BBC links to huge climate project

[Digital Parasite]

So for now the BBC project and CPDN are seperate projects? When CPDN goes to phase 2, will it be working on the same data or different stuff again?

[Marky-UK]

I gather that the CPDN phase 2 will be the same as the current BBC CCE project, but there won't be duplication in the WUs - ie the BBC are getting a block of WUs and CPDN will process the rest.

I could be wrong though - I'm just picking this up from all the forums about.

[PCZ]

Crikey these WU's are huge !!

Someone mentioned 1600 hrs to completion, well only if you are using an FX57

Most PC's are going to take a lot longer than that.
Memory Bandwidth is king here.

[rbutcher]

I run on Linux with just the command line, no X server. So I need the project URL and a key to connect to the project. Anybody know how I get a key for this project ? They seem to assume that everybody will connect through the graphical client.. No "create account" option on the website ?

[PCZ]

You can use this URL to create an account and join Free-DC
http://bbc.cpdn.org/create_account_form.php?teamid=91

Or this URL to create an account with no team affinity.
http://bbc.cpdn.org/create_account_form.php?

Use this URL to get to the 'Advanced' page
http://bbc.cpdn.org/advanced.php

Use this URL to get to the Forum
http://bbc.cpdn.org/forum_index.php

Use this URL for Top team Stats
http://bbc.cpdn.org/top_teams.php

[pfb]

Quick question (to Bok) - will you be adding this project to your stats?

[PCZ]

Should also mention i can't get the BBC client to run on my PXE nodes.
They are command line only no X.

The exe tries to run for a few seconds then quits, runs again and quits.
This cycle continues until i kill boinc.

Have a feeling it's trying to start up a GUI which it can't do.

[rbutcher]

It spends +- 1 hr doing various housekeeping before it starts crunching. Thanks for the account link, I've joined the free-dc team. 3mths from now I expect the model to end with the message "we're all doomed".

[em99010pepe]

Memory Bandwidth is king here.

So this is a good project for my home machine.

Carlos

[pfb]

One of my clients seems to attract WUs that error out - looking at the results the WUs error out elsewhere...very odd that it's the only one out of 8 clients to do this...

[alpha]

pfb, overclocked/overheating?

On a totally unrelated and off-topic note, I'm finally upgrading my main rig tonight from XP2200 to AMD 64 3700 (dual core was too expensive for me ). Also going from 512MB PC2100 to 1GB PC3200. HAR! I don't upgrade often, so it is always a happy day.

Hopefully I'll have enough bits and pieces to keep the XP2200 going. Might make a good gaming box for my gf so that she can play Diablo 2 stutter-free

[pfb]

nope - CPDN proper is OK...just odd it's that one PC and the fact other clients have errors with the WUs as well...