Majestic-12 is a distributed search engine, the project revolves around crawling URLs. As this implies, it does involve a LOT of data transfer - this can be controlled but if you're on a capped plan, I would strongly advise that if you decide to run MJ-12, you keep a very close eye on its data...
Just wanted to make everyone aware that DIMES is an NCI project, meaning non CPU intensive. This means it can be run alongside other projects, whether that's F@H, one of the many projects using BOINC, or others, without affecting production.
The aim of DIMES is to "study the structure and...
So, I'm fairly new to the team and forum, but I came over here to DC and kick ass, and, well, I already kicked all the ass that needed kicking (elsewhere) :cool:
I decided to go ahead with the purchase of a few older servers at a decent price - they're NEC 120RGs, which are dual socket 771...
I have a line on a decent amount of rackmount servers, which will have dual L5320 CPUs and 2GB of FBDIMM RAM each. I can pick them up for £34 each. Are they worth it, and worth running? I don't know how much power they will consume at full load which is I suppose the main concern for sustained...