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[whit3rd]

On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 3:52:04 PM UTC-8, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:39:41 -0000, whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

The mobile-PC crowd uses 12V raw power

No, 19V.

For automobile, boat, truck power, they use 12V, as I said. You're thinking about
laptop computer charge power supplies.

with DC/DC converters to provide ALL the ATX
power pins' outputs; you might consider a 12V-only source instead of an ATX supply

Find me a 1kW version I can get in the UK, and not from Amazon. I wouldn't trust those Charletons with a bargepole.

MeanWell is a major manufacturer; your willingness to trust is... a problem only you can solve.

SLPower.com LU500S12T gives 500W, and you can bolt several together
(they current-share). They won't come with cables and connectors like a PC
uses, though.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:50:07 -0000, whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 3:52:04 PM UTC-8, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:39:41 -0000, whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

The mobile-PC crowd uses 12V raw power

No, 19V.

For automobile, boat, truck power, they use 12V, as I said. You're thinking about
laptop computer charge power supplies.

Well you did say "mobile-PC" not "truck".

with DC/DC converters to provide ALL the ATX
power pins' outputs; you might consider a 12V-only source instead of an ATX supply

Find me a 1kW version I can get in the UK, and not from Amazon. I wouldn't trust those Charletons with a bargepole.

MeanWell is a major manufacturer; your willingness to trust is... a problem only you can solve.

Trust cannot be manufactured by me. I only trust those who give me what I pay for.

> SLPower.com LU500S12T gives 500W,

The site says 400W.
https://slpower.com/product-detail?IdProduct=284

When I tried a stock check, it didn't understand its own part number.

and you can bolt several together
(they current-share). They won't come with cables and connectors like a PC
uses, though.

I don't need the connectors. I've bought this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274076945140
12V 1kW version (now out of stock, I hope I get mine!)

 

[Ray Otwell]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:50:07 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
<CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:15:52 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid> wrote:

On 25/04/2020 17:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 17:23:47 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid
wrote:
[....]
Are you building a new computer for yourself?

Yes, a 24 core Xeon system. It will run the Rosetta Coronavirus
research program, and when that's done, something else in biology or
physics.

In hindsight, it would have been cheaper to buy a crap version of the
server and upgrade a few parts. I've had to get some difficult to find
brackets and adapters, like these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223642667008
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392344221117
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161787339477
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372999585133

That's a very noble thing to be doing. THANK YOU.

I was already doing it for fun and to help out astrophysics projects, I added Rosetta to the mix when the virus appeared. You can set up Boinc with as many projects as you wish and alter the priority of each.

It's a pity these projects don't hand out money (to at least cover the cost of electricity), then I think they'd get 10 times as many people doing it. They already have a brilliant system so you can see how much work you've done, and if you're doing better than others, so it would be easy to apply a small amount of money to that.

I'll have a study here and see what I could do personally to help:-

https://medium.com/ankr-network/ankr-presents-support-covid-19-research-with-boinc-rosetta-83d36134e248

I believe the program will run on any CPU under Windows, MacOS, or Linux. If you have a good graphics card, you should go for Folding at home instead, as it can use that too.

Even mobile phones running android can run Rosetta. Not sure what you can run on Iphones.

+1 Rosetta
RO

 

[Mike Easter]

David_B wrote:

I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

I chose Rosetta@home  but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

--
Mike Easter

 

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:

David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

I chose Rosetta@home  but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php  Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php  Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

If your old iMac is too old OS X, folding@home will allow 10.7 on Intel 64.

folding@home is actually a bigger project *

https://foldingathome.org/


* wp Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. With
heightened interest in the project as a result of the 2019–20
coronavirus pandemic, the system achieved a speed of approximately 1.22
exaFLOPS by late March 2020 and reaching 2.43 x86 exaFLOPS by April 12,
2020,[7] making it the world's first exaFLOP computing system.

--
Mike Easter

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:56:12 +0100, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

I chose Rosetta@home but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

If your old iMac is too old OS X, folding@home will allow 10.7 on Intel 64.

folding@home is actually a bigger project *

https://foldingathome.org/

* wp Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. With
heightened interest in the project as a result of the 2019–20
coronavirus pandemic, the system achieved a speed of approximately 1.22
exaFLOPS by late March 2020 and reaching 2.43 x86 exaFLOPS by April 12,
2020,[7] making it the world's first exaFLOP computing system.

