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My Computers... So far I have the following computers participating in Einstein@Home for the Winter 2024-5 period, with some others waiting in the wings:
NOLAN is a computer that has a faulty Ethernet socket on its ASUS M4A7BLT-M-LE motherboard, hence the name (the PCI-E socket is also faulty so I use a USB-to-Ethernet adapter to work around this issue). This system has Windows 10 on it and an MSI Twin FrozrIII Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB. Einstein@home is set to run on the latter. BIOSTAR is called that because it is built around a motherboard of that brand. It has Windows 10 on it, an AMD A4-5300 GPU and 8GB of RAM, along with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. Einstein@home is set to run on the latter. This system pulls approx. 160W. Phenom resides at a relative's house and is aptly named because it features an AMD Phenom X6 CPU. It runs Linux Ubuntu. It is the lowest spec'd computer in my arsenal since it has no dedicated graphics card, only those 6 x CPU cores, but it is my only computer that participates in the project throughout the whole year. 2600K used to be my main rig but it is more power-hungry than i5, it's good for crunching with it's CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 graphics card though (with capacity for another CPU). In fact this computer has a 3rd PCI-Express slot and in the past I have dabbled with running three graphics cards and even two power supplies with this system but using that third slot was always problematic, particularly from a heat-perspective. i5 is my daily driver running on Kubuntu. As its name suggests it sports an Intel Core i5 which means it has 4 x CPU cores to crunch on. However it only has a stock cooler right now so I will limit crunching to one core. Waiting in the wings:
CrossFireX is by its name CrossFireX-compatible, except it just has a single AMD Radeon HD 6900 installed at present. Other than this, has been run on Windows 10 but presently has Windows 7 on it. It has a liquid-cooled CPU. P5NE is an Intel Core2 Quad system running Windows Vista 64-bit. It has Ubuntu also but I couldn't get drivers to work with the Nvidia GTX 660 graphics card. Potentially the P5NE-SLi motherboard can have two graphics cards installed in it, but it's not set up for that right now. Apple is called this because it is in a case that is reminiscent of an old Power Mac. WO is an AMD Athlon 5200+ system. It usually uses a graphics card to crunch data but lacks one for now and is only number-crunching on the CPU. It is dual-boot, either Windows 7 or Ubuntu, but is using the latter right now. Core2Quad is just that, an Intel Core2Quad-based computer running Ubuntu, it also has an Nvidia 1060 graphics Card. This computer is in my 'entertainment room' and is occasionally used to watch DVDs on a TV screen. It's hooked up to two old Sony amplifiers (one for the front and one for the rear) and nice-sounding speakers to provide quadraphonic audio (I much prefer this over small satelite speakers and a subwoofer rumbling away in the corner). Previous Rigs... iccleBeast was a favourite of mine but it has morphed into 2600K somewhere along the way. G43T was named this because of the model of the motherboard (which was from a Dell Inspiron 560). It was running on Ubuntu with its Intel Core2Quad CPU. A quirk of this system was that it needed to have a system fan (and keyboard) connected otherwise it wouldn't boot (the BIOS has no option to ignore this). It has since found a new home. Click here for the previous year's computer list: 2020-1 |
