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Re:Pointless
Just to support what I'm talking about, SETI reports they are consuming 588Teraflops per second! Source: http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail
I know it's not equal (I'm guessing roadrunner is more efficient in terms of flops/watt than the old computers that often are used for seti@home) but Roadrunner produces 1026 terraflops and uses 2.5 million watts.. So using that as a basis for comparison, seti@home is consuming 1,432,500 watts per second. Based on data provided by the EPA (http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/refs.html ) which reports carbon output as 6.8956 x 10-4 metric tons CO2 / kWh, seti is producing 3,556 metric tons of CO2 per second! -
BOINC The Zeitgeist Movement Malaria Control
The effort to eradicate malaria is also currently under way through distributed research platforms such BOINC. The Zeitgeist Movement (of up to a million 'followers' worldwide) invite you to pull up a virtual chair and contribute your idle CPU time: http://wiki.zmlingteam.org/w/BOINC Stats: http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=mcp&co=&st=0&or=12 Malaria must go during the transition to a resource based economic model: (1) http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy (2) http://www.thezeitgeistmovementuk.com/resource-based-economic-model
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Re:Another @home project?
Yeah. I've had LHC@Home on my specific BOINC project manager since 2004. It hasn't had much available work, though. Mostly I work on Einstein@Home (processes LIGO and other gravitational wave observatory data).
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Re:Another @home project?
Yeah. I've had LHC@Home on my specific BOINC project manager since 2004. It hasn't had much available work, though. Mostly I work on Einstein@Home (processes LIGO and other gravitational wave observatory data).
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Re:Another @home project?
Yeah. I've had LHC@Home on my specific BOINC project manager since 2004. It hasn't had much available work, though. Mostly I work on Einstein@Home (processes LIGO and other gravitational wave observatory data).
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Re:baaaaloney
I don't know how WUs translate to points, but his stats are here.
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Re:you're joking, right?
SETI@home gets 495 teraFLOPS, according to this site: http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=sah
Sure, it's not one supercomputer, but it still does more calculations for one purpose than any other single supercomputer can.While I can't see the actual article, if the summary is correct than most of the top 6 computers run faster than that. While it's an impressive feat for SETI, there are faster computers in a single unit now.
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Re:you're joking, right?
SETI@home gets 495 teraFLOPS, according to this site: http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=sah
Sure, it's not one supercomputer, but it still does more calculations for one purpose than any other single supercomputer can. -
Re:Open specifications are more importantwindows and linux will have an unfair advantage over the other operating systems. What other operating systems? BSD? OS/2? I think you're missing the point. If hardware vendors open source their drivers (even if only a linux version) than at the very least reverse engineering and tweaking to make it work with other OSes becomes much easier. At least we'll have something to work with, even if it's an undocumented mess like nvidia's open source. Open sourcing helps level the playing field, and I think that's what the OSS community is after. Let's face it, for personal computing on x86 hardware, 99% is either Windows or Linux, the rest is a hodgepodge of obscureness with maybe the exception of FreeBSD. Just check out BOINC's statistics for proof of that. They've got some form of Windows running on 2.5 million systems, Linux in second at 290,282 systems, and FreeBSD a distant third at 3,605 systems.
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Re:FoldingAtHome
BOINC has progressed quite a bit since then. It now does provide a list of projects you can sign up for. The old "48 digit authenticator" nonsense is gone, and, in addition, there are account managers that enable you to manage multiple computers and which projects they run from a central location.
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Re:Left seti when they went to bonic
I installed it last night. Simply download the small script they link to here, chmod +x the script, and run it. It creates a directory and tells you which script to run. Run that script and tadaaa, the BOINC client starts. The only problem I had was my firefox install is not where the client expected it to be so it couldn't go to the finish registration page, but the helpful error message actually gave me the URL so I copied it to my browser and finished up that way. This is on FC4 BTW, with a Sempron 2500, so you don't need the latest cpu, and you can define the amount of cpu time the process gets using the preferences in the client.
