Posts by Qax

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is doing CPU WUs worth it, if you do GPU WUs? (Message 60788) Posted 22 Jan 2014 by Qax Post: Is it even worth it for me to crunch CPU WUs if I can crunch GPU ones? Are there some WUs that need to be processed by a CPU, or are those WUs only made for people without GPUs essentially? Basically are these resources better spent just going towards a CPU only project (and might they take away what Milkyway gets on the GPU?). Just - is there honestly a reason for me to crunch CPU WUs for Milkyway if I can crunch GPU ones as well?
2) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Spreading your resources around (Message 60633) Posted 20 Dec 2013 by Qax Post: I live in an apt - older pcs tend to be less efficient.......so that would kind of be the thing for me. I don't think I could plug 15 pcs in in here without blowing a fuse. I blow a fuse when I have my xbox 360 and my space heater on at the same time. Newer cpus and gpus......are more efficient. Whereas, I see what you mean with the low startup costs, and maybe not considering electricity - just my apt only has so much electric capacity. And I guess - How do you decide which projects are worthy is more of the question I'm getting at. Or is it totally just a challenge to try to hit goals?
3) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Spreading your resources around (Message 60629) Posted 20 Dec 2013 by Qax Post: Hello guys. I crunch with 2 machines. I have a home computer i-7 4770 with an nvidia geforce 660, and an older dual xeon server with no graphics card. I am very dedicated and will never not crunch. If I could afford to do it, I'd like to buy a machine for each project perfectly optimized for that project. Oh, did I mention I crunch for 15 projects? Yeah, I crunch for 15 projects. I love most types of science.....I personally love astrophysics a little more than the rest, but I can't deny that looking for treatments to cancer might be a little more important right now. HOWEVER, I do run the 15 projects, and I run them all equally. I don't like to do ramp ups or anything - I like to be equal. I think almost all projects have some value, and have tried to do the most important ones.....the 15 I am doing. Some, like Primegrid, I think are pointless..... I am no credit whore either. I don't give more or less resources to any project depending on credit given. I am totally equal. How do the rest of you decide on which projects to "donate" to, and to spread around your resources? I feel like I spread myself too thin with 15 projects. I think around 4 or 5 split time with the GPU. Do you guys have any advice? http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userbycpid&cpid=fa4cc5e166d567a0fe6d803f1349d958
4) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Team Recruitment III (Message 60505) Posted 3 Dec 2013 by Qax Post: Please join me at the team named: Occupy Members of the global movement of Occupy or Occupy Wall Street, this is your team. You can check out what I like to do at: http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=teambycpid&team=Occupy But really - I think doing any projects for the team would be great. I'd like to have team challenges, but the team is pretty small right now. If we can get a legit team together I'd like to do that. I hadn't really found a team that was "me" - so I created this one. Hopefully, it's a concept that speaks to you as well.
5) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Non-profilt? (Message 56859) Posted 13 Jan 2013 by Qax Post: Hello. Is this project non-profit and/or are the results freely available to everyone? Thanks.
6) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : What in the world does this project do? (Message 29138) Posted 10 Aug 2009 by Qax Post: I saw the thread where Travis explained everything. I saw equations, talk of data fitness, and something about genetic models. How you'd have one model and the next model would take what was in that and then add to it 5 mins later. OK, whatever. I thought this was supposed to show us the reality of the galaxy. I think I know a lot about space, and dare I say as much as I want to know about astro-physics. And what I heard in the explanation of this program made me detail from it. What is this project about? Are we guessing what may be in the galaxy? Or are we looking and making a 3-D model of what is in the galaxy? And how did Travis explanation post, previously linked on the front page not deviate from that?