Posts by Richard Smith

1) Message boards : Number crunching : New tech news item... (Message 150427) Posted 12 Aug 2005 by Richard Smith Post: [quote] So don't keep us in suspense! What is going to be the graceful solution to this? Not sure what you mean by database. Our database is just fine. Faster database won't help the current problem. - Matt Why not store these tiny files in a database rather than seperate files?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : **CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ II CLOSED** (Message 149123) Posted 9 Aug 2005 by Richard Smith Post: How many machines are you people with 1,000,000+ running on? Or was it a bunch of credit from seti clasic? I lost my 500 units in seti classic because I no longer have the domain name I owned when I setup the account. Not that it matters much since my overclocked X2 with optimized client can do 1500WUs each month. Eric Hi! Well, I suppose i'll first mention my milestone of; 4,300,000 cobblywossnames. No credit was carried over from classic. I (amongst others) was here right from the word go and have some 70 PC's crunching under my control. Its all numbers really. Have a look at my computer list to see what I have crunching.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Validators off... till when? (Message 129390) Posted 28 Jun 2005 by Richard Smith Post: Well said, Matt! ;-)
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Poor feedback (again) (Message 129387) Posted 28 Jun 2005 by Richard Smith Post: Oh does it really matter if you don't get a bit of credit for a few days. Seti is still crunching, work units are being sent out, completed units sent back... When the validators come back on they'll be a nice big delivery of credit so whats the big problem? Chill ;-)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Why is my RAC so low? (Message 88846) Posted 21 Mar 2005 by Richard Smith Post: > > You can't add RAC ... It is an odd function ... read up on it in the Glossary > ... Look under Recent Average Credit. > > Well, take a look here... http://www.boincstats.com/stats/user_stats.php?pr=sah&st=0&to=100 You may be right but it looks damned weird.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Why is my RAC so low? (Message 88458) Posted 20 Mar 2005 by Richard Smith Post: I've been noticing that my total RAC has been dropping consistantly over the past month or so which is puzzling as i've actually been adding more crunchers. So, i added up all my PC's RAC and the total is something like 14,500 as apposed to the 6,300 actually listed. How so? I looked at Barry & Max's seti farm and their total RAC is roughly the same as the sum of their PC's individial RAC? Even just adding up the RAC from my top 12 crunchers equals what i'm getting as total RAC! and there are another 60 odd machines behind them! If someone connected with the seti project could assist, it'd be very handy cheers
7) Message boards : Number crunching : New Year brings New #1 Team! (Message 71219) Posted 18 Jan 2005 by Richard Smith Post: Yay! Congratulations to us!! w00t!
8) Message boards : Number crunching : New Year brings New #1 Team! (Message 56785) Posted 23 Dec 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > I'm not from UK, but I love crunching for OcUK ;) > We luuuurve pretty much everyone! The UK bit doesnt mean that much because all have always been welcome! And, as always, we've always been a small team (in terms of active membership) with a keen commitment to the cause! We have good contributers from Holland, the US, and even Germany so no xenophopia here.... cept if your from Mars and planning to exterminate us as some point in the near future... duh da dur.. du da da du da ud...etc.. u get the idea, i get my coat.......
9) Message boards : Number crunching : New Year brings New #1 Team! (Message 56782) Posted 23 Dec 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > > Roll on January 7th (or sooner if Sammael stops slacking :D) > > > > M. > > > Oi! Cheeky Bugger! :p > > Lol I'll give my lackey a slap for y'all, and I'll go in Xmas day for you :p > > Good job I know the alarm codes :p Hehe > I stayed late at work today to make sure everything was in the 'on' position. 'You cant turn your PC off cuz its set to download microsoft updates at 3 in the morning' works for me! Rock 'n roll Team OcUK!!!!