I would use that if Boinc had nothing useful for me to do, but I've been with Boinc since it started a couple of decades ago. Nicer to have all the projects in one place.

Does folding at home do biology research on graphics cards? Boinc only has physics on the graphics cards.

 

[David_B]

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:

David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24" Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1 6GB RAM Running OS X El Capitan

I chose Rosetta@home  but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

Thanks, Mike. I'm watching right now!

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php  Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php  Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid> wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24" Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1 6GB RAM Running OS X El Capitan

Can you see in Boinc what speed it says about your CPU? Tools menu, run CPU benchmarks. Then go to tools, event log. I get this on one of mine:

Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | Number of CPUs: 6
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | 5069 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | 14441 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

I chose Rosetta@home but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

Thanks, Mike. I'm watching right now!

I'm wondering if that wastes computing power that could be doing the calculations faster.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid> wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24" Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1 6GB RAM Running OS X El Capitan

Why are you running it on the old one? Newer machines can do it faster.

 

[David_B]

On 27/04/2020 20:18, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid
wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24"  Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1    6GB RAM  Running OS X El Capitan

Can you see in Boinc what speed it says about your CPU?  Tools menu, run
CPU benchmarks.  Then go to tools, event log.  I get this on one of mine:

Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM |  | Number of CPUs: 6
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM |  | 5069 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per
CPU
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM |  | 14441 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

Is this what you are after?

Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
[x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]

I chose Rosetta@home  but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

Thanks, Mike. I'm watching right now!

I'm wondering if that wastes computing power that could be doing the
calculations faster.

I don't know - but I suspect that it DOES 'waste' computing power.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_graphics.php  Quick guide to
Rosetta and its graphics

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php  Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.11
or later

 

[David_B]

On 27/04/2020 20:29, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid
wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24"  Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1    6GB RAM  Running OS X El Capitan

Why are you running it on the old one?  Newer machines can do it faster.

Speed is not of the essence - I like to keep my 'best' computer for day
to day computing! ;-)

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:03:38 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid> wrote:

On 27/04/2020 20:18, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid
wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24" Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1 6GB RAM Running OS X El Capitan

Can you see in Boinc what speed it says about your CPU? Tools menu, run
CPU benchmarks. Then go to tools, event log. I get this on one of mine:

Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | Number of CPUs: 6
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | 5069 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per
CPU
Mon, 27/4/2020 08:16:42 PM | | 14441 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

Is this what you are after?

Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
[x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]

Wow, that's old. 65nm die. They're now down to about 8nm.

I'm surprised it runs Rosetta so quickly though, it thoroughly beats my Q8400 which is the next level up, although mine is a 4 core so it does twice as many things although at half the speed. I have noticed some projects run better on some CPUs and some better on others - I guess they keep changing the instruction sets and altering what they're best at. Graphics cards are even worse - I deliberately bought some that are several years old, because they're really fast at high precision calculations, which they've all but removed from the newer ones. But it's what the Milkyway project needs. But not what games need, which is what most are marketed at.

I chose Rosetta@home but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

There's a screensaver; you can watch it work.

Thanks, Mike. I'm watching right now!

I'm wondering if that wastes computing power that could be doing the
calculations faster.

I don't know - but I suspect that it DOES 'waste' computing power.

I only put it on if I want to see what it's doing.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:05:57 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid> wrote:

On 27/04/2020 20:29, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:48:23 +0100, David_B <David_B@address.invalid
wrote:

On 27/04/2020 00:32, Mike Easter wrote:
David_B wrote:
I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

How old is your iMac?

Mid-2007 - 24" Now fitted with 500GB Solid State SATA Drive

iMac7,1 6GB RAM Running OS X El Capitan

Why are you running it on the old one? Newer machines can do it faster.

Speed is not of the essence

It is when they have 11 million of those tasks queued. There are 34,000 people currently running the project, which will get through the queue in a week, but they keep adding to the queue....

Apparently since the Corona virus appeared, they've quadrupled the number of people running it. They've been around for ages doing biology research into cancers etc.

> I like to keep my 'best' computer for day to day computing! ;-)

And you can. Rosetta doesn't slow things down, except for some games that need the computer's full attention. It normally gets out of the way of day to day stuff automatically, the program is set to "low priority" in the operating system. I let all mine process science 24/7. The one I use has a couple of "exceptions" in Boinc to pause computation if two specific programs are running (both games). You can even tell it to pause computation whenever you use it (i.e. as soon as it detects you moving the mouse or pressing a key).