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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: To the 3,862 users behind me... |
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Nya nya! 9th on the team, 216 in the country (USA), 600 in the world, rapidly approaching 18m credits with a steady 6 digit RAC. GPUs are wonderful.
Of course without MW my expected position by RAC is falling quickly (already dropped from a predicted 230 to 330). Hopefully I'll be able to swing an HD5850 for Xmas. Or at least another 4870.
I've also succeeded in dropping my first 3 months to invisible on the bar chart. Wonder how long it'll take to bury the first 6, or 12 hehe.
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Al Dente Prince
Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 3228 Location: Leodis, the jewel at the end of the yellow brick road (or M1)
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Agreed about the GPUs.
4th on the team, 9th in the UK (of 104,465), low 160's in the world, should get to 50 million at the end of the month, 55m by Xmas, with a steady 2 x 6-digit RAC.
That's with 3 x GTS250 & 3 x HD4850; I'm aiming for either another 2 x 4850 or 1 x 5850 before Xmas.
... and I've nearly got my whole first year to an invisible state. It took 2¼ years for my first 5 million, now I'm doing 5m in ~3 weeks!!
(this isn't an attempt to belittle your hard-won stats, but I couldn't resist the implicit challenge. )
, and thrice _________________ Creationists believe they never evolved; I agree with them.
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John Galt 007 Prince
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin
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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:32 am Post subject: |
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It's alright Al, I remember when our stats weren't quite so far apart lol. It's just odd to think that ~27% of the teams RAC is now having a conversation in this thread. It'd be more, but I'm a slacker compared to you two.
Poor Coconuts seems to have given up. I remember seeing that account so far out ahead of everyone, steadily producing such insane (30k/day) numbers while I was doing maybe 1k/day. Now look... almost inactive, down to 6th, falling fast. Makes me sad, really. _________________
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Al Dente Prince
Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 3228 Location: Leodis, the jewel at the end of the yellow brick road (or M1)
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Agree wholeheartedly with the sadness sentiment. People, especially those with borged work machines, have toiled for years to get themselves into an exalted position, and now find all that hard work undone in a very short space of time. It must be very demoralising.
I think GPUs have to a large extent ruined competitive BOINCing. Now for a couple of hundred dollars you can turn almost any old shrubber into a monster. I wish there were independent league tables for CPU & GPU; that would sort the men from the boys.
But que sera, que sera; if you can't beat 'em, you may as well join 'em, which is why I (and probably you) are where we are today. Technology marches on, so we have to keep up with the Joneses.
"I didn't get where I am today without using GPUs" (if the original Reggie Perrin was exported; Sunshine Desserts all round.).
[/rant] as it's nearly time to set up for the PG challenge.
[aside] Don't think I haven't noticed you sneaking up in SIMAP, expect a bit of opposition next month - I've lost too many KWSN #1s recently to give up another without a fight [/aside]
, and happy shrubbing to all who sail in her. _________________ Creationists believe they never evolved; I agree with them.
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed, I just commented yesterday that it took me 6+ years to get to 300K in Seti and I passed that in Collatz in less than 4 days.....Kinda makes Borging obsolete
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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I haven't added anything for GPU crunching, just fired up what I already had. I'm a gamer, so buying a vid card that isn't better than what I've got already is a sin. So, while I could have stuffed a bunch of cheap 4650s in machines and jumped 100k/day, I'm holding off for a 4890 or maybe 5850 which will go in my main machine, then my 4870 will move to my g/fs machine, and her 4350 will probably move to my system for multi-mon (don't think my board supports CfX).
Then, next year (yes, it's slipped for sure) when I build my new PC, the 4890/5850 will move there, 4870 will move back to my old PC which will become my g/fs, and the 4350 will move back to the AMD box that will (finally) become the NAS hehe.
PS: I agree on the CPU/GPU stats thing. I don't think it's too late. There are few projects, even fewer that do both, and the stats sites should be able to split it from their end too.
PS again: And yeah, SIMAP was my PoTM They had lots of work, I figured I'd take advantage of it. It's the 13th, and they've still got almost 50k WUs to send. All my machines were on Malaria, but I've NNT them all to SIMAP only now hehe. You could probably stop me from passing you if you did it right now. _________________
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Nuadormrac Prince
Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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From the project's perspective, a task done is a task done; and a contributed WU is a contributed WU. Kinda sucks when looking at the comparison's that I just can't get a newer gfx card then the Radeon 9600, but oh well. I knew back in the day that PCs based on the x86 proc weren't out-competing Alphas and UltraSPARCs on WU completion times back then either. Albeit the GPU adds a whole new dimension; as the dif between a Pentium 3 and an Alpha might have been the dif of say 1 hour (EV6) on a SETI WU, vs 4 or 5 hours on the PIII, and yet now we're talking hours vs around a min or less. But such are the breaks.
Until I can get a GPU though; I'm out of the running wrt taunts on GPU machines however. I just don't have one
Speaking of which, I remember getting credit totals up, when a single SETI classic WU earned just 1 credit each _________________
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Fredericx51 Baron
Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 138 Location: Somewhere @ 38C south of the Northpole, probably in a solar powered iglo
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Difference between CPU and GPU, indeed, quite insane
Six* years CPU crunching on 2
QUAD's, a P4Dual(sold/exchanged) for another QUAD Extreme X9650 and 2 G92 based CUDA card's, compaired to a HD5770 and 1 core of a Q6600, gives the same credit in just 4 month's.
A good example of Moore's Law.
If I'm not terribly mistaken,
*I did start in november 1999, but lost my E-Mail adress , due to moving to another town.
Started again, 2004, but seriously upped my crunching power in December 2007.
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Killerrabbit Major Oblivion
Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 4656 Location: in a rabbit hole near you!!
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:32 am Post subject: |
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I am still working on my first million.
Ni _________________
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Hal9000x86 Baron
Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Posts: 217 Location: The 10 milllion year project that will find the question to the answer 42.
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:15 am Post subject: |
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I started in october 06 and only had 105k on cpu. Took a long break and now with gpus I have just over 14 million credits since august 99. 98% of the wus have been done by one machine. Scary stuff. _________________
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Altivec Knight
Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 88 Location: Hawaii
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Killerrabbit wrote: | I am still working on my first million.
Ni | I may get my million before you! Ni! =) _________________
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The Knighty NI Prince
Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 780 Location: Lost in space on a rather small Blue ping pong ball. :)
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Been doing CPU shrubbing on and off since 2004 ish. Still after my 1st Mill so was quite excited when I went over the 1st 100k fairly recently. Now at about 442k and feeling very happy about it.
Just saddened that Seti seems to be taking a high handed approach on their forum towards users, so have stopped shrubbing for them. They were the reason that I started donating my spare puter time to distributed computing.
Probably not gonna be moving off CPU bound projects for some time now as that seems to be where the real science resides and that's why I am doing a lot of RNA World. _________________ What is that in the Shrubbery?
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