SETI@home News Vol. 101

[TheTross]

SETI@home News
For week ending 22/04/2010

Total Credit: 325,927,235
Crunched this week: 2,858,884 (+388,373)
Current World Position: 16
RAC: 382,309 (+26,706)
Current RAC Rank: 14 (-1)
Members: 1,125
Active Members: 149 (13.2% of total members)
Members gaining credit: 129 (11.5% of total members)


Teams Stomped
None

Teams Stomped By
None

Teams in our Sights
15 The Planetary Society (103 days) (-130)

The Ones to Watch
None!


The Top Twenty
1 Burlsey 19,977,085
2 Mr Ludwig 17,905,840
3 Meridian 17,540,984
4 IAN 12,381,512
5 Stuart Gibson 11,568,671
6 br83taylor 10,344,219
7 Biffa 10,256,557
8 Simon 8,923,140
9 Odan 7,887,036
10 CGS 7,514,789
11 bully 7,272,002
12 Alan Woodford 6,717,478
13 Richard Smith 6,375,005
14 GrandMasterD 5,998,104
15 MadMaC 5,674,499
16 geoff 5,384,363
17 Gordon Proctor 5,025,006
18 Dave 5,005,047
19 Grimgoth 4,862,857
20 Bob Townsend 4,750,728


Top of the FLOPs
1 ReaVerUK 37,727
2 Grimgoth 35,558
3 Meridian 33,040
4 br83taylor 25,570
5 loudbob 22,751
6 GrandMasterD 20,563
7 MadMaC 12,985
8 Odan 12,768
9 Dave 10,150
10 halz 10,064
11 ToxicTBag 9,932
12 pnutty 9,203
13 Berserker 8,254
14 TheTross 7,908
15 Mr Ludwig 7,872
16 Simon 7,556
17 Stuart Gibson 7,282
18 kolala 6,267
19 geoff 5,199
20 Burlsey 4,923


Recent Tiffy Winners
Derek 500
Jgolby 1,000
Derek 1,000
wayne 100,000
pnutty 2,500,000
TheTