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JerWA
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: New Best World Rank! |
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Current Credit (based on incremental update) 622,949.82
Comprised out of 622,949.82 from the daily update + 0.00 since then
BOINC World position (based on incremental update) 5,276
Highest World position ever 5276 at 2007-06-17
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Congratulations, JerWA.
My numbers are well behind you, but I try to help our team. Long Life to KWSN!
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Congrats!
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JerWA
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Eaving
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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*Quietly follows behind Jerwas hoping he will drop the occasional Shrub from his cart*
Many Grats Jerwa, awe inspiring numbers there 
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: New Best World Rank! |
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| JerWA wrote: | Current Credit (based on incremental update) 622,949.82
Comprised out of 622,949.82 from the daily update + 0.00 since then
BOINC World position (based on incremental update) 5,276
Highest World position ever 5276 at 2007-06-17
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And to think, you're doing most of it with Intel CPUs! 
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JerWA
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Yeah, and if you look at my credit history you can see when I switched from AMD to Intel... it's the month my total score, which took 2 years to accrue, doubled in 30 days. 
Edit: Oh yeah, here's my 2 l33tsigs. I took them off my profile here because I ran out of room (also why all my links are tinyurl).
The XP 3k is the next to be replaced. It will become a file server, maybe running Windows Home Server if I can... err... find a copy. It's replacement will likely be similar to my current system (top sig) unless I can swing the money to build a slightly better rig for myself (which would mean this one becomes my g/fs, the XP 3k user now). Unfortunately upgrade plans are being pushed way back because I'm going to be spending near on $400 on a pair of roller skates very soon. Crazy.
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| Eaving wrote: | *Quietly follows behind Jerwas hoping he will drop the occasional Shrub from his cart*
Many Grats Jerwa, awe inspiring numbers there |
LOL.
You're still smoking me by a similar margin. When did you get so many shrubbers going, anyway? How the heck am I ever supposed to catch up when you've increased your RAC by such a large margin? 
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JerWA
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Actually if you look, my RAC has been steadily dropping over the last 60 days. 
Several projects are pushing longer work units (Malaria especially, jumped from 45 minutes to 1 hour, all the way up to 10-16 hours!), I've lost a part-time machine, and one of my full time machines dropped to less than 1/4 time. If I can get the Texas network up it will recover and push my RAC back up past 4,000 which I'd be happy with for now.
If you're having trouble now, you'd better start "borrowing" your neighbors PCs soon. By the end of the year, come hell or high water, I will be adding a Q6600 quad to the farm, with a way larger than healthy overclock, that will be running 24/7, with at least one core on the optimized SETI app.
My tentative plan now (baring changes in project status) is:
1 core on SETI optimized.
1 core on Climate Prediction (might as well try to fix my lowest rank hehe)
1 core on World Comm. Grid (lowest RAC of any E6400 I have)
1 core on Malaria Control (depends on how RAC is doing, it's very low now), or Nano Hive if it's back up, or a new project.
The SETI core alone will be worth like 1,200/day.  Based on previous experience, I think CPDN will be worth 750/day, WCG will probably only be worth 400/day, and the last one is a wild card. Malaria right now would probably only be worth 400ish, but Nano Hive would be worth tons more. RAC from that machine should be ~2,750-3,000. It will almost equal the entire current farm hehe.
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Lloyd M.
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| JerWA wrote: | | Yeah, and if you look at my credit history you can see when I switched from AMD to Intel... it's the month my total score, which took 2 years to accrue, doubled in 30 days. |
ROFL!
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The XP 3k is the next to be replaced. It will become a file server, maybe running Windows Home Server if I can... err... find a copy.. |
With as cheap as Pentium D chips are getting, I would be tempted to go that route in your situation.
Have you had a look at linux? It can coexist pretty well in a Windoze enviornment, as a server.
Home Server is basically a stripped down 2K3, which makes me all the more glad that I have my copy (totally legal, NFR).
If I could find another box to put the spare Xeons in, I would definitely run linux, probably the one Oracle distributes to go with their free version of Oracle. Where I work is mostly an Oracle shop, and it wouldn't hurt to learn a little about it.
Speaking of the server I have, we had another power outage and it hosed the drives again (not as bad as last time, but I lost the OS and all the data). I really have to get that RAID controller battery backup battery replaced. I have a surplus 3.1KVA UPS, but I don't even know if it works because I haven't managed to get a 20A outlet going for it yet.
Sigh.
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| JerWA wrote: |
If you're having trouble now, you'd better start "borrowing" your neighbors PCs soon. By the end of the year, come hell or high water, I will be adding a Q6600 quad to the farm, with a way larger than healthy overclock, that will be running 24/7, with at least one core on the optimized SETI app.
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[doing best Robert DeNiro impression] "Are you talkin' to me?"
I was responding to an old message of Eaving's He came up from behind and passed me a while back. I thought I had finally some chance to catch up with him, and in the meanwhile he's added more shrubbing capacity. I might be doing a little more RAC (at least when I can keep that server going - grr...), and I thought I would have a larger margin in RAC than I actually do.
