I've installed BOINC on my old dual Xeon, to perform a stress test and to see how it stacks up. Finally, my home situation is so that I can start configuring my systems, and set up all servers and streaming functionality. Already I had an odd behaviour on the Xeon: copying large files to one U320 SCSI drive caused the system to freeze. I managed to solve this by updating the controller driver. Now, I'll run BOINC for a few days, maybe a week or so, just to see how the system holds up (cooling, etc.).
From the website and the benchmarks, it looks like floating point speed is just under half of my other system, and integer speed is below one quarter of the other system. So I don't think it will contribute that much and most likely uses a lot of power while calculating (10 year old system), but perhaps I can keep some BOINC process in the back ground while it is doing other things.
From the website and the benchmarks, it looks like floating point speed is just under half of my other system, and integer speed is below one quarter of the other system. So I don't think it will contribute that much and most likely uses a lot of power while calculating (10 year old system), but perhaps I can keep some BOINC process in the back ground while it is doing other things.
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