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Is anyone running a Headless/Diskless system?
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Is anyone running 2 mobo's (or more) from 1 PSU?
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I was going to experiment with BOINCpe over the break but didn't get a chance to in the end. Am still planning a play, it's just a case of getting some time.
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Just had another though :idea:

Can you run more than 1 mobo+quad cpu from 1 psu ?
or is the power requirement for each mobo+quad too much?
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Think you might struggle as PSU's only have one motherboard connector unless you plan to splice a second one into the existing wiring.
I suppose in theory with a powerful enough PSU you could do it but suspect it would run very hot and probably not last very long.
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I was going to experiment with BOINCpe over the break but didn't get a chance to in the end. Am still planning a play, it's just a case of getting some time.
Ok, my 'early' weekend allowed me to (finally) play with the BOINCpe distribution; and I have to say that it was very easy and painless. I didn't worry about the persistancy this time around - so no footering with network drives - merely added a couple of project xml files to the correct area and hit the 'go' button. The first attempt failed, but the second time I used my own cd burning software, instead of the included package, and it worked a dream.

If anyone else wants to try this, the package is on this webpage; and I would recommend the how to and advanced information pages. For those of you already running a farm with BOINCview this may be worth looking into as an easy way to save a few pounds on those 'dumb' machines.

MacDitch

PS. One bizarre thing is that Chess960 (of all projects!) had a greater disk space requirement than my 1Gb of RAM allowed. VTU and RieselSieve both ran well - though VTU awarded 2.48cr/h!
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Question on BoincPE??

Do you have to build the image on the PC you are going to use it on or is it a generic image??
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It's a generic image. I built the CD for my laptop on this desktop.

There is also a bit of blurb (somewhere) on the BoincPE website saying that you can use the same disc (multiple images of) for many machines due to the way the persistency is coded.
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