So I bought a Mac Pro, 8 Xeon Penryn cores at 2.8ghz each.

Within a couple of weeks, I'll have crunched more for Rosetta with it than with my other computers in the past couple of years.

Ah! Technology!

Am also excited about the new version of Rosetta (mini). Hopefully this will mean even better science and an easier time optimizing the software (SSEx, PS3, etc).

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Congrats on the octo-core!

Happy crunching (and whatever you do with it IRL) =)

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!

N I C E ! ! !

Hope SkullTrail isn't too far off...

The power requirements on Skulltrail are so steep I'd say you're probably better off with Xeons, or a couple of 45nm quads... the chipsets on the Skulltrail board aren't exactly frugal.

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Crunching Rosetta as a member of the Whirlpool BOINC Teams

I hope to do the same once I feel that the price/performance for a quad core is at a sweet spot.

Stephen

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So I bought a Mac Pro, 8 Xeon Penryn cores at 2.8ghz each.

Within a couple of weeks, I'll have crunched more for Rosetta with it than with my other computers in the past couple of years.

"Awesome. Awesome to the max." -- '80s Guy, Futurama

Am also excited about the new version of Rosetta (mini). Hopefully this will mean even better science and an easier time optimizing the software (SSEx, PS3, etc).

+1

Esp. for intel macs. All of them support SSE3 or greater. No legacy processor support holding it back.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

Esp. for intel macs. All of them support SSE3 or greater. No legacy processor support holding it back.

Yeah. Even with non-Mac x86, an argument can probably made that the few old computers that would be lost by using SSE2 would be far more than compensated by the increased productivity of the current recent ones, plus the recent ones that are adding all the time to the project.

The bottom line is the science. If you can do more science by ditching some old P3s and K6s, I think the project should do it.

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I've tried to think of many scenarios, and none of them could realistically mean losing crunching power.

With each day that goes by, new SSE/SSE2 capable computers are joining.

Non-SSE capable crunchers are by definition older and slower, they represent the bottom x% (10%?) of production. There's almost no way that losing those wouldn't be offset by making the remaining crunchers (90%?) faster with SSE instructions (could be significant, but even if it is just 10% faster, that would more than offset the old machines and keep getting bigger as new ones join).

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So I bought a Mac Pro, 8 Xeon Penryn cores at 2.8ghz each.

Within a couple of weeks, I'll have crunched more for Rosetta with it than with my other computers in the past couple of years.

Ah! Technology!

Am also excited about the new version of Rosetta (mini). Hopefully this will mean even better science and an easier time optimizing the software (SSEx, PS3, etc).

If you like the 2,8, You should see the 3.0GHz go.

Regards

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We Must look for intelligent life on other planets as,
it is becoming increasingly apparent we will not find any on our own.

And its not just about an increase in processing power, but also save a decent amount of electrical power and space to get rid of those old machines.

An extreme example would be F@H's GPU folding... The newer ATI GPUs may do TWICE the work of the old ones and use 50% less power (while folding). Over the course of the year, that $180 card could save $100/year in electricity costs. So the card pays for itself!

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And its not just about an increase in processing power, but also save a decent amount of electrical power and space to get rid of those old machines.

An extreme example would be F@H's GPU folding... The newer ATI GPUs may do TWICE the work of the old ones and use 50% less power (while folding). Over the course of the year, that $180 card could save $100/year in electricity costs. So the card pays for itself!

Hey Project Team!!

Your progress thus far is great. We want to love the new Rosetta Mini. Help us love it by adding GPU support and maybe even support for the PS3. It would also be good to see processor optimized support if you can find a way to get performance enhancements from SSE2, SSE3 or SSE4.

This is a great project.

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Thx!

Paul