BTW, I also run FaH, and have been since 2004 (I am inside the top 3.5% ranking). I didn't join either project to earn credits either, but I am not interested in seeing my stats, because there are many other multi-cpu machines dedicated by the *heros* out there that get all the high counts, and my contribution is off the bottom of the scale in comparison.
But it is still a contribution.
Also, you could always try this site if you really need to find out what you've accomplished. You need a minimum of 1 credit to use the system. -
Re:Left seti when they went to bonicYep, I know that I can see the stats, or 'credits', for my account :
* SETI@home member since 8 Jul 1999
* Total credit 95,887
* Recent average credit 198.56
and the stats for the 'top participants', 'top computers' and 'top teams', but for me the emphasis on earning 'credits' is making it into a toy competition for overclockers (no offense meant). Yes but you can also see your setiathome classic credits - for example
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=78964
SETI@home member since 15 Dec 2000
Total credit 227,639
Recent average credit 379.47
SETI@home classic workunits 4,111 What is a 'credit' anyway, in real terms like cpu hours or floating point operations ? http://www.boinc-wiki.info/Computation_of_Credit What have gone are the stats for the project as a whole.
* Total cpu time (in years) for the project
* Total cpu time (in years) for the last 24 hrs
* Current processing capability (TFlop/s average for the last 24hrs) http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=sah
Total Active
Users 745,285 191,218
Hosts 1,725,623 1,715,680
Teams 51,493 19,422
Countries 234 219
Total Credit 21,989,922,367
Recent average credit 36,291,316
Average floating point operations per second 362,913.2 GigaFLOPS / 362.913 TeraFLOPS I know there are several different sites that produce stats, so these might be available somewhere, but they aren't on the main site any more. Yeah wish it was on the main site as well - but then again I remember the main site being down all the time too. -
Re:SETI is cheapIt's my very slightly green side showing. SETI@home is a huge waste of electricity. And when I say huge, I mean really really big. I'm not worried about the cost: people should be free to donate whatever kind of money they want. But this isn't about donating money, it's about burning coal to generate electricity to do the work.
I figured out the cost for running distributed.net several years ago, and it was amazing. The difference between my computer sitting idle and my computer running the CPU at 100% is 60 watt-hours, or 1,440 extra watts per day. Scaling that number up to the amount of work I was able to perform in an hour, dividing out the amount of work that had to be done in order to crack one of the distributed.net challenge keys, turned into an ungodly amount of wasted power.
So how much has been donated to SETI@home? According to BOINC stats, 19,593,239,480 BOINC credits have been granted as of a few days ago. Since one credit represents the computations performed in 1/100th of a day on a reference machine, we can ballpark that 195,932,394 CPU days have been donated. As I said, my computer uses 1,440 watts per day under load, but let's assume it's only half as efficient as the average or reference machine; so that's about 720 watts per day. Times the credits, that's 141,071,323,680 watts (141 gigawatts.) According to the DoE, one pound of coal generates 926 watt-hours of electricity. So they've burned 152,344,842 pounds (76,000 tons) of coal, or 760 standard 100-ton cars -- that's almost seven 115-car trains of coal.
Put another way, that's 182,400 tons of CO2 that was pumped into the atmosphere on behalf of SETI. (Take that, Kyoto Protocol!) On the Chicago Climate Exchange, that'd cost you $364,000 in carbon credits. And that's just the BOINC figures, and not inclusive of the energy burned by SETI@home clients prior to the advent of BOINC.
Do you still wish to maintain that all the energy and waste and pollution is worth it, for a potential incidental invention? At least set your machine to folding@home, or the WCG, or some project that will produce results that might help the human race in tangible ways. You can still dream about E.T., just don't kill my planet looking for him.
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Open Source Software Cures Cancer
According to the World Community Grid website:
World Community Grid is making [this] technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.
