| Yeah, it's that time of year. I'll be shutting down a decent portion of my production for the Summer, but I'm going to let it run until Summer actually starts. Hopefully I'll break the 2 million barrier before I do.
Then Stacato, imrambi, and whiznat will have plenty of open space to go zooming by me and (probably permanently) bump me from the top 10. (I should pass Stacato today or tomorrow, but I'm sure he/she'll pass me again during the Summer.)
I'll be keeping it running on my desktops, but my desktops will have more aggressive power saving, and I'll be removing it from my laptops. In addition, I'll turn off the three computers that are only on for the sole purpose of WCG. My two servers will still run it, but both of them will be going down to a 16 hour a day duty cycle, instead of 24.
P.S. Has anyone tried out the new 64-bit Windows version of BOINC? Does it make an appreciable difference in crunching speed? (One of my servers has a 64-bit chip, but only 32-bit Windows. I might switch it to 64-bit Windows if there is a noticeable improvement.) |
