Does your computer BOINC?

I've taken over the Mystery Science Theater 3000's SETI@home team which has lain dormant for years.

And I created the Mystery Science Theater 3000's Asteroid@home team.

New recruits would be appreciated.

If anyone is planning to use BOINC on a new computer, I'd recommend going with the new AMD CPUs that have solder inside to transfer heat away from the circuitry, unless you are comfortable cracking open your CPU and voiding the warranty as per these links:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/02/21/relid_your_intel_cpu_on_cheap_no_delid_tools
http://www.enostech.com/rockit-88-intel-cpu-delid-tool-review/
http://techfrag.com/2016/04/20/rockit-88-delid-tool-is-here-to-delid-your-intel-cpus/
http://www.eteknix.com/rockit-88-intel-cpu-delid-tool/

I have a new i7-7700K that I am not even overclocking, and when it is under a full load doing calculations I can't get its internal temperatures any cooler than 75 degrees Celsius even with a Corsair H100i V2 chugging away at maximum settings.

I figured I'd be safe going with Intel and not delidding since I wasn't going to do any overclocking. I guess not. At the moment I'm only able to run BOINC on my GPU. My shiny new 7700K is just sitting on idle.

I would only recommend going with a new Intel CPU if you are willing to delid it before you use it, even if you have no plans to overclock it.

I can't remember what my new(ish) laptop at home is powered by. I'll check it out when I get home this afternoon/evening. Though I never overclock any of my computers because I'm not particularly confident enough in that department.

It doesn't matter so much "what it is" as "how hot it is".

Are you familiar with CPUID's utility that shows all the details about a CPU?

They also make a utility called HWMonitor that measures various things like temperatures in your computer.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

The pay "pro" version isn't necessary. The free version works just fine.

You will want to look at the internal temperatures for your CPU and GPU.

When a CPU/GPU is doing intense calculations, a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius starts to slowly damage a chip's circuits.

Doing non-stop calculations at a temperature of 70 degrees Celsius will shorten a chip's typical lifespan to two-to-six years.

Doing non-stop calculations at a temperature of 80 degrees Celsius will shorten a chip's typical lifespan to one-to-three years.

Doing non-stop calculations at a temperature of 90 degrees Celsius will shorten a chip's typical lifespan to six-to-twenty months.

Then again, if you plan to upgrade to a new computer after a certain period of time, it might not matter if your current one wears out just after you stop using it.

I'll get that monitor program tonight. I've been getting some weird video glitching yesterday while watching Youtube for awhile. It doesn't seem my system is overheating but it's good to catch any possible problems while the system is still under warranty.

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Thanks for the info! There is one thing, although, which really concerns me - security measures. How are these handled?

SETI@home has passed its 20th anniversary May 17, 2019.
20 years and counting!

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If you are looking for a worthy successor, the Large Hadron Collider has four or five BOINC projects that help them run their accelerator.

https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/


Cosmology@home helps scientists translate data from the Plank space telescope (that's the one that measured the cosmic microwave background radiation) into more accurate models of the universe and its ultimate fate.

https://www.cosmologyathome.org/


Folding@home is run by Stanford University and models protein folding for medical research. They are independent of BOINC though, and use their own proprietary platform.

https://foldingathome.org/

I am using BOINC on my HP Notebook and my ACER Desktop M1800. I have both Computers Tuned ON Most of the time, and have been Running All Projects Constantly. The HP only runs ONE task at any time, but the ACER runs 2 at any one time (this is happening by default). i sometimes Suspend tasks if I need to use The Computer/s and I need 100% of the resourses for Optimum Speed etc.. I also Suspend The Projects occassionally and Place them in SLEEP/HIBERNATE Mode for at least a Few Hours or even Overnight every couple of days, and use SHUTDOWN MODE about once a week; However, I sometimes Run either or both constanly for 3 or 4 days, and only put in Sleep Mode for a few hours over that period of time.

This video talks about the science behind the current Einstein@home project. They went heavy on the unnecessary (terribly trite) score.

Interesting but I wonder if you might be introducing some security concerns as what you are doing in effect is joining a bot net or so I would think.

Therefore you are kind of hoping that the project people know what they are doing so bad guys can not used this net for their own reasons.

Do you mean the highly respected folks at the University of California, Berkeley? One of the top schools for computer sciences in the world? I'm pretty sure they vet any new projects that are pitched for their crowdsourcing platform.

Good point. But you are replying to a bot that is merely repeating BillRM's post from the previous page.