Recruitment drive for Sysopt ECCp cracking team

[randy48]

Hey fellow Sysoptians, we could use a little help! We started an ECCp-109 cracking team several weeks ago and are almost to the top http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif We've been at the #5 spot for a while and next week should more into the #3 it not the #2 spot. Our only real competition in this contest is Team Anandtech and the Dutch Power Cows. We pretty much "out produce them on a daily basis, but they are steadily recruiting more help for themselves!

At present, Sysopt has 49 members, about 43 of which are active! Anandtech has 68 with about 65 active, and the Dutch Power Cows have 109 with about 100 or so active!

Put your PC to work for you! You will be helping out Sysopt (you know these people here that help you out with Techie type answers to your questions) and possibly yourself! Yep!! You could be one of the two lucky people that find the winning "Data Point" and win yourself $1000.00! At current prices, you could buy a Tyan duallie mainboard, 2 Palomino 1.2Ghz processors, and alittle RAM to get a good start on the current most powerful "personal" system on Earth!

And the more computers you have running the contest, the better chance you have of winning! Recruit your friends, family, and neighbors (even that idiot down the street) to crack code for you and Team Sysopt!

This contest is fairly new, it just started in April! There is really no work involved by you, download the client, install it, start it running and if you don't have a permanent Internet connection, you click a button once a day (more often if you want) and send the points! The client Does not download anything from the net! It only sends! No chance of picking up any nasty computer bugs with this contest!

Virus, our one-and-only "Proxy Wizard" has developed a team proxy server and has it running (still a few bugs to work out) and it looks great! He and and new member of the Sysopt family "RC" and a fella from Anandtech have done alot of work and modified the client software and "optimized" it for most of the popular processors! There are versions of the client that run on Windows or Linux.

Here are a few links:
The ECCp-109 Challange Home page (Norte Dame University) http://www.nd.edu/~cmonico/eccp109/

The Sysopt Stats Proxy (no, I'm not on top): http://www.statsaholic.com/eccp/index.php?section=ECCP&page=bymember

The secret hide-away for the "Super-enhanced" client software: http://www.statsaholic.com/eccp/clients.php

And like most good Sysoptians, if you need some more information, help, or whatever, shoot me an E-mail and I'll do what I can to help! You can also post to the Distributed Computing Forum where all the knowledgable Geeks hang out http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

We really need some help and would very much for you to join the team!

Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Gomer]

I am headed over to distributed computing now. Perhaps a bit in this thread on how to actually join the team and get stats showing up on the stats page.

[Bsdboy]

I just don't get it, why waste cpu cycles on a contest instead of doing something for the betterment of humanity? I choose Genome@home:
http://gah.stanford.edu/
But I guess to each his own http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Bsdboy

[LordLocksley]

Well.... Lets give it a shot.
Does to send through firewalls or what port does it send on?

[randy48]

Hi LordLocksley, I don't think you'll have any problem sending through a firewall. I used AnalogX proxy without a problem on port 6588. If you need more info, Virus would be the one to ask, he has redone the code and could give you more specific answers.


As far as getting started, joining the team, seeing your stats, etc., it's not hard! All of the links you need are in my first post on the thread.

Download and install the client (from the statsaholic link), the install is real fast! You will need to enter a "handle" (you may want to look at the ECCP home page and click on users to make sure the one you want is available!), your e-mail address, and your real name without a space between first and last! That's it for the install! Next open the ini file and add these two lines:


DP_SERVER_HOST=www.statsaholic.com
DP_SERVER_URL=http://www.statsaholic.com/eccpproxy.pl

This will send your Distingusted Points (sorry, in my first post I called them data points http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif) to the Team proxy. Once you have sent your first point, go to the ECCP home page, click on the link "Join/create a Team" and put in your e-mail address (the same one you used to install the client) and the next block the team name is: Sysopt

The team Stats updates about every 15 minutes (like the RC5 stats), and the contest stats update every 6 hours (Eastern I think) at Midnight, 6AM, Noon, 6PM.

Bsdboy, I'm doing this because them **** scientists create enough problems with the germs and things they make, I'll have no part in helping them!

[Cody]

If you can make a client that will do these things, I will join:

A) Be Optimized for a PIII Coppermine 800EB
B) Use my 512MB PC133 RAM
C) Have a nicer ICON (to match the Win2k Desktop)
D) Make it have a console-based app also (like the DNETC client for Win32)

:-)

[jokostel]

i may register tonight after i get back from work for sysopt. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


jokostel

[socalgal]

Doin' de bumpty~bump for the Team http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[randy48]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif Hi Lady http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[engracio]

Bsdboy,

You are right, SO why don't you join the Sysopt team for GAH, team# 1312896233. Like you said, why don't you donate wasted cpu cycle to the betterment of humanity. Join Sysopt GAH team. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

You have yours, now join us. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


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[Bsdboy]

engracio, thank you very much for your kind invitation to join your team it is tempting but I am a member of another team, but I encourage others to join your team http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Bsdboy

[griobhta]

Well engracio I think I have joined the sysopt GAH team hope you don't mind. Also hope I got the team right. Well time will tell

Griobhta

[engracio]

Bsdboy, had the feeling you already are. As always you are always welcome to come home. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Griobhta,

Welcome to the team http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif the more the merrier. Let's do it for the science for now until more people join the GAH team. I think only few of us are actively engaged.

I never did like the show Lone Ranger. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Again welcome to the team.

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[engracio]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Cody]

guess you guys aren't truly recruiting if you don't even listen to requests

[engracio]

Cody,

If you go to the distributed forum, you will see that the majority of the current members support what you are requesting.

Unfortunately, we the general members do not have the "power to be". Therefore we can only request that the volunteers have time in their hands to make changes to your demands. Meanwhile the rest of us can only wish/hope that you can add to your total of 10 DP's to the cause. Otherwise, I love this country, USA, you can do almost anything you want. Including go to places people normally do not go. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[Cody]

Good Point.

I'm gonna whip out my HEX editor and do it myself.

:-)

[engracio]

Cody,

I read an article from Linus Torvald (Linux) saying to the effect that if somebody/newbie made a package in Linux which is tetotally screw up, once the gurus see the package, it would insult their professionalism that they would fix it as soon as possible. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[Cody]

Hrrrrm...

Guess I'll have to fire up SuSE and make a POS so that someone will fix it for me :-)

Actually, I just got done making an icon that uses only colors from the native windows2000 Desktop, so it should match. I am about to inject it into a copy of ECCp and see how it looks!

[randy48]

Keep going Cody http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif That's how things get better http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif And welcome to the team!

BTW, the guys doing the modifications to the clients, etc do have jobs and lives! They do what they can when they have the time. I hate programing! I've refused job offers paying 2 and 3 times what I make now if I would write code, won't do it! Don't like the headaches and the knots on the head from beating it against the wall and the cost of keyboards, monitors, and anything else that is close enough to throw!

[Cody]

Wow... and I have to (almost literally, sometimes) have someone rip me off from my Visual C++ screen sometimes :-)

Where can I get the enhanced code for the PIII ECCp client?

[randy48]

You can get the code that Virus has been working here (I think):
http://www.statsaholic.com/eccp/clients.php

or shoot him an E-mail and ask him for it! He has an FTP site where they have been transfering the enhanced code, but I'm not sure what it is...maybe "ftp.statsaholic.com?"

[Cody]

BTW: Any idea why I only get 1-2 DP's per 1/2 hour?

With DNETC, I rip about 2-3 work units every 30 seconds to 1 minute.

[griobhta]

Engracio thanks for the welcome, Thats the first genome done and working on the next. Just waiting to see the team site update to be sure I got the team right http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif.

Would have joined sooner if I had know about it had a few others running for a while but when your on a team it kind of keeps you running it. This machine sits on its own much of the day tickin over so suppose it now has something to do.

Griobhta

[engracio]

griobhta,

Yes I see you on the team stats page. Let that baby tick away and have it do good things. Like I said a few of us are still there ticking away. Glad you can join. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

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[ragtop]

Hey Cody:
The DP's you calculate in ECCP are somewhat different than the "work units" you do in RC5 - you can't directly compare the two. The time it takes to find each distinguished point (DP) varies. I recently checked my log and found that it took as little as 18 seconds to find one point, and over an hour to find another. In the end it does average out though, and a faster machine will consistently find more DP's.

[golfcart]

joined http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif this also makes my 700th post http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif to the top ^

[Brewmeister]

New member and getting ready to dedicate some extra cpu processing time!

Brewmeister

[This message has been edited by Brewmeister (edited 09-12-2001).]

[engracio]

Brewmiester,

Welcome to the team!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif You should pass Cody real quick and be off the bottom with his 33 DP's. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Looking forward to those extra cpu power. We'll need it to inch our way up the last two places. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


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[Detemeat]

Welcome to the team, Brewmeister!
Dete

[randy48]

Welcome to the Team Brewmeister :) The team you joined will be making History in the upcoming weeks ;) I have a feeling that we'll be the first team to pass the Dutch Power Cows in a DC contest :D And I also believe it will happen in less then 45 days...mark your calander!

[golfcart]

If you are'nt doing this already, at least give it a try. I only run it on a k6-2 300 and I think it's fun. I have watched our team move from #5 to #3 and by the looks of things, as randy48 said, we are going to reach #1! The more people we recruit, the sooner it is gonna happen. Every single DP counts, so even people with a slow computer like me can help. Show your pride for sysopt :D
Bump^

[randy48]

Come on Sysopt :) Give the ECCp Team just 30 days of your processor(s)! That's all we ask! If after 30 days, you're not interested, there will be no hard feelings! Right now, Sysopt ECCp is the fastest "rising star" in Distributed computing! In less then 2 months we have moved from 97th place to number 3! There are two teams that stand in our way to being the first Sysopt Distributed Computing Team to hold the #1 spot in ANY contest! Team Anandtech and the Dutch Power Cows!

Give us a hand for just 30 days and help Sysopt make HISTORY!

By the way, there is a $1000 prize!

[OC Guy]

Hey Randy, I'll join! Wait a minute! I'm already a member! Oops!http://sysopt.com/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif

[cyclone2]

30 day trial aye? :)
I will look into it after I take the kids to the movies.
Will an 800, 850 and a 450 {if I can make it work with no monitor} help the cause?

[randy48]

You bet Cyclone2 ! You'll be puting out 200 + DPs a day :)

For a little help on getting setup, I've got a page I'm working on, but there should be enough info there to get you going, click here (http://www.cablemo.net/~randy48) and if you have problems, questions, etc, post in Distributed computing or shoot me an e-mail:)

Welcome to the team :D

[Solidus]

although i don't have any idea what this is all about, and i'm too tired to think right now, i'll give it a try and maybe later read what it is i'm actually trying. go sysopt!!!

[randy48]

Welcome to the Team Solidus:D

[Solidus]

I already sent 12 DP's, and my name is still not on the list. How often is it updated?

[randy48]

It depends where they were sent. If sent throught the team proxy (http://www.statsaholic.com/eccp/index.php?section=ECCP&page=bymember) every 15 minutes, if sent to the ECCP site (http://www.nd.edu/~cmonico/eccp109/team77.html) every 6 hours GMT -5 hours (US Eastern)...Midnight, 6 AM, Noon, 6 PM.

[surrealchereal]

What happened to my name? I don't see it on the list anymore.

[randy48]

You're still here at number 44 :)ECCp-109 Team Stats as of
Mon Sep 17 12:07:29 2001



(GMT - 5:00 / US - IN)

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Sysopt

Total DP : 2660269
Team Total: 271503
new DP since last update: 2167

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User : DP new DP (% of team total)
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1. Randy48 : 73201 926 (26.961396%)
2. RC : 25407 163 (9.357908%)
3. izzzy12k : 17155 22 (6.318531%)
4. Jig-Miester : 15591 27 (5.742478%)
5. engracio : 15030 133 (5.535850%)
6. auatech : 14084 41 (5.187420%)
7. Sloth : 11370 30 (4.187799%)
8. viztech : 10694 37 (3.938815%)
9. fshanda : 8568 0 (3.155766%)
10. Undeadlord : 5983 17 (2.203659%)
11. NoCtrl : 4831 31 (1.779354%)
12. Bones1 : 4771 76 (1.757255%)
13. Kabuki : 4283 23 (1.577515%)
14. foth : 4269 0 (1.572358%)
15. Jani : 3804 0 (1.401089%)
16. eweruk : 3764 0 (1.386357%)
17. ragtop : 3328 18 (1.225769%)
18. Skuz : 3223 0 (1.187096%)
19. Rayven : 3201 229 (1.178992%)
20. virus : 2995 16 (1.103119%)
21. charmler : 2829 36 (1.041977%)
22. darrelld : 2664 47 (0.981205%)
23. Pulsar : 2496 21 (0.919327%)
24. thehig : 2458 0 (0.905331%)
25. kriisten : 2451 73 (0.902752%)
26. Haynboi : 2213 0 (0.815092%)
27. Smokey : 2097 38 (0.772367%)
28. bthom70 : 1953 17 (0.719329%)
29. reddog : 1846 0 (0.679919%)
30. neo770 : 1758 4 (0.647507%)
31. RCN_Moose : 1479 50 (0.544745%)
32. BKehoe : 1430 0 (0.526698%)
33. F4_Hunter : 1253 0 (0.461505%)
34. ssgmess : 1112 0 (0.409572%)
35. jnas : 1108 16 (0.408099%)
36. yes : 866 0 (0.318965%)
37. Dr_Label : 793 0 (0.292078%)
38. daveleau : 714 0 (0.262981%)
39. Maximum_Confusion : 650 0 (0.239408%)
40. Jokostel : 569 0 (0.209574%)
41. Tony2X : 465 0 (0.171269%)
42. DocHopper : 446 32 (0.164271%)
43. Sheriff : 430 0 (0.158378%)
44. surrealchereal : 366 22 (0.134805%)
45. tarpat1 : 331 0 (0.121914%)
46. Doup93 : 197 0 (0.072559%)
47. OC_Guy : 189 0 (0.069612%)
48. bwkaz : 185 2 (0.068139%)
49. knothead : 137 0 (0.050460%)
50. Crazy_Doc_II : 125 0 (0.046040%)
51. Cody : 92 0 (0.033885%)
52. TORBO : 88 0 (0.032412%)
53. golfcart : 74 6 (0.027256%)
54. silvercord : 41 0 (0.015101%)
55. Barney : 18 14 (0.006630%)
56. Phantom : 14 0 (0.005156%)
57. BGod : 4 0 (0.001473%)
58. Brewmeister : 4 0 (0.001473%)
59. Wizzard~Of~Ozz : 3 0 (0.001105%)
60. cyclone2 : 3 0 (0.001105%)

[Solidus]

hmm, still not on the list. am i doing something wrong? here is what my eccp109.ini looks like


DP_SERVER_HOST=www.statsaholic.com
DP_SERVER_URL=http://www.statsaholic.com/eccpproxy.pl START_MINIMIZED=0
PERM_CONN=0
NEED_ACK=1
EXT_TIMING=0
#SEND_INTERVAL=hh:mm:ss
#PROXY=host:port

is that correct?

[cyclone2]

I copied and pasted this;

START_MINIMIZED=1
PERM_CONN=0
NO_TRAY_ICON=0
NEED_ACK=1
#SEND_INTERVAL=hh:mm:ss
DP_SERVER_HOST=www.statsaholic.com
DP_SERVER_URL=http://www.statsaholic.com/eccpproxy.pl
#PROXY=host:port
EXT_TIMING=0
worked for me

:)