10) Message boards : Number crunching : New Year brings New #1 Team! (Message 56730) Posted 23 Dec 2004 by Richard Smith Post: Greetings from Team OcUK... We'll be back at No1 soon ;-) > > Wow found this in the <a> href="http://everyearthlyhour.com">BOINC > Graphics[/url]. OcUK is the 2nd team > > at the moment, but it appears they are about to become #1. > > > > i think my friends at setigermany > > are thinking others... > > Greetings from Germany NRW > Ulli href="http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=3067">S@h > Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 Â©[/url] > > > > > > >
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Uploading fixed????....NOT! (Message 34536) Posted 9 Oct 2004 by Richard Smith Post: It seems to be work unit related as i've got plenty of machines working fine, and several that have reported the upload error. I guess it'll sort itself out over time. Just need to chill a bit ;-)
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Please Post when you get NEW CREDIT (Message 17386) Posted 25 Aug 2004 by Richard Smith Post: Loadsa credit coming in finally... RAC is up to 3100 now (up about 2000 over the last 48 hours) w00t! :-)
13) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU and Speed! (Message 13034) Posted 28 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > Anybody look at the leaderboards lately for the top computers. i am very > entertained by the one in first place - look at it recent average credit > relative to the others > > http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/top_hosts.php > > 2184 vs 687 for the next XEON w/a a faster proc. It is also online less time > than any of my 20 P4's & XEON's and has completed more work than all my > machines combined. > > I find this very fascinating... > > Anyone have any insight on this? > > Yeah, came from nowhere... simple answer?... its a number of 'merged' computers. I was keeping an eye on Armin Burkhardt cuz he was ahead of me. He had a number of identical machines which suddenly dissapeared to be replaced by that monster. So, essentially, its a cheat. In terms of multiprocessor chips, the Opteron cant be beaten. It scales perfectly as you add processors where as the Xeon doesnt.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : no work from project AGAIN!!! (Message 11238) Posted 22 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > BOINC still sucks. It doesn't woprk well with SETI and MANY users are still > unable to get WU. > > I don't cARE if SETI classic repeats a lot of work. For me, that verification > of the work of others AND my PC is still hunting aliens while you guys talk > about how great this software is WHEN AND ONLY WHEN it's working.....which > doesn't seem to be very f**king often, does it? > > GET SETI CLASSIC and show these losers what you think of BOINC. > > > > With luck, when seti classic closes, you'll be so upset you'll kill yourself.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : no work from project AGAIN!!! (Message 11182) Posted 22 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > > There is no F***ING special treatment for anybody. > > > > I helped write parts of the dang system and I can't get any workunits. > > shesh. > > > > ----- Rom > > BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley > > <img> src="http://seti2.mundayweb.com/stats.php?userID=639&useCached=true"> > > Can't get any work units - who are you kidding. Just checked your profile > > recent average credit 278.61 > > Thats a lot of not getting any WUs. > > Stop the bullshit - - why fo you average 278.61 and I can't get diddley > squat?? > the man from the land down under > That credit is coming from work units that Rom may have completed well over a week ago. Do us all a favour, engage brain and do some reserch (how credit is awarded has been covered countless times on these forums) before posting.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : no work from project AGAIN!!! (Message 11170) Posted 22 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > > There is no F***ING special treatment for anybody. > > > > I helped write parts of the dang system and I can't get any workunits. > > shesh. > > > > ----- Rom > > BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley > > <img> src="http://seti2.mundayweb.com/stats.php?userID=639&useCached=true"> > > > Then explain what one needs to do to get ten WU's per day (instead of > 5439.51). I've got ONE work unit left between three computers with a 5 - 10 > day cache set. > > Looking at the credit leaders, the "big boys" seem to be getting a lot og > credit so they must have WU's to crunch. Arg! You'd think by now people would understand how credit works. 5439.51 WU's a day - blimey that'd be impresive and i wish. I've 67 machines 80% of which have no work at all. So before posting, go away and read up on how boinc operates http://boinc.berkeley.edu has plenty of info on the workings of Boinc. Rich
17) Message boards : Number crunching : no work from project AGAIN!!! (Message 10644) Posted 21 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > Praise BOINC all you like, but let's look at the facts. > > [ranting removed] Someone got a gun pointing to your head making you run Boinc? No. Dont like it? Bugger off elsewhere and stop moaning.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : More status updates needed during difficult periods (Message 10622) Posted 21 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: > Well when I posted that message I thought I had things well in hand, but it > takes awhile for the system to play catchup. > Thanks for keeping us informed matey!
19) Message boards : Number crunching : i just look at the Top Teams at BOINC and wonders (Message 3966) Posted 4 Jul 2004 by Richard Smith Post: Agree totally.!

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