The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:59 pm**

Hello,

Looking to get back into crunching again after quite a bit of absence. Is the best way to just install the programme again and sign in with my details as before ?

Also anyone have any experience of running BOINC on Windows 8 ? Does it handle ok ?

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:12 pm**

Welcome home :)

Yep, download, install and sign in with your old account... everything should start as before.

No idea about Windows 8, sorry.

Janos

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:59 am**

Another Aberdeenshire lad ! Welcome back.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:34 pm**

Hi there. Nice to have you back.

I'm running Boinc on Windows 8. No problems so far.

Just download the latest version of Boinc and attach to your old projects using the previous credentials & it'll be like you were never away!

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:18 pm**

Welcome Back! :blob:

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:04 pm**

I've been reading a lot of mixed answers regarding using SSDs. Some say it doesn't affect them at all, others saying to have the actual data on a HDD is better.

While I'm at it - any particular projects that could use a little more power :)

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:51 pm**

darkmast2 wrote:I've been reading a lot of mixed answers regarding using SSDs. Some say it doesn't affect them at all, others saying to have the actual data on a HDD is better.

While I'm at it - any particular projects that could use a little more power :)

SSD's won't give BOINC much of an improvement but it will help everything else work faster. I like them because they are fast, low power and heat up less. The modern SSD's are also more reliable. Every new machine I buy has an SSD.

If you have CPU time I would suggest Rosetta or SETI. If you have GPU time then DistRTgen, Milkyway or POEM. Depends a little on your hardware.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:00 pm**

I was more thinking that some people say running BOINC on an SSD reduces their life span.

I've started running SETI for now as it's one of the ones I have always run.

My current rig is

i5 2500K running at stock speed (3.4GHz Sandybridge)
8GB Corsair RAM running at 666MHz
ATi Radeon 6950 with modded bios

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:18 pm**

I've not seen or heard of BOINC reducing the lifespan of SSD's. At least, not on modern SSD's.

With your hardware I would stay clear of Rosetta as it is a bit of a memory hog, SETI will work great. POEM would be my suggestion for your GPU but like anything BOINC it is about playing about and see what you like.

Are you after the credits or the science?

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:10 am**

WCG is our project most in need of assistance. Having said which it is spectacularly unrewarding especially on GPU

POEM might be a better bet.

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:15 am**

I thought you had emptied the server of Poem gpu units

Posted: **Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:41 am**

alezevo1 wrote:I thought you had emptied the server of Poem gpu units

He has, I am still bereft of POEM WU's!

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:50 am**

darkmast2, those numbers starting to come up nicely !

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:58 pm**

Thanks :) Not running will time yet but should hopefully be able to dedicate more time to it soon.

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:57 pm**

Janos wrote:
alezevo1 wrote:I thought you had emptied the server of Poem gpu units
He has, I am still bereft of POEM WU's!

If I had any I'd be returning them and getting some credit.

As it is you two are between you getting 99.5% of the TSBT POEM action.

Posted: **Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:21 pm**

ooops, busted....

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:26 pm**

Decided to install BOINC on my laptop and give it a go. Will probably only have it on for a few hours a day while I'm at home to see how it goes. So far I've only connected Asteroids@Home and the work units are estimating to take 5 hours to process.

Laptop Specs:- (Copy and paste job - bit lazy

)

Asus G73JH

Processor: Intel Core i7 720QM
OS: Windows 8
Chipset: Mobile Intel HM55 Express
Memory: 8 GB DDR3 667MHz SODIMM
Display: 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) Color-Shine (Glare-type)
Video Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 1G GDDR5 VRAM
HDD: 1TB (2x 500GB)
Card Reader: 8-in-1
Video Camera: 2.0 Mega Pixel web camera
Communications:
RJ-45 LAN
802.11b/g/n Wireless
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Interface:
1 x Microphone-in jack
1 x Headphone-out jack
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x HDMI
1 x VGA
Audio:
Built-in 2.1 stereo speakers with EAX Advanced HD 4.0
Battery Pack: 8 cells/5200 mAh
Dimension & Weight:
42cm x 31cm x 1.89~5.68cm (W x D x H)
8.49 lbs (3.85 kg with 8-cell battery)

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:17 pm**

Nice laptop :)

How is Windows 8?

Janos

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:22 pm**

I've not played with it much yet but so far I quite like it. Takes a little getting used to where things are but once you do it's nice.

For the laptop I did a digital upgrade, it basically downloaded to the laptop and ran straight off the bat. Didn't have a problem with it and even all my programs so far work, even mIRC although the checker said it wouldn't.

Next stage is to install the retail copy I bought on my desktop machine.

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:44 pm**

Glad to hear a Windows version which does a smooth upgrade.

Windows 7 is half way decent, can MS break that tradition of a lifetime and create two good Windows versions in a row?

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:14 pm**

Janos wrote:Windows 7 is half way decent, can MS break that tradition of a lifetime and create two good Windows versions in a row?

...The mistake was making one good version in a row - everyone stuck with XP and wouldn't budge until the hardware died a natural death of old age...

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