I have a Q9550, Win XP machine that's been crunching solidly for 13 years.
The whole time, except for a couple of short breaks, it's run 24/7.
Is this some kind of record ? :)

T.A.

Thats pretty neat! I was wondering if anyone else had long running systems.

Oldest still running:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8809337 (Pentium M 1.4GHz)

It has been running since about 2007 and shows up a few times in my computers list due to having run different OSes on it over the years. I can't merge them.

Earliest and longest running:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7787762 (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz)

This is the one I started out with in 2004 in the seti classic days. It ran SETI@home Classic and later Boinc/Seti@home until August 31 2019 when it failed. I'd still be running it now if it worked. This one also shows up multiple times due to OS changes.

Oldest system ever used:

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3534952 (Pentium 133Mhz)

First ran SETI in 2004. Age unknown since it was recovered from someone's trash, probably from mid to late 90's. After I couldn't run SETI or any other BOINC projects on it anymore it crunched Distributed.net which even runs on DOS. It failed last winter.

Bonus oddities:

A PS3: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4744942 (Cell BE)

My first smartphone (2010), a Nokia N900 running a Debian based OS: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7405311 (ARM). Crunching turned out to be impractical but it was great for running Boinc Manager to manage and monitor crunchers remotely.

Edit: I just noticed that we joined a day apart!

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That all depends on how you calculate the age:-)

My Intel i7-7700 started life as as an i486DX2-66 back in about 1994 but it has had numerous upgrades since then.

Bit like the old road-sweepers broom.

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Kevin

While I started many years ago I don't have anything "old" anymore.

Right now my "oldest" cruncher that is currently running is an Amd 3950x. But I remember crunching under Windows 98 back when S@H was a screen saver....

Tom

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Finally i got the ancien host ID of my actual computer created the 23 Aug 2007... searching through old backups ... 3720868 Last contact 09 June 2013

notice the server contact number is my actual Host ID 7019416 creation date 12 June 2013

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That all depends on how you calculate the age:-)

My Intel i7-7700 started life as as an i486DX2-66 back in about 1994 but it has had numerous upgrades since then.

Bit like the old road-sweepers broom.

Mmmm, yes... I've a number of systems like that...

For some, the only original parts left are the cases or just the bolts holding the parts in place! :-)

The naming for them has survived the upgrades... Does that count? ;-)


Technology moves fast...

Keep searchin',
Martin

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This one:
(which is also my daily driver)

Computer 6452693
Computer information

Created 	1 Mar 2012, 20:10:08 UTC
Total credit 	81,763,925
Average credit 	40,958.02
Cross project credit 	
CPU type 	AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
Number of processors 	8
Coprocessors 	[2] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (4095MB) driver: 419.35 OpenCL: 1.2
Virtualization 	None
Operating System 	Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
BOINC version 	7.14.2
Memory 	15.92 GB
Cache 	2048 KB

Number of times client has contacted server 	384142
Last time contacted server 	21 Mar 2020, 6:15:17 UTC

But like many older machines it has had quite a few hardware changes over the years, not even the case is the original one....

Edit:
I've just noticed it has just had its eighth birthday

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

How about this:

Computer 157931
Computer information
IP address 	Show IP address
Domain name 	Core2Quad
Local Standard Time 	UTC +1 hours
Created 	1 Sep 2004, 18:03:03 UTC
Total credit 	10,961,556
Average credit 	4,800.35
Cross project credit 	BOINCstats.com Free-DC
CPU type 	GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Number of processors 	4
Coprocessors 	[2] NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (2048MB) driver: 391.35 OpenCL: 1.2
Virtualization 	Virtualbox (5.2.38) installed, CPU has hardware virtualization support and it is enabled
Operating System 	Microsoft Windows 10
Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.18363.00)
BOINC version 	7.14.2
Memory 	8 GB
Cache 	6144 KB
Swap space 	16 GB
Total disk space 	78.13 GB
Free Disk Space 	11.15 GB
Measured floating point speed 	3.41 billion ops/sec
Measured integer speed 	8.19 billion ops/sec
Average upload rate 	23.17 KB/sec
Average download rate 	139.58 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 	3.24 days
Application details 	Show
Tasks 	434
Number of times client has contacted server 	161737
Last time contacted server 	21 Mar 2020, 20:29:19 UTC
Fraction of time BOINC is running 	98.42%
While BOINC is running, fraction of time computer has an Internet connection 	100.00%
While BOINC is running, fraction of time computing is allowed 	100.00%
While is BOINC running, fraction of time GPU computing is allowed 	99.93%
Average CPU efficiency 	0.994836
Task duration correction factor 	1

Just have a look at it's number! ;)
It started as a Windows 2000, migrated to Windows XP pro, migrated again to Windows 7 pro and now is on Windows 10 pro. Originally it was an Athlon Thunderbird 1400 with 256MB(!!) RAM. In 2007 the profile was migrated to a Core2Duo E6600 with 2GB RAM running 24/7 except when i'm on holidays. In 2015 i decided to buy a used Q9550s and 8GB of RAM - more is not possible on a P5B-E ASUS board. The system has it's third power supply and the second hard drive and DVD drive. The rest is still original and working just fine.
Crunch on!

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Aloha, Uli

I have a Q9550, Win XP machine that's been crunching solidly for 13 years.
The whole time, except for a couple of short breaks, it's run 24/7.
Is this some kind of record ? :)

T.A.

Hehe, I have functional AthlonXP with WinXP, switched off for few last months due to room overheating, but can (and will ) be launched to pay homage to this great project before hibernation.

Also, there is Pentium90 with Win98SE, one of my first home crunchers, but not sure it will handle modern SETI apps :)

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