What did you start with?

Message boards : Number crunching : What did you start with?
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

Previous · 1 · 2 · 3

AuthorMessage
User Two
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 23 Nov 99
Posts: 4
Credit: 23,530,155
RAC: 14
United States
Message 1477914 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 9:39:35 UTC

I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake...

U2
ID: 1477914 · Report as offensive
Profile BilBg
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 May 07
Posts: 3720
Credit: 9,385,827
RAC: 0
Bulgaria
Message 1477921 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 10:36:37 UTC - in response to Message 1477914.  

I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450.

It must have been an ABIT BP6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6
 


- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 
ID: 1477921 · Report as offensive
Profile BilBg
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 May 07
Posts: 3720
Credit: 9,385,827
RAC: 0
Bulgaria
Message 1477925 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 10:54:57 UTC - in response to Message 1477432.  

My host 1033899 is what I used all through SETI Classic and came to SETI_BOINC with. In that time period it had 80 MB RAM, I upgraded to 128 MB when SETI@home Enhanced was being tested at SETI Beta.
                                                                   Joe

Did you use an registry 'hack' so your CPU type is shown as "200 MHz. Pentium MMX OverDrive"?

I think 'old' BOINC versions get this info from (on XP, the place may be different on Windows 95):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0]

... and 'new' BOINC versions - from CPUID
 


- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 
ID: 1477925 · Report as offensive
Profile HAL9000
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 11 Sep 99
Posts: 6534
Credit: 196,805,888
RAC: 57
United States
Message 1478032 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 16:18:31 UTC - in response to Message 1477914.  

I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake...

U2

Oh the days of the BP6. Did you ever get the adapters to run dual coppermine cellerons or go for the single tualatin?
SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[
ID: 1478032 · Report as offensive
Josef W. Segur
Volunteer developer
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 30 Oct 99
Posts: 4504
Credit: 1,414,761
RAC: 0
United States
Message 1478034 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 16:26:19 UTC - in response to Message 1477925.  

My host 1033899 is what I used all through SETI Classic and came to SETI_BOINC with. In that time period it had 80 MB RAM, I upgraded to 128 MB when SETI@home Enhanced was being tested at SETI Beta.
                                                                   Joe

Did you use an registry 'hack' so your CPU type is shown as "200 MHz. Pentium MMX OverDrive"?

I think 'old' BOINC versions get this info from (on XP, the place may be different on Windows 95):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0]

... and 'new' BOINC versions - from CPUID

Yes I did, well spotted. Win95 didn't set that registry key, so the CPU type was "unknown" without some help. I chose to add the key with that human readable description.
                                                                   Joe
ID: 1478034 · Report as offensive
Profile CalicoSkies
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 20 May 99
Posts: 31
Credit: 1,352,098
RAC: 4
United States
Message 1478124 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 22:11:03 UTC

I joined SETI@Home in 1999 using a 300MHz AMD K6-2 system with 32MB RAM that I built. It would usually take maybe 3-4 days to complete a work unit.
ID: 1478124 · Report as offensive
Profile morpheus
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 5 Jun 99
Posts: 71
Credit: 52,480,762
RAC: 33
Germany
Message 1478153 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 1:10:31 UTC

Started with an Pentium (P54CS) 200 MHz, 96 MB RAM and Win95B (later Win98SE).
Even my older dual core smartphone is x times faster today. ^^
.:morpheus:.
ID: 1478153 · Report as offensive
Batter Up
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 5 May 99
Posts: 1946
Credit: 24,860,347
RAC: 0
United States
Message 1478210 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 4:26:47 UTC

I don't remember what I started with; most likely whatever the "Wintel" flavor of 1999 was. A new PC was the norm every two years or so back then.

