Posts by Astlor.ca.SETI@home

1) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : I finally got my Sith name... (Message 859366)
Posted 29 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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You have all apparently spent time studying under the tutilage of Darth Solant. Darth Fluenza is not amused, but he's too busy slagging off Darth Experienced dor spending too much time with Dath Ternet.

Noone has seen or heard of Darth Trovert since the school days.
2) Message boards : Technical News : Hole in the Rock (Jan 22 2009) (Message 858427)
Posted 27 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Oh the things you learn. Give me Nicole DeBoer instead any day. Not that I'd stalk, or even have seen everything my "fave celebs" have done, or really even know all that much about them...

...hmm. Guess I'm not the crazed fan type. :D I take it I'm a little late to the game around here. Seems most of the regulars all know eachother! (And have RACs than me!)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : 6.08, Cuda, and yay! (Message 858012)
Posted 26 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Well, I've been running 6.08 for a while now, ever since it came out in main. It runs good, no need to abort any "stuck" units, and FINALLY that 8600 on my HTPC/File Server is used for SOMETHING.

My system, based on workunits completed per day seems to have only one thing to say about this new Cuda 6.08:

OM NOM NOM NOM

Have a great week!
4) Message boards : Technical News : Hole in the Rock (Jan 22 2009) (Message 858010)
Posted 26 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Actually speaking of Misfit, who is misfit's avatar? The face seems familiar, but I can't place what movie it's from.

Also: don't blame Canada. Blame our Prime Minister, Harper. Please. The more you blame him for, the better the chance the twits in my province will actually vote against him next election.

*grumble*
I swear, if you painted a pig blue, and ran it for election, they'd elect it in this province...
*/grumble*
5) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : I finally got my Sith name... (Message 858008)
Posted 26 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Is that before, or after the array shuts down due to lack of funding? :(
6) Message boards : Politics : Happy Obama Day Everyone! (Message 855706)
Posted 20 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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I may not be American, but as a citizen of the world to all other citizens of the world: Happy Obama Day to you all.

(Thank the Gods, today is the day GW is gone.)
7) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Payola... (Don't I wish!) (Message 854118)
Posted 16 Jan 2009 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Thank you very much for this Eric. It is nice to know that the issues we are experiencing are being looked at, and even nicer to know that I am not alone in experiencing them. It is nicer to know that a potential fixed client is on it's way.

To all my wingmen that suffered at the hands of the malfunctionning CUDA client and my possibly insane GPU, I am deeply sorry. We'll give it another go with teh new client, shall we?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Slowest Number Cruncher? (Message 106363)
Posted 2 May 2005 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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Well, I am lucky: I have electricity included in my rent at the appartment I am in. So the price/performance comes strictly on the issue of hardware. Or does it?

Most of the machines I have around here are either too old to be considered usefull by me, or supplied by work for one purpose or another. To be frank, the only machines I don't run boinc on anymore are a) Laptops, (they spend too much time off-line,) and b) my media centre PC, (Little Duron 1.3 that seems to freakout around 70% loading over an hour. Trust a very early ECS chip/mobo combo to have bad thermals.)

Conversely, I can have a reasoned discussion on the following: as they are the machines I have chosen to keep running BOINC.

Athlon 2000+ /512MB
Athlon 2600+ /1024MB
2x Athlon 2500+ /512MB
2x P4 3.06Gh8z machines /1024MB-2048MB
3x Dual P-IIIs (approx 1Ghz/chip) /512-1024Mb
P4 2.8Ghz /512MB
Dual Opteron 244 /6144mb

Well, for machines undergoing regular daily use, for 8hrs a day, (by regular daily use I mean office apps, and the interweb,) the suprising performance point is the Athlons.

Athlon 2000-2600s are cheap like borsht, and seem to out-perform all intel boxes. I can pick up these boxes at my local PC store for 400$ Canadian, specced like this: Sempron 2800+ (roughly seems to be equivalent to a Athlon [Barton] 2200,) 80GB HDD, 256MB RAM, 52x CDRW, Keyboard/Mouse/Spkrs, and everything else integrated on board. We call 'em 400$ wonder turkeys, becuase they are damned fine office machines, and have yet to give up under stress.

After careful analysis of all the above listed machines, I must state my disapointment with the P4s. The Dual P-IIIs are NICE price/performance boxes, spitting out a more than satisfactory amount of WUs, despite moderate loading during the day.

The opteron has only been running a couple of days, but I am frankly, quite disapointed in it, when stacked up price/performace against my 400$ wonder-turkeys.

I am consider building a farm out of them. I can get them for about 200$ a pop if I do away with harddrive, case, and downgrade the CDRW to a basic DVD-ROM or 52X CD-ROM. Run like noppix on 'em and start a SETI stack.

What do you people think? For my first SETI stack, are stripped 400$ wonder-turkeys the way to go?

9) Message boards : Number crunching : When you know you've been at this too long... (Message 55920)
Posted 19 Dec 2004 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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> How about starting the BOINC crunchers anonymous?
>
> I'm still a bit pissed off because my employer doesn't allow me to run BOINC
> in the test systems because of the bandwidth it consumes.
>
> I ran SETI classic on them and that was about 400MB a day. About 200WU's a
> day.
>

YOu know, i never even considered how much BANDWIDTH Seti was consuming. I leave my windows open in the dead of winter to "vent" the appartment, (Free electricity! yay,) I worry about drying out the caps on my mobos. I worry about all things related to running a CPU at 100% for 3 years solid. (Hold together baby, hold together....) but never even CONSIDERED the bandwidth. This actually may explain a great deal. Hmmmm.....

As to BOINC crunchers Anonymous....that sounds GRAND. So...what say we make a time/IRC channel/server and get togther? >)

All together though, it's nice to know I'm not alone. After all, I was having trouble justifying the expense of the Quad-opti to myself...but I chalk came to terms with it on the grounds that "if I ever need to edit video, there's the box to do it on...."


Good luck to all! BTW: What are you guys sitting at stats wise?
10) Message boards : Number crunching : When you know you've been at this too long... (Message 54673)
Posted 17 Dec 2004 by Profile Astlor.ca.SETI@home
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I seem to have grown addicted ot Seti@Home. I sysmin a small business, and have converted every PC that is reasonable into a set cruncher. Every home PC, (including the one I can't phsyically find, but somehow is on my lan, and responds to VNC,) are running Seti@home. I end up semi-obsessively checking my Seti stats once or twice a day, mentally trying to urge my computers just a bit faster, wanting to climb that little bit higher.

(http://www.setisynergy.com/stats/boinc-stats.php?id=64433)

I am, according to the above site, currnetly 678 in terms of total credit, and 225 in terms of average credit. (Surely not, there must be many people with more comptuers than I...)

I guess the question or rambling story is this: am I alone? Some cosmic stats-obsessed freak? Or are there others out there who check thier stats every day, hoping to crush the others and rise the top of the list? Speak up! Be heard! What are people's goals here? I aim to be in the top 100 Set Total and Recent Average Credit. I am saving up to buy a quad opteron to add to my pile just ot achieve this goal. Is there anyone else who is doing the same? Let's hear from you!





 
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