Progress

[Nexus]

9th place! Woohoo!

We've just passed Terrene Bell and are now sitting in 9th place by the slenderest of margins. Keep up the good work guys!

[Georgina]

Originally posted by Nexus
9th place! Woohoo!

. Keep up the good work guys!

Guys? :rolleyes:

G

[Nexus]

Sorry, Georgina.

I use the word "Guys" to include both genders.

[IronBits]

So do most of the girls! :D

She pulled your chain :rotfl:

[Georgina]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

What he ^ said. No worries Nexus.

G

[Nexus]

Meh.

[IronBits]

My brother TeeJay tells me that Ars is making some noise over there in this project.

When will they learn to be quiet? :rolleyes: ;)
I hate it when they wake me up :swear: ;) :)

I'll help push us a tad further away.
Maybe they will settle down so I can catch up on some much needed rest :D.

:cheers:

[em99010pepe]

I have two computers running DPAD. One INTEL 800Mhz and one AMD 1100Mhz.

Carlos

[IronBits]

:thumbs:
Now if only the STATS would come back! :bang:

[em99010pepe]

Originally posted by IronBits
:thumbs:
Now if only the STATS would come back! :bang:

Stats will be fixed Monday. Read this (http://stephenbrooks.org/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=724606111&f=144606111&m=483105879&r=108106979#108106979).
I was testing my AMD 64 but with stats down it's quite difficult to see how much I can do a day.

Carlos

[Nexus]

em99010pepe-

I've written a small program that counts the total Mpts in results.txt. It should give you an accurate calculation of the output of your computers. Check the attachment.


Nexus

[em99010pepe]

Nexus,

Thanks for that aplication. Well, I made a brief calculation and the AMD 64 3000+ makes 1Mpts/5sec giving a total of 17280 Mpts/day. Today I was going to see if I was right!

Carlos

[Nexus]

That's a touch over what I'm getting on my weird little Dell, so it sounds about right.

Enjoy!

[IronBits]

counter won't run under XP 64bit on my amd64 ;)
amd64 3200 desktop, using XP 64

Using -d gives me

Results : 210

Total Mpts : 420424.1
Average : 2002.02

Fastest : 14.3
Slowest : 4939.6

Best result : 2.389089 %
Worst result : -1.944414 %
Average : 1.245862 %

Hope it helps :D

[IronBits]

On my XP2600 under XP SP2
using -d
Results : 368

Total Mpts : 773478.6
Average : 2101.844

Fastest : 274.2
Slowest : 5356.8

Best result : 2.389089 %
Worst result : -.276293 %
Average : 1.326866 %

[IronBits]

On my amd64 3200 laptop - XP SP2
using -d
Results : 210

Total Mpts : 421046.5
Average : 2004.983

Fastest : 24.2
Slowest : 4939.6

Best result : 2.389089 %
Worst result : -1.821581 %
Average : 1.275797 %

[em99010pepe]

AMD 64 3000+ Win XP SP1 - Client not running
Results : 445

Total Mpts : 822211.2
Average : 1847.666

Fastest : 10.7
Slowest : 5356.8

Best result : 2.389089 %
Worst result : -1.982162 %
Average : 1.270318 %


There's something wrong in my stats. I don't have a total of 822211.2 Mpts.

Carlos

[Nexus]

I may be a little slow sometimes but I get the feeling you're mocking me IronBits. ;)

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Nexus
I may be a little slow sometimes but I get the feeling you're mocking me IronBits. ;) :rotfl:
Not at all my friend! :)

and here I thought I was being helpful, albeit showing my Bits_of_Iron in the process, giving feedback to the programmer and the results that I have, for us to compare to make sure the program was accurate and producing what the programmer intended. ;) :D

Oh, and to that other matter,
counter won't run under XP 64bit on my amd64 that I reported, just a fact, a nugget of information tis all - I just copied the results.txt over on to this amd xp2600 and ran it to find out what the result would be.
Not a problem really. :thumbs:

Crunch on! :cheers: and thanks for the :smoking: program. :notworthy

[IronBits]

Did you guys know about PK's DCmonitor?
It supports DPAD and other projects to.
http://www.bluetentacle.co.uk/dcmonitor/

I just started using it, so I don't know how accurate it is, but it sure is easy to setup.

