Just joined - looking for advice

[Yomama]

Got a little fed up with SETI's on/off servers and looking for a new challenge (sort of). Currently crunching 8 Units 4 each with a Q6600 and 4 with my new OC system Phenom IIx4B55@3800. Can anyone comment on what numbers I should be able to expect from these machines? Installed Boinc and tweaked it according to the SETI thread - not running CUDA. Any advice is appreciated.

[Jmtyra]

Not sure about what your RAC should be, but from the previous crunching (RAC Harvest Contest) I do know it takes about a week or so to "level out" your RAC.

I'm sure one of the Rosetta experts can probably point you to a RAC db of CPU estimates, or at least give you an idea. Personally I'm a RAC 'n00b' else I would help you out.

Happy crunching! :)

[baditude_df]

Not sure the OC on your Q6600, but at ~3.6GHz you should be seeing 2500-3000RAC after a few weeks of 24/7 crunching. Somewhere the same with your Phenom should put you between 5 and 6K I'd imagine. Again, that's if you're running 24/7, it's a bit hard to gauge otherwise.

EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the team! :welcome:

[psionic98]

Welcome.. though not sure the SETI enhancements work on rosetta.. i believe they are purely for seti work.. i could be wrong on that

[drshivas]

Welcome! And SETI enhancements don't work for Rosetta. Would be great if the Rosetta community could cook some up, though.

[muddocktor]

Yeah, Rosetta is pretty much CPU horsepower related for crunching power. No optimizations and no GPU client. With that said, bad's guess on the Q6600 RAC is pretty much right on; my experience with the 940BE system shows it to be a bit lower in RAC though. I have found that Yorkfleld quads tend to do a little better than the Q6600 and I have found the LGA1366 quads and hex cores to be absolute crunching MONSTERS! My 980X is around 8k RAC and the 930 is looking like it might go around 5-6k RAC once it levels out.

[Bobnova]

I've found the AMD quads to be very good indeed for rosetta, I would guess at around 3.5-4k for that system, the 2.5 to 3 sounds about right for the intel quad.
Rosetta is pretty much all about clocks and cores as far as anybody can tell.

Given the lack of a GPU client (oh well) you could still run some GPU seti or GPU FAH or somesuch too.

EDIT:
Oh yeah, and welcome to the team, too!

[psionic98]

I'm probably going to put my gpu on f@h so im supporting all our teams!

[baditude_df]

Given the lack of a GPU client (oh well) you could still run some GPU seti or GPU FAH or somesuch too.

This is what I used to do when I had a couple of 4890's. Grabbed some dummy plugs off Torin and voila! 24/7 Rosie/F@H combo!

[Yomama]

Thanks for the advice - rising up through the ranks right now - this looks like fun