My final goals for Distributed Computing

[Logan[TeamX]]

SETI@Home: 5000 workunits completed, top .5% worldwide, or whatever comes first. If the cancer research wraps up before then, then all available processors tied up with cancer research will be used for SETI.

SETI@Home II (aka BOINC): Perhaps, if no other medical DC projects are operating.

United Devices/Grid.org: completion of the Cancer Research Project, Phase II and any subsequent follow-up research. MS and any other projects might be done, but that will have to wait and see.

I have a personal goal to compute PI to 20 billion places, wherein the current record for a home-based PC is 17.1 billion places. I'll need more RAM and a larger HD, but I'll get there! :r

After that... who knows!

[RampageIII]

If SETI@home should continue I will probably stick with it. Starting from zero would be a welcome challenge.

The goals I started out with here have pretty much been met. I don't expect to rise any higher on the team for obvious reasons. And keeping my place will still be a priority. :)

Should the SETI project fold up completely I guess I'd look for something along the cancer research line.

[cwin]

I'll need more RAM and a larger HD, but I'll get there

Hows a larger Hard Drive gonna help? Its stupid trying to work out goals, cause the proccessors are becoming way better by the month, so WUs are going faster. 10GHz By 2005 or somink is estimated. :t

[Logan[TeamX]]

Well, if you went to my website (www.one87.net/~teamx) and downloaded PiFast... you'd see that for the major computations (over 25-30 million places) you need to use the #2 mode, which is a massive swap file in addition to the massive memory used.

I've computed 1 billion places of Pi so far, and the most I can do at home so far is 4 or 6 billion places, limited by my RAM and HD space. I need more of both, and preferably a better processor before I embark on this new journey! :t

Logan

Oh, we set a record time of 4.09 seconds to compute 1 million places of PI (1048576 places, actually) on my friend's severely overclocked Barton (194x2 FSB) 2500 @2100 MHz, JUST behind a 400 FSB Barton 3200+ for speed and power. It blows away my 5.19 seconds over the weekend by far! Anyone want to take a whack at the 4 second barrier? ;)

[Logan[TeamX]]

I just checked the SETI@Home graph (tentative) and S@H as we know it might not continue past October! :eek: :eek:

Let's get crunching people, so we can record our efforts for posterity, and hopefully find something!

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html

[Logan[TeamX]]

I've lost 2 of the Northwood 2.4GHz boxes here at the office, so I pulled the O/C'ed XP 1800+ at home away from cancer research for a couple of weeks to bolster my efforts!

I should be ordering in another 2.4GHz P4 workstation to replace the one that's going out the door today... so I'll be back to 3 P4s! I really want to try running SETI on my friend's new Barton - he has it set at 13 x 176 (~2290 MHz) currently on a Barton 2500+. He broke through the 4 second barrier with PiFast... so he must be able to crunch SETI like mad!

Logan

[j.m@talk]

Originally posted by Logan[TeamX]
He broke through the 4 second barrier with PiFast...

I broke wind once :eek: (Is that the same)



It's ok I didn't touch cloth ;)

:t

[cwin]

Pifast locked up on me kinda... i kept entering invalid options then the text in the little dos window started whizzing round and round. :eek:

[Logan[TeamX]]

Alright, well... I guess this is "I'm putting SETI on hold". :(

I always told myself that as much fun as I was having, I knew that cancer research could use the horsepower. If cancer can't talk through the proxy client, then either I'll static IP the boxes, or run another med project (like FOLDING@Home).

I really have had a blast with you guys. I will miss the camraderie and the encouragement. There is a really great bunch of people here, and of course if any of you decide to do some cancer research, you're welcome as a group or individually at Team X Crunching.

I'll be around on the various forums as time permits, especially the benchmarking forum as I am doing quite a bit of that at work lately!

Take care everyone! I won't be disjoining myself from the team, as I feel as though it is indeed home.

Later :t

Logan :cool:

[fishybawb]

Originally posted by Logan[TeamX]
Anyone want to take a whack at the 4 second barrier? ;)

1 million places in 3.05 seconds. Nevermind the 4 second barrier, what about the 3! :D

XP2400+ @ 2200MHz (11x200)
Abit NF7-S v2.0
2x256MB Crucial PC3200 (Dual-DDR mode)
80GB Maxtor 7200rpm 8MB running as SATA

I'll be crunching for cancer as soon as I get off my cruddy dial-up connection in a couple of weeks or so :)

[Logan[TeamX]]

Fishybawb - good show on the crunching AND the cancer! I think we have a SysOpt Team for UD as well... but I made my own for the heck of it... the majority of the membership is family and friends, but anyone is welcome. On that note, I'd like to say that I'd never attempt to recruit anyone away from SysOpt. Never have, never will.

Oh, and as for the speed issue... I'll hopefully get my Barton 2500+ in, which I'll have O/Ced to 2.3 or 2.4 GHz shortly thereafter :D

[fishybawb]

Hi Logan. I'm new to this, so perhaps you could help me out. I checked on the UD site, and it said there was no need for my PC to be online while the crunching was happening - it'd just download new work and send it back when it was done, with the computer offline while it was doing the actual work. Is that how it works? If so, I'll start straight away :D
My grandfather was diagnosed with bowel cancer a couple of years ago - luckily he was operated on in time and they managed to remove the tumour. He's been clean from cancer ever since, (he's 82 now) and I'd like to help in some way to perhaps one day find a cure :t

[RampageIII]

Good luck on the Cancer Project! We'll miss your fabulous output and enthusiasm!

If things don't pan out with SETI, or at least after the new project has been started, I may just throw a couple your way.

Make sure you check in on us and tell us the latest!:t

[Logan[TeamX]]

I'm going to start a new thread pertaining to UD, don't want to talk UD in a SETI-themed thread!

[Logan[TeamX]]

Just got the new Barton in, and after a couple of hours of "gentle time", I'm running it @ 12x190 (2288 MHz).

Very slick beast indeed. :)