Okay, so I am here at my new job, got permission to install a GIMPS client on a
bunch of machines, cool. It turns out that >50% of the machines that I can
install a GIMPS client on are a specific model of Dell that when Prime95 is
running causes the video to flicker REALLY bad. So there goes about 24,000 PII
MHz down the drain because of poor design by Dell.
So in my quest to add more machines to GIMPS I run across 20+ Macs that are in
perfectly working order in a storage room. They have been obsolteted simply
because they are Macs, and are all mid range Power Macs to low end G3s. The room
with plenty of power and plenty of network drops. Perfect dedicated GIMPS
clients in my opinion!
Now my question to the list is, would I be better off having these machines
participate in GIMPS via MacGIMPS on MacOS or should I run mprime on Linux? My
main concern is performance. Which performs better on the same hardware,
MacGIMPS or mprime? I would guesstimate that they all have ~32 MB of RAM, and
those that do not can get upgraded to 32 MB easily. Which route should I take?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Marc
Marc Getty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Dental Informatics, Temple University
http://www.temple.edu/dentistry/di/ 215-707-8192
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