good system up.. Start a new @Home project, where we can all start at the same time :good:
Well Procal, to me at least the competition portion of the folding stuff is just good fun. We're doing it to benefit medial research, not to win some prize. If you get a good score, cool! If you don't, but dedicate the idle cycles you do have, great! Either way, your contribution is valuable in the long run.
I will update this spot in the upcoming weeks as to what i am ordering There may be a suprise in store
How cheap are the Tyan boards in the US? over here they are the equivelant in price of a top of the range Asus 939 SLI motherboard.. :/ bout £150-£300
It came out to something like $200-US delivered. Not bad, considering how fast and stable this thing is.
It also depends on what your gonna do. If your main thing is gaming, you're not gonna find alot of use for SMP, because it's generally a single-threaded app. That's changing, but, IMO, not enough to justify getting an SMP rig.
Well, SMP is great for multi-threaded games like UT2k4. The sound engine works in a seperate thread. Run the game with the --nosound flag, and you'll see what I mean. Noticable speed increase. But obviously that server wasn't built with gaming in mind -- many server apps (especially Linux ones) are true multithreaded apps and take full advantage of an SMP environment. Once custom compiled, the kernel itself can even benefit from such a setup. Even its [Reiser] filesystem is implemented to take advantage of a multithreaded environment.
Hopefully, we'll see this situation change with the upcoming dual core CPU's. I was hoping that we'd see more SMP aware stuff with the Pentium 4's HyperThreading on the faster chips, but I guess not.
I wasn't intending on building a machine for gaming, but for folding, and being a file server.. but im not anymore, buying other bits (memory and digi cam)
