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Sir Magnus Barelegs
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: Good day, Bruce |
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OK my stats lie at the moment as I've just set a bunch of nodes up but wait for my averages to normalize as credit is given for the shrubberies I've been popping out. No, the #1 position is not in jeopardy but I do have my sights set on being in the team Top 10 before long. The local team was too small and it was too easy to overtake them so I had to look for a bigger team to join.
When I get some time to mess with setting up a BOINC/Seti client set for RHEL4 on IBM pSeries, then you are all in trouble. 
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KWSN - Sir Brian C.......
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Good day, Bruce |
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| Sir Magnus Barelegs wrote: | OK my stats lie at the moment as I've just set a bunch of nodes up but wait for my averages to normalize as credit is given for the shrubberies I've been popping out. No, the #1 position is not in jeopardy but I do have my sights set on being in the team Top 10 before long. The local team was too small and it was too easy to overtake them so I had to look for a bigger team to join.
When I get some time to mess with setting up a BOINC/Seti client set for RHEL4 on IBM pSeries, then you are all in trouble. |
Welcome an Ni! Sir Magnus.....
If only I was allowed to put Seti on our work's Dual Sun E25k's........
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Sir Magnus Barelegs
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Good day, Bruce |
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| KWSN - Sir Brian C....... wrote: |
If only I was allowed to put Seti on our work's Dual Sun E25k's........ |
Tee hee! Yeah I did just put Seti on an 8 way Sunfire V880 before I left the office.
There are a number of IBM pSeries 570 boxes (32 hardware threads each!) and 520 (4 hardware threads each). Those pretty much all run RHEL4 though and there seem to be some oddities with BOINC requiring newer libs than RHEL provides. Sooner or later I'll get some time to make that work and then... look out!
In the meantime most of what I have going is a combination of Athlon 64 and Intel Xeon hardware.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Good day, Bruce |
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| Sir Magnus Barelegs wrote: | OK my stats lie at the moment as I've just set a bunch of nodes up but wait for my averages to normalize as credit is given for the shrubberies I've been popping out. No, the #1 position is not in jeopardy but I do have my sights set on being in the team Top 10 before long. The local team was too small and it was too easy to overtake them so I had to look for a bigger team to join.
When I get some time to mess with setting up a BOINC/Seti client set for RHEL4 on IBM pSeries, then you are all in trouble. |
Welcome and Sir Magnus Barelegs, to the looooonnnnnniiiiieeeee bin, put that big sucker to work, I'll be glad to have you smoke all us wimps.
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take a look at this post...........
http://www.kwsnforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6948
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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If I only understood your first post better.
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Sir Magnus Barelegs
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| Killerrabbit wrote: | | If I only understood your first post better. |
RHEL4 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 ... the OS that I run on a lot of higher end machines at work (while the lowly Xeons mostly run Ubuntu Linux). No Windows whatsoever.
IBM pSeries = A class of machines based not on the Intel 386 instruction set like PC's, but instead based on the POWER5 processor which is the big daddy version of what used to be in the Apple computers before they switched over to Intel. A pSeries model 570 has eight 1.9 GHz processors. Each processor has 2 cores. Each core has 2 hardware threads (roughly similar to hyperthreading on PC's, but it actually works well on POWER5). So one of my 570's could have up to 32 concurrent S@H clients running at the same time (if they weren't doing anything else).
Since a pSeries 570 is such a big machine, you can actually cut it up like a pie using something called an LPAR (Logical PARtition). I can assign 2.4 processors to one LPAR, and 0.1 processors to another. Yes I can shave it down to one tenth of one CPU for an LPAR. Each LPAR behaves like a standalone computer running its own operating system, completely distinct from other LPARs. I suppose it is probably easiest to imagine this being like VMware if you've ever played with that but this is far more sophisticated.
So each of these 1.9GHz processors is really pretty fast. You can't compare it to a 1.9GHz Pentium 4 or anything like that. Completely different animal.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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One of the things you learn early here is that confusing people is a good thing. If your posts make no sense to anything other than an ardvaark then you've reached the level of trainee.
But don't fret, you'll get better with time.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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So are you part of are team now and shrubbing?\
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| Killerrabbit wrote: | So are you part of are team now and shrubbing?\
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Yes wabbit he has joined our team, see his sig line.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| Killerrabbit wrote: | | So are you part of are team now and shrubbing?\ |
Aye... and watching my RAC grow quickly. If the stats were caught up, I reckon I'd be in the top 250 for the team now (having been a bit over 450 or so when I joined yesterday). I added an 8 CPU server last night that should start sending results in today so I won't be down in the 200's for long, either.
I've un-hidden my computers if you want to hit my profile and see what I've brought to bear thus far on my shrubbing work. While the 8-way box is neat, the one to watch is the 4-way box, roastbeef.
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roastbeef & podunk will have HyperThreading enabled this morning and appear to double their CPU count to 8 and 4, respectively. Everything I'm reading says on HT-capable processors like these with big cache, HT increases overall shrubbing rates (with big big teeth!)
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| Sir Magnus Barelegs wrote: | | roastbeef & podunk will have HyperThreading enabled this morning and appear to double their CPU count to 8 and 4, respectively. Everything I'm reading says on HT-capable processors like these with big cache, HT increases overall shrubbing rates (with big big teeth!) |
Sir Magnus, put some of those boxes on Rosetta@home and Folding@home, we need help there too.
You are4 a great addition to our team of rolling coconutz. and again.
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Sir Magnus, put some of those boxes on Rosetta@home and Folding@home, we need help there too. |
I'm conflicted  . I'm the in-house Rosetta pimp yet I'm barely holding onto 10th place on our team  . So join Rosetta if you wish, but make sure you put on some Sunblock SPF 1,000,000 if you get behind me  . Team member or not, I'll make a briquette outta you  !!
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| Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | | Team member or not, I'll make a briquette outta you !! |
What kind of hardware are you throwing at it?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| Sir Magnus Barelegs wrote: | | Fart in your gen direxion wrote: | | Team member or not, I'll make a briquette outta you !! |
What kind of hardware are you throwing at it? |
You really really don't want to know!
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Sir Magnus Barelegs
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| Mildew wrote: | | You really really don't want to know! |
Yes. Yes I do. I just want to have an idea of how much more hardware I'm going to need to borrow from the lab to roast his parrot.
(16 more xeons just brought online, BTW, with more coming)
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Oh... Ok...
Btw, that swooshing sound you heard was probably my joke flying right by unnoticed... 
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| Mildew wrote: | Oh... Ok...
Btw, that swooshing sound you heard was probably my joke flying right by unnoticed...
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Yes it was...some of the newest members don't know about the noxious one. They will find out soon enough. 
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