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6/22/2016 3:35:09 PM EDT
Anyone here do any of this?  I know SETI is the defacto popular one still to this day with millions of cores running.  I also ran some decryption ones as well but they were WAY behind the curve on what was being processed vs. what current encryption was (5+ years ago).  Are there any other useful/less-than-useless ones?  
6/23/2016 10:10:01 AM EDT
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I've never wanted to donate my electricity or wear and tear on my CPU/GPU... am I being ridiculous or are those valid concerns?
6/23/2016 6:26:59 PM EDT
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Get yourself a kilowatt meter, and you can measure exactly how much it would be costing you.  At least power cost.
6/23/2016 9:49:14 PM EDT
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Look into Folding@home.  Ran by Stanford for medical research somehow.  I only know it exists because there is/was a Playstation app for it.
6/23/2016 10:25:34 PM EDT
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Last time i played with that was cracking rc5 for distributed.net back in 1997.



I had the client running on all the PC's in the office via the NetWare login script.






6/23/2016 11:59:57 PM EDT
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Haxxing teh crypto!




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Last time i played with that was cracking rc5 for distributed.net back in 1997.

I had the client running on all the PC's in the office via the NetWare login script.


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6/24/2016 7:55:21 PM EDT
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There used to be an Arfcom folding group that used to post stats in this section.
6/25/2016 10:45:11 AM EDT
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Reminds me of a guy who paralleled ~40 first gen Raspberry Pi's together using some linux tools. I think his performance analysis was similar to that of some of the high end super computers from about 15 years prior.
6/30/2016 10:42:32 PM EDT
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I do it in the winter. not in the summer though due to heat, my pc is upstairs and the ambient air temp is high enough without pumping out the extra from a 100% cpu and gpu
I alternate between Folding@home and BOINC. In boinc I have multiple different projects
6/30/2016 10:44:25 PM EDT
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http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_124/785677_join_the_arfcom_Folding_home_team_.html
It's pinned at the top
6/30/2016 10:44:27 PM EDT
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Reminds me of a guy who paralleled ~40 first gen Raspberry Pi's together using some linux tools. I think his performance analysis was similar to that of some of the high end super computers from about 15 years prior.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards/
Kiepert ran the High Performance Linpack (HPL), the standard supercomputer benchmark on his home-made computer and found that his RPiCluster with its 32 Broadcom BCM2708 ARM11 processors running are 1GHz and 14.6GB of usable RAM turned in a HPL peak performance of 10.13 GFLOPS. That's not going to get this cluster into the TOP500 supercomputer list, but as Kiepert observed, "the first Cray-2 supercomputer in 1985 did 1.9 GFLOPS.