Posts by Wanabeelee

1) Message boards : Technical News : Kryten woes (Jan 31 2007) (Message 514716)
Posted 7 Feb 2007 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Kna, you know your right. Who can seriously believe we can find the cure for aids, or cancer. Hell, who can seriously belive we can make electrons move accross a filament to make light. Lets all be thankfull everyone in the world is not like KNA.

I'd be more than glad to see a new server with any name. How about another team donate a server to replace klaatu. Then we can replace koloth. Seti could have all new equipment in a year if people would wake up. Save money where you can, and spend it where you have to.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@HOME and SETI.USA and the Wal Street Journal (Message 353029)
Posted 30 Jun 2006 by Profile Wanabeelee
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I now know why I quit reading the seti@home forms. It was a real test of my endurance to read past all the post from people craving attention and get to the meat of the post. I like debate as much as the next guy, but no where in my book dose flaming other posters is a means to start an intelligent debate on a subject.

That's not very responsible :\\ I mean, I thought soldiers were taught to shoot things that would endanger them. But annoy?


I don’t know about soldiers from other parts of the world but the ones in the U.S.A are thought to protect the belief and morels of our country. This can often be done without even shooting a weapon, thanks to the man and women that have already died to ensure that you have the freedom to post your views without the controlling faction dragging you from your home to make an example for others. God Bless the USA!

And to break away from my first complaint and actually get to the meat of this thread… I have to say I was truly disappointed in the article in the WSJ. I joined Seti.Usa on the 22ed of Jun 2006 and believe the team is more than A wolfpack, or Self-righteous American chest thumping patriotism. They / WE are a team. We are a group dedicated to research and friendly compatision. I think it was uninformed to say
with national rivalries mixed in”, and “they don’t want to lose them by switching
(meaning credits and switching projects) being the reasons Seti.Usa crunch seti@home. And
Yes, it's true that even without the Seti@Home crowd bigfooting the world of distributed computing, we probably still would have incurable diseases and dangerous climate change. But we'd be a lot closer to solutions than we are now, don't you think?
implying that Seti.Usa members waist cpu cycles when they could be put to better use. If he would have taken time to look, Seti.Usa is in the top 100 in almost every project, and – I don’t need to say more numbers speak for them-self.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@HOME and SETI.USA and the Wal Street Journal (Message 352963)
Posted 30 Jun 2006 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Sorry, fun message on the Boinc development list in answer to the actual WSJ article. Posted by Carl Christensen, from CPDN:

Also includes the usual "these computers are contributing to global warming" (on CPDN we once calculated 2 million machines simultaneously (our hope & prayer ;-) would be .001% of greenhouse gas emissions). Maybe we should put it in terms of how many SUV's that is?

Interestingly, nobody ever bashes the top supercomputers that are basically running military apps for Donald Rumsfeld's war machine! ;-)


:-)


Top supercomputers are not running military apps. IBM is the creator of the most powerfull supercomputers and you can see what they are up to if you look here. [url=http://www.top500.org/[/url]
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel vs. AMD (Message 166882)
Posted 12 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Was not a sun box but just a plain old intel 486 Dx 66, running novel and doing nothing more than file sharing. We had to find the hub/ server. Was behind a back panel in a cubby. The power supply had gone out on it and the last call they had on record was installing the server 6 years before.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : What is going on? (Message 164765)
Posted 8 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Not that I have looked at it in a while but, the Celerons didn't have as many working pipes as the full blown ver of the chip. I think I remember reading somewhere that if a section didn't test out they would cut the pipes, lower the mhz and sell it for a Celeron or just a slower chip. (In a pipelined architecture, instruction execution overlaps. So even though it might take five clock cycles to execute each instruction, there can be five instructions in various stages of execution simultaneously. That way it looks like one instruction completes every clock cycle.) So it might say it has the same mhz or cycle rate but other cpu's can do more with that same cycle.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Version 2 of faster Linux cruncher (Message 164756)
Posted 8 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Please dont think that I support the "deathly slow and buggy OS", but (got to love but's) microsoft is as buggy as it is because it trys to support so much. Linux is starting to support more but you also find you have to have this kernal or that. Linux is also not an idiot's os. My 6 year old can instal windows xp. (With luck Linux by 7) Not that I am a programer but I do have some friends who do nothing but toss out code all day, and they say more ?mods? or something along that line are availible for windows. As far as networking, I have never used linux for a web/email/file/database/vpn server. I do have two win 2k, two win nt, and two 2003 servers that I know how to run. When Gameing and server start to become common on the linux os you will see more people moving to it. If linux dont reach to far it will stay stable. A few more good interfaces might make it for Idiots. Lets just hope that good Linux distros dont start chargeing like red hat.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Older systems (clusters) (Message 164423)
Posted 7 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Anyone one know a way to make serveral systems all work on the same WU at the same time. I have some older pen 100's that if combined would put out Wu's in a good time.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Wonder if anyone has tried this, if so, how dit it turn out? (Message 164385)
Posted 7 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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I see alot of people wanting to use a cluster to start a diff processes to run on each cpu, but I am more or less looking at systems that might not be able to finish wu's in the 14 day time frame. What if you took 24 pen pro 200's and had them working on a single Wu? Mind you the power bill would go up but in a place you dont pay for power? *smile*
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Sparc Vs. Intel (Message 161551)
Posted 1 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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Those delays seems to be more I/O related, so faster cpus won't help to speed up the process.

Thanks for the info on the sparc cpu. Sparc cpu's being able to handle more processes sounds fair. But if the problem is in data access times, how would having 4 possesses requesting 4 diff files help in I/O times? I know I keep my networks user files on a sep drive array than I do the exchange box cause of the delay in accessing stores when you have to many request for diff data at the same time. Having too many data request on any of my raid 5 arrays seems to have the same effect. Would it not be better to have single processes making more data request in sequence than having 4 making request for data at the same time? I know my nas boxes try to handle multi request at the same time.
lol, I would NEVER have guessed that someone named Sun-Microsystems would favour Sun products :D

But you would think that they might know a thing or two about sun products.
There must be a reason why Web MD has over 20 sun servers in the nashville branch.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Sparc Vs. Intel (Message 161509)
Posted 1 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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The processors are not the problem, it is the directory structure and number of files.

If you are saying that because it the number WFV going up, here if what I posted to another thread:

Ray

I am saying it cause I have seen them turn off some services to speed up others. When asking a disk to access 8 diff places at a time you are going to get delays.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Sparc Vs. Intel (Message 161498)
Posted 1 Sep 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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I dont claim to be an expert on Sun servers. But everything that I have seen show sparc cpu's just not holding any water to intels Zeon's or amd's for that matter. Why have 4 deleter's running on one server with the 4 validaters? Would it not be better to have 2 validaters running on a duel intel and pass info from one box to another? Most of the bench marks I have seen show the 400's in sun's e3500 = about zeons 800mhz in fp and int. But really the question is why have 8 things running on a duel cpu server?
12) Message boards : Number crunching : ****CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ II CLOSED**** (Message 156287)
Posted 24 Aug 2005 by Profile Wanabeelee
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How will certificates be given with the new credit system.





 
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