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KWSN Im Not Dead
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 Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: Brag from me |
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In almost one year (April 10th is my anny), I have accomplished the following:
All Projects:
1/4 of a million total shrubs
top 275 in team (I was waiting for top 250 but couldnt wait any longer)
top 33000 world wide (out of 1.3 million)
97.48% world wide
Cels@Home
#1 in team (though there are only six members)
Einstein
100K shrubs
top 100 in team
almost top 10000 world wide
94.6% world wide
Rosetta
almost 140K total shrubs
top 30 in team
top 3800 world wide
98% world wide
TSP & Predictor
...nothing really to report here 
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Al Dente
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Well done. 
I took about the same (358 days) for my 1st ¼ million, and look at me now - the last ¼ million took just 12 days!!**
 and many more years of happy shrubbing.
** BTW - that wasn't meant to belittle your efforts at all, just showing what can be done with if you've a mind (and aren't afraid to open your wallet - there's ~8 grand (Sterling)!!! of shrubbers behind that number).
Al
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Killerrabbit
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I have a mind and only about so many shrubs turned in. Not knowing the exact amount of work turned in. Congrats on being #1 in Cels; just because it is small does not mean it is easy to get to the #1 spot in any project.
Ni
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That's great!
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KWSN Im Not Dead
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| Al Dente wrote: | | ... ** BTW - that wasn't meant to belittle your efforts at all, just showing what can be done with if you've a mind (and aren't afraid to open your wallet - there's ~8 grand (Sterling)!!! of shrubbers behind that number)... |
Considering you are at 94 GHz total...and im at 9.6 (quad @ 2.4) and 2.8 (p4) I would hope you accomplished that in 12 days . If I ever get a spare ~$16,000 laying around I will match your 8K pound. I will probably purchase a new quad once Intel gets their new chip to the masses and the Q6600 drops in price a bit, but that is a ways yet. I am glad we have people like you on the team willing to purchase so much hardware/power.
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Sir Furry Mark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Al Dente wrote: | | ... ** BTW - that wasn't meant to belittle your efforts at all, just showing what can be done with if you've a mind (and aren't afraid to open your wallet - there's ~8 grand (Sterling)!!! of shrubbers behind that number)... |
Considering you are at 94 GHz total...and im at 9.6 (quad @ 2.4) and 2.8 (p4) I would hope you accomplished that in 12 days . If I ever get a spare ~$16,000 laying around I will match your 8K pound. I will probably purchase a new quad once Intel gets their new chip to the masses and the Q6600 drops in price a bit, but that is a ways yet. I am glad we have people like you on the team willing to purchase so much hardware/power. |
Congrats on being #1 in a project  - I know how good that feels! (Don't worry about the size of the project - apparently size doesn't matter  )
How much further do you want the Q6600 to fall??? 
I can get pretty decent complete Q6600 systems (Dell) for around £500 (say $1000  ) so your $16000 would get you over 150 GHz! Go home-brew and it should be even cheaper 
I don't think GHz is a good measure though as my old 2.8GHz Nocona turns in a fraction of the output of the current CPUs.
I reached my first 250000 in just over a month (since early Feb) and should reach 500000 soon. I'm using a Q6600 system (RAC 1500), an E5420 based system (RAC 3400), four old scrap/spare parters (RAC <2000) and an occasional laptop (RAC around 100) [when it is not a laptop is a pretty paperweight  ]
I'm contemplating replacing the old systems with another new quad (or two  ) when I get my next bonus.
Ni! 
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ohiomike
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I'm contemplating replacing the old systems with another new quad (or two ) when I get my next bonus.
Ni! |
I've tried that before. I always start-up the new system and then look at the old system that I have fond memories of- and re-start it!
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KWSN Im Not Dead
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Sir Furry Mark wrote: | | How much further do you want the Q6600 to fall??? |
It is not so much that I expect it to fall drastically, but it is still the same price it was about this time last year. I would expect, perhaps incorrectly, that it would drop some once they release the new chips and with that drop would come a drop with motherboards/ram/etc... Honestly though I know me and if something newer is out then I want that new thing. Take for instance my video card:
When I build this Quad I purchased a junk 8400 video card to get me going. My thought was that once the 8800GT's came down in price (they had just come out when I built this machine and were very expensive and hard to get) I would get one. Ok then they came down in price and was available....however by that time the 8800GTS (g92)'s were out. So I said "ok, I will wait for them to come down in price and get one of those"...ok now they have (somewhat) and guess what....nVidia released their 98xx line....and guess what I want now? Point is I will probably end up with the 8800GTS (g92) for my current machine, but I didnt get the 8800GT (as planned) because something newer came along.
When Intel gets their new chips out to the masses I will probably want one and would not (at that time) consider getting an "old" Q6600...go figure 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Sir Furry Mark wrote: | | I don't think GHz is a good measure though as my old 2.8GHz Nocona turns in a fraction of the output of the current CPUs. |
I 100% agree here.
My old P4 2.8GHz gives me almost a 200 RAC...which is 0.0714 RAC/MHz
My Quad 2.4GHz gives me almost a 1800 RAC...which is 0.1875 RAC/MHz
or in otherwords 2.62 times more RAC per MHz.
I was just using GHz as he had it in his signature and I was too lazy to look up what he had in Boinc
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Sir Furry Mark wrote: | | How much further do you want the Q6600 to fall??? |
It is not so much that I expect it to fall drastically, but it is still the same price it was about this time last year |
Incorrect, it is now $249 on newegg, so it has dropped at least $30 (since Nov), if not $50 (since last Mar). My bad, see kids, this is why you should research before you post!
