Posts by maikj

1) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 937252)
Posted 2 Oct 2009 by Profile maikj
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Free (virtual) Baileys and Chocolate Cake for new Members!
2) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 936080)
Posted 26 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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Ulrik, you need to talk to the SyFy Channel. They might give us our own Series.
Starship Sicituradastra. I think it would be a hit!!

Feel free to join our crew! We have many positions to fill!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stuff 4 x GTX295 in one box (Message 935502)
Posted 24 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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Now, where do i get 6.6.37 ?? The latest release is .36
Nevermind, found it...
4) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 935402)
Posted 23 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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Well said!! I havent found ET yet... but i found many new friends!
5) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stuff 4 x GTX295 in one box (Message 935396)
Posted 23 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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Yes, it is a common error/bug when you use a 64bit OS. Restarting the client usually frees up the memory. Strangely, it mostly happens on tuesday after the outage.
But yes... off topic..
6) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stuff 4 x GTX295 in one box (Message 935162)
Posted 22 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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A friend of mine ordered one. He works at a wholesale company...
I will let you guys know when he gets it..

according to novatech the size of the mars edition is the same as a standard 295, and as they sell both i would hope they are correct...

Card Dimensions 10.5" (L) x 3.75" (W) x 1.5" (H) listed for both mars edition and standard single pcb asus 295. Could well be wrong though!

7) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stuff 4 x GTX295 in one box (Message 935161)
Posted 22 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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i am building a cruncher


Very cool & thx for the part specifics. A few questions:

(1) What speed cpu & will you overclock & how much ram ya going with? I was shocked that 4g can be had for about $99 now (times are a changin). I was also reading Tom's hardware, and they said that with Nitrogen cooling they were able to overclock an i7 to above 5 ghz (I know, the reliability guys just cringed).

You dont need to OC the CPU. The CPU is pretty much just feeding the Cuda Processors.

(2) Electricity aside, what will all the parts cost final (including drives, etc)

You are usually around $3000 plus...

(3) From the day you project enlist it, what do you estimate your peak RAC will be on that box within the first 30 days?

Good question.. While i am waiting for the rest of my watercooling, this machine already crunches with a i7 920 and 2x GTX 295 for 10 days now with a RAC of 22300 and climbing. However It will take at least 20+ days for the pending wu's to level out.

(4) What will you name it? I was gonna name my next system "WU-Man" just because of it's horrible sci-fi cliche value, but thought better of it ;-)


I name all my machines after stargate and stargate atlantis races. However, this machine is called astra_enigma until it is fully built
8) Message boards : Number crunching : How to stuff 4 x GTX295 in one box (Message 934985)
Posted 21 Sep 2009 by Profile maikj
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Well, i am building a cruncher with 4x GTX295 Hydro Copper right now. It took a lot of research to come up with the right parts. Motherboard is a ASUS P6T7,
The Case is a Thermaltake Armor+ with 10 Expansion Slots. There are 3 separate Cooling Loops with 2Fan Radiators. (2xGTX, 2xGTX, CPU/Mem) The Power Supply is a X-3 1600W with a secondary 600W PSU. The total power consumption comes to about 1350W. So 1.35kW x 24 32.4kWh/day
With $0.11kWh average in the US, you are at $3.54 / day or $106.92 per month.
That doesnt include the cost for AC...

I am hoping to finish this machine soon. I am just waiting for the last water cooling parts.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Remote Controlling multiple machines at one IP (Message 921376)
Posted 26 Jul 2009 by Profile maikj
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Just try logmein.com, the free version
10) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 913305)
Posted 2 Jul 2009 by Profile maikj
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Thank you to all of you.. This is just a great team. Friendly folks that love to crunch..
11) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 912886)
Posted 30 Jun 2009 by Profile maikj
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Yes, and we speak english, norwegian, danish, german, swedish, hungarian, polish, klingon & ferenghi!!! Come and join!
12) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Join Team Sicituradastra. (Message 911669)
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by Profile maikj
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Yes, and we are truly international!





 
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