Posts by Francis Noel
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Number crunching :
CLOSED* SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIV *CLOSED
(Message 1302723)
Posted 200 days ago by  Francis Noel
I'd like to first congratulate everyone for their respective accomplishments: cheers! Special winks and nudges (or eggs and spam if preferred) to the people having reached the Magic Million™. I'v posted in the milestone thread before but this here post is extra shpeshial. I've hit 30M and thats grand but the good stuff today comes courtesy of BoincStats: I have reached the World Top300 for S@H. I have reached the Canadian Top10 for S@H. This is it, folks. I will keep on crunching for S@H until there is nothing left to crunch but I do not see how I can challenge the high rollers up in the next ranks. I am therefore done setting goals and I shall crunch because there is crunching to do and here I am...unless I win the lottery or something...then I am coming for you KittyMan :) |
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Number crunching :
Linux x64 Cuda Multibeam (x41g)
(Message 1188191)
Posted 486 days ago by Francis Noel
Hello optimizers. Should I be watching this thread for further annoucements and developements until the "official" build is released ? If this thread was to be considered closed sorry for bumping it. Anyways if it is of interest to you to see how the app behaves 'in the wild' I have this guy running x41g along with AKV8: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6376472 So far everything has validated. CentOS 6.2, GTX460, C2D. No library issues with the app. Using BOINC 6.10.58 because 6.12.34 complains about missing version info in libcurl. |
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News :
2 Billion Results
(Message 1169274)
Posted 563 days ago by Francis Noel
Hooray for wrap-arounds ! gratz |
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Panic Mode On (59) Server problems?
(Message 1166621)
Posted 572 days ago by Francis Noel
Looks like shorties are clogging up the pipes... |
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GTX460 driver
(Message 1166620)
Posted 572 days ago by Francis Noel
I am at 28562 on my dual-GTX460 box. Got it because that version removes some glitches in Rage. Works fine so far for S@H with Lunatics x38g. |
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PSU on the bottom or top of the case and why
(Message 1165861)
Posted 575 days ago by Francis Noel
I have both kinds. I have noticed that all cases designed to have a bottom mounted PSU have an exhaust fan somewhere near the top to compensate for the PSU fan(s) that shoud be there according to the ATX specs. I've not seen any cooling benefits / drawbacks to having the PSU at the bottom, as long as the case is properly designed. In my own extreme case the PSU's internal fan sits 1/4 inch from the second GTX460's cooler, so it sucks all of its heat outside which is nice. This is local to my setup and irrelevant to a general idea of +/- to this configuration :P. The major difference I have noticed is cable management : When using a powerful monolithic PSU ( monolithic meaning no modular cabling ) all of the extra unused wires and leads can be set down neatly at the bottom of the case, out of the way. With a top mounted unit they hang down over the mobo or have to be coaxed into a 5.25 bay or something. That would be a plus. On the minus side manufacturers assume that the PSU and CPU power connector will be quite close to one another. See the ATX form factor puts the CPU close to the top, left-hand corner of the mobo, more or less under where the PSU is s'posed to be. The idea being that the PSU fans would blow out the CPU heat. The result is we get CPU power leads that are often too short to reach the CPU power connector when the PSU is mounted at the bottom of even modestly high cases. Extensions are available but knowing in advance helps one to be prepared. Other comments in this thread are also valid, just thought I'd pitch in with my cabling thing. When ATX appeared there was a specification for positive-pressure cases where the PSU fan would blow *inside* the case. This allowed for passive CPU coolers where airflow was provided by the PSU. Can you imagine that ? |
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What's the best for my 64-bit AMD in Windows 7
(Message 1154049)
Posted 613 days ago by Francis Noel
No problem ! There is one thing you should be aware of. When running a standard "stock" setup if a project (I.E. S@H) makes a newer science app available your BOINC client will automagically download and install it, keeping you updated. Installing optimized science applications will disable this feature and make it your job to watch out for and install newer apps when they become available. No big deal as the process is the same as you just did (get latest installer, run it, crunch) but you need to be diligent and do some housekeeping once in a while...say at least every six months. |
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What's the best for my 64-bit AMD in Windows 7
(Message 1154041)
Posted 613 days ago by Francis Noel
No need to wait, really. The optimized apps will pick up where the stock ones stopped so you can go ahead and install at your leisure. |
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Upload server down?
