KWSN Orbiting Fortress

LanDroid · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: GO TEAM!

Killerrabbit · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

We need to increase our RAC, stat! All power to the engines.

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Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Yes, we do need to increase our RAC Surprised

And perhaps get some new members that will help us increase this. Lets take a full team listing from BOINC stats

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_stats.php?pr=bo&st=0&to=100

METATRON · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Well, they all contribute to the same grand total, which is what those stats are taken off of. The only advantage to putting time in either SETI or Einstein over other projects in that regard, is the ability to use optimized science apps, to boost one's credit granting. Acosv's in terms on Einstein, or crunch3r's in terms of SETI's...

I know I created a thread for the e@h optimized app, though newer versions are out now. I'm using d40 now (which has 3dnow! optimizations for my A64, and is an order of magnitude faster). Basically it takes those extra long WUs that were taking 1.5 hours on c37, and finishes them in about 54 to 55 minutes. s40 and newer are probably out now...

I got the link to crunch3r on this forum in another, albeit one has to be careful there to select the right CPU...

But other then the question of science app optimization, any WU crunched under BOINC will add to that total, and hence helps....

Killerrabbit · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

I did not understand half of your post.

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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

think of it this way,

in boinc you have total credit and RAC (recent average credit)

Total credit = credit for work completed

RAC= current speed

so

We're driving a pick-up.

SETI.USA and Team anandtech are driving Ferrari's

we need to floor it very quckly otherwise thy'll pass us pronto, and give us the bird on the way past..... #Fist

but we can soup up our battered old F150 by optimising it. the best apps for this are seti and Einstein. basicaaly you can process about 3 times as many shrubs with the tweaked apps as the standard ones, and so you get higher credit scores.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:

Yes but we have something SETI>USA lacks; international membership.

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Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Yeah, if we get more shrubs in...

Meh, if only I'd land one of these jobs or something. Looking for jobs I can do while continuing to go to school. Perhaps then I could buy a laptop, to get some crunch time beyond what my lonely a64 is doing...

Optimized apps definitely do help though. Typically I claim about 8 or 9 credits on SETI using crunch3r, however end up getting about 18-30 credits granted...

Hmm, come to think of it, perhaps some more advertizing in some of the team recruitment threads on some projects might be a good idea... Very Happy

Atomic Booty · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:55 am Post subject:

Well I haven't popped in here in awhile, but I've still been crunching for CPDN. As soon as we get our tax refund, my husband is getting a new computer, which I will have BOINCing for us shortly thereafter. Plus, I will be putting his old one to work as well. (It's a little e-machine dinosaur, but every bit helps) Giving me a total of 2 1/2 shrubbers!!!

#ni-2

davide405 · Knight Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 77 Location: Central USA

I gave an old (to me) computer to a friend, then insisted that he run BOINC and join KWSN Twisted Evil

alpha_fruit · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

i'm popping them out as fast as I can right now. I am using some industrial fertilizer on my computer though. It was already full of bullshirt so I had to use something different. #ni-1

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And a few that won't update for some reason.

4870 GPU

Atomic Booty · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

Grawlfang · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

ohhhh!!!!

Found a few hyper-threaded IBM blades doing nothing...sounds good for QMC or Rosetta to me...

http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/get_user.php?cpid=8964b6c1d977a6af090d2023830e59b7&html=1

must be working Cool

Ni!
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A Shrubbery · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

That would explain why I now have competition in QMC. Good to hear Gralfang. All shrubs are glorious, hail the Ni!
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:49 am Post subject:

It seems our RAC has gone up or down but we have lost a spot in the RAC ranking.

Ni
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

According to the World Rankings at BOINC Synergy our RAC is now at 180K. Up 3K!

Ni
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject:

Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Only prob is that if one's using mostly SETI and Einstein (with the new optimized Einstein app), then that's one thing. However, most of my crunching hasn't tended to be for both those products.

On rosseta and QMC, truxtoft could be argued to be cheating and rightly so, on SETI the argument could go otherwise. On CPDN and seasonal which give a fixed credit no matter what, it wouldn't matter. I don't tend to use Truxtoft simply because for most of my projects, there isn't an optimized app #ni-1