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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The basic concept is that each planet in the solar system contibutes to WCG on Earth.
----------------------------------------Each of my devices are named after a planet. The idea is to end up with a number of devices equivalent to the number of planets in the solar system. Once this is done there will be one to rule them all and this will be RA. It should be the most powerful device (for a non professional user let say) and at the moment I have no idea what it could be. I am ready to listen to all your proposals. What is the status today: MERCURY is active and online. VENUS is active and online. MARS not existing yet but planned shortly. JUPITER is active and online. SATURN is active but offline due to power supply problems. URANUS is active and online. NEPTUNE not existing yet, not planned. RA concept not defined by should be at least twice as powerful as JUPITER. Your ideas are welcome. All Planets have the following structure Asus Motherboard, Intel X58 chipset 6GB DDR3 RAM running at 1600 MHz CL8 CPU Intel i7 950. JUPITER is a little different: 12GB DDR3 RAM running at 2000 MHz CL9 CPU i7 975. MERCURY, MARS, VENUS, SATURN will run 24/24 7/7 for WCG JUPITER and URANUS run partly for WCG. RA should run 24/24 7/7 NEPTUNE will run partly for WCG. Donating and having fun, and viceversa.  [Edit 9 times, last edit by Hypernova at Apr 13, 2010 12:55:49 PM] |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MARS has arrived and now is in orbit.
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Sekerob
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Watch out for interplanetary graviton waves :D
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Marc Andre Wyss
Advanced Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jun 4, 2009 Post Count: 57 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Unfortunately there is no simple way to get 100 cores for RA on a standard motherboard (at least not today). Therefore the difference between your Jupiter and RA is not the same size as between the real Jupiter and the sun. I assume you want a somehow standard desktop / workstation system and not a whole server. That's why I took a ATX board.
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the proposal but you stay at 16 threads.
----------------------------------------You are right I am looking more towards a bi-processor board with two hexacore CPU's which will give me 24 threads. The main problem I see here is the cost of the two CPU's. AMD Opteron Hexacore Intel Xeon 7XXX series Hexacore Some of these CPU's can cost up to 4'000 US$. So I am waiting when the Core I9 will come out, there will be for sure a new generation of Xeons too and the old ones may go down in price.  |
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GIBA
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Thanks for the proposal but you stay at 16 threads. You are right I am looking more towards a bi-processor board with two hexacore CPU's which will give me 24 threads. The main problem I see here is the cost of the two CPU's. AMD Opteron Hexacore Intel Xeon 7XXX series Hexacore Some of these CPU's can cost up to 4'000 US$. So I am waiting when the Core I9 will come out, there will be for sure a new generation of Xeons too and the old ones may go down in price. just to provide a source of good info: http://www.x86-guide.com/en/cpu/Intel-Core+i7.html 
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Hypernova
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Last status is now:
----------------------------------------MERCURY, MARS, VENUS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE are all online and active now devoted to WCG.  Not yet built are PLUTO and RA (The Sun).  |
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Marc Andre Wyss
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Pluto isn't a planet anymore. How bad. You saved the money for Pluto, but you can spend it on RA. :-) An other possibility is the introduction of Gaia (Earth).
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The solar system bodies are now classified according to three categories: planets, dwarf planets, small solar system bodies. PLUTO is now classified as a dwarf planet. As such I have to decide if dwarf planets do comply or not in my grand scheme of things.
----------------------------------------The dwarf planets are: PLUTO, CERES, HAUMEA, MAKEMAKE and ERIS. By the way ERIS is even larger than PLUTO. After all for the large majority of my life PLUTO was a planet, small for sure and far away but nevertheless a planet. I would have preferred that all these round bodies (size large enough and massive enough to become round) which orbit the sun stay as planets. Dwarf planet is something discriminatory I feel. So I decided today that I will not be discriminatory and all will comply as planets. From now on my Solar systems will be made of (distance to Sun order): RA MERCURY VENUS MARS CERES JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO HAUMEA MAKEMAKE ERIS TERRA, EARTH or GAIA is out of the picture. I keep a TERRAcentric vision of the Solar System. There is a potential additional candidate to this list: SEDNA. It is the farthest dwarf planet of all and by far. When SEDNA will be finally classified according to the hydrostatic equilibrium criteria (basically is it round or not) then I will decide. There is no hurry. I have in front of me still a lot of work and expenses until then.  For those who want more you can go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Jan 25, 2010 2:50:59 PM] |
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Marc Andre Wyss
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What is with Charon? I know it is officially a moon of Pluto, but the balance point of the Pluto / Charon system is not within the radius of Pluto as far as I know. Isn't Charon a dwarf planet too then?
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