On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:33:50 +0100, David_B wrote:

On 25/04/2020 22:50, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 22:15:52 +0100, David_B
wrote:

On 25/04/2020 17:53, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 17:23:47 +0100, David_B
wrote:
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Are you building a new computer for yourself?

Yes, a 24 core Xeon system. It will run the Rosetta Coronavirus
research program, and when that's done, something else in biology or
physics.

In hindsight, it would have been cheaper to buy a crap version of the
server and upgrade a few parts. I've had to get some difficult to find
brackets and adapters, like these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223642667008
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392344221117
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161787339477
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372999585133

That's a very noble thing to be doing. THANK YOU.

I was already doing it for fun and to help out astrophysics projects, I
added Rosetta to the mix when the virus appeared. You can set up Boinc
with as many projects as you wish and alter the priority of each.

It's a pity these projects don't hand out money (to at least cover the
cost of electricity), then I think they'd get 10 times as many people
doing it. They already have a brilliant system so you can see how much
work you've done, and if you're doing better than others, so it would be
easy to apply a small amount of money to that.

I'll have a study here and see what I could do personally to help:-

https://medium.com/ankr-network/ankr...a-83d36134e248


I believe the program will run on any CPU under Windows, MacOS, or
Linux. If you have a good graphics card, you should go for Folding at
home instead, as it can use that too.

Even mobile phones running android can run Rosetta. Not sure what you
can run on Iphones.

I've downloaded BOINC and installed it on my old iMac.

I chose Rosetta@home but I'm not certain what further action I should
take. How can I tell if my machine is being used?

The Boinc interface is a piece of ****. I installed "Boinctasks" (in addition to, not instead of Boinc) which shows everything nicely in full colour and better organized. It also lets you monitor more than one computer on one screen. Not sure if it runs on Macs.

But you should see something like this in the Boinc manager - this is mine in Windows on one of my machines:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvd3iyjxjm...oinc2.jpg?dl=0
The status column tells you what's running, the progress column tells you how far through the task it's got, etc.

You can see your position in the world he
https://www.boincstats.com