Pirates Ahoy!

Berserker · 9 Mar 2009 at 09:49

24hr update - we were only 891 points behind yesterday. Yes we can!

Biffa · 9 Mar 2009 at 09:51

Umm isn't that the wrong graph?

Berserker · 9 Mar 2009 at 09:52

What? Me? Make a mistake? Never!

shadowscotland · 9 Mar 2009 at 09:58

TeamOcUK.co.uk graphs are looking very positive I must say - major boost to cpu, member and production totals - Looks as if yesterday was the first real stats pickup day.

Looking forward to my status being upgraded to active when the credit starts rolling in today

Edit: looks as if I'm not the only one checking the stats at work this morning

WoZZeR · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:01

Can anyone impart a little advice on setting this up to get the most out of my C2D please?

I had a read of the boinc faq's and am none the wiser.

Biffa · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:03

shadowscotland said:
Looking forward to my status being upgraded to active when the credit starts rolling in today

Edit: looks as if I'm not the only one checking the stats at work this morning

Yay! Now you are here I feel more.. "content" somehow

Biffa · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:05

WoZZeR said:
Can anyone impart a little advice on setting this up to get the most out of my C2D please?

I had a read of the boinc faq's and am none the wiser.

Theres not much you can do I'm afraid. You can overclock your CPU a bit to give it some extra oomph but try not to push the memory too far.

In a way its nice and simple and a fairly level playing field.

WoZZeR · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:10

Ta for that. So just to check, does this look about right when left running overnight:

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/results.php?userid=305092

Berserker · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:23

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/results.php?hostid=1022962

Looks fine to me. Thanks for the contribution.

WoZZeR · 9 Mar 2009 at 10:35

Cheers, I thought it best to check

Pilgrim57 · 9 Mar 2009 at 11:11

Just added 1 core to the fray which sholud get close to 9000ppd & once the SETI queue has gone down a bit I'll add another

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platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 11:45

Can I just ask a performance question - I have a lowish spec pc currently running ubuntu.

Is the linux client faster? Or will installing XP on this machine give better performance (after I've spent a while butchering running processes)? It's only got 512mb of ram.

On that note, does Ram or CPU affect processing speed more?

On another note...does performance decrease (noticeably) with Virtual machines? Or could I run this in...for example four different Virtual machines on a quad core processor to get 4xresults?

shadowscotland · 9 Mar 2009 at 11:49

Biffa said:
Yay! Now you are here I feel more.. "content" somehow

Thanks... I think

Awaiting a delivery from the US of some new quick connecters - so I can hook up the watercooling and get my system OC'ed and Fanless again.
Stock cooler is a tad loud

shadowscotland · 9 Mar 2009 at 11:55

platypus said:
Can I just ask a performance question - I have a lowish spec pc currently running ubuntu.

Lowish spec - but it inc a quad :confused:

R@H uses loads of ram - single client in windows will run four work units. nice and easy but will need at least 1GB of free RAM.

Folding is faster on Ubuntu don't know if rosetta is or not?

platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:02

shadowscotland said:
Lowish spec - but it inc a quad
R@H uses loads of ram - single client in windows will run four work units. nice and easy but will need at least 1GB of free RAM.

Folding is faster on Ubuntu don't know if rosetta is or not?

No I have several computers, one of which has a quad core, one of which is a low spec linux box.

Does it need 1gb of free ram to even start running? In which case either not bother with the linux box, or just wack more ram in it?

platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:03

Also, (sorry to keep asking!), does disabling the graphical aspect turn around quicker result yields?

(EG I know that running SETI@Home via the command line is a lot faster then running the gui + screensaver).

platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:08

And one final question (for now!): Does it run when logged out (on CTRL+ALT+DEL screen)?

Berserker · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:17

platypus said:
Does it need 1gb of free ram to even start running? In which case either not bother with the linux box, or just wack more ram in it?

I'd recommend 256MB for Linux, 256MB for X (if you're using it), and 256MB for each CPU core for Rosetta@home. Any CPU 1.6GHz with 512KB L2 cache or better will run Rosetta@home, but you should bear in mind the cost/performance - a PC at that spec will net you 80 points/day. A Q6600 will get you at least 1200.

platypus said:
Also, (sorry to keep asking!), does disabling the graphical aspect turn around quicker result yields?

It'll help a little, but not much.

(EG I know that running SETI@Home via the command line is a lot faster then running the gui + screensaver).

Used to be true in the bad old days, but since the screensaver got DirectXified, there's no longer that much difference (unless of course you're using the CUDA optimized client).

platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 12:19

Berserker said:
I'd recommend 256MB for Linux, 256MB for X (if you're using it), and 256MB for each CPU core for Rosetta@home. Any CPU 1.6GHz with 512KB L2 cache or better will run Rosetta@home, but you should bear in mind the cost/performance - a PC at that spec will net you 80 points/day. A Q6600 will get you at least 1200.

Aye thats fine, I'm thinking of using it as an additional cruncher, not an either/or option. Though I can't off the top of my head remember what cpu it has.

I'll just leave ubuntu on it and install rosetta on that. 80 points/day is fine, they all add up!

Ok well, one more to add tonight and then that'll be my crunchers set up for a while:

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Biffa · 9 Mar 2009 at 14:39

Lookin good!