I want a Hackintosh..lol..but I'm betting he's running true Macs..

I thought I wanted a Hackintosh, 'til I found you had to use someone's hacked OSX image. I wasn't impressed. Then I had problems with the 2008 Intel board I bought to use as a Hack. Seems Intel 'fixed' their board to where it wouldn't post when a video card with a Mac Rom was used for the main monitor. Bad Intel, BAD! Then I had Ram problems with the same board so I gave up on it. Now I have corrected the Ram problem and have a worthy PC video card. But you still have to use someone else's hacked system. Dunno, maybe someday.

We didn't get very far trying this at work either. We were even using Optiplex 745 machines that were listed on the hackintish site as fully compatible.

The last true Xserve boxes I am aware of were only dual Core 2 Quad based Xeons, but I'm not a huge Apple person. Do you think Apple still working with companies to produce Xserve setups?

I haven't had much experience with the Xserves. Most of my experience was with video editing and hacking PC video cards to work on PowerMac G4s. Since the Intel Macs came out I haven't been very active. I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to buy a new Mac Pro when all they offer are wastebaskets. Jobs has left the building...

Can someone elaborate on "Pulling a NEZ" ? That one is over my head!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=56411

Thanks, Hal. Kind of a sad story.

So he possible doesn't have even a Hackintosh but runs OSX from a VM mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Don't listen to me I'm just a DUMB DUMB like our PM hahahahahah joke guys

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So he possible doesn't have even a Hackintosh but runs OSX from a VM mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Don't listen to me I'm just a DUMB DUMB like our PM hahahahahah joke guys

Unless someone asks them, or they post what they are running. It is all just speculation fun.
"And now it is time for everyones favorite game. Guess how much their electric bill might be!"

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Gowd i'll start at $2000 a month

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Well, I found some circumstantial evidence in my databsse...

Continuing with circumstantial theme.. of the clusters and core counts that you mentioned.. even with all the edits to the post, my quick-and-dirty math says 14,208 CPU threads. That's got to be a couple petaFLOPs in total.

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During periods of activity, the official sponsor {BDC} DRingdahl - Dwight Ringdahl - Zenovia Digital Exchange of my team BRIGADE DU COSMOS can reach 1.600.000 credits/day* ! :)
Dwight has 34 NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm and 177 computers (mostly 48 processors - OS Linux)
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*considering his participation in other projects - PGP/WCG

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During periods of activity, the official sponsor {BDC} DRingdahl - Dwight Ringdahl - Zenovia Digital Exchange of my team BRIGADE DU COSMOS can reach 1.600.000 credits/day* ! :)
Dwight has 34 NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm and 177 computers (mostly 48 processors - OS Linux)
List of computers of Dwight

*considering his participation in other projects - PGP/WCG

Still, 1.600.000 credits/day (if he was currently doing SETI) is only a fraction of the 9,849,875.75 RAC that Charles Long is currently pumping out. ;-)

Cheers.

I would not want his power bill.....mine is bad enough.

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During periods of activity, the official sponsor {BDC} DRingdahl - Dwight Ringdahl - Zenovia Digital Exchange of my team BRIGADE DU COSMOS can reach 1.600.000 credits/day* ! :)
Dwight has 34 NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm and 177 computers (mostly 48 processors - OS Linux)
List of computers of Dwight

*considering his participation in other projects - PGP/WCG

Still, 1.600.000 credits/day (if he was currently doing SETI) is only a fraction of the 9,849,875.75 RAC that Charles Long is currently pumping out. ;-)

Cheers.

By last Free-Dc stats his yesterday output was >16MM... with >18MM few days ago.

Realy and incredible push on the entire project output with about 8% of the entire project daily output.

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I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I sent a PM a couple days ago stating that I'm not asking who he is or where he works or any of that, "I'm just wondering how many CPU cores you have at your disposal, and if your contribution to the science is short-term or long-term?"

I'm not holding onto any hope for a reply.

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I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I sent a PM a couple days ago stating that I'm not asking who he is or where he works or any of that, "I'm just wondering how many CPU cores you have at your disposal, and if your contribution to the science is short-term or long-term?"

I'm not holding onto any hope for a reply.

With they message before saying they were looking to load test their data center(s) I am going to guess short term, but we never know. They may have a permanent need for a load or partial load permanently. Even if it at a quarter of their current running it would still be a huge gain for the project in processing oomph.

