Getting started at Pi Segment

[CaptainMooseInc]

Project Name: Pi Segment
Projcet's Home Website: http://pisegment.vicp.net/index.aspx

From the Pi Segment website:

What is the purpose of this project?

The main purpose of Pi Segment is to propagandize distributed computing in China and to try to encourage making full use of computational resources on personal computers. China has started researches in distributed computing long before and has obtained some achievement, for example the China Grid. But so far, there isn't any formal distributed projects for the public to join in. Obviously, that's really a waste of computational resources. We hope that the public would get to know about and join in distributed computing, through the propaganda of this project.

What is Pi Segment?

Pi Segment is a distributed computing project held by a university student. It aims to propagandize distributed computing, encourage people to make full use of their computational power and challenge the world record of calculating Pi. There are many popular distributed computing projects in other countries, but there's none in China. We hope that Pi Segment can change this situation. For more information, please visit the Introduction page of the project.

To download the latest client please visit: http://pisegment.vicp.net/project/projectpart.aspx

The client is very simple to work with, much like the Seventeen or Bust program. The client has built-in support for multiple CPU detection so you don't have to install X amount of copies to have one for every CPU. Registration is done through the client and then you can goto the main website and login then join a team.

If anyone needs any further help (it's pretty much just install->register->run) then please feel free to ask!

Happy Crunching!

[jasong]

Is there something you can do if you DON'T want it on every core?

[JUST]

Hello guys!
I'm the founder of this project. Thank you for testing it!

Since we are in BETA test section, any suggestion is appreciated.

[JUST]

Is there something you can do if you DON'T want it on every core?

Just click the "Stop" button in the corresponding CPU page

[Bok]

Thanks for stopping by.

I've been meaning to mail you today regarding the stats, just got a little busy...

What I need ideally is some file which holds the following.

name, team, score, downloads, uploads, etc etc

it can be in xml,csv,txt or whatever...

I'll try and email in the morning if I get time (got a flight to catch to Chicago at lunchtime)

Bok

[JUST]

Thanks for stopping by.

I've been meaning to mail you today regarding the stats, just got a little busy...

What I need ideally is some file which holds the following.

name, team, score, downloads, uploads, etc etc

it can be in xml,csv,txt or whatever...

I'll try and email in the morning if I get time (got a flight to catch to Chicago at lunchtime)

Bok

ya, I'm planing to do that.
But since I have a little knowledge in XML, I may need some time to learn it.

Could you give me some examples on other projects?
Thank you!

[Bok]

Sure, take a look at the file SeventeenorBust releases for an example.

here

That is in a format say where it is user that has

user,$name,$nick,$signup,$teamid,$totaltests,$lastdaytests,$pendingtests,$totalwork,$lastdaywork,$fi rstassign,$lastreport

Probably overkill too, so all I would need is

userid,name,team,download,upload,etc etc in this raw form, then I can parse it very easily and generate all of the user and team stats from that..if you wanted to do teamstats with their totals within this file as Sob have done, I can use that otherwise I;d just calculate them from the sum of the users scores.

Bok