Crunch on!

[Nexus]

Sorry, I was just wondering why you were using the -d switch. It's actually a pretty pointless option if you download the best results as you're really counting other people's work. I only included it for the people who don't download the top results; they can keep track of their total work.

BTW, sorry it doesn't work on XP64. I don't understand why that should be. I blame my lack of programming talent unfamiliarity with that system.

When I get around to it, I might even make a version that shows the different design lattices seperately.

[IronBits]

:blush: I didn't know that :bang:
I just fired them up, so didn't have much to compare, so went for the .dat.

Next time, I'll only do the .txt file instead.

[Nexus]

Hehe. Never mind.

[IronBits]

AMD64 3200+ on Windows XP 64bit edition

Results : 7

Total Mpts : 3160.1
Average : 451.4429

Fastest : 258.5
Slowest : 496.3

Best result : 2.301728 %
Worst result : .191003 %
Average : 1.292757 %

Is that good? no -d and I didn't download anything but the client..

[Nexus]

That's fine. I'm not sure if you're getting the functions of the results.txt and .dat files mixed up so I'll just quickly explain and apologize in adavance if I seem patronizing.

The results.txt contains all the results you've crunched since you last submitted a batch of results. Counter.exe without the -d tallies this one up. When you submit, the contents of results.txt is shoved into results.dat and .txt is deleted. Downloading the top results makes no difference here.

Results.dat contains every result you've ever crunched. It will also contain 'top results' from other people if you've chosen to download them. The reason these are kept track of is so that the client can make an educated guess as to what a good design might be. If you don't download other people's work you can use the -d switch to keep track of just how much you've work you've ever done with that computer. Not many people will have a use for the -d switch though because the default is to download the top results and then you'd be counting other people's work.

Hope that helps.

Nexus

[Nexus]

Congrats on reaching 10 Tpts.

:allhail:

[em99010pepe]

:notworthy

Carlos


EDIT

Do you think we should go for 8th place?



9. Free-DC 26.207 Tpts
8. Romulus2 30.376 Tpts

[Nexus]

Hells, yeah. Romulus2 look very catchable all of a sudden which would have been unthinkable two weeks ago and it seems as though we've beaten the other two teams for 9th place now.

[IronBits]

Thanks!

My brother TeeJay deserves most of the credit :notworthy

Think:confused:
Onwards and upwards I always say! :D
:|party|:

[Georgina]

Congrats IronBits !!

I see you have been on this project a long time. Good work. :drums:

G

[excaliber]

Congrats all!
:cheers:

We've got 8th place in the bag. #8 hasn't produced a reasonable amount of Mpts. in a looooong time.

Anyhow, thuogh you guys might like this. Its called Muon Cockpit. Someone from the DPAD forums made it, and it is very nice.

http://www.v8.franken.de/Muon/MC.htm

[IronBits]

Very nice! Thanks :D

[IronBits]

On the AMD64 3200 boxen both put out about 870 Mpts/h
The XP2600 boxens put out about 780-800 Mpts/h
All under Windows2000/XP home/XP Pro/XP 64bit
:cheers:

[em99010pepe]

Just to say that I installed DPAD on my friend INTEL P4 3.0Ghz computer.
I tried SOB on it but decided for DPAD.

Carlos

[Nexus]

Get this DPAD utility (http://magmarmaxi.no-ip.info/users/animatrix/got/MuonCMD0.45.exe), for it doth rock the world.

Edit: Except that, for some reason, it blocks me from connecting to the internet while it is running.

