[Zaphod-Users] Re: [Zaphod-admin] Re: Using Zaphod's idle cpu time

[Jimmy Raeder]

Benjamin,

sorry, I can't allow this.  First, it would be a substantial  
administrative burden for us, and second, it does
not seem to be a well defined project.

--  Jimmy Raeder


On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Lascelle wrote:

> I am an undergraduate computer science student.
>
> BOINC runs a single process on each core of each cpu and its memory  
> and disk requirements vary depending on the application it is  
> currently running.
>
> BOINC can run a variety of distributed computing projects. A small  
> list of projects can be found here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ 
> projects.php
>
> I would hope to run World Community Grid which focuses on  
> scientific endeavors which benefit humanity. Its current projects  
> include:
>  Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Project
>  Genome Comparison Project
>  Help Defeat Cancer Project
>  Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Project
>  FightAIDS at Home Project
>
> World Community Grid uses about 40MB of disk space per process (1  
> per cpu core) and can be reduced easily, but at a small expense of  
> more frequent connections to the project web server when the  
> clients run out of work. While running, the project consumes about  
> 80MB of memory (on Windows XP) per process.
>
> In summary,
>     ~40MB of disk space
> +  ~50MB of memory
> per cpu core
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> On 2/27/07, Jimmy Raeder < J.Raeder at unh.edu> wrote:
> There are idle cycles.  However, we need to know what your  
> affiliation with UNH is, and
> details about the code (parallelism, memory/disk requirements etc. )
>
> --  Jimmy
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at unh.edu>
>> Date: February 27, 2007 7:38:33 AM EST
>> To: Benjamin Lascelle <bpu3 at cisunix.unh.edu>
>> Cc: zaphod-admin at lists.sr.unh.edu
>> Subject: [Zaphod-admin] Re: Using Zaphod's idle cpu time
>> Reply-To: tjb at unh.edu, Zaphod Administrators Mailing List < zaphod- 
>> admin at lists.sr.unh.edu>
>>
>> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:03 -0500, Benjamin Lascelle wrote:
>>> How often does Zaphod have idle cpu time?
>>>
>>> and would it be possible to run BOINC in ultra-low priority across
>>> each node?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Benjamin Lascelle
>>>      benlascelle at gmail.com
>>>      (603) 866-0435 [T-Mobile]
>>> My Projects
>>>      http://ben.dnsdojo.org:8080
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> I am not the right person to ask but I've cc'd a list of people  
>> who are.
>>
>> tjb
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> University of New Hampshire,
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> -- 
> Benjamin Lascelle
>      benlascelle at gmail.com
>      (603) 866-0435 [T-Mobile]
> My Projects
>      http://ben.dnsdojo.org:8080

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Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Space Science Center
University of New Hampshire,
245G Morse Hall, 39 College Rd, Durham, NH 03824-3525
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WWW: http://artemis.sr.unh.edu/~jraeder/Home/index.php
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