Winter distributed computing

[flyrod]

It's cold out again, why not do some distributed computing and make some heat too! Maybe we can get PPC Mac a bit higher up the ranking:

http://stats.distributed.net/misc/platformlist.php?project_id=28&view=tco

distributed.net still supports PPC, so I like to support them.

 

[Hrududu]

Haha, If i fired up my 3 G5s and both MDD G4s I could probably heat my office even with these arctic temps

 

[1042686]

Hah, my G5 keeps this room nice n' toasty.

 

[tevion5]

It's cold out again, why not do some distributed computing and make some heat too! Maybe we can get PPC Mac a bit higher up the ranking:

http://stats.distributed.net/misc/platformlist.php?project_id=28&view=tco

distributed.net still supports PPC, so I like to support them.

I'm interested but not familiar with this. Is there some sort of PPC client that one can run?

 

[flyrod]

Yes, check out www.distributed.net for all the info. They have current clients for PPC Mac OS.

 

[1042686]

So aside from using networked computers to process data, what is the projects greater purpose? What are they doing?

 

[myscrnnm]

Is anyone still running this project? I don't see any updates since summer of 2015. Maybe it's like the Dharma Initiative.

 

[tevion5]

Yes, check out www.distributed.net for all the info. They have current clients for PPC Mac OS.

Thanks! I'll give it a go when I can.

Is anyone still running this project? I don't see any updates since summer of 2015. Maybe it's like the Dharma Initiative.

Looks like most of the clients got updates all throughout this year so it seems like somebody is knocking about.

 

[flyrod]

PPC moved up a spot on the cpu/os list today!

 

[topbanana_]

It's cold out again, why not do some distributed computing and make some heat too! Maybe we can get PPC Mac a bit higher up the ranking:

http://stats.distributed.net/misc/platformlist.php?project_id=28&view=tco

distributed.net still supports PPC, so I like to support them.

I run Seti@home and have done since the late 90's (96/97?) when it more or less started

However I only run it on good thermal machines now and that has ruled out iMacs, Mac Mini's, and any laptop since it is I am sure it was responsible for the death of both my MacMini G4 and my MacbookPro a couple of years back (especially if you also run GPU crunching and thus stress that fan/processor as well). So for now it's running (CPU & GPU) on an old x86 Linux machine only.

I certainly don't want to stress my ancient G5 on it

 

[flyrod]

Seti@home won't run on ppc anymore, will it?

 

[0248294]

Seti@home won't run on ppc anymore, will it?

BOINC, the software you need to do SETI@Home computing, still has a fairly up to date version for PowerPC Macs, G3 to G5, and OS X 10.4 and up.

 

[128keaton]

I run Seti@home and have done since the late 90's (96/97?) when it more or less started

However I only run it on good thermal machines now and that has ruled out iMacs, Mac Mini's, and any laptop since it is I am sure it was responsible for the death of both my MacMini G4 and my MacbookPro a couple of years back (especially if you also run GPU crunching and thus stress that fan/processor as well). So for now it's running (CPU & GPU) on an old x86 Linux machine only.

I certainly don't want to stress my ancient G5 on it

The G5 loves numbers. Its like a car. Drive it. Sure, it might be old, maybe a classic, but its kinda sad whenever it can't do what it was designed to.


I set it up on a MBP to warm my hands at work.

 

[topbanana_]

The G5 loves numbers. Its like a car. Drive it.

Yeah but crunching is more like racing than driving and you don't race classics (or bits fall off ).....