[Nexus]

Edit edit: Whoops. Forget what I just said about the utility blocking IE. That was my own ignorance and stupidity.

[magnav0x]

I have a stats parser running for DPAD...it has been running for a couple of months now, but I never made a front in for the data. If you want some all teams stats for DPAD I could probably whip something up this weekend. I peeked in the database.

Free-DC ranks 5th in production for the week and 4th in production for the past month.

Romulus2 ranks 15th in production for the week and 10th in production for the past month. (They have not returned any results in the past 48 hours).

We have gained 811,433 MPTS on them in the past week.

Current difference 2,140,812. Should be able to pass them easy at this rate in less than a few weeks.

I've added one box to it DPAD today and maybe I'll put a few more on next week. I've had problems with DPAD on a few other machines, but I will give it another shot with the latest client. I really wish they still had a linux port :(

Oh yeah...also congrats to Ironbits for ranking 2nd in overall monthly production and ranking 28th in the project overall! :notworthy

[magnav0x]

Just god DPAD running on one of my linux boxes with wine. It spit out some errors, but I think it's because I don't have X installed on the linux box at all. I was able to run the 'muon1.exe -c' and it downloaded a sample file and started crunching along. I'll let you guys know how it goes when it comes to uploading the results later tonight.

[IronBits]

Originally posted by magnav0x
If you want some all teams stats for DPAD I could probably whip something up this weekend. :crazy: Stats? IF? :rotfl:
:smoking: /me looks for hidden linkage... :D

[magnav0x]

Hey target butt the only think I have available at the moment for other people to look at is at http://www.dc-stats.com/dpad/

I was hoping someone else would pick up on the stats, but it never happened. Basically I have a script that runs about every hour that parses stats and calculates all the information for users and teams (rank movement and production totals) and exports all the information to a database and those 3 text files. You're numbers will vary betten these and Bok's stats for the team. I believe we start our "new day" numbers at different hours, so 24 hour stats will be slightly different.

I'll work on something for you guys tomorrow night.

[Nexus]

Thanks for going to the tourble, Magnav0x.

[Bok]

Originally posted by magnav0x
Hey target butt the only think I have available at the moment for other people to look at is at http://www.dc-stats.com/dpad/

I was hoping someone else would pick up on the stats, but it never happened. Basically I have a script that runs about every hour that parses stats and calculates all the information for users and teams (rank movement and production totals) and exports all the information to a database and those 3 text files. You're numbers will vary betten these and Bok's stats for the team. I believe we start our "new day" numbers at different hours, so 24 hour stats will be slightly different.

I'll work on something for you guys tomorrow night.

Mag,

I can pick them up from your txt files and stick them into my DB's if you like. Did you ever fix those glitches on the FAD ones ?

Bok

[Bok]

Done this, but there are a couple of glitches in the members.txt file which are corrupting the stats. Can you take a look?

ids

178
549
1545

are not conforming

Bok

:cheers:

[magnav0x]

Bok, I don't recall which problems there were with the FAD ones anymore, refresh my mind and I'll fix them this weekend. I also noticed the lastupdated and simulations fields in the teams.txt of DPAD are null. I'll get on these today when the miss goes off to work this afternoon.


Update on DPAD running in linux. It has been running fine since I got it going yesterday, but as I was afraid it has not been able to upload the results. Oh well looks the linux client will have to be sneakernet. At least it works :D


EDIT: I changed the output file to use tabs delimited rather than commas, due to two users having commas in their names. I also altered the TEAMS data output to be correct. These should be updated next time it runs. I'll keep an eye out on it today to make sure they come out right.

[Bok]

OK,

I'll update my script to use tabs. I'm not actually using the teams.txt currently. It was much more work at the moment to do that, so I just let my base script calculate the team data from each row. But I will probably make the changes at some point.

As for FAD, I think it was just that some users were duplicates.

I'll run it again and check.

Bok

[Nexus]

Congrats on passing me, Georgina.

