| User | Daily Average | 2/28/2007 | 3/14/2007 |
| Lotus.Geek | 716 | 969,750 | 979,780 |
| smitty1024 | 793 | 712,747 | 723,848 |
| AndyBroyles | 1,050 | 640,985 | 655,688 |
| cerobinson | 4,468 | 253,802 | 316,350 |
| gjwolfswinkel | 904 | 201,324 | 213,979 |
What's that, you ask? Why it's an analysis of the World Community Grid points contributed by the top 5 members of the Lotus Domino Bloggers group from February 28th through today. What could that possibly have to do with SNTT? Nothing, really. It's just a really cool way to donate unused CPU cycles to a good cause. What's your excuse?
I am about to make those numbers take-off...just finished writing a proposal at work have all of not used during the evening/night desktop machines run the BOINC client as a service at 60% CPU throttle.
ReplyDeleteAndy, how do you set the CPU throttle? I've been trying to figure that out, but the documentation isn't exactly clear.
ReplyDelete1. Are you running the BOINC client?
ReplyDelete2. Are you running the BOINC client from WCFG or from BOINC?
If you aren't running the BOINC client, I don't think that you can throttle the CPU usage.
I am not certain about this, but I think that the BOINC client you download from WCFG has had some features (such as running as a service) stripped out/pre-configured of the client to make it easier to install.
If you have the BOINC client directly from BOINC, the preferences menu will allow you to modify the CPU throttle for that specific client, or you can use a BOINC client profile setup on your WCFG web account.
I can see some use of using unused cycles during the day, but at night in my opinion if you're not really doing anything with your pc, shut it down or let powermanagement/speedstep do it's thing to reduce the cpu speed etc. to lower power consumption. We're wasting enough energy as it is already. - Just my 2 cents.
ReplyDeletecheers
I'm running the BOINC client on my linux mail server. It sounds like I may need to use the full BOINC client from Berkeley. Thanks for the heads up. :-)
ReplyDeleteWoonjas,
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely something I support, too. You can configure the WCG agents to only run at certain times, and you can set how you want it to run.
In my environment there actually aren't very many PC's, we've migrated mostly to Wyse Winterms. The PC's we do have are left on all the time so automated updates and virus scans can be run during the off hours. I'm only running WCG on my home PC, my work PC, and our mail server.
Woonjas,
ReplyDeleteWe have our machines on at night for a variety of reasons, mostly to do backups/virus scans/patching...but they are on.
The major power draw on our computers is the monitors which average about 75w, the computers, when in full use (CPU in excess of 60%) pull about 42w, when speedstepped down, hard drives off, they pull an average of 31w, or a difference of 11w.
For my 30 machines, that equates to a total difference of 3.9kwh per night.
Since the machines are going to be on anyways, my proposal to use an additional 3.9kwh for the common good in these research projects is a justified benefical decision.
If the machines were not going to be on, I would tend to be in agreement and not pursue the donation.
Thanks for posting this. I've been running WCG for well over a year, but didn't know about the Domino Bloggers group. Unfortunately the 250,016 points and 451 results I had before joining the team don't count towards the team total.
ReplyDeleteHey! I think I can claim the number 5 spot!!!!
ReplyDeletebarratts
Simon, your points total hasn't changed in a couple of months so I dropped you from my spreadsheet. :) It's nothing personal, there are lots of people who are in the group and contributed at one point but decided to stop. I figured that had happened to you, too.
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