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RE: The Eternal Conflict Between Altruistic Science and The Bottom Line - Gridcoin and BOINC
Nice post Dutch. After years of mostly altruistic boincing I'd like to step up GRC output a little. I only have 12000 or so, my mag is between 10 and 15 and I have three lame machines doing boincing. I guess I am wondering if you have any advice on how I can tweak it up a bit? I have been doing cosmology, asteroids and milkyway mainly but am interested doing any useful stuff but bumping my return a little while considering V8 changes and what it might mean. Any advice or a pointer to a more appropriate place to ask such a thing?
The best place to talk about that would probably be the #crunch-tinkering channel on the Gridcoin Slack channel. It is a channel where we discuss hardware and project choices to min/max daily research output and GRC yield. It also plays host to build projects of some very cool research rigs.
You can definitely increase the output of your machines! The first thing to do is make sure each has a GPU project and a CPU project, and making sure that you do no CPU-only work for the GPU project, as CPUs cannot compete.
For the CPU project, something like TN-Grid is good as it has low competition at the moment. For your GPU, you say you are running Milkyway. Unless you have a GPU from a very specific set of families that have excellent double precision performance, you will earn almost nothing there. The best GPU project right now for any card that does not excel at double precision is Enigma@Home.