1) Message boards : Number crunching : Error while computing (Message 1464221) Posted 14 Jan 2014 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: No Anti-virus on that machine. Yes, they have a space between them. Could definitely be heat related but they seem to purr along pretty cool. 58-60c average. I was interested if there is anything about those certain tasks that could explain why those ones. No invalids just seems to get stuck about once a day. *scratches head* I will swap them out for new cards eventually, just thought I would try to keep the old beasts going as long as they worked. :)

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Error while computing (Message 1464128) Posted 14 Jan 2014 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Just throwing this out in case anyone can give an insight. This host seems to occasionally get stuck. Thanks guys! Just wondered if there is any particular explanation or remedy. Keep Crunching!

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems? (Message 1459481) Posted 1 Jan 2014 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Y2K+14 bug? lol Oh, the humanity.. Could become a life threatening situation... Let's just hope Mark has backup heating! ;)

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Happy New Year!!! (Message 1459409) Posted 1 Jan 2014 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Hau’oli Makahiki Hou from Hawaii!

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 14 year club (Message 1458588) Posted 29 Dec 2013 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Better late than never.. ;) I remember seeing about seti@home on a TV program.. Maybe "Beyond 2000"? Used to love that show! Anyway, been quite a ride with you all. Amazing its been 14 years already! keep crunching

6) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED - SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVI - CLOSED (Message 1458044) Posted 27 Dec 2013 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: woot! 14 years.. Just breached 20 million! Been away for awhile, glad to see so much progress :) Happy new year everybody! Lots of good things to come! meow

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Merry Christmas 2 all (Message 1457253) Posted 24 Dec 2013 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post:

8) Message boards : Number crunching : False -9 errors on older 9000 series GPU's. (Message 1084501) Posted 6 Mar 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Here is one to keep an eye on: Just noticed this WU...Mine is the first CPU result.. wuid=695733638 ???

9) Message boards : Number crunching : The best Nvidia driver for Win7 might be 257.15... (Message 1078605) Posted 18 Feb 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: 266.58 running fine on 2x460s here... My gt200s like 190.38 the best =) Viciente..That looks to be about right :)

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Uptime? (Message 1078537) Posted 17 Feb 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Sooo Jealous of you guys... *drool* We only have one power station on the island so interruptions are a pretty common thing. Especially with the storms we have been having. Not unusual to loose power just long enough for the UPSs to shut down :( The good news is, we have more sun than we know what to do the other ~360 days...So a PV system would be ideal someday..

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Closing the lid (Message 1077049) Posted 14 Feb 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: I really like this case ;) ... Wish I had a couple racks full of these! *dreaming*

12) Message boards : Technical News : Get Out of My House (Jan 18 2011) (Message 1068342) Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Good luck!!! Whether with Synergy or another machine, hope things go relative smoothly. I have a question...Is it possible to separate uploads/downloads? If the uploads could also be routed through the new lab Gbit line. This could leave the Hurricane Elec. line purely for downloads... ??

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Water cooling setup (Message 1068064) Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: LOL, found my old computer on that link... It is completely submerged in mineral oil...This pic was an early test not finished yet. I figured was cheaper than water cooling. I pumped the oil in a closed loop through a 50' coil of copper submerged in my aquarium reservoir which was chilled. Worked a charm and still the most rock stable OCs I have achieved were with that oil rig. Also it was neat to have a system that never needs cleaning never builds up dust and is TOTALLY silent. =) Here is the thread I posted about the build on: Pugetsystems forum My posts start about 1/2 way down, username "brandontroy"

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Consensus on GTX460 768MB, 2 or 3 WUs = best? (Message 1067859) Posted 18 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Running GTX460 1G x2 here...Seems to be leveling out around 31k rac with 2 per GPU (4 total).. Just switched to 3 per card: First impression, even at 99% load my power meter would fluctuate a bit /w occasion dips. Now, much more solid at ~10-15 watts fluctuation under full load. With out those dips, i'm betting throughput sees an increase. So far so good...also gui seems perfectly usable still.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : cluster computer (Message 1067835) Posted 18 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Boinc won't work on a cluster because of the way the memory works....As has been established.. ;) On a side note...adding a single card to an older system can easily outclass many same era cpu machines... My old P4 is truckin' right along, ~12k rac (stock 350w psu as well) ;) Keep Crunching -Brandon

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade an GTX 260 (Message 1065409) Posted 11 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Looking at a reference GTX460 box here: "Minimum 450W or greater power supply with a minimum 12v current rating of 24a" *(minimum system requirements based on a pc configured with an Intel i7 3.2 CPU) Another option to consider is one of them fancy drive bay GPU PSUs... like this one Good luck! Recommend you use CPUID HWmonitor... Check to see the voltage of +12v under full load. Mine 460 did use maybe 30% more watts than the 260....ymmv

17) Message boards : Number crunching : concerns about CUDA and seti..... (Message 1064209) Posted 7 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: Call me an extremist but... Why not have: Consecutive valid tasks 0 = quota 1/day ? If you get an occasional invalid it will build back up fast.. also It will encourage running with an eye to accuracy. Just a thought...be gentle.. ;) *ducks*

18) Message boards : Number crunching : Closed *SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXI* Closed (Message 1063318) Posted 4 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: WOW Can't believe it... After much hard work and accidentally letting the smoke out once or twice.. ;) Finally breached 50k rac..YAY! *Claps* Thanks again to everyone involved in keeping this boinc machine tuned/running! Happy new year guys. Now, project permitting, I wonder if I can keep it above 50.. Running full time: 460 x2 260 x1 ----------- and part time: C1060 x1 9800gtx ATI 4850 *celebrates* 2 years ago this time had ~4,000rac running 8 machines 24/7. Thank you Nvidia!

19) Message boards : Number crunching : ATI MB rev170 Now 177 beta app testing (Message 1063146) Posted 3 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: No problem running two on a 4850 here...The elapsed time was only like 10% less running one. Just checked my host, no errors or invalids. What times are you seeing on 4870? They run about an hour 30 to an hour 40 minutes here...Exact same times as the CPU, oddly enough. That is with 2 at a time though. Both cpu and gpu are oc'ed...Link to HOST Should I try to let run only 1? Or is OK as long as it doesn't cause problems?

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Impact of 'Show All Tasks' with Boinc Manager' (Message 1062731) Posted 2 Jan 2011 by Westsail and *Pyxey* Post: I think this is why the show "active" feature was added. I remember having to run a pretty shallow cache when cuda first launched...After we discovered with enough on board boinc.exe would end up running excessively. I thought that was all fixed long ago so haven't given it much thought as of late. I run 5 BM's open all the time on the main system but they are all set only show active. I don't think is any negative impact. <famous last words> The best thing to do is to make sure manager is always closed or minimized. Also only display all tasks when necessary. Just made a test here; "showing all" uses about 10% cpu for BM. GPU's stay loaded 99% but then I am not crunching on all cpu cores so that could be it right there. Thanks for the heads up Jason! Gratz Steve, and here I was already impressed with your rig ;)

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