MilkyWay@Home "standard" and N-Body Simulations

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Alessio Susi Send message Joined: 8 Mar 15 Posts: 30 Credit: 78,241,187 RAC: 775	Message 66963 - Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 14:16:44 UTC Hi. I wanted to know what is the difference between standard and N-Body apps. Thanks. ASUS X570 E-Gaming AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, 16 core / 32 thread 4.4 GHz AMD Radeon Sapphire RX 480 4GB Nitro+ Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio 4x16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz ID: 66963 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3038 Credit: 513,180,741 RAC: 251,499	Message 66967 - Posted: 15 Jan 2018, 13:23:04 UTC - in response to Message 66963. Hi. I wanted to know what is the difference between standard and N-Body apps. Thanks. N-body units are for the cpu only and usually use multiple cpu cores for each work unit. ID: 66967 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

melk Send message Joined: 10 Dec 17 Posts: 47 Credit: 695,662,962 RAC: 0	Message 67397 - Posted: 24 Apr 2018, 16:55:50 UTC Interesting. I may have to let some of my CPU's crunch nbody tasks then. I wonder how much that will effect my credits. ID: 67397 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Alessio Susi Send message Joined: 8 Mar 15 Posts: 30 Credit: 78,241,187 RAC: 775	Message 67398 - Posted: 24 Apr 2018, 17:00:30 UTC So an AMD Ryzen 7 processor should be perfect for MilkyWay@Home 😉 (Waiting for new GTX GPUs) ASUS X570 E-Gaming AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, 16 core / 32 thread 4.4 GHz AMD Radeon Sapphire RX 480 4GB Nitro+ Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Trio 4x16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3466 MHz ID: 67398 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote