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PeteMcCann

PeteMcCann

PeteMcCann

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Hi there. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I'm sure you'll put me right if not. I was reading the BBC forums and they were encouraging people to join a team. As I have just started on my second pair of models, I thought I'd join up as I also want to get into overclocking. Yes all right, I am an overclocking virgin (except for AIBooster) but you have to start somewhere. I'm currently running 2 models on my main PC and a 3rd on my kids. Hoping to build some other PCs to boost the output further. I'm also rather new to this kind of forum, so you'll have to forgive me if I'm not up to speed.

Anyone out there say Hi.

Cheers

Pete
 
Well you've found the right place anyway - welcome to the team :)


Personally I've only done one Climate Prediction model when the project was new but there's plenty of people here who are active in that area - I'm sure some will be along shortly

Oh and if people tell you to stop that nonsense and get folding just ignore them (at least for a while anyway :p)
 
You're into folding are you? I've read about that in Custom PC mag. One of your competitors? Is folding proteins more fun than watching the polar ice caps melt? Did you finish your model through to 2080? How long did it take you and what spec machine did you run it on? It doesn't seem to be the most organised of projects especially the great **** up when everyone had to restart new models from the beginning. I was sick as a parrot. Still it felt good to finish 2 complete models, but it sure takes some time.

Pete
 
Welcome Pete, enjoy your stay down in the DC dungeons :)

Folding is the big craze at the moment, but OcUK used to have a very impressive seti team. We welcome all distributed computing projects and all faiths etc etc...

Check out the overclocking section for that stuff, though I'm sure we'll lend a hand if you prefer.
 
PeteMcCann said:
You're into folding are you? I've read about that in Custom PC mag. One of your competitors? Is folding proteins more fun than watching the polar ice caps melt? Did you finish your model through to 2080? How long did it take you and what spec machine did you run it on? It doesn't seem to be the most organised of projects especially the great **** up when everyone had to restart new models from the beginning. I was sick as a parrot. Still it felt good to finish 2 complete models, but it sure takes some time.

Pete
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I've been doing folding for years now - I started off on Seti but then I got lured in by the foldyness of it all and have been here ever since. It's definately my favourite project by a long way though to be honest it's probably more of an addiction than an interest in the area :p

I've tried a few of the Boinc projects when they were first released though with the CPDN units taking 20ish days running 24/7 on my old XP1700 overclocked to 2.2GHz that put me off a lot. I think the units have changed a lot since then so it's probably comparing apples to oranges

I'm all for other projects - we have a large enough user base here to have some really outstanding DC teams, it's just getting the sane folk into our way of thinking that's the hard part ;) :D
 
PeteMcCann said:
Anyone out there say Hi.
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HI :D

Couldn't resist - allways room for one more here - pull up and chair and we'll give you your very own room - well more of a cell really - well, not even that standing room only. - but with three PC's your'll be clocking up the points/models in no time.

As with folk's above, all forms of DC (distrubuted computing) are covered here - it's just that Folding@home is the best - (sorry rich it just sliped out)

Welcome Pete
 
Hi Pete

Glad to see you've caught the DC bug.

DC can prove very addictive and should come with a warning on the outside of the packet so you know what your getting into before opening.

WARNING: Contains Nut's

You see we're all slightly crazy here :eek:

As you can see from my sig I'm a folder at the moment.
Though I started off with seti and did try BBC CP for a short while but it was a little buggy it seems when it first came out.

If you want to start overclocking then hop over to the overclocking section of the forum and have a look at the Beginners Guide to Overclocking
 
shadowscotland said:
HI :D
- but with three PC's your'll be clocking up the points/models in no time.
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Well not three exactly. My main PC is an X2 4400+ on an A8N-SLI Premium with 3GB of Corsair 3200C2-Pro. This was able to run two of the BBC climate models very effectively, one on each core, and only just slower than running a single model. Even running 24/7 it still took from April to September to finish these first model runs which are a 160 year climate simulation from 1920 to 2080, so I don't think I'll be zipping through anything very quickly at this rate of knots. It would be nice to squeeze some more juice out of the processor though. I seen that some people have been able to raise this chip from 2.2 to 2.6-2.7Ghzs by overclocking. I'll settle for that!! :cool:

Why do you find folding so great? Are there good graphics? You'll have to work hard to convert me to folding though.

Cheeers. Pete.
 
joeyjojo said:
Folding is the big craze at the moment.
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Well it does give all these massively powerful machines something to do. When you think that even a single machine has more computing power than was used to send man to the moon, and most of the time they sit there with system idle at 99%. Certainly the speed of my typing doesn't tax my machine very much!

I've known about SETI for ages but it never really appealed. I think there's didly squat up there, and even if there is, why would they come here!! I did get rather more interested in DC when I started reading Custom PC Mag as they have a folding team aswell. I was going to start that untill the BBC climate experiment came along, which was much more akin to my interests, so I signed up and have been crunching since February this year. It felt good to be giving my PC a really good workout. Before I could never get it to break a sweat. Now it is always maxing out at 100%. It will keep my study nice and warm this winter as a fringe benefit!

If you haven't seen the graphics on the BBC model, they are worth a look and fun to play with.

Cheers. Pete
 
Welcome!

Are you Pete? If so you just pushed me from 4th place :mad: :mad: :p

Glad you have joined our team, we need more people to get up the teams ranking. The more the merrier! :D
 
PeteMcCann said:
Why do you find folding so great? Are there good graphics? You'll have to work hard to convert me to folding though.
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It's addictive as crack but without the side effects and only a 10% of the social stigma :D
Graphics are quite poor (some reasonable third party graphical repo's) but still.

As you said with the BBC modeler it gives your pc a good workout but the results are uploaded daily and therfore so is your score and hence addiction guaranteed. The other main point is the data is usefull to medical biochemists.

Having said that Boinic has many other areas of research than the ET stuff including protein folding.

Earth Sciences
BBC Climate Change Experiment
Climateprediction.net
Seasonal Attribution Project
Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry
Spinhenge@home
SETI@home
LHC@home
Einstein@home
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home
Biology and Medicine
Tanpaku
Rosetta@home
World Community Grid
SIMAP
Malariacontrol.net
Predictor@home
Mathematics and strategy games
Riesel Sieve
Rectilinear Crossing Number
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
Chess960@home
 
Amp34 said:
Are you Pete? If so you just pushed me from 4th place
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Yes I am Pete!! Sorry for storming in like that. I had not seen the team table before I joined, so was rather suprised to have wizzed up to second place. I thought I'd be way down the table with all you fanatical crunching overclockers. It sound like most people are into folding though. Still, someone has to save the planet!! There's not much use in advancing medical science if we are all under water now, is there!! ;) Perhaps we can get these folders to get their priorities right!!! :D

Are you crunching on one machine or multiple? Did you have to reset your model in April or did you start after that. Do you just do the BBC DC or are you doing others as well?

Cheers. Pete
 
Welcome to the forums and Team OcUK :D
Personally I'm not into BBC Climate Change at the moment although I might be in the future since I have moved around four or five BOINC projects so far and it could be on my list of projects to do next :) I might be being a bit thick, but where are the stats for this project? I can't see them on climateprediction.net or bbc.cpdn.org
 
PhilthyPhil said:
Welcome to the forums and Team OcUK :D
Personally I'm not into BBC Climate Change at the moment although I might be in the future since I have moved around four or five BOINC projects so far and it could be on my list of projects to do next :) I might be being a bit thick, but where are the stats for this project? I can't see them on climateprediction.net or bbc.cpdn.org
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Hi there. I think you should find the info you want at the following

http://bbc.cpdn.org/advanced.php

Yes, do come and run a climate model. Our team is currently 9th overall and could move up to 5th with a few more producing members. It has some great graphics too, which you can have as a screen saver, though I think it takes quite a lot of processing juice.

Mind you, the models are not for the faint hearted or if you want instant results. They run 160 year simulations which take fast computers 5-6 months to complete 24/7!! That's some comittment, though they run very sucessfully on proper dual core cpu's, one on each core, so 2 for the price of one! And they were interesting to watch too. Both my models had no arctic ice during the summer from about 2050 onwards. That's only 40 years away.

"We're going to need a bigger boat!"

Pete
 
Hi Pete & welcome to the team.
I don’t wish to curb your enthusiasm but we are currently 11th (world) 8th (UK) and unless some of the slackers switch back to the BBC from there cosy Folding “fire side” we are stuck there, well not quite we will stomp “AMD users” in 2380 days!! In fact thinking about it, the cosy fire side seem a much better place to be!
 
PeteMcCann said:
Yes I am Pete!! Sorry for storming in like that. I had not seen the team table before I joined, so was rather suprised to have wizzed up to second place. I thought I'd be way down the table with all you fanatical crunching overclockers. It sound like most people are into folding though. Still, someone has to save the planet!! There's not much use in advancing medical science if we are all under water now, is there!! Perhaps we can get these folders to get their priorities right!!!

Are you crunching on one machine or multiple? Did you have to reset your model in April or did you start after that. Do you just do the BBC DC or are you doing others as well?

Cheers. Pete
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I don't mind, it means the team can get higher placings.

I'm sad to say I haven't actually got one completed WU yet. :o I have had a few at 50% and above but I play with my PC too much so some of the others have finished at 10% etc. :(

ATM I am running BBC CP on a dual xeon at 2.8 24/7, so 4 running at the same time but a week ago I was running it on an X2 [email protected] and running seti on the xeons with seti now running on the X2. :confused: :D I also have a 3000xp running BBC about 5-8 hours a day too.

Thats the problem with running multiple projects, I want to get to the top in both but to succeed in BBC I need to stop seti and to succeed in seti I need to stop BBC. You canne win! I suppose I'd better get another PC (when I can afford it.) :p
 
Peter-B said:
Hi Pete & welcome to the team.
I don’t wish to curb your enthusiasm but we are currently 11th (world) 8th (UK) and unless some of the slackers switch back to the BBC from there cosy Folding “fire side” we are stuck there, well not quite we will stomp “AMD users” in 2380 days!! In fact thinking about it, the cosy fire side seem a much better place to be!
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We are 11th by total credit - which is what everyone uses for ranking teams, but 9th by RAC - which is what all BOINC projects seem to use as the default for ranking teams for some strange reason :)
 
Not a criticism of the project, but isn't it ironic that you leave your crunchers on 24/7, which uses more electricity, which produces more CO2 (indirectly :p ), which ends up changing the climate more?

Am tempted by this project all the same. If all the folders changed to this project right now, we'd be quite a force :cool:
 
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