TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[twilyth]

think you can see those detailed stuff at boincstats

It's from boinc stats. From either the team page or your personal page, look for the hosts entry. If you've told WCG to expose your hosts (go to the bottom of the page, check the box and click save), it will show the total of all hosts you've ever registered and next to that the active hosts. Click on the second number to see your active hosts. It works the same way for the team page but again, you will only see exposed hosts.

edit - I've updated ION's sticky with this info and directions for exposing hosts and viewing their stats here.

 

[[Ion]]

I haven't really been on recently due to studying for midterms (and I probably won't be much of this week), but I return with what to me is great news:
First of all, at long last, I've overtaken my dad:

He may actually overtake me again over Christmas break when all of my rigs are down, but I may be able to build up enough of a lead this week to prevent that. We'll see I guess.
I've also passed my 16th year of runtime (actually, coming very close to passing my age in runtime, that'll be cool), my 15th million WCG point, and 27,000th result returned:

I hope you guys have been having a great past week--and, again, I wish I could have joined in the fun

 

[(FIH) The Don]

very nice Ion !!!!!

and go get some A's in school or whats it caleld

 

[[Ion]]

Oh, I'll do my best, I have an A in most of my classes, so that's good

 

[Chicken Patty]

Good job ION, you've passed me as well. Good luck on your tests.

 

[[Ion]]

Wait....have I? I didn't realize that--I've been too focused on the impending overtake of my dad

 

[Chicken Patty]

Yeah, you blew right by me LOL

 

[[Ion]]

Oh---I guess I have

But you very well may overtake me again in about 2 weeks

 

[KieX]

Muahaha, I shall survive [Ion]'s overtake juggernaut! /jk

1 week or so till my dedicated and possibly a few more rigs go online for the team. A work colleague was very interested by the stuff we do, so he wants to crunch with the new PC I'm be building him. I'll ask him to join our team, of course

 

[[Ion]]

Oh, you'll certainly be more of a challenge, especially since I don't expect to see your points down over Christmas break. So I think you'll stay ahead for a while yet

 

[f22a4bandit]

It seems as though I've killed my laptop.

I powered it on last night and set the total amount of CPU use to 90%. I woke up during the middle of the night and it had turned off.

I recently powered on my laptop to try again. She lasted about three to five minutes before tanking, completely powering down in an instant.

I'm going to give her another whirl and see if the problem persists with WCG completely off, and then moderately increase load on the CPU. Hopefully I can fix this, but no guarantee on this one, fellas.

Edit: I'm wondering if it might be the hard drive. We'll see. Fortunately, I have a spare 5400RPM drive lying around.

 

[Chicken Patty]

It seems as though I've killed my laptop.

I powered it on last night and set the total amount of CPU use to 90%. I woke up during the middle of the night and it had turned off.

I recently powered on my laptop to try again. She lasted about three to five minutes before tanking, completely powering down in an instant.

I'm going to give her another whirl and see if the problem persists with WCG completely off, and then moderately increase load on the CPU. Hopefully I can fix this, but no guarantee on this one, fellas.

Edit: I'm wondering if it might be the hard drive. We'll see. Fortunately, I have a spare 5400RPM drive lying around.

Damn Good luck and keep us posted on this.

 

[f22a4bandit]

Well, I'm running HD Tune right now. Ran the benchmark, everything turned out well. Now running an error scan, but everything is checking out on that as well.

Laptop has been on for about 30 minutes now without crashing, and WCG turned off for the moment. I have noticed that the light for the power will turn on and off again, so maybe I just had a loose power connection.

Time to start running WCG again and slowly increasing the CPU load. I'll check in again after a while with an update.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

copy from wcg FB page

been thinking about this
i7 920 200$ max
board 150$
ram 3x1 gb 40$
...hd 20$
psu 50-60$
køler 40-50$
total around 500$ for a secondary cruncher then use the 275s i have now to fold on and get a used 480 for main rig

and mount it all in the custom testbench i "might" make

 

[Chicken Patty]

Go for it!

I got the Pentium D and the 2nd GTS 450 going.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

450 ?

 

[Chicken Patty]

450 ?

250, woops

 

[(FIH) The Don]

awww hoped you had gotten 450s lol

 

[f22a4bandit]

So the laptop is running alright on 50%...at least for now.

Going to run it all night and see if it's alive in the morning.

 

[Chicken Patty]

awww hoped you had gotten 450s lol

I wish

So the laptop is running alright on 50%...at least for now.

Going to run it all night and see if it's alive in the morning.

GOod news, hopefully it was just a scare

 

[(FIH) The Don]

ah well, you still have quite a farm i must say

hopefully KieX will sell me some of his cards when/if he buys new

 

[[Ion]]

So the laptop is running alright on 50%...at least for now.

Going to run it all night and see if it's alive in the morning.

Best of luck, keep us posted

copy from wcg FB page

been thinking about this
i7 920 200$ max
board 150$
ram 3x1 gb 40$
...hd 20$
psu 50-60$
køler 40-50$
total around 500$ for a secondary cruncher then use the 275s i have now to fold on and get a used 480 for main rig

and mount it all in the custom testbench i "might" make

That's certainly a very respectable price consider the PPD that an OCed i7 will do

 

[twilyth]

So the laptop is running alright on 50%...at least for now.

Going to run it all night and see if it's alive in the morning.

If I missed it, my apologies, but have you checked the heat sink? They are so tiny on laptops and get clogged so easily - especially if you have pets, and especially laptop pets like cats.

 

[f22a4bandit]

If I missed it, my apologies, but have you checked the heat sink? They are so tiny on laptops and get clogged so easily - especially if you have pets, and especially laptop pets like cats.

I'll have to take a look at it. I thought that it possibly happened because of overheating. Gave her a nice spray of air earlier, and she's still working...for now.

Hard drive checked out clear after HD Tune. That narrows it down, and thankfully I won't have to change my HDD; the spare I have is SATA while the one in my laptop is UltraATA/100.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Guys need some help.

My 3rd rig is crunching along fine still but I have a problem with BOINC. Date/Time is correct.

It keep saying it's reached it's daily quota of 10 results, and won't download no more work. Any suggestions?