- Nov 14, 2000
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i typically use my 5870 2GB GPU for Milkyway@Home and SETI@Home (mostly Astropulse, but occasionally Multibeam) 24/7. the S@H project has been having significant issues for a month or so now and work production has been sparse, so i've kept my GPU on MW@H for the most part. MW@H is a nice fallback b/c it is generally a reliable project with lots of up time and hardly any down time...unfortunately this is about to change - the powers that be suspect that the server failure issue that's been going on for the last few days is a hardware issue. so in addition to the rare server issues the project is currently having (and resulting in intermittent work production), the MW@H server will be shut down tomorrow (indefinitely i guess) to try and solve the problem.
since i cannot cache anymore than 12 MW@H tasks at once, and since they only take 2:00 minutes on average to complete (depending on the type of task), i'll run out of MW@H GPU work in ~20 minutes. likewise, i don't have enough S@H Astropulse tasks cached (nor is the project producing new AP tasks fast enough to keep me from running out) to carry me through the duration of the S@H server issues. i'll probably try switching to S@H Mulitbeam first (even though S@H is having server problems too, Multibeam work production is always much higher than Astropulse work production). but if that can't carry me through rough times, i'll have to switch to another project or else my GPU will sit idle.
what other projects out there allow ATI GPU crunching (single precision or double precision, it doesn't matter)? i prefer astronomy/physics projects, but wouldn't mind taking up a number theory or biology/chemistry/anatomy project either...
TIA,
Eric
since i cannot cache anymore than 12 MW@H tasks at once, and since they only take 2:00 minutes on average to complete (depending on the type of task), i'll run out of MW@H GPU work in ~20 minutes. likewise, i don't have enough S@H Astropulse tasks cached (nor is the project producing new AP tasks fast enough to keep me from running out) to carry me through the duration of the S@H server issues. i'll probably try switching to S@H Mulitbeam first (even though S@H is having server problems too, Multibeam work production is always much higher than Astropulse work production). but if that can't carry me through rough times, i'll have to switch to another project or else my GPU will sit idle.
what other projects out there allow ATI GPU crunching (single precision or double precision, it doesn't matter)? i prefer astronomy/physics projects, but wouldn't mind taking up a number theory or biology/chemistry/anatomy project either...
TIA,
Eric