(Message 1153921)
Posted 614 days ago by Francis Noel
2011-09-19 12:08:03 SETI@home Message from server: Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance This is new... |
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Cons Vs. Pros - BOINC Manager(s)
(Message 1153719)
Posted 614 days ago by Francis Noel
One major Con of having multiple clients is that one would not know what the other(s) is/are doing. Each would assume to have the machine to itself and thus projects would compete for ressources. This would be very, very inefficient. Having one client allows for sharing, management and scheduling. As an example imagine running BOINC with a few projects in it and then adding some other DC infrastructure like Folding@Home on the host. BOth the BOINC projects and F@H would compete for the same CPU. |
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What's the best for my 64-bit AMD in Windows 7
(Message 1153714)
Posted 614 days ago by Francis Noel
Hi Mark Fot your CPU based on what specs I could read from Wikipedia I'd go with the Lunatics' Unified Installed and select SSE3_AMD. A better way to know would be to head to cpuid(dot)com and get the latest version of CPU-Z. That way you can know for sure what your CPU is capable of. SSE2 would also be a safe bet if you do not feel like sleuthing around. As for you GPU I have no experience with ATI's. I consider 512Mb to be the minimal with nVidia cards but I'll let someone familiar with the Radeons field this one. |
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New Cruncher not getting work
(Message 1147078)
Posted 634 days ago by Francis Noel
Hi Brett I also added some new hosts on Friday. They have just shown up in my profile tonight : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6153105 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6152865 I attribute the signup delay to the scheduler being offline/swamped over the week-end. Damnn shame there is no work too, because I have these boxes available for "benchmarking" purposes for just a few days. Dual Hyperthreaded Hexacores anyone ? |
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Technical News :
Drive (Aug 11 2011)
(Message 1141266)
Posted 647 days ago by Francis Noel
Touring with SC3 ! Dude... What can I say ? Congratulations on having a kick-ass life, Matt. I am genuinely happy for you and I truly hope you enjoy the experience. I love it when Good Things happen to Good People. This is beautiful. |
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Über promo on 512M GT 220 card at newegg
(Message 1101455)
Posted 757 days ago by Francis Noel
Just a quick heads-up. Awww :( I got a tracking number for my order so the deal was real. No idea how many they had on-hand but I assume they sold like proverbial hotcakes at 8$ a pop + shipping. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up. |
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Über promo on 512M GT 220 card at newegg
(Message 1101437)
Posted 758 days ago by Francis Noel
Just a quick heads-up. Yes it is. I placed an order :D. The mail-in rebate is restricted to USA and Canada only though :( . |
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Über promo on 512M GT 220 card at newegg
(Message 1101402)
Posted 758 days ago by Francis Noel
Just a quick heads-up. 512M GT220 regular price is 60$. Currently "instant" 20$ off and 32$ mail-in rebates. 5$ shipping. Effective price is somewhere around 12$ I know this is a low-end card but it does CUDA and can run with 50 watts so I can drop this in my low-end boxes to replace the onboard non-CUDA stuff. Thought some of you might be interested. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500129 |
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Id be more willing to crunch Seti@ home if the credits were increased
(Message 1092275)
Posted 784 days ago by Francis Noel
Before Sten Arni says it ... Aye IMHO once the credit ratio has been set for a project, it is pretty much set in stone from there on. Credits keep track of how much work has been contributed. What do 1 million credits earned in five years of crunching mean if the multiplier gets changed down the road and the same amount can be accreted with 25% of the original effort ? S@H is about science and I am deeply impressed with the project's accomplishments. Even if no signal is found the project has advanced astro and computer sciences tremendously for comparatively insignificant costs, and that is why it gets my cycles. To me credits fall into the statistics category and, like baseball, the stats are sometimes more interesting than the games. The fact that multiple external stat sites exist proves the point. I like my S@H credits just the way they are :). |
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Computering bits free to good home
(Message 1085181)
Posted 808 days ago by Francis Noel
This is spooky... I've been looking around for a 2940UW for the past three days.. I'd gladly take it off your hands but international shipping would have to be arranged as I live in Canada. Complicated :/ These things go for 12$ on ebay so really its not an issue, I was just ping-ed enough by the coïncidence that I had to say something :D |
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Cafe SETI :
Mystery Photo Game 12
(Message 1082552)
Posted 816 days ago by Francis Noel
I think that might be the Laviolette Bridge across the Saint Laurence River in Quebec. Correct ! Original caption said this was taken early in the morning, in 2005, at -30 celsius. |
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Cafe SETI :
Mystery Photo Game 12
(Message 1082415)
Posted 817 days ago by Francis Noel
Nope, mushy civilian :D Bridges seem to be in favor for this game so lets try this one :  Name that Bridge ! |
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