Passing Gear

[Paratima]

If my calculations are correct, within a week we should be passing ARASAKAS on points and Team2ch on molecules. Or vice-versa.

[tYpe-K]

how many computers do you have FaD running on? I've noticed, how quickly your point count grows.

[Paratima]

Ummm, let me see here...

3 at home + 5 at work, that's 8 running full-time. I just started another at work tonight, so that's 9. There's another one at work that runs only at night and on weekends, so maybe 9.5.

These run all the way from a 400MHz P-II to an AMD 2400+. Most of the work boxen are 1.5-GHz P4's. It's a small farm (more like a garden), but I have fun running it. The guys with the REAL power are PCZ (off doing something else right now) and my buddy FoBoT. Plus the regulars, Supp and the amazing IronBits, who I am specially pleased to see still has a few boxen in the mix.

I see that Condor hasn't been around for a while. I would say that easily the 3 biggest crunchers here are Condor, FoBoT, and PCZ, in no particular order. Any of them has enough power to stomp me flat!

How about yourself? What's your hardware? Ever run other DC projects? Been running FAD long?

[tYpe-K]

As you can from my points, nothing big
I have only two computers crunching: one Athlon XP 2400+ and one Duron 1,3. On the other hand I'm trying to make more small users as me to join some DC projets.
And I used to run S@H, but looking for aliens seems as nonsense to me now :-)

[Paratima]

As to the two boxen, you crunch with what you have! Many or few, it all adds up. I applaud your efforts at recruiting! That's how we solve the problems.

Like many others, I also started with S@H. When they finally got around to publishing the actual likelihood of finding LGMs, I decided it was time to look at other amusements. At least it got us all interested in DC, educated to the possibilities, and accustomed to the inherent difficulties. Just for that, I'd say S@H was a success, even without actual aliens to talk to.

[Chinasaur]

Welcome tYpe-K !!

[Paratima]

OK. We're past ARASAKA on molecules. Onward!

[FoBoT]

i am only running three Celeron 300 Mhz and two Pentium II 266 Mhz on this

i want to add some more celeries at some point, when i get some time, maybe in march

[Moogie]

Wooohooo! Great job guys! Keep up the good work!

[alpha]

I've got a P3 450 and a K6-2 400 on it (and an XP 2400+ part-time). Will throw an old P233 in the mix as another part-timer once I can get some CAT5 for it

Excellent for dialup users like myself.

[Paratima]

Originally posted by alpha
Will throw an old P233 in the mix as another part-timer once I can get some CAT5 for it

Cool! That's one of the things I like about this project... you can run it on almost anything. Heavy-duty hardware not required.

[Paratima]

Thanks to continued good production and a spurt by (dare I say it) IronBits, we just passed Nordlichter on points and are closing in on them in total molecules.

[alpha]

A warning to anyone out there with an old AMD CPU similar to my K6-2 400. Don't bother with it on this project

The CPU rating of my P3 450 running FreeBSD is 64.
The CPU rating of my K6-2 400 running Windows 2000 is 14.

Quite shocking. I think I'll jump the K6-2 back to the one project it stands any chance - OGR.

Happy THINK'ing.

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As a side note, the points that you are given for completing a job is calculated using the CPU rating. Therefore, even if the CPU rating is inaccurate, that is still going to determine how many points you get for completing the job.

Haven't had a chance to give the P233 a whirl yet, will probably try that later and report back.

[Paratima]

Thanks, alpha. That's good to know. I've also got a P233 I was considering for FAD. Let us know how well it does.

[alpha]

Originally posted by Paratima
Let us know how well it does.

Eeek. The P233 has a CPU rating of 10. I'll keep it on FAD, though.

Hopefully I'll be giving a P90 a try at some point, but only to further my FreeBSD benchmarks.

[Paratima]

[Paratima]

FoBoTski: Where does it say that you're allowed to dump 312,923 molecules in a day (yesterday)? I thought that you're supposed to just graciously pull over & let me pass, not put up a struggle.

[FoBoT]

i don't understand how this project works/scoring

i am only running 5 old/slow boxen

[alpha]

The number of points you get for completing a work unit is calculated using the following equation:

Average CPU rating * (Time taken(secs) / 3600)

Therefore, if you complete a job on a box with an average CPU rating of 210, and it takes 200000 seconds, you will get:

210 * (200000/3600) = 11667 points (assuming we round up)

The number of points you have is really the only thing you need to look at as it is the default method of ranking users/teams.

[Paratima]

Well, yeah, alpha, that's just the points. OTOH, Statsman computes solely on the number of molecules investigated. That's where I got the number for my previous post. I think that the clients, if left to themselves, just save up the results until some critical mass is reached, then dump. How FoBoT is doing so well with such a modest pharm is a mystery.

If you figure it out, FoBoT, let us know, will ya?

[FoBoT]

like i said, i don't really understand it

when i first fired up these slow boxen, they would take a couple of days to finish a "job" , then i would click the send button and get some points (or whatever)

after a couple weeks, they started getting jobs that even these slow boxen were doing several a day

i guess different jobs are doing different work that varies that much?

[Paratima]

FYI, MAH9000 just passed us on Statsmans page. Hard to argue with their production being five times ours.

That markus really churns 'em out!

[edorajh]

I have one Celeron 700 MHz that works part time (8 hours Mon-Fri). I'm looking for some project that it can do. How well can it go on FaD?