New project out for WCG, "Say No to Schistosoma". Scary, I had never heard of that disease before now, but it's apparently quite widespread.
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/sn2s/overview.do
Looks like Compute for Clean Water WUs have "dried up".
So I downloaded a batch of RNA World units, and am greeted with a nominal 11 day unit (who knows how long it will take in actuality). Here we go... :rolleyes:
edit: bah, lost the unit already (ran too many rna units and ran out of...
Some of the longer XXL units are estimated badly so they will run at 100% for awhile. The intron ones might take up a whole month; the e-coli ones take several days.
Lost 90 hours on a RNA Intron unit because of a kernel panic. I suspect the malaria control (which i was mixing) units are more stressful and my overclock may not be stable enough for them.
Is it true that bitcoin miners are making a significant impact on general AMD card prices? It seems kind of unlikely because the market for GPUs is pretty big.
I ended up going with Slackware64 and KDE (I guess I could have looked into a lighter gui, maybe later). Had a friend help me with that. Then I overclocked it to 4.7. Haven't decided whether I'll try for higher clocks...I could probably make 4.9 but I imagine the voltage/temps probably wouldn't...
Hey guys, I'm just about to be setting up a 2600k rig for BOINC (probably just Malariacontrol). Anyways, I was wondering which Linux distribution is the most efficient, or does it not make much difference? I don't have much Linux experience, but if there are noteworthy gains to choosing a light...