What fuel for my data furnace?

Question

I have a server with two old 6-core Xeon CPUs in it. In winter I used to run it full tilt on SETI and get a noticeable bump in room temperature.Now that SETI is mothballed, what charity or mining software would you recommend I run? Anything more productive than re-calculating pi is my goal.

n3t · Accepted Answer

I run fishnet[0] to help Lichess[1] analyze chess games.[0]: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet [1]: https://lichess.org/

I_Am_Nous · Answer

My personal recommendation would be Folding@Home[1]. Protein folding is an insanely complex thing life does and they use distributed computing to try to solve the large problems.1. https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

0xDEAFBEAD · Answer

ArchiveTeam Warrior, help preserve internet history: https://warrior.archiveteam.org/Granted, the Warrior is probably more network-bound than CPU-bound.

mondobe · Answer

One idea is the World Community grid, a lot of great projects for different causes. The link below is the Dinosaur Comics team (slightly biased here), but there are plenty of others. Haven't researched it very much, but this just popped into my head.https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?team...

focusedone · Answer

(List of Volunteer Computing Projects)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...]There's quite a few out there, most of which are BOINC based. Just a few clicks on your existing SETI setup and you'll be turning electrons into radiant heat.

selfhoster11 · Answer

If you have enough system RAM, you could make it into an AI server. This is more GPU VRAM bound more than anything else, but software like llama.cpp will let you run mixed inference across a GPU and your CPU. Check out /r/LocalLlama on Reddit if you would like to learn more.Of course image generation models are also an option and generally need less VRAM.

jj999 · Answer

https://distributed.net is still going on while newfangled seti@home is dead

slater · Answer

May I interest you in the magical world of... ... CRYPTO MINING???

unboxingelf · Answer

download stable diffusion and generate weird images, forever.

Havoc · Answer

Boinc is still a thing

voisin · Answer

Am I wrong to think that most of this effort will ultimately be for nothing when quantum computing comes to fruition and does all this work practically instantly? Perhaps best to get an efficient space heater that is turned on when needed?

What fuel for my data furnace?

I have a server with two old 6-core Xeon CPUs in it. In winter I used to run it full tilt on SETI and get a noticeable bump in room temperature.
Now that SETI is mothballed, what charity or mining software would you recommend I run? Anything more productive than re-calculating pi is my goal.

I run fishnet[0] to help Lichess[1] analyze chess games.
[0]: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet [1]: https://lichess.org/

My personal recommendation would be Folding@Home[1]. Protein folding is an insanely complex thing life does and they use distributed computing to try to solve the large problems.
1. https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

ArchiveTeam Warrior, help preserve internet history: https://warrior.archiveteam.org/
Granted, the Warrior is probably more network-bound than CPU-bound.

(List of Volunteer Computing Projects)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...]
There's quite a few out there, most of which are BOINC based. Just a few clicks on your existing SETI setup and you'll be turning electrons into radiant heat.

https://distributed.net is still going on while newfangled seti@home is dead

May I interest you in the magical world of... ... CRYPTO MINING???

download stable diffusion and generate weird images, forever.

Boinc is still a thing

Am I wrong to think that most of this effort will ultimately be for nothing when quantum computing comes to fruition and does all this work practically instantly? Perhaps best to get an efficient space heater that is turned on when needed?