Number of visits to this profile: 763
BAM! user since: November 13 2016
Birthday: January 1
Country: United States
Sex: Male
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Forum posts: 66
Member of team: XtremeSystems


My personal background
I started distributed computing in my teens by running Prime95 on a Dell Poweredge 6400 Quad P3 Xeon in my parents attic. With computers as a hobby, I ran Prime95 on my machines just as a cool use of computing power. I later found BOINC and realized that we can use computing power to help science research in addition to pure mathematics. The ancient Dell PE 6400 was retired more than a decade ago, and I'm on the 5th platform for my desktop. I've previously had AMD K7, K8, K10, and Intel X99 platforms, and now crunch projects on my TRX40 desktop with 3960X and RTX 3070. During winter I wake my servers to crunch when the waste heat warms the house and hibernate them in the spring when electricity gets more expensive. Summer will see only my TRX40 & X99 desktops as crunchers.

Desktops:
NOSNHOP2 - 3960X, RTX 3070, 4x 32GB PC4-3200-E
NOSNHOP - E5-2682v4, RTX 3060Ti, 4x 16GB PC4-2666-E @2400

Heavy Hitters:
Rome - Dell R7515, Epyc 7402P, 8x 16GB PC3-3200R @2933
Skylake - Dell R540, 2x Xeon Gold 6230, 12x 16GB PC4-3200R @2666
Vermeer - Ryzen 5900, RTX 3060Ti, 2x 16GB PC4-3200E

Crunchers:
Dell T620, 2x E5-2658v2, 2x GTX 1080, 8x 8GB PC3-14900R
Dell R630, 2x E5-2695v4, 8x 16Gb PC4-2400R
Dell R430, 2x E5-2658v4, 8x 16Gb PC4-2400R
Dell R430, 2x E5-2658v4, 8x 16Gb PC4-2400R
Dell R620, 2x E5-2658v2, 8x 8GB PC3L-12800R
Dell T320, E5-2470v2, 3x 8GB PC3L-12800R

Retired:
Dell R620, 2x E5-2628Lv2, 8x 8GB PC3L-12800R
Dell R620, 2x E5-2628Lv2, 8x 8GB PC3L-12800R
Dell R610, 2x Xeon L5640, 6x 8GB PC3L-10600R

Opinion about BOINCstats/BAM!
BOINCstats/BAM! is a great tool that makes it easy to manage BOINC across multiple PCs. I enjoy the user stats and its fun to work my way up the ranks!