Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Supercomputer
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If all of BOINC with all of its projects were combined into one supercomputer, how many PetaFLOPs do you think it would have? An estimate on the power usage? | |
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According to http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-5/project/detail/ the average floating point operations per second is 13,092,496.5 GigaFLOPS / 13,092.497 TeraFLOPS (that is 13.1 PetaFLOPS) | |
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Frankly I wish all that computing power would exclusively go to projects like GPUGRID, Folding@Home, WCG or Rosetta. Those alleviate suffering and move mankind more forward than e.g. decoding meaningless Enigma transmissions from WW2. | |
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According to http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-5/project/detail/ the average floating point operations per second is 13,092,496.5 GigaFLOPS / 13,092.497 TeraFLOPS (that is 13.1 PetaFLOPS) And this project has currently 1,680,460 GigaFLOPs, which is almost 13% of the total. Amazing, what a few hundred crunchers can accomplish! A few weeks ago, we were at over 2,000,000 GigaFLOPs. | |
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Firstly, Boinc is not a supercomputer! Frankly I wish all that computing power would exclusively go to projects like GPUGRID, Folding@Home, WCG or Rosetta. Those alleviate suffering and move mankind more forward than e.g. decoding meaningless Enigma transmissions from WW2. People chose to crunch for numerous different projects for combinations of many different reasons; some logical, some irrational, some sad, some funny... IMO you're ~99% correct, but I could be wrong, right or somewhere in between. What I've learnt from experience is that some of the less thought of projects have helped push the boundary's of what Boinc can do/facilitates. Indirectly, the lesser accepted projects have helped enhance Boinc as a research tool and just because you don't think highly of a project doesn't mean you can't learn from their mistakes or take advantage of their success. If person A didn't develop a tool to allow distributed computers to help search for aliens then it's likely someone else would have. I've learnt a lot form other Boinc projects, especially their forums (so it's there for all to access). TN-Grid Platform is probably a project you've never heard of, but they are doing some good cutting edge CPU research. It's not as big as here & their science isn't readily accessible (you need to be well read) but it's not to be sniffed at. Back in Oct they were interested in some help porting their app to cuda (G, M, T, Dr's...). ____________ FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help | |
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What I've learnt from experience is that some of the less thought of projects have helped push the boundary's of what Boinc can do/facilitates. Indirectly, the lesser accepted projects have helped enhance Boinc as a research tool and just because you don't think highly of a project doesn't mean you can't learn from their mistakes or take advantage of their success. If person A didn't develop a tool to allow distributed computers to help search for aliens then it's likely someone else would have. I've learnt a lot form other Boinc projects, especially their forums (so it's there for all to access). TN-Grid Platform is probably a project you've never heard of, but they are doing some good cutting edge CPU research. It's not as big as here & their science isn't readily accessible (you need to be well read) but it's not to be sniffed at. Back in Oct they were interested in some help porting their app to cuda (G, M, T, Dr's...). I agree for the most part. There's too much judgment about what people choose to do with their own computers. Personally I feel good about crunching WUs for GPUGrid, so that's what I mostly do. However I don't feel that it's of any use to judge others based on what they choose to do with their own equipment and their own money. I don't hear anyone complaining about the VAST amount of money that could be regarded as wasted running games, etc. For many people BOINC is also a competition and a game, and I would submit that no matter what project someone runs it's most likely more useful than running world of warcraft, etc. etc. etc... | |
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What I've learnt from experience is that some of the less thought of projects have helped push the boundary's of what Boinc can do/facilitates. Indirectly, the lesser accepted projects have helped enhance Boinc as a research tool and just because you don't think highly of a project doesn't mean you can't learn from their mistakes or take advantage of their success. If person A didn't develop a tool to allow distributed computers to help search for aliens then it's likely someone else would have. I've learnt a lot form other Boinc projects, especially their forums (so it's there for all to access). TN-Grid Platform is probably a project you've never heard of, but they are doing some good cutting edge CPU research. It's not as big as here & their science isn't readily accessible (you need to be well read) but it's not to be sniffed at. Back in Oct they were interested in some help porting their app to cuda (G, M, T, Dr's...). Haha, Took the words out of my mouth! My only concern about this project is how long it will be running. Before I put more money to it, I'd like to feel at ease that it won't end any time soon(possibly a time estimate on how long it will run?). Might seem foolish but I see these other projects closing down. I don't want to go out and buy something and then have this project be done. This is pretty much the only project on Boinc I run, so I'm a bit cautious. Thanks ____________ Cruncher/Learner in progress. | |
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I don't hear anyone complaining about the VAST amount of money that could be regarded as wasted running games, etc. Oh yes ... me, if I may. Wasted entirely! Except for Mass Effect Andromeda next year ...... that is a must and I can't miss out on all the fun..... I apologize for my characterlessness and ... X-D ____________ I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday. | |
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Don't hate on games, they are a large reason these companies like nvidia have the R&D money to make GPUs this fast and a very large reason why so many people have high power GPUs at all. BOINC wouldn't even be possible without these people. | |
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Biomedical projects help you live longer, but the purpose of life is not just to live longer but to learn something in the process. That is why I also support the CERN projects (ATLAS, LHC), Cosmology and Universe at the moment. They are pushing the boundaries of science, which is one way of expanding knowledge, though not the only one. | |
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All of you are correct ... and I like playing games too. | |
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1.21 Jigawatts | |
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1.21 Jigawatts That's funny, I call one of my computers flux-capacitor :) | |
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That definitely is not enough! | |
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Up to 2.4 PetaFLOPS now! | |
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Does anyone know the highest its even been? | |
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2.5xx Peta Flops in recent times when there is a constant flow of work. Obviously any interuption in work flow will reduce it quickly and takes a while to recover. | |
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Not sure if there might be a better thread for this question, especially as it has been ignored for nearly four weeks, but I concur (mostly): | |
ID: 46377 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
This department has half a dozen of researchers and therefore the termination of all their investigations on short notice is VERY unlikely. They would have to cancel some labour contracts, lectures and dissertations otherwise. Of course life is not 100% safe and predictable, but even if they would stop all the simulations you can anytime move to Folding@Home and let your GPU help there. | |
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