Inspired by this thread, I decided to try running Rosetta@home on BOINC. The first candidate was my old laptop. It has quite an old OS on it, so I installed Debian onto a USB flash drive, and configured BOINC to use an old external hard drive for its working directory, to save wear on the flash drive.
Unfortunately, that machine seems to be stuck waiting for the server(s) to let it download anything. I presume they are prioritising higher-specification machines. If it doesn't start doing anything in the next 24 hours, I'll probably shut it down. I also enrolled a Debian virtual machine running on my main laptop. This quickly began to fully utilise the CPU. I don't have anything with a dedicated GPU, so I can only contribute CPU cycles. Patrick -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
