Policy on Loaning Hardware

[Mysticial]

What's the policy of borrowing or loaning hardware?

 

Someone has offered to give me remote-login access to a number of systems including a dual Xeon E5-2696 V4 (Broadwell-EP with 44 cores/88 threads and 768 GB of memory).

 

The purpose of this is to do scalability tuning for y-cruncher. But I am also authorized to run and disclose benchmarks on this thing.

 

Would it be bad taste to submit benchmarks from hardware that I do not own?

[GENiEBEN]

It's fine as long as only you post scores with that setup.

[Mysticial]

Thanks. Though on second thought, I'm not sure if I'll be able to run any valid benchmarks on them. They're all running Windows 10, and I don't think I have permission to touch the bootcfg to turn on HPET.

[Massman]

Pro-tip: disable points and you can submit all you want.

 

The "hardware sharing"-rule is specifically for preventing multiple users scoring points with a single system.

[Gunslinger]

Thanks. Though on second thought, I'm not sure if I'll be able to run any valid benchmarks on them. They're all running Windows 10, and I don't think I have permission to touch the bootcfg to turn on HPET.

 

Just have the "authorized" person do if for you before you log in.