[Georgina]

hehe, thanks. It looks like you need to add a PC to keep up :Pokes: or should I take one off to let you keep up? :jester:

G

[Nexus]

No, you hang onto all your machines. Need them to catch Romulus2 and Team Ninja. I'm not too fussed about falling behind you. I'm a gentleman; polite in victory and gracious in defeat and besides, there's plenty of non Free-DCers for me to stomp. Stephen Brooks himself is not too far ahead of me.

Happy Crunching.

-Nexus

[excaliber]

Looks like Georgina is going to pass me soon as well! I need to get some more machines running!

Great work everyone!

[Georgina]

Originally posted by excaliber
Looks like Georgina is going to pass me soon as well! I need to get some more machines running!

Great work everyone!

:elephant: :elephant: :elephant:

Now if only they can keep the stats running :spank:

G

[excaliber]

Amen to that!

And recently my clients have been exploding due to bad lattice files! Oh Noes!

[Georgina]

Originally posted by excaliber
And recently my clients have been exploding due to bad lattice files! Oh Noes! [/B]

Now I know what you mean, I found 2 of my pc had stopped :bang: I don't know how loang they were like that :(

G

[IronBits]

Looks like stats are down, or no progress...

I looked at the Server status and only 2 servers are available :cry:

/me looks into creating our own Free-DC Muon1 Server ;)

[Georgina]

:swear: Grrrrr stats are down again and now I have found 2 more exploding files !!!

G

[Nexus]

It's frustrating isn't it? I like this project, but sometimes it just shits me. It's as though Stephen Brooks doesn't give a toss about fixing the stats or all the other bugs. As though we're priviliged to be allowed to donate our resources and therefore have no right to demand a decent stats system. Grrrr!

[IronBits]

I say... Nice :dump: coming right up :D

[HaloJones]

One of the many great things about DPAD is you can just let it run and run. Yes, the stats are down and myabe Stephen's having a holiday?

[Nexus]

True. However, I'd like to be sure the stats are up and running again before I dump my results. I've lost a stack of mpts due to bugs in the system before and I'm not going to risk it while there's any borkage going on.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by Nexus
True. However, I'd like to be sure the stats are up and running again before I dump my results. I've lost a stack of mpts due to bugs in the system before and I'm not going to risk it while there's any borkage going on.

the best thing in your position is to hold off until the stats are back up. like you, i have lost a ton mpts (over the past year and a half) by uploading when the server is having issues. im just hoping that my points over the past 3 days are going to be counted....if not, i wouldnt be surprised as its happened on about 5 occassions before:rolleyes:

[magnav0x]

Just crunch in offline mode until you know everything is ok again.

[Nexus]

Originally posted by Unforgiven
the best thing in your position is to hold off until the stats are back up. like you, i have lost a ton mpts (over the past year and a half) by uploading when the server is having issues. im just hoping that my points over the past 3 days are going to be counted....if not, i wouldnt be surprised as its happened on about 5 occassions before:rolleyes:

That's just what I'm doing.

What happened to me was that my stats all of a sudden got reset to zero. This was when I still had my crappy old laptop and getting to 200,000Mpts actually meant something so I was a bit annoyed. Losing a day's production I can live with, but if my stats got zeroed again I'd ****in' snap.

In fairness I should say that Stephen Brooks added the points I lost onto my score, but I think the actual results those points corresp[ond to are gone for good.

[Nexus]

Hooray! The stats are back up!

Also we are now within 1Tpt of 8th place (Romulus2=35.199Tpts, Free-DC=34.243Tpts). Let's run 'em down and see if we can catch Team Ninja too.

[muon[romulus2]]

Originally posted by Nexus
Hooray! The stats are back up!

Also we are now within 1Tpt of 8th place (Romulus2=35.199Tpts, Free-DC=34.243Tpts). Let's run 'em down and see if we can catch Team Ninja too.

