It seems people know only seti and folding.
There are dozens of other projects, much more interesting
WorldCommunityGrid for example. It's a recent news that they found 7 interesting molecules to fight children neuroblastoma
Topic: what else can the mining rig do while its mining? (Read 6723 times)
Use the CPU to do folding@home or seti@home.
Find a BOINC project that suits, seti isn't it - normally too much politics.
Malaria Control is one of the more worth-while projects (I have a friend that supports it), but there are a few good physics and bio-chemical projects if you want to stay away from the number theory ones. Something like 70 different ones to choose from, mostly CPU, some ATI, some Nvidia.
Another +1 for BOINC.
I've got a FAH client, a Freenet node and a Tor node running currently. There's not really an awful lot else left to do after that as three of the system's resources are being hammered (GPU, CPU and Network). Dunno if anyone else has suggested it - but home automation?
I've got a FAH client, a Freenet node and a Tor node running currently. There's not really an awful lot else left to do after that as three of the system's resources are being hammered (GPU, CPU and Network). Dunno if anyone else has suggested it - but home automation?
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
In the summer I can't even run my mining computer until the evening when I put the air on lol.
i keep my apartment around 80f.
around my computer desk, it's probably around 83-85ish.
nice & warm.
space heater.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
in august.
on a 100f degree weather.
In the summer I can't even run my mining computer until the evening when I put the air on lol.
I'm mining on my server, its running 8-10 VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2... No performance issues at all and the monitor is only ever turned on to use MSI Afterburner, so laggy desktop isn't an issue. Strange that I can mine over remote desktop but not overclock the card...
I use one of my main systems all the time, I just don't have the display graphics card as maxed out as the other cards... they are all mining but I can still smoothly use my system while getting 1200 mhash
Reddit mostly.
Lot's of movies too with vlc, just uncheck both Accelerated Video Output & Use hardware YUV->RGB conversion. In Tools/Prefs/Video.
Lot's of movies too with vlc, just uncheck both Accelerated Video Output & Use hardware YUV->RGB conversion. In Tools/Prefs/Video.
If I had a huge mining farm like a few of the guys on here I'd figure out a way to warm up a bathtub full of water. Nice hot bath whenever you want. Free.
I have my aquarium on top of it and it keeps it at the perfect temp of about 78c. The aquarium cools the case and the case warms the aquarium.
Talk about liquid cooling.
If the aquarium ever busts though I will have some fried graphics cards and some fried fish.
Talk about liquid cooling.
If the aquarium ever busts though I will have some fried graphics cards and some fried fish.
well if you play runescape you can run some bots lol
Most likely you'll earn less than eletricity costs lol (is "lol" the new "." ? 
)Many papers in Folding at Home are about the project itself (how to do protein folding on GPUs, how do error rates on a distributed GPU work network look like...) rather than results submitted by users - I don't think there's a lot in there that will help me in any way during my lifetime.
I'd rather run TOR instead, or Freenet...
well if you play runescape you can run some bots lol
Considering the high TDP of quad-core processors you're actually paying for the distributed computing projects.
Use the CPU to do folding@home or seti@home.
Well helping science is income, since it help you too.
I was partecipating in distributed computing projects for years before bitcoin, that's why i have an ATI card too
I was partecipating in distributed computing projects for years before bitcoin, that's why i have an ATI card too
Well, most of the stuff you're suggesting here however takes ressources from the mining rig but does not really give a lot in return as "reward".
If the added consumption from running a Wuala node for example costs more than their pay-plans, you're actually at a loss. You can even pay there in Bitcoins btw.
So far I haven't seen a lot of things (besides trade bots) where it could be possible to gain money or other valuable ressources from having a computer running at a home DSL line.
Charity however is always nice, so a TOR node or some BOINC/F@H action might be nice - however it is charity, not increasing income!
What might work would be some kind of renderfarm thingie, but this again might require very good (or many) CPUs, lots of RAM and (most important) lots of customers.
If the added consumption from running a Wuala node for example costs more than their pay-plans, you're actually at a loss. You can even pay there in Bitcoins btw.
So far I haven't seen a lot of things (besides trade bots) where it could be possible to gain money or other valuable ressources from having a computer running at a home DSL line.
Charity however is always nice, so a TOR node or some BOINC/F@H action might be nice - however it is charity, not increasing income!
What might work would be some kind of renderfarm thingie, but this again might require very good (or many) CPUs, lots of RAM and (most important) lots of customers.
+1 to BOINC
I have a quadcore cpu here, i just put 3 cores on BOINC and i leave the other one to Guiminer (with 4 cores on BOINC m/hash drops a lot...)
I have a quadcore cpu here, i just put 3 cores on BOINC and i leave the other one to Guiminer (with 4 cores on BOINC m/hash drops a lot...)
Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power.
+1
mining does not take much CPU and F@H (the SMP [CPU] client) is a low priority task, ie does not take away from the miner resources.
F@H=Better than fixixing balding
I actually put mine to work on World Community Grid doing research on things like cancer. (we call it crunching)
In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
Yes, some BOINC or F@H project would be a good way to contribute your computing power. In fact it is the reason I started mining...to help fund more crunching rigs and pay the electric
There are a bunch of us over at Xtremesystems (a computer forum) that have added cards to our rigs to do this.
come pay us a visit. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?207-World-Community-Grid-(WCG)
Need more rigs and stuff???
Those of you with an interest might want to have a go at winning stuff in another computer forum's BIG Giveaway
If you join to have a go then tell them Grumpy sent you....
http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?13741
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