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How to use 80 cores
BOINC, Folding@Home, UD etc.

All of these are pieces of software, for use by the public on their home machines, which download some scientific data, process it, then send back the results.

Projects like crytography, climate prediction, microfluidics, protein prediction (take your pick, not everyone likes some of them) have a huge advantage, as a small change in parameters can give different results, and as a consequence parrallelity (is that a word?) is easy, and beneficial.

BOINC is almost producting around 200,000 days of comupting time per real day, or the equivalent of an 800Mhz machine running for 200,000 days. Having 80 cores over one (at comparible clock speeds) will increase work 80 fold. Good for science, good for everyone. The only way to get a better than 80x increase would require going into the scientfic application and creating specific optimisations based on processor type.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

Being a chemist, I'm into this sort of thing - I may have to use it one day. I run a local group for BOINC, and by taking advantage of dual core, we're computing the equivalent of 2 months work in one 24hr day.
Posted by: borandi   Posted on: 09/26/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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80?  CobraA1 | 09/26/06
80 Cores is no problem...  BitTwiddler | 09/26/06
I wonder ...  Henaway | 09/26/06
I agree  CobraA1 | 09/26/06
I figured it all out.  nucrash | 09/26/06
You left off a view  mrlinux | 09/26/06
Spyware, viruses, and WGA eat all 80 cores  swoopee | 09/26/06
and that's why  nix_hed | 09/27/06
How to use 80 cores  Suicida| | 09/26/06
Very easy to have 50 cores utilized with Java  mighetto | 09/26/06
To answer your question, BSD UNIX i.e.: Mac OS X  gtdworak | 09/26/06
How to use 80 cores  borandi | 09/26/06
Image processing, etc.  kwahoo | 09/26/06
Message has been deleted.  BeGoneFool | 09/26/06
thet became core envy but not savy ... happy  michael_t | 09/26/06
Hmmm...  zkiwi | 09/26/06
Let's see..  Wolfie2K3 | 09/27/06
No point in having 80 cores if  zzz1234567890 | 09/26/06
computer on a chip  zzz1234567890 | 09/26/06
Gee...  Wolfie2K3 | 09/27/06
MAME performance  #_z | 09/26/06
Intel also whining that if US healthcare system doesn't get fixed, they'll  HypnoToad | 09/26/06
Sorry Intel IBM's cell chip is alread there...!!  rshimizu12@... | 09/26/06
From the company that brought you OS/2 and Pover PC NT  TonyMcS | 09/26/06
Intel went from core-less to core-crazy. Is excess the right answer ?  Dr-T | 09/26/06
Beowulf  mobrien_12@... | 09/26/06
Beofuld is a cluster but the 80 core system is an SMP on a chip.  michael_t | 09/26/06
Ummm YEAH  mobrien_12@... | 09/26/06
If Intel comes out with more than 8 cores  BCF1968 | 09/26/06
be shocked. Intel already sells 8 core chips  Prognosticator | 09/27/06
I am shocked  BCF1968 | 09/28/06

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