Seti farms: Hobby or obsession?
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kittyman     Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 
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Great... I'd say about $200.00/month for the crunchers...it's gonna get a bit tough when the weather warms and I have to run AC 24/7 to keep the house cool enough to keep them online..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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AndrewM Send message Joined: 5 Jan 08 Posts: 369 Credit: 34,275,196 RAC: 0 
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Perhaps if you ask nicely, the crunchers will let you and the kitties move into their cool house with them. roflmao. AndrewM ID: 709080 · |
 John Clark  Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 
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I guess I am similar, but at a lower level to Mark. I have 2 Quads on SETI and 2 other rigs on Einstein The power bill seems to be between £50 and £75 per month (say $100 5o $150 per mnonth).. At least there is no A/C issue in the summer. It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues  
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zoom3+1=4  Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65771 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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I guess I am similar, but at a lower level to Mark. Not surprising really, If It weren't for the Gulf stream, You'd be up to Your neck in an Ice Sheet and the Chunnel would never have been dug most likely. I on the other hand have summer to look forward to and the cooling costs last year for more than 2 PCs were over $100 a month and I don't have any working A/C, Just an Evaporative Cooler which might be Ok for 2 or maybe 3 Quad core PCs(2-QX6700 and 1-Q6600 cpus). My last electric bill during the winter here was $75.70 for just the 2-QX6700 PCs, The Q6600 I just acquired and is not in a PC yet, My heating is by way of Natural Gas and those costs were $48.35 and It's a central heating system that an A/C system that I never got working is attached to and I'd hate to use the A/C except on really humid days here in August/September(monsoon season here) as temps in the summer are usually over 95F to about 115F max. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's 
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Seahawk  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 08 Posts: 937 Credit: 8,157,029 RAC: 5
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Update on the quad... Named it Betsy, first cow on the SETI@Home farm. The hardware is all running fine under Win XP Pro but Ubuntu is giving me fits. I am sorry wingmen for hanging 7 WU out into space on the first install attempt. G0 Q6600 cooled by a AC Freezer Pro 7 GA-G31M-S2L MB, 2gig PC800 ram Currently have an ide 80gig HD and CD/DVD-R installed. These will be replaced by 2 sata HD in raid 0 and a sata DVD-R/W. Not going to O/C this rig for now but will be running Crunch3r's apps. I haven't given up on running Ubuntu. I think most the problems are with the onboard video. May end up buying a cheapo ATI video card and disabling the onboard video. Will have to see. Shadara(my kitty) says Meow! I used to be a cruncher like you, then I took an arrow to the knee. ID: 709145 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Update on the quad... Good luck with your efforts...... The kittie say meoooowwww to Shadara......(great name for a kitty)! "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65771 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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Update on the quad... ATi is ok If It's fast enough for the OS, Angel(My cat) is interested in one or eventually two of those new ATi HD3870 X2 cards. Anything is usually better than the onboard video with Seti. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
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Daniel  Send message Joined: 21 May 07 Posts: 562 Credit: 437,494 RAC: 0
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Update on the quad... I have the EXACT same motherboard with an e4500, overclocking is easy on this mobo, but I cant POST over 3.0ghz. The onboard video is absolute crap and killed windows whenever I installed the drivers. I have a new video card coming in tomorrow to solve that. XFX 7400gs from Newegg for cheap with a rebate to boot. Daniel  ID: 709171 · |
UL1  Send message Joined: 20 Nov 06 Posts: 118 Credit: 21,406,060 RAC: 0 
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Fpr my part I'd say... ...obsession... ;) ID: 709190 · |
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ChrisD Send message Joined: 25 Sep 99 Posts: 158 Credit: 2,496,342 RAC: 0 
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I tend to remember a user in London who's flat were electrically heated. A bit expensive these days, but he would be the ideal landlord for a bunch of crunchers, if he could stand all the noise. :) With so many crunshers having heat problems in the summer season, it might be a good idea creating a thread with practical ideas on how to cool Your crunchers best and most power efficent. Ideas Folks? ChrisD ID: 709238 · |
JLDun  Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0
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With so many crunshers having heat problems in the summer season, it might be a good idea creating a thread with practical ideas on how to cool Your crunchers best and most power efficent. Not exactly practical on a wide scale, but do what I do- I have 1 laptop located in the basement (a former Rec. Room, now a "guest bedroom"); it (Room Temperature) is consistently about 10 Deg. F. lower than the Upper Level.  
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Carlos  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29865 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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I quess that's another fact that push on over in to the obsession cat-agory. Do you have a dedicated AC system to keep your computers running? I do. 
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Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0
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With so many crunshers having heat problems in the summer season, it might be a good idea creating a thread with practical ideas on how to cool Your crunchers best and most power efficent. North - South teams? Ship the computers to the southern hemisphere in April, back north in October. Joe ID: 709453 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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The only other thought I have had was to transfer the farm from my living room into the cooler basement....but I have doubts that the heat sinking abilities of the concrete basement walls could keep things cool down there... might have to experiment with it in the next few months.... Maybe moving just a few of them down there would cut the heatload in the main living space down a bit. Would have to invest either in some cables long enough to snake upstairs to my kvm or some wireless or other solution to communicate with them..... And reboots when they crash would require trekking down to the basement... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65771 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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The only other thought I have had was to transfer the farm from my living room into the cooler basement....but I have doubts that the heat sinking abilities of the concrete basement walls could keep things cool down there... Wireless KVM, Hmm, Expensive option, Move the KVM down with all the PCs except one and get a second mouse, keyboard and monitor, Speakers too if needed for the one PC left upstairs by itself, Then there's the ethernet and internet connection to worry about down in Your basement, Still cheaper than the wireless KVM I'd think. :D The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
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DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2
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The only other thought I have had was to transfer the farm from my living room into the cooler basement....but I have doubts that the heat sinking abilities of the concrete basement walls could keep things cool down there... Wireless KVM? No. VNC? Yes. :) ID: 709561 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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The only other thought I have had was to transfer the farm from my living room into the cooler basement....but I have doubts that the heat sinking abilities of the concrete basement walls could keep things cool down there... I am sure there is more than one way to do it.......but a reboot in the case of a crash would still require me to pry my butt off of the couch and go downstairs to hit the buttons....... May not seem like much to you, but when all your rigs are OC'd as far as mine are, reboots are required a bit more often that usual....actually, the farm has been pretty stable as of late......maybe I'm not pushing things far enough...LOL. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0
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Okay, VNC and a hardware watchdog card. A program "pets the watchdog" and if it doesn't get petted often enough, the watchdog card hits the reset button. PM me if you can't find a wide selection through google. ID: 709565 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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But if the rig crashes and the cpu quits, would the watchdog card keep running? And you would have to hardwire it into the reset button switch? And now that I think about it further, I have had rigs crash many times where the cpu stopped responding and the only way to reset the rig was to power off and back on.........because the reset button on the case would not reboot it..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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Daniel Send message Joined: 21 May 07 Posts: 562 Credit: 437,494 RAC: 0
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Update on the quad... Installed the new video card today and it booted right up faster than the onboard video and better looking too. XFX even has xp64 drivers available! Daniel ID: 709578 · |
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