MilkyWay@Home "standard" and N-Body Simulations

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Alessio Susi Send message Joined: 8 Mar 15 Posts: 29 Credit: 63,135,821 RAC: 84,851	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. MSI X370 Gaming Plus AMD Ryzen 7 1700, 8 core / 16 thread 3.9 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: 2281 Credit: 392,190,725 RAC: 50,294	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: 23,342	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: 29 Credit: 63,135,821 RAC: 84,851	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) MSI X370 Gaming Plus AMD Ryzen 7 1700, 8 core / 16 thread 3.9 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