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JerWA
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| Loyld M. wrote: | With as cheap as Pentium D chips are getting, I would be tempted to go that route in your situation.
Have you had a look at linux? It can coexist pretty well in a Windoze enviornment, as a server. |
The problem is that I don't want to build another platform that'll just dead end next year, which is where the D's are heading. In fact, it looks like they are already there. Only 3 Pentium D procs on Newegg, and only one cheap, with bad performance hehe.
Presler 915 (90nm) = $88, and the $80 E2140 beats even the 930 Presler, and is within spitting distance of the 940. I'd have to find a Smithfield chip, and I don't even know where to look.
The $95 E2160 is close neighbors with the X2 4000+ for performance. But for under $100 more ($183) I could get a new E6550 that's faster than my current E6400 rig! They require the same architecture, memory, etc. That's why I'm thinking of building a Q6600 system and just handing off this one. The only thing cheaper going Pentium D is the chip, everything else is the same.
Oh, forgot. I like Linux for servers, but I'm not a big Samba fan. If I can't get a copy of the Windows Home Server, or don't like what I read about it, I'll probably just go *nix.
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One more machine might even things out (we were running even until I added the Mac Pro):
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JerWA
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Doubtful, your RAC is way higher than mine. Even the Q6600 wouldn't close the RAC gap unless I had it doing nothing but SETI, which I don't want to do. I've already got one person I can't catch (Al Dente), I'm not really looking to add any more hehe.
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| JerWA wrote: | | Doubtful, your RAC is way higher than mine. Even the Q6600 wouldn't close the RAC gap unless I had it doing nothing but SETI, which I don't want to do. I've already got one person I can't catch (Al Dente), I'm not really looking to add any more hehe. |
Funny you should mention him. Our taste in projects appears to be similar (ie- I don't think I'll ever catch him either).
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Lloyd M.
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| JerWA wrote: |
The problem is that I don't want to build another platform that'll just dead end next year, which is where the D's are heading. In fact, it looks like they are already there. Only 3 Pentium D procs on Newegg, and only one cheap, with bad performance hehe. |
Well, it's worked for me before. When real A64s were too much money, I just built the system with a Sempron, and dropped in an A64 when the price got low enough. Socket 754, no less. I was astonished to a socket 754 barebones "on sale" at TigerDirect just this past week.
As much of a tightwad as I am, I wouldn't build another 754 from scratch at this pont. I did attempt to build another system on the cheap using the Sempron chip that I replaced with the A64, and haven't gotten it going yet. Unfortunately, it looks like the problem is likely a bent pin.
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Oh, forgot. I like Linux for servers, but I'm not a big Samba fan. If I can't get a copy of the Windows Home Server, or don't like what I read about it, I'll probably just go *nix. |
I hear you. I read a review of Home Server (on PC Magazine online, I think), and it was very favorable. Whoever did it, that's where I read that it's basically Server 2K3, stripped down.
I've never run SAMBA (Ubuntu is, for all practical purposes, strictly workstation with the default install) , though I can see where it might be a bit of a pain in the butt.
At least there's something that more or less works to get the two types of networks talking to each other.
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| JerWA wrote: | | Doubtful, your RAC is way higher than mine. Even the Q6600 wouldn't close the RAC gap unless I had it doing nothing but SETI, which I don't want to do. I've already got one person I can't catch (Al Dente), I'm not really looking to add any more hehe. |
I know how that feels. What we can do is what we can do.
According to "BOINC Stats for the World!", I've been running with a worldwide rank of under 50K by total credit, and under 5K by RAC (even with my server still croaked - grrr.). Anyway, I think that's pretty good. Quite modest by the standards of all you all packing all that serious hardware heat, and still reasonably respectable.
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JerWA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Lloyd M. wrote: | I know how that feels. What we can do is what we can do.
According to "BOINC Stats for the World!", I've been running with a worldwide rank of under 50K by total credit, and under 5K by RAC (even with my server still croaked - grrr.). Anyway, I think that's pretty good. Quite modest by the standards of all you all packing all that serious hardware heat, and still reasonably respectable. |
It won't be long before our "serious hardware" is considered anything but. 4 cores are down to $300, "v8" twin 4 core setups are coming from AMD and Intel both, 8 cores on a single chip are due in under 2 years (from Intel, Sun has already done it), etc. We're at another crux in the computing industry, and it handily sidesteps the per-processor limits that were getting harder to work around.
BOINC is also a fairly small community, with barely a million users total, and only 300k or so active. If they succeed in bringing in more users, the chances will increase that the "average" hardware level will start to creep up. At the rate things are changing in the multi-core market, you very quickly fall behind.
An example of that is my computer, which is now a year old. Core 2 E6400, 2GB of RAM, 320 GB HD, 7900 GS. The graphics card isn't even on the market any more, and the chip is already 2 releases behind. You can get an E6550 for only a few dollars more than the E6400/6420 goes for, and it's got more cache and higher clock speeds. For $650 you can build a better system in every way than what I got for $1,300 last year (and only managed that low of a price with a discount program). It won't be long before we're talking about quad cores in this price range.
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