#Ripple boinc professional#

So at least I saved a lot on heating bills during the winters :) I estimate I have spent around 50 megawatt-hours over the years, for I am currently running six GPUs (HD7970s) placed in two PCs in my living room, dumping up to 2000 watts of heat during the winter (heaviest, Beyond The Edge overclock). So how many watts for such niceties? A lot, as you can probably imagine.

Overall, I find that 865 quintillion FLOPs is an accurate enough estimate of my contribution. One HD7970 is able to achieve 1.1 TFLOP per second on stock clocks (in FP64) and I've been running six of them overclocked for years now (plus some other hardware).

#Ripple boinc professional#

FP64 computations are usually more expensive and harder to obtain, requiring professional GPUs nowadays. True geeks will be even more impressed knowing those are exclusively FP64 operations or so called 'double precision' ( is one of the few BOINC projects which require FP64 capabilities). I guess only the most hardcore geeks are familiar with quintillions (I had to look it up too) so, in more commonly used teraflops, that's 865 million TFLOPs (8.65x10^8 TFLOPs). estimates I have contributed 865.12 quintillion floating-point operations to their project so far (865 exaFLOPs or 8.65x10^20 floating point operations). M/W - Special Contribution Badge (you get this one when you donate some money to, they were without government funding throughout 2015, but they received another NSF research grant in 2016, so they are well-funded now and not accepting donations for the time being).įull list of badges is available here.Įvery BOINC project allows you to create a 'Certificate of Computation' with some stats about your contribution. Roman VIII - eight years of crunching for Most BOINC projects issue some kind of badges to mark important milestones achieved (they are visible through your account). One thing that's 100% sure - more computing power is needed (as you can probably imagine, it isn't easy to map the Galaxy). Well, today is that day! I am proud to announce breaking the 1B barrier for - a BOINC project which is using volunteered computing resources around the world to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy.

I've been crunching and BOINC since 1999 and participated in many different scientific projects with my PCs, but never reached the One Billion Credits Milestone for any particular one.