WCG uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) client, an open source software project that runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Headline should read Open Source Software Cures Cancer ;-)
BoincStats shows you who is contributing to World Community Grid projects. Check it out...and ask yourself why you aren't contributing. -
Re:Grid Computing vs. Supercomputers?
Very interesting readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seti%40home#Statistics
But in the field of distributed computing the Folding@home project is much speedier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40Home#Participation
The Seti@home is currently running at speed of 292.544 TeraFLOPS:
http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=sah
The Folding@home is currently running at speed of 1.153 PetaFLOPS:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats -
Distributed Computing Wins Again...
I know this isn't a fair comparison but the SETI@Home grid runs at 250 TeraFLOPS. Many of the other massive distributed computing projects run far into the Top 500 as well. reference
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Distributed Computing Wins Again!
Individuals contributing their spare processor cycles via BOINC are currently producing over 380 TeraFLOPS putting them clearly in first place (if such distributed systems were counted).
SETI@Home is now operated exclusively through BOINC and it alone is doing over 167 TeraFLOPS right now, putting the SETI@Home network in second place, only behind BlueGene/L (if such distributed systems were counted).
You can contribute your spare processor cycles too by downloading the BOINC client and attaching to a cool project such as Rosetta@Home which folds proteins as part of an effort to cure human diseases. Join the biggest "supercomputer" today! -
Distributed Computing Wins Again!
Individuals contributing their spare processor cycles via BOINC are currently producing over 380 TeraFLOPS putting them clearly in first place (if such distributed systems were counted).
SETI@Home is now operated exclusively through BOINC and it alone is doing over 167 TeraFLOPS right now, putting the SETI@Home network in second place, only behind BlueGene/L (if such distributed systems were counted).
You can contribute your spare processor cycles too by downloading the BOINC client and attaching to a cool project such as Rosetta@Home which folds proteins as part of an effort to cure human diseases. Join the biggest "supercomputer" today! -
Seti@home
anyone have any idea how much it would cost me to buy the # one spot on boinc?
Take down NEZ for one day-- that would be sweet
http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_stats.p hp?pr=bo&st=0&to=100 -
Misleading on multiple levels.
There are a number of things TFA doesn't tell you, or misleads you about.
1) The Climate Prediction experiment has been going on for several years now, first as a standalone application (like Seti@home), and now as both as a BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) application.
2) There are multiple BOINC [distributed computing] projects with greater than 10,000 users (see here, and here.) - thus even if the BBC meets it's goal of 10k users, it will still be far from the largest. -
Re:sort of
IF, and a big if, google released a linux distro, I wouldn't see it as an alternative to windows directly as much as an alternative to all the other already released linux distros. Indirectly it would be, at least in the initital stages. Later on it would be of course. There's a dozen or so top distros, then hundreds of smaller ones. And we also have macosx and solaris, both backed by big companies. None of them, or even collectively, have made it beyond 5% or so desktop market penetration compared to windows, even though they exist.
Indeed. I was looking at the OS stats for BOINC the other day - the one place you'd think that geeks (and by extension Linux) would rock and rule, would be in support of a large science effort.Linux accounts for around 9% of the total CPU cycles available to BOINC, other UNIX distro collectively about 3%.
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BOINC says it's much lower.It's impossible to get the one true metric for this. But the statistics of the BOINC project (formerly SETI@home, now includes other projects as well) give another, perhaps more reasonable data point.
They have
- Windows -- 89.5%
- Linux -- 7.8%
- Darwin -- 2.3%
- Other -- 0.4%
Now, this data is obviously skewed with respect to the total distribution, since the people who run something like SETI@home are probably more technologically inclined than the average computer user. This would mean that the percentage of non-Windows OSes is higher in this sample. On the other hand, the software for BOINC (SETI@home) is still somewhat Windows-centric, which would in turn increase the Windows share in the sample.
An interesting data point, nonetheless.
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working while it waits...How much computing did the machine do while you read this paragraph of text?
mmm. Warmed my lap.. and did a little bit. 0% idle.