TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

If I remember correctly it should still run with other people logged in. The only thing is that anyone who isn't the installer will get an error message if they try to run the Manager. But think it still runs. Gonna go look this up.

EDIT: Think you'll find this page useful: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X

Thanks, I'll check that out

Oh man, that's awesome. If only I was allowed to bring the 41 Core 2 Duo E8400s in my office online.

That would be this much PPD per day
http://img.techpowerup.org/101028/Capture232.jpg!

PPD per day? :shadedshu
Points per day per day? Points (per day)^2

But that would be awesome

And I will likely have another couple K PPD coming next week (Macs)...IIRC each has a ~2ghz Dual-Core Intel

 

[mjkmike]

Rampage or not you have to luv the outcome. Crunch on and Crunch Harder!
That sound dirty, sorry BP.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks, I'll check that out


PPD per day? :shadedshu
Points per day per day? Points (per day)^2

But that would be awesome

And I will likely have another couple K PPD coming next week (Macs)...IIRC each has a ~2ghz Dual-Core Intel

Bro, are you going to put every computer in your state to crunch?


Fine with me though

 

[[Ion]]

Bro, are you going to put every computer in your state to crunch?


Fine with me though

Hah, I'd love to

For now thought, it's just going to be about half a dozen at work and 2 dozen at school. Maybe closer to 3doz @ school @ some point.

The X31 is back in operation, I had to nuke my Ubuntu install (still don't know what happened) and reinstall. Oh and I decided I might as well upgrade it to a gigabyte of memory while I was messing with it. When it's doing the C4CW and FAAH WUs, it ran dangerously close (~480mb) to the 512 it had...this should fix it


Oh, and the best thing, normally w/ my i7 and the rigs @ work, I have about 3 or 4 pages of WUs pending validation. Now? 11

Already have 5 pages and counting of valids from the school farm:

Next update should be amazing

It's a shame IMO that CEP2 is Linux-only ATM, the school really has the bandwidth to be amazing at it, even with 24 systems (at the rate these things go through WUs, no way our home connection could handle CEP2)....but school:

 

[[Ion]]

Only the 1st update of the day so far and I'm already a good bit over what I got yesterday:

 

[Chicken Patty]

amazing job dude

 

[[Ion]]

Thanks, I'm really looking forward to this

They're pulling down WUs at an astonishing rate....I didn't expect 48 threads to go through so much work

EDIT: No2 pie!

 

[Chicken Patty]

...and your numbers are going to get better when the new rigs get fully up to speed number 1 is definitely possible.

 

[[Ion]]

...and your numbers are going to get better when the new rigs get fully up to speed number 1 is definitely possible.

If/when I get the Macs up, I think that No1 could certainly be possible w/ the i7 & 2 other quads (maybe even without the quads).

Without them, I think it could still happen on occasion, the farm is ~13k PPD, and I've been managing ~5-6k normally. So that's ~18k, which is ever so slightly above what Mindweaver does

It'll probably be ~10 days before I know, by the time that everything is going full force, I'm probably going to be w/ XS for the week, so I'll have to wait until I get back to see

 

[Chicken Patty]

I finally received the email for the contest. As much as Dave (movieman) has been a remarkable person and I would love to help him out I was once treated ridiculously stupid when approaching them for a suggestion. Therefore XS is not getting my help. Sorry, I know we received help from the XS refugees, but one person spoiled it for the rest.

 

[theonedub]

What kind of contest are they having?

 

[(FIH) The Don]

PC atm, i had a huge water leak in the apartment a week or so ago, so im moving around a bit the next couple of weeks, and because of that i stashed my rig at a friends place until i get my situation sorted

meaning no crunching or folding from my rig the next month or so

i got this lappie for 350$
c2d p8700 2.53ghz
HD4650 1gb
2x2gb
500gig HD

 

[theonedub]

PC atm, i had a huge water leak in the apartment a week or so ago, so im moving around a bit the next couple of weeks, and because of that i stashed my rig at a friends place until i get my situation sorted

meaning no crunching or folding from my rig the next month or so

i got this lappie for 350$
c2d p8700 2.53ghz
HD4650 1gb
2x2gb
500gig HD
http://img.techpowerup.org/101029/028.jpg

Nice pick up

 

[Chicken Patty]

Here's the email:

Feel free to change as you see fit.
Thanks,
Dave

WCG Supercomputer run part 2 - November 1-8,2010

Hello,
As most of you know back in May our WCG team made a one week push to show the computational power that resides
with the members of XtremeSystems.
It was one heck of a week.
We maxxed out that week at app 18,000,000 WCG points per day from a previous average of app 7,000,000PPD
A lot of good people came to help and many stayed.
For that you have my thanks more than I can say in words.
We're now averaging app 12,000,000 PPD and with the cooler weather now here we want to give it another shot.
The plan is to bring everyone we can onto the WCG team for the week of November 1-8.
We'd like to see the team break at least 30 million PPD during that time.
Can it be done? The answer is yes and easily if you help.

