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James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 640 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
I'm not sure if this has been done but it seems fun (I haven't seen it before so here goes.) This is straight from my account page. First: **ID: 2548926 **XP-HOMEHP 0.06 763 **x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 598MHz (1 processors) **Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition **GPU whats that? (Kidding) **14 Sep 2006 | 20:06:26 UTC Current **ID: 6706743 **TrollKing **Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9] (4 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1023MB) driver: 302.80 **Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition **2 Jul 2012 | 8:42:29 UTC -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
I'm not sure of your rules here James... If we're talking seti crunchers, I'm new around here so I can't go back very far, but currently I have, for WORST and BEST machines: Worst ID: 6648822 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz [Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4](2 processors) Best ID: 6656682 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7](8 processors) Now if you want to compare first owned machines, to currently owned machines, that could get really interesting. #resist |
James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 640 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
I'm not sure of your rules here James... That was the idea Dave (although not expressed correctly), mainly to make fun of our old gear compared to what we are currently running now. -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
My first SETI cruncher was for Classic. If I recall correctly, it was a 386-20. Current best is a core i7 quad with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M. BOINC WIKI |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
My first SETI cruncher was for Classic too. Mine was an Intel QX6700 ES cpu, I got that before anyone else here had a Quad core. Current best is a core i5 750 quad with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590, the cpu is not used for crunching, just the 590, oh and the 1350w psu is on the way. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I started in 2004 with a PII Deschutes running at 400 MHz. Then in 2008 I bought a SUN WS with an Opteron 1210 at 1.8 GHz, still running 24/7. I bought a 1220 CPU from a relative and an ASUS Silent Square EVO cooler. The CPU should reach 2.8 GHz. I am going to try this transplant as soon as I have learned to use the touchpad of a HP 635 laptop with an AMD E-450 at 1.65 GHz, using only 15 W.All on Linux. The HP Linux is SuSE SLES-11. Tullio |
Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 75,967,266 RAC: 0 |
I have no idea what it was my first cruncher... But I think it was a Pentium MMX or an i486... In that host, crunching 24/7, one WU (I guess an ancestor of the MB...) needed a whole week to finish... Soon all my work computers were crunching for SETI... My best cruncher today is an i7-2600 with a GTX680... That host by itself gives me in one day the same amount of credits that I got in the first 8 years with an average of 4 or 5 hosts running SETI 24/7. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I have no idea what it was my first cruncher... But I think it was a Pentium MMX or an i486... In that host, crunching 24/7, one WU (I guess an ancestor of the MB...) needed a whole week to finish... Soon all my work computers were crunching for SETI... Impressive, 4 or 5 hmm, 1 here. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24875 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
First Compaq Deskpro 386SX. Release date 1990 (date du BIOS) 1990 (BIOS) Model: SLT 386s/20 SLT 386s/20 Processor i80386SX Ã 20 MHz i80386SX 20 MHz Memory: 2048 KB RAM Storage Floppy 3 "1 / 2 1.44 MB. IDE Hard Disk 20 MB Interfaces : Interface External VGA Video Software: Ms-Dos 3.31 Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 Compaq Updated to Dos 6.22 & Win 3.11 WFG Current AMD Athlon II X4 630 Gigabyte UD4P 4gb Ram 24.5tb storage NVidia 9500GT WHS v1 |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
First Cyrix 686 First at seti AMD Athlon 700. Present AMD FX 8150 @4.4 GHZ with ATI HD 5850. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29752 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
First I started with one of those Cyrix also. Hated it. Now I use a Intel(R) Core)2 Quad Q9550 [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7](4 processors) |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I started with a Compaq pentium 1. replaced that in 2004 with my Gateway P4, It still crunching too. The latest comp is HP I7 920. with a little Nvidia GTS 250. [/quote] Old James |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
(I'll throw my first vs current on this here list): First: Commodore 64 8bit 6510 Processor, 1Mhz 64K RAM Current: Intel Xeon E3-1230 64bit quad core @3.2Ghz 16G RAM (I don't have any GPU's worth bragging about) If I'm not mistaken the Xeon processor is more than 25,000 times more powerful* than C64's 6510. And my Xeon rig has 250,000 times the RAM. We've come a long way. *- Not a proper comparison, just quick math by comparing processing speed and bit register and core count. I'm sure the architecture changes etc. mean the Xeon is probably much more than 25,000 times more powerful than the 6510. [Interesting side note: You think we've got fan-fare arguments about what hardware is better nowadays?... Once upon a time the ZX people used to argue with C64 folks, about differences so little our modern machines would laugh... ...was it a real figure? Does it mean that Zx Spectrum "runs at 2:1" (two times faster than Commodore 64)? I guess this is exact. But... why did you criticize people "extolling the virtues of the Spectrum"? Why did you forget the "virtues" that you were going to demonstrate? Another Commodorian Blah-Blah-Blah, eh? LOL] #resist |
Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 75,967,266 RAC: 0 |
I have no idea what it was my first cruncher... But I think it was a Pentium MMX or an i486... In that host, crunching 24/7, one WU (I guess an ancestor of the MB...) needed a whole week to finish... Soon all my work computers were crunching for SETI... SETI was a very nice screensaver in that times... So it was running on all the computers in my work office. (with permission, as I was one of the partners) ;D |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
My first cruncher was an Intel 233mmx. My current best rig is an i7 920 OCd to 4.1Ghz....just a little bit faster. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Oh, yes. Mine tend to get retired to the recycling bin - useless for anything at all when they are done. BOINC WIKI |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Let's see... April 9th, 2002 is when I joined and SETI@Home "Classic", and if I recall correctly I started with: Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz 1024MB of RAM PC2100 DDR SDRAM ATi Radeon 7200 64MB AGP 4x Windows XP Pro I thought the project was so fun and I loved the screen saver so much that I installed it on several of my other computers I owned (Including a Pentium 166MHz w/MMX and an AMD K6 166MHz among many others). Currently I use: Intel Core i7 960 (3.2GHz quad-core with Intel HyperThreading) 12GB of RAM ATi Radeon HD 6970 Windows 7 x64 Ultimate ..and if I could afford the electricity, I would be running all of these computers. |
James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 640 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
All very interesting! I remember back years ago seeing SETI running on the computers in the computer lab at my grade school. That was when my interest in this project was born. Although it was a little bit of a wait before I started crunching.... Still its very interesting to compare the past computers to what we are running now. Simply stated now-a-days we are spoiled! -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
It is a great time indeed for computing. A couple of years ago the amounts of RAM and CPU power available passed the "tipping point", and now it's affordable to have a machine that can do just about anything. I've been in my glory. :-) #resist |
James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 640 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
I just built my gaming computer, and when I did the DDR3 ram was SO cheap that I put in 16 gigs just cause I could haha! -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
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