4P Systems

Hardass

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• Mar 26, 2014

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What are you guys with these systems having them do when no more BA units are coming? I have one sitting idle, and was about to get another system. Does that make any sense now?

 

orion456

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• Mar 26, 2014

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Something must be wrong with the server because when there is no BA units it should default to SMP and keep on crunching, with lower points of course.

 

orion456

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• Mar 26, 2014

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I had to restart my 4Ps, they were sitting idle for no reason I could see.

 

machausta

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• Mar 26, 2014

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What about some sort of CPU mining? I have a H8DGU-F motherboard and one working 6174 Opteron of two purchased on fleabay. (So I am also interested in what you find out)

 

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Nathan_P

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• Mar 27, 2014

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The server went down, in theory the client should drop back to SMP. However the nature of the fault meant that no work could be uploaded, v7 would have possibly mitigated this by getting SMP work but v6 would just sit there

 

WhitehawkEQ

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• Mar 28, 2014

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Come the day when no more BigAdv WU's will be had, I'll just have my 4P do A3 and A4 WU's and keep pluging on, and should BigAdv's come back, I'll be ready.

 

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Nathan_P

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• Mar 29, 2014

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^^^This, I won't be shutting down

 

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Cobrabill93

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• Mar 29, 2014

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These work really well crunching BOINC WCG and other projects looking for cures.

 

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Nathan_P

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• Mar 30, 2014

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Well my fastest rig, a 2p E5 v2 with 48 threads @2.4 is currently doing 200k on 8574, given that I think I will be staying where I am Haven't seen any 4p numbers but have to be near 300k

 

Audioaficionado

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• Apr 4, 2014

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You can do lots of things on a 4P system other than FAH. So even if you build one now, you'll have a powerful platform for years to come to do your bidding.

 

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Hardass

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• Apr 4, 2014

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Not worried, I bought a second one.

 

gabi_golan

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• Apr 5, 2014

• #12

You can do lots of things on a 4P system other than FAH.

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What for example? Like if F@h enthusiast that has 4p at home, stops folding on it, what can he do with it instead?

 

Audioaficionado

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• Apr 6, 2014

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gabi_golan said:

What for example? Like if F@h enthusiast that has 4p at home, stops folding on it, what can he do with it instead?

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Well once -bigadv WU's are gone you can go to less productive WU's or repurpose the platform as a high power workstation. Photoshop, rendering, bitmining, data crunching, etc. Even if the FAH uses aren't long lasting, this machine will still be very useful in most high power computing applications for years after it's been depreciated by the ever evolving needs of Stanford's FAH program.