Dream on guys :rotfl: ;)

[IronBits]

Make no mistake about it, you guys are toast, you just don't know it yet :D

[taz]

Toast?

I think so too.

Hi guys. I'm home.

[IronBits]

Well then... , welcome home! :D

It will be swift but promise not to trample the nice flowers.. :)
:cheers:

[Nexus]

We will crush Rom2. Make no mistake about that. The only thing your puny efforts will accomplish is maintaining 8th place by stomping the Ninjas before we catch you.

Nexus de Free-DC

[IronBits]

Ok, game on! :D :cheers:
http://www.romulus2.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=94760&t=902#post94760
/me begins the plan to focus until we pass Team Ninja
and the obligitory :moon: :rotfl:

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

can't join in on the gauntlet, had a falling out with Stephen Brooks two years ago. had a differance of opinion with him, and when i replied in his forum he deleted my replys and thought it funny. made me look a right w^%k"r.

[IronBits]

Sorry to hear that...

I think we can handle them 10 whipersnappers on Romulus2 ;)

:cheers:

[Thor]

Started it yesterday, had some troubles (sometimes you should be patient:D )

But the stats haven't updated yet, so no Thor on the team yet (yes I uploaded some results manually)


Catch you later :D :cheers:

Thor

[Georgina]

I see that someone on Romulus2 added 2 more boxes totaling about 1.8 GHz. So I "borrowed" a AXP2700+ and a 1.8 P4. That should help us pass them. :Pokes:

G

[Nexus]

Welcome aboard, Thor! Your aid is very much appreciated (I see you've submitted 8,000 Mpts already). Hope you get the teething problems sorted out right quick.

Nexus out

[Thor]

Does anybody know why the free-dc stats won't update for DPAD?

The project's own did so yesterday....


@Nexus

Yes it worked out...
I have the text client running with the DOS-box open. I just love to watch my computer do something useful:D

Greets Thor

[em99010pepe]

I am also running DPAD.:D

:Pokes: magicfan241

Carlos

[Bok]

Originally posted by Thor
Does anybody know why the free-dc stats won't update for DPAD?

The project's own did so yesterday....

Greets Thor


I have no idea. For some reason the perl script fails it's 'get' on the stats file produced by magnavox, but I just did a wget manually and moved it to a different place and changed the script and it worked fine /me scratches head ???

Bok

[Thor]

Very wired...but thats how computers are sometimes;)


But thanks for having a look!


Thor

[Bok]

Ok,

magnavox has just found the problem on his end :notworthy

They should be back to normal soon!!

Bok :cheers:

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Bok
Ok,
magnavox has just found the problem on his end :notworthy
Bok :cheers: :Pokes: magnav0x :rolleyes: :rotfl: :D
:cheers:

[em99010pepe]

300Mpts to pass Team Romulus2.

Great job everyone!

IronBits, nice dump (http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=dpad&team=Free-DC.org).:shocked:

Carlos

[Nexus]

Great work all!

[HaloJones]

Originally posted by em99010pepe
300Mpts to pass Team Romulus2.

Great job everyone!

Carlos

Don't forget to look behind (http://www.team-ninja.com/vbulletin/dc_stats.php?s=&action=details&project=atdpad&statsid=6998) you. :p

[Bok]

Confirmed...

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamrank.php?proj=dpad&team=The+Genome+Collective

Excellent work HaloJones as a one man team!!

Bok :D

[IronBits]

:allhail: Genome Collective :thumbs: :D

[HaloJones]

Running less than half what I had with DF but DF was God's gift to farmers. If only DPAD had a true service install/uninstall!

(I keep trying to get excited about FAH along with my team-mates but I just hate seeing such pitiful little numbers being returned once a day. At least with DPAD/DF you get millions in just a few weeks instead of a few thousand after a year!)

Thanks for the :notworthy

:cheers:

[em99010pepe]

Beyond,

I'm watching you.:cool:

And

:Pokes: wirthi

Carlos