Think on this a minute:
There are over 135,000 registered members on XS.
If every one of those 135,000 members brought just ONE old P4-3000 or AMD X2 to the team for that week at 2500PPD each we'd do 337,500,000 PPD and that my friends is more than any Supercomputer that exists in the world can do by a factor of three.
Now factor in that most of you have machines that can easily out do those old P4's and AMD X2's we have the opportunity here to make one heck of a statement while doing good research into Cancer,Muscular Dystropy,AIDS and other diseases.
Since the way WCG works is based on a quorum system( WU sent to at least 2 people to make sure the science is correct) the smart move is to get the app running at least 4-7 days in advance of the November 1 date.

We have an excellent How-To on setting up WCG on your machine(s) located in the XS WCG section here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=230613
plus any questions you might have can be answered by myself or any of the other team members in that section.
Thanks for reading and we look forward to having you with us.
Movieman

 

[[Ion]]

What kind of contest are they having?

Trying to get their WCG PPD as high as possible for a week

PC atm, i had a huge water leak in the apartment a week or so ago, so im moving around a bit the next couple of weeks, and because of that i stashed my rig at a friends place until i get my situation sorted

meaning no crunching or folding from my rig the next month or so

i got this lappie for 350$
c2d p8700 2.53ghz
HD4650 1gb
2x2gb
500gig HD
http://img.techpowerup.org/101029/028.jpg

Stupid-awesome deal!

There's a very real chance next week I'll be trading my Thinkpad X31 (PentM) for a Macbook (specs unknown), a friend of mine @ school hates Macs and would rather have a PC. Even though it's 7 years old

Whatever, the Mac should crunch much faster (plan on running XP on it)

 

[theonedub]

Here's the email:

Feel free to change as you see fit.
Thanks,
Dave

WCG Supercomputer run part 2 - November 1-8,2010

Hello,
As most of you know back in May our WCG team made a one week push to show the computational power that resides
with the members of XtremeSystems.
It was one heck of a week.
We maxxed out that week at app 18,000,000 WCG points per day from a previous average of app 7,000,000PPD
A lot of good people came to help and many stayed.
For that you have my thanks more than I can say in words.
We're now averaging app 12,000,000 PPD and with the cooler weather now here we want to give it another shot.
The plan is to bring everyone we can onto the WCG team for the week of November 1-8.
We'd like to see the team break at least 30 million PPD during that time.
Can it be done? The answer is yes and easily if you help.

Think on this a minute:
There are over 135,000 registered members on XS.
If every one of those 135,000 members brought just ONE old P4-3000 or AMD X2 to the team for that week at 2500PPD each we'd do 337,500,000 PPD and that my friends is more than any Supercomputer that exists in the world can do by a factor of three.
Now factor in that most of you have machines that can easily out do those old P4's and AMD X2's we have the opportunity here to make one heck of a statement while doing good research into Cancer,Muscular Dystropy,AIDS and other diseases.
Since the way WCG works is based on a quorum system( WU sent to at least 2 people to make sure the science is correct) the smart move is to get the app running at least 4-7 days in advance of the November 1 date.

We have an excellent How-To on setting up WCG on your machine(s) located in the XS WCG section here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=230613
plus any questions you might have can be answered by myself or any of the other team members in that section.
Thanks for reading and we look forward to having you with us.
Movieman

I see, its more like a challenge then?

 

[Chicken Patty]

Yep.

 

[[Ion]]

I see, its more like a challenge then?

Yep...it seems like they're planning on doing it twice a year

And Nov is much better than May IMO

 

[Chicken Patty]

Yup, cooler weather. As mentioned by Dave himself.

 

[theonedub]

The idea sounds familiar. Maybe someone suggested to do something similar here as well?

Good luck to them.

 

[[Ion]]

I got more points last update than I did yesterday...and there's still (2?) updates to go

A mere 8.6k away from 1.5mil.....might actually be able to make that today

 

[Chicken Patty]

I see you passing me very soon! but also

 

[[Ion]]

I see you passing me very soon! but also

I'd give you ~2 months, I doubt I'll be gaining on you at much more than 10k a day

I don't think the help that you offered to help me get to 2mil this year is going to be needed @ this rate

 

[Chicken Patty]

You should help me instead ...at this rate.

 

[[Ion]]

You should help me instead ...at this rate.

I'd like to hit a few more stones, but then, sure, I don't see why I couldn't help you w/ my i7 for a bit

The PentDualCores are all going to stay w/ my name, it's too much trouble to go around and change 24 systems

EDIT: Got another PentDC @ work going. Total thread count here is 10 now