The earliest computer I have listed in "my computers" is an "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz" with Rambus DRAM.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2360001
I did some rough math and what I use today crunches 250 times faster.
ID: 1478210 · Report as offensive
Profile TimeLord04
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Mar 06
Posts: 21140
Credit: 33,933,039
RAC: 23
United States
Message 1478904 - Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 0:24:48 UTC

I started with three AMD K6-2, 350's, a K6-300, (later upgraded to an Intel P-III, 600), with one system on Win 2K, and the rest on Win XP Pro SP-2. The K6-2, 350's all had 10GB HDs, and I don't remember what HD was in the P-III, 600...

Excelsior, K6-2, 350

Andromeda, K6-2, 350

Intrepid, P-III, 600

One of the K6-2, 350's is now missing from my computer list...

Then I got a hold of my first Athlon system:

Excalibur, Athlon (original... Speed: Unknown/Don't remember)

Now, I only crunch on two machines:

Constellation, Athlon XP 1.79 GHz

Farragut, Athlon II

Constellation is on Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4, and Farragut is on Win 7 Home Premium x64.

(Probably more than you wanted to know...)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
ID: 1478904 · Report as offensive
Profile Oz
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 6 Jun 99
Posts: 233
Credit: 200,655,462
RAC: 212
United States
Message 1478940 - Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 3:08:43 UTC

@ Link,

You must be right - looking back in the pile of "spare parts" it was more likely a DX4-100 or a slot1 350 or 400... I found a slot1 800 as well with a triple fan cooler - Ha!
Member of the 20 Year Club



ID: 1478940 · Report as offensive
kittyman Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jul 00
Posts: 51478
Credit: 1,018,363,574
RAC: 1,004
United States
Message 1479058 - Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 9:37:10 UTC

Hmmmm....if memory serves, the cpu cache was a separate chip on the mobo, which I replaced. 233mmx. The board sqwaucked at much over stock.

Baby's first mobo...LOL.
"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

ID: 1479058 · Report as offensive
Dr Who Fan
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 8 Jan 01
Posts: 3346
Credit: 715,342
RAC: 4
United States
Message 1480525 - Posted: 22 Feb 2014, 7:16:04 UTC

I started with Classic SETI on January 8, 2001 and moved to BOINC when Classic SETI shut down with the following hardware:

  • 200 Mhz Intel Pentium w/MMX
  • 32 MB RAM
  • 2 GB Hard Drive (for Operating System), 20 GB Hard Drive (for Programs & Data)
  • Windows 95 B (OSR2)
  • 56K Dial-up modem (Later upgraded to DSL when it became available)
  • 3rd party program (don't recall name) that allowed me to download multiple SETI Classic workunits at a time.


ID: 1480525 · Report as offensive
User Two
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 23 Nov 99
Posts: 4
Credit: 23,530,155
RAC: 14
United States
Message 1480551 - Posted: 22 Feb 2014, 8:33:40 UTC - in response to Message 1478032.  

I ran the dual Coppermines. I wish I could recall what I had to do to get the cpus to each run the old seti classic work units. But what the heck, I couldn't even recall the motherboard manufacturer. <grin>.
ID: 1480551 · Report as offensive
Profile BMH
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 May 99
Posts: 419
Credit: 166,294,083
RAC: 125
United Kingdom
Message 1480637 - Posted: 22 Feb 2014, 14:49:59 UTC

My first computer to run SETI@home was an AMD K6-2 368MHz with 128MB RAM, running first Windows 98, then later ME, and then I think I squeezed XP on it.
Brian.
ID: 1480637 · Report as offensive
Profile Gonad the Destroyer®©™
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 6 Aug 99
Posts: 204
Credit: 12,463,705
RAC: 0
United States
Message 1480672 - Posted: 22 Feb 2014, 16:52:01 UTC

I started with a Pentium 233 overclocked to 266 w0000t!!!!!
64 megs of ram, she was a screamer......
I read about SETI in Maximum PC magazine, and new I had to take part....
ID: 1480672 · Report as offensive
Previous · 1 · 2 · 3

Message boards : Number crunching : What did you start with?


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.