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Sir Furry Mark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Incorrect, it is now $249 on newegg, so it has dropped at least $30 (since Nov), if not $50 (since last Mar). My bad, see kids, this is why you should research before you post! |
... and that is probably not even the same chip.
A year ago it would have been the B3 (SL9UM) - TDP 105W
Now it will be the G0 (SLACR) stepping - TDP 95W, so more potential for overclocking...
Same with the Xeon quad cores
At the end of last year I was expecting to go with the X3220 (SL9UP) - 105W, 65nm, 8Mb cache, but ended up with the E5420 (SLANV) - 80W, 45nm, 12Mb cache for less money ...
Of course in a few months time I will regret that when the Dunningtons and then the Nehalems hit retail...
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KWSN Im Not Dead
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Sir Furry Mark wrote: | | How much further do you want the Q6600 to fall??? |
It is not so much that I expect it to fall drastically, but it is still the same price it was about this time last year |
Incorrect, it is now $249 on newegg, so it has dropped at least $30 (since Nov), if not $50 (since last Mar)... |
Just over a month later and they are now $219.99 on Newegg <<link>>, gobble them up kids while they last
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Sir Papa Smurph
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It took me 7 years 1 month and 3 days to hit 1 million. I have since put in 369,000 in 3 month 3 days. I will be over 2 million by year end. It is a function of more power and more credits per unit.
I still think about buying a dual athlon board ~$150 or 2 for the 4 barton cores just sitting in the closet, but for the power consumption a new quad is a better use of electricity. ( not to mention the cost of pc 133 memory). ( we won't talk about all of the Slot A's sitting next to them)
And congrats on being #1 in a project, I know just how that feels. It would be nice to be #1 world wide on a project but you must consider that some Boincers have entire Multinational corporations that they can borg.
Just keep on shrubbing, ( I remember when hitting 1K credits a day was my goal ).
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ohiomike
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| KWSN Im Not Dead wrote: | | Al Dente wrote: | | ... ** BTW - that wasn't meant to belittle your efforts at all, just showing what can be done with if you've a mind (and aren't afraid to open your wallet - there's ~8 grand (Sterling)!!! of shrubbers behind that number)... |
Considering you are at 94 GHz total...and im at 9.6 (quad @ 2.4) and 2.8 (p4) I would hope you accomplished that in 12 days . If I ever get a spare ~$16,000 laying around I will match your 8K pound. I will probably purchase a new quad once Intel gets their new chip to the masses and the Q6600 drops in price a bit, but that is a ways yet. I am glad we have people like you on the team willing to purchase so much hardware/power. |
The worst part is that after finding the money for the hardware, you need to find the cash every month to support it (although it is cheaper than my ex-wife). For me that's about $90/month on my electric bill to run 63 GFlops.
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Al Dente
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And therein lies my biggest worry.
I'm currently spending ~£100/month on power. Now I moved into my current abode 4½ years ago, and my price hasn't changed since then - I seem to have slipped through the price increase net (thankfully). I should be paying ~4x that at the moment, and £400/month is beyond my means.
If you notice a sudden halving (or more) of my output sometime in the future, it means that a bean-counter somewhere has tumbled my supplier's ineptitude and rectified the situation - I'm not sure I could even keep my 7 quads running if/when that happens.
Fingers crossed I can keep a low profile well into the future.
With a Hey, Nonny
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Al Dente wrote: | And therein lies my biggest worry.
I'm currently spending ~£100/month on power. Now I moved into my current abode 4½ years ago, and my price hasn't changed since then - I seem to have slipped through the price increase net (thankfully). I should be paying ~4x that at the moment, and £400/month is beyond my means.
If you notice a sudden halving (or more) of my output sometime in the future, it means that a bean-counter somewhere has tumbled my supplier's ineptitude and rectified the situation - I'm not sure I could even keep my 7 quads running if/when that happens.
Fingers crossed I can keep a low profile well into the future.
With a Hey, Nonny |
It's going to get ugly on this side of the pond also. The way business is looking, I can afford to run the computers OR the AC needed to cool them in the coming summer. I think I'm going to be down to 2 machines running once things warm up.
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Which is why you should all upgrade to E8400s or somesuch. 30 watts at 100% load, and almost twice as fast as my E6400. Or 9450s, the quad core equivalent. Or whatever the 6 cores will be when they ship. Newer = less power draw = less heat output.
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| Al Dente wrote: | And therein lies my biggest worry.
I'm currently spending ~£100/month on power. Now I moved into my current abode 4½ years ago, and my price hasn't changed since then - I seem to have slipped through the price increase net (thankfully). I should be paying ~4x that at the moment, and £400/month is beyond my means.
If you notice a sudden halving (or more) of my output sometime in the future, it means that a bean-counter somewhere has tumbled my supplier's ineptitude and rectified the situation - I'm not sure I could even keep my 7 quads running if/when that happens.
Fingers crossed I can keep a low profile well into the future.
With a Hey, Nonny |
the problem with AMD procs are the they are mega power hungry compared to the intel's, Sir all you could probably get a coulple of the low end dell dual quad servers/workstations (eg E5420) and decom half of your AMD farm (3800 spec boxes) and end up saving £££ on your electricity bill....
Ni!
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