Greetings All

Well I this might be a as the subject of this thread states.

I recently did a search on my username, cause I remember running the Seti Classic workunits back in 2002 / 2003, cause I remember the running the Screensaver.

I found a couple of matches that was me, but the problem is that they were that long ago, I don't remember the passwords, hell the machine they crunched on was destroyed back in 2005 (I think)

Does this mean there is no avenue to either merge them or claim them back???

I even remember doing some workunits back in 1999/2000, cause I can correlate to where I was and what I was doing, but for the life of me I cannot remember my ever first username. Dead End for that one.

Any pointers would be helpful.

On second thoughts, I know they are my usernames, but that is all I can go on, so thats probably not enough proof.

Cheers

Pretty much the same as me, I'm not interested in what I crunched in 1999, but would love to get the first joining date correct..

P.S. I can't remember Usernames or Passwords that far back, heck I was on dial up internet :/

Steve

Sadly it does mean you can't tie your "Classic" account to your current account one. Thee are a lot of us around :-(

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

HI All

Okay thankyou for the information.

Yep I remember dial-up as well, lol.

Happy crunching and good luck to those who are chasing down the top positions in this years WOW event.

Regards

Sadly it does mean you can't tie your "Classic" account to your current account one. Thee are a lot of us around :-(

It's just strange (Erie) to see a profile back when I was 34 I'm now going on 53 in September lol

These are my ID's but can't find the 1999 one... Top one is current.
Guess it is possible that 11 Jan 2001 was when I started!!

I love neighborhood power outages :( They screw up my crunching...

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Pretty much the same as me, I'm not interested in what I crunched in 1999, but would love to get the first joining date correct..
P.S. I can't remember Usernames or Passwords that far back, heck I was on dial up internet :/
Steve

I had that problem several years ago. When discussion of that with several crunchers on a thread cropped up, IIRC, it was Ozzfan that provided details & again IIRC he provided a link.
I remembered the e-mail used but could not remember the password. On checking via the link the password was not required & I got my classic account linked to the current one.
Possible that avenue is still available? If so, one only needs to remember what e-mail for a specific account was used. IIRC, it could only be used once.
Thanks again Ozzfan. :-)

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Grant
Darwin NT

Don't know where it should go? Stick it here!

Dont mind if I do! LoL.....

+1 :)

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

While chipmakers aren’t done squeezing every last bit of power out of silicon, the life of silicon processors is coming to an end. Despite what the logic of Ant-Man might suggest, we can only miniaturize things so much. That means we need to find something else to take the place of silicon. Researchers have long looked at carbon nanotubes as a potential new material for processors, but it’s a possibility as rife with pitfalls as it is full of potential.

Researchers build RISC-V chip from carbon nanotubes

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Grant
Darwin NT

While chipmakers aren’t done squeezing every last bit of power out of silicon, the life of silicon processors is coming to an end. Despite what the logic of Ant-Man might suggest, we can only miniaturize things so much. That means we need to find something else to take the place of silicon. Researchers have long looked at carbon nanotubes as a potential new material for processors, but it’s a possibility as rife with pitfalls as it is full of potential.

Researchers build RISC-V chip from carbon nanotubes

A couple of interesting Computerphile videos relating to that:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkLAhU74f3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2H9fp9dT8

In the category of "statistical oddity"...
I did an update of the cuda app from cuda91 to cuda101 last week and to satisfy my curiosity regarding performance gain I retrieved the work unit Run Times (and credits) for a sample of 40 validated work units done in each of the apps. When I was doing my pencil/paper arithmetic for the averages I noticed something "odd." Looking at the fractional part of the Run Time figures - one would expect them to be scattered more or less randomly in the range of xx.00 to xx.99 - but they were not!! All of them were less than .50 !! I just now looked at my valid tasks list and of the first 100, ALL are in the range xx.00 to xx.50 and NONE are in the range xx.51 to xx.99 . Is that telling me not to play the lottery, or what? Hmmm... what about other similar hosts, i.e. Linux OS.? Went browsing into the first 100 of other host's task lists, just the validated GPU apps, and found different fraction distributions but no evident pattern.
Host #8569050 (Keith M) completely normal distribution;
Host #8694443 (Siran d'V) completely normal distribution;
Host #8747061 (Richard H) 21 > xx.50 and 79 < xx.50 skewed toward smaller fractions;
Host #8222433 (Steven H) 84 > xx.50 and 16 < xx.50 skewed toward larger fractions;

In the grand scheme of things this all means nothing. But I didn't know where it should go - so I stuck it here!

OBTW - in case anyone was wondering... the cuda101 is 10% faster than the cuda91 app. (On a GTX1060, Nvidia driver 418.74)

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Probably depends on the gpu task species, the amount of cpu support each task got and probably how much load each gpu put on the host system and whether the host has light loading compared to taxed loading. Also probably depends on how often and how many tasks are pulled from the RTS buffer at each scheduler connection. A host that has high throughput is likelier to pull similar tasks in bigger groups than a host with one gpu that pulls only a couple of tasks at a time from the buffer and more likely to get dissimilar task species at each connection. Similar task species would crunch the same and might have similar fractional runtime parts.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I don't think there's any statistical significance in the fractional seconds - we're not timing Olympic sprinters here. And nor are we using that class of timing equipment to record the data.

But it's a cute observation, and I look forward to reading the hypothetical explanations that people put forward. It's probably a subtle message from ET, that we can't quite decode yet.

A FYI for those interested. While surfing the net yesterday morning came across brave.com. Read their blurb, liked it so downloaded it.
It's extremely fast, adblocks automatically, autoplay locked from playing & while on the BBC Cricket at the moment, spotted an icon on top right of toolbar with a little red x. This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources. It does not load them but if you want them, just click on the icon & load them, Nice.

Before an outage & after, the website tends to be slow, so will check tomorrow evening & Wed morning to see the difference between Brave & IE/Firefox.

Yet again sorry to my wingmen, upgraded to windows 10 pro and after updates went in things went wacky (including me)
Seems all settings were put back into default..
Think I have running the way it was, will soon find out..

Steve

An interesting comparison at Phoronix. An 8 year old Extreme Edition i7 3960X compared to some current CPUs- a Ryzen 5 2600X , Ryzen 5 3600X and a Core i7 8700K. 8 years is a very long time in computing years.
The comparison.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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Grant
Darwin NT

Hi Grant,

A walk down memory lane? Boy, those were the days weren't they? I cleaned more than my share of mouse balls, seems like 3000 years ago. lol ;)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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