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Well, the only one of the recent crop that I definitely know is his, 7309756, was run from June 12 to July 6, then appears to have stopped cold. All the other large blocks of hosts that I mentioned (speculated on) in my earlier post, started up between July 6 and July 10 and are still going strong. The small number (7) that I captured last year, such as 7056463 just ran from 31 Jul 2013 to 11 Aug 2013.

He's certainly making a tremendous contribution to the project, but it's probably just short term. Hopefully, when he's done he'll wind down the tasks in his queues (or at least abandon them) rather than stop cold turkey like he appears to have done with 7309756, which still has 100 tasks in progress. Multiply that by several hundred hosts and there could be an awful lot of WUs left hanging until they time out.

Edit: BTW, in my earlier post I had identified a total of 501 Anonymous hosts that I had been paired with, in 4 different ranges of host IDs, that looked like likely candidates. I just rechecked my database and found that the number has increased to 658 probables (and a couple of the ranges have expanded slightly, too). Remember, these are only the hosts that I've been paired with as wingman. That is only a small portion of the ranges that I identified. Probably, many of the other Anonymous hosts in those ranges can be identified as having similar configurations. For instance, I've been paired with 7335863 and 7335871, both 40-processor Linux boxes with an Anonymous owner. But if you look at the other 7 hosts between those two IDs, you'll find that they're all identical, too. Kind of mind boggling!

Well Charles' peak RAC got to just above 12,500,000, but it's been dropping off just lately too.

Though in that short time he's made it to no.12 on total credit charts so far.

Cheers.

Yeah their output has been tapering off recently to only about 6,000,000 a day.

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Well Charles' peak RAC got to just above 12,500,000, but it's been dropping off just lately too.

It looks like some of his Linux machines started dropping off from S@h about a week ago, like 7334442. Others more recently, such as 7334399. Each of the ones I looked at were still left with exactly 100 tasks "in progress", so it appears that he's stopping cold turkey and those tasks will just hang around until they time out. That's what's happening with 7309756 which last made contact on July 6 with 100 tasks "in progress". It looks like 52 of those have already timed out (shorties, I guess), but the other 48 aren't due until late August. Assuming he's got over 1,000 hosts running, that'll be over 100,000 WUs left in limbo for a while. Oh, well, I guess such a huge contribution to the project will be worth the extra overhead!

Well Charles' peak RAC got to just above 12,500,000, but it's been dropping off just lately too.

It looks like some of his Linux machines started dropping off from S@h about a week ago, like 7334442. Others more recently, such as 7334399. Each of the ones I looked at were still left with exactly 100 tasks "in progress", so it appears that he's stopping cold turkey and those tasks will just hang around until they time out. That's what's happening with 7309756 which last made contact on July 6 with 100 tasks "in progress". It looks like 52 of those have already timed out (shorties, I guess), but the other 48 aren't due until late August. Assuming he's got over 1,000 hosts running, that'll be over 100,000 WUs left in limbo for a while. Oh, well, I guess such a huge contribution to the project will be worth the extra overhead!

You would think that he would set NNT and let the work run dry. But then maybe he has no chioce when the Man Or woman, Says ok thats enough stress testing back to work. I would expect more such stess testing and cut off in the future.
And while it dose tend to PO wingman that is how Boinc was set up. For just such cases.

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Well Charles' peak RAC got to just above 12,500,000, but it's been dropping off just lately too.

It looks like some of his Linux machines started dropping off from S@h about a week ago, like 7334442. Others more recently, such as 7334399. Each of the ones I looked at were still left with exactly 100 tasks "in progress", so it appears that he's stopping cold turkey and those tasks will just hang around until they time out. That's what's happening with 7309756 which last made contact on July 6 with 100 tasks "in progress". It looks like 52 of those have already timed out (shorties, I guess), but the other 48 aren't due until late August. Assuming he's got over 1,000 hosts running, that'll be over 100,000 WUs left in limbo for a while. Oh, well, I guess such a huge contribution to the project will be worth the extra overhead!

You would think that he would set NNT and let the work run dry. But then maybe he has no chioce when the Man Or woman, Says ok thats enough stress testing back to work. I would expect more such stess testing and cut off in the future.
And while it dose tend to PO wingman that is how Boinc was set up. For just such cases.

He could've just disconnected each rig from the project. ;-)

Cheers.

Unless he was using the servers without permission and now has to stop them ?

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Yeah their output has been tapering off recently to only about 6,000,000 a day.

They are still going with a solid 6,000,000 a day.

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