Working HARD!...

[petermcleland]

I managed to find a way to make my computer work VERY hard:-


Note all eight CPUs at 100%!

Needless to say, Flight Simulator was NOT involved

[DavidK]

EIGHT cpus...?...!

As soon as I read that, I thought of the Spruce Goose and that huge Russian transport plane. (I think they had/have eight engines...) I imagine your computer can fly a little further and higher than the former, though.

Best wishes,
David K

[Garry Russell]

And of course the B-52

Peter.....no wonder you get better FPS than me

[jonesey2k]

If I REALLY want to stress my system then I run an instance of Prime95 on each core. Handy for testing how stable overclocks are.

[Garry Russell]

All I do is fire up FS.9 and it's pretty well 100% for the duration

[petermcleland]

Running this application I have to keep my system reined in a bit...I use the ASUS EPU-6 Engine. It has five "Modes"...Pedestrian, Motor Car, Aeroplane, Rocket and Auto. Auto chooses a suitable mode according to the power it thinks is needed. Auto is no good for this application as it fires the CPU temperature straight into the red and fires off alarms almost immediately. Rocket and Aeroplane are also no good for the same reason. Motor Car produces a nice stable situation which I can safely leave running.

For normal computing I use Pedestrian but for FS9 I prefer Aeroplane which gives great frame rates...Occasionally with a lot of traffic and clouds it slips into alarms on temperature and I have to drop it down to Motor Car...From that I have come to see that Motor Car reins in the CPU to about half the power of Aeroplane which leaves the CPU unrestricted.

Anyway...here is Einstein@Home running in Motor Car mode and beautifully stable:-




The CPU temperature never exceeds 60C.

[DaveB]

I have absolutely no idea what this is about Einstein at Home looks like some sort of stellar global map but for the life of me, I've no idea what the dots are.

Peter.. I fear you have too much time on your hands

Anyway.. I have learned something. I didn't know an i7 chip had 8 cores

ATB

DaveB

[Techy111]

This makes it all clear Dave.....

Einstein@Home is a distributed computing project hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany) running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It searches through gravitational-wave data from the LIGO experiment for evidence of gravitational waves from continuous wave sources, which may include pulsars. It also searches radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory. On August 12, 2010, the first discovery of a previously undetected radio pulsar J2007+2722 via Einstein@Home, in data from the Arecibo Observatory, was published in Science.

Good....now we are all the wiser...

Nice find Peter...

Tony

[Garry Russell]

Einstein@Home is a distributed computing project hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany) running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It searches through gravitational-wave data from the LIGO experiment for evidence of gravitational waves from continuous wave sources, which may include pulsars. It also searches radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory. On August 12, 2010, the first discovery of a previously undetected radio pulsar J2007+2722 via Einstein@Home, in data from the Arecibo Observatory, was published in Science.

Exactly what I thought Tony

[Filonian]

Einstein@Home is a distributed computing project hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany) running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform. It searches through gravitational-wave data from the LIGO experiment for evidence of gravitational waves from continuous wave sources, which may include pulsars. It also searches radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory. On August 12, 2010, the first discovery of a previously undetected radio pulsar J2007+2722 via Einstein@Home, in data from the Arecibo Observatory, was published in Science.

Exactly what I thought Tony

I agree with Garry.



Graham