Ranmacanada

Well I have stopped CPU folding as the SMP work units suck.  So because of this I have moved my CPU over to asteroids@home.  My GPU is still folding away, but you get my i7 970@3.5 for crunching away at asteroid predictions!  Sadly there is no current open cl or cuda app for asteroids@home.  But time will tell!  

Welcome!

I'm with ya.  I've been a little disappointed that my i7-960 overclocked to 4.3 GHz can only fold about 20k PPD.  I do get a boost if I turn off my GPUs but why would I wanna do that?
I might do what you did and switch it over to crunching for the New Year.

Hello everyone New to this. How do I get started?

beamer368

Hello everyone New to this. How do I get started?

Welcome and Happy New Year!
Afterburner has written a nice guide that should get you going.

Hey Punchy good to see you again.
 
Thanks, will go throug the guild to get started.

Well, decided to toss my hat in to the Crunching realm (just started up the other day).  Currently working on Einstine and LHC.  Nice to support something that is more of a passion than helping to find cures.  I'm using my "weaker" rig (an i3-2120 and 580 SC).  I do have to say, I like that I can set it to Crunch only during certain times.  Comes in handy since it's the 'family' computer. 
 
Looking forward to learning more about this side of DC.

boballee

Well, decided to toss my hat in to the Crunching realm (just started up the other day).  Currently working on Einstine and LHC.  Nice to support something that is more of a passion than helping to find cures.  I'm using my "weaker" rig (an i3-2120 and 580 SC).  I do have to say, I like that I can set it to Crunch only during certain times.  Comes in handy since it's the 'family' computer. 

Looking forward to learning more about this side of DC.

 
Welcome and thanks for joining. For running your GTX 580 under Einstein, it helps performance to have one physical CPU core available for the GPU application as the application is a hybrid type that does some processing on the CPU and GPU. You can also run Process Lasso and give the GPU application higher priority. Also, having the 580 installed in a x16 2.0 slot will give the best performance and can be up to 30% faster than when installed in an x8 2.0 slot.

+1, welcome and thank you all! 

Thanks, linux. Made a few tweaks and we'll see how it goes. The card is in a x16 slot. Question though. I'll soon be switching this rig over to a GT 640. I assume I'll still be ok to Crunch on this, albeit with a decrease in PPD?

boballee
Thanks, linux. Made a few tweaks and we'll see how it goes. The card is in a x16 slot. Question though. I'll soon be switching this rig over to a GT 640. I assume I'll still be ok to Crunch on this, albeit with a decrease in PPD?

 
The GT 640 should work fine.
 
Here is a thread where Einstein members have been reporting their GPU results:
 
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=9500
 
The GT 640 is reported as being able to run 1 task every 5700 seconds. That comes out to about 7600 credits per day. With some tweaking, you may be able to bring the run time down a bit.

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How do I get one of those stat counters at the bottom of my postings?