Cryptomining is for the greedy! Distributed Computing is for the bold!
Will there be a FGRP6 phase eventually?
Asteroids@home and Milkyway@home are interesting projects as well. Stay involved, get connected to these efforts!
History of Phases FGRP1, 4, and 5 (current), along with participates who have found pulsars! https://einsteinathome.org/gammaraypulsar/FGRP1_discoveries.html#:~:text=FGRP5,using%2011.5%20years%20of%20data.
Forum topic on this search;
https://einsteinathome.org/content/gamma-ray-pulsar-search-5-fgrp5
https://einsteinathome.org/server_status.html
Fermi Telescope homepage; https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
worldcommunitygrid.org and https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats always need compute!
My farm has taken a break from Mapping Cancer Markers for a number of months, (due to seeing servers being the contraint with work output during BOINC Pentathlon pummeling them) to assist with completion of the massive Einstein@home FGRP5 Pulsar search. Started in I believe 2017 (https://phys.org/news/2013-11-home-gamma-ray-pulsars.html) , (https://www.aei.mpg.de/283541/einstein-home-reveals-true-identity-of-mysterious-gamma-ray-source) however FGRP5 started in 2017 (https://einsteinathome.org/content/gamma-ray-pulsar-search-5-fgrp5) This has required about 181 Million unique Work Units to be processed. Looks like it will soon be done!
Interesting data, stats page July 22nd (https://einsteinathome.org/server_status.html) says done per day average is 161,088 units, out of 181,837,286 total. If the project was starting today, all things being equal, it would be done start to finish in 1129 days or 3.1 years! Ah, what modernish hardware and effort can do!
*The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly GLAST, is what has captured the data for Einstein@home 's FGRP5 Pulsar search project.
https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
When this project completes, i suspect that a large portion of the citizen scientists helping in this effort will have their computing power be directed toward the other Astronomy projects Asteroids@home and Milkyway@home (Spacial Streams). So i may add Astronomy as low priority to my farm because it is so groovy, but back to the biological mission for me.
Long-term i aim to upgrade my farm once and for all (for 15 years at least), to AMD Zen 7 32-core computers stacked 6-high per circuit via these open-air 'cases'. https://a.co/d/6Mhxdv1
Would employ Eco Mode, as in a reasonable TDP limit (i don't see 6GHz+ all-core as being real efficient...) and explore Undervolting as i love to do.
Would first replace old stacks, which are by water heater. May dedicate downstairs non-garage circuits to Folding@home to broaden my 'Philanthropic portfolio'.
This upgrade would overall increase compute-efficiency of my farm by around 10x i napkin-mathed.
Max Planck Institute 4 Gravitational Physics
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10858/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10361/
www.aei.mpg.de/1226437/happy-20th-birthday-einstein-home
