What's your strategy for 4ps that are/were folding?

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What's your strategy for 4ps that are/were folding?

1. Shut them off and sell them.
2. Change to something other than Kraken and Ubuntu 12.04, perhaps a newer version of FAH.
3. Shut them off and wait until there is a better answer.
4. Keep folding and wait until there is a better answer.
5. Find a new distributed computer project.
6. Other

I'm currently at number 4. I don't know if anyone has experimented with 2. I have a few more months before mine are shutoff for the Summer.
 
I still have a 4P (6180SEs) that I'd originally built for Folding Bigadvs. It has been a Crunching machine ever since I exited Folding back in Dec 2013. It would not be considered a "power house" compared to other Crunching rigs (especially for some of the Prime Grid WUs). But it respectfully cranks WUs in a 48 (real) core environment for WCG 24hrs a day. It remains my donation of time and money for causes that I still hope will bring fruit. Ya gotta try to do something in life or the result is an empty sock. :D

Regarding which of the choices to make of your (6), I feel that you just do what keeps you involved whether it is Folding, Crunching or both. For me, that decision was to move to Crunching, I've never regretted it and am still "in the game" to help solve problems.
 
My 4x4ps move to crunching , but had to turn them all off for awhile. .. Just started to crunch with 2 rigs. Considering selling them but shipping is really pain in the butts :D
 
Since I can't decide what I'm going to do, I'm just going to take a break, save a few hundred bucks a month on power (yes, really), and let someone else have some fun with [former 4P for-sale ad link]. :D

(UPDATE: Pulled sale, jumped headfirst into BOINC. Happy agan. :) )
 
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Linden said:
Since I can't decide what I'm going to do, I'm just going to take a break, save a few hundred bucks a month on power (yes, really), and let someone else have some fun with this magnificent, trusty hardware. :D
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Been there myself Linden and a break is sometimes needed, especially in donor work of various types. Thank-you for giving to the work too and hope to see you back at it one day. Next week would be soon enough...jus kiddin'. :D
 
Well I only have 2p's but I'm sure the points you ask are still valid.

2 are still folding at 160-200k PPD each, the 3rd sits idle until

1. PG realise they have cocked up again and sort something out
2. I can afford some GPU's and the power to run them
3. My main rig dies and I need a replacement
4. I can afford to run rig 3 for SMP work.
 
I moved all of mine over to crunching, even my 1P CPUs are crunching now.
I'll fold part time with my GTX970 off and on,but mostly doing gpugrid.
I was going to go along with the new large units until they did the bait and switch.

In the warmer weather almost everything gets shut down.
Can't justify the cost to cool the house with the computer load. But I have been heating my house this Winter with the computers, my fuel oil bill has been fairly low this year.
 
We could use some help with Boinc, so the team could be more competitive at Formula BOINC, especially, but also at DC-Vault. We will always welcome you with open arms to the crunching world. :)
 
RFGuy_KCCO said:
We could use some help with Boinc, so the team could be more competitive at Formula BOINC, especially, but also at DC-Vault. We will always welcome you with open arms to the crunching world. :)
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Or even the non-BOINC DC projects for that matter.... lol :D
 
I only have a lonely 2P, but it's been moved to the other category,

I'm currently moving my DVD collection to HDD, and the 2P kicks a** when it comes encoding video.

EDIT:
After the encoding is done, I have no idea what I will do with the 2P.
 
runs2far said:
I only have a lonely 2P, but it's been moved to the other category,

I'm currently moving my DVD collection to HDD, and the 2P kicks a** when it comes encoding video.

EDIT:
After the encoding is done, I have no idea what I will do with the 2P.
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I have a 2P (Windows rig) with 5680 Xeons. It makes a great Crunching machine and like you, I do a lot of other things with the 2P. It is my daily driver, gaming machine, video production rig and Cruncher all-in-one. When I was Folding on this 2P, most of the time I couldn't do a whole lot more without shutting down the science due to resource drains with Folding. As a Crunching rig, I just throttle the processors back a little to give me a CPU (or two) for my other needs and multitask away.

Give that 2P a hug today and possibly set it loose Crunching in the background...:cool:
 
I've shutdown 3 boxes on Feb 1, been running on one to test out the 8106/8107 units.

This week I've been reimaging the boxes to the 9.1 appliance and starting to play with crunching.
 
What's the appliance's advantage over just installing directly to the hard drive? Or,is that the point - no hard drive?
 
I installed the appliance on several computers and it is always on a hard drive. Used 80gb WD velociraptors bought used for 15$ ea.
The appliance had BOINC already setup in Linux and ready to go.
I like it on a hard drive because the response time is so much faster than a thumb drive.
Thumb drive install seemed awful laggy to me. I suppose if you get it set and leave it alone for weeks at a time it is ok.
 
I installed the appliance on some cheep 30-32GB SSD.

Worked great as always with tear's step by step instructions!

edit: and to stay OT I shut my 4p's down several months ago. I was going to crunch with them but the electric bills over the summer ended that idea...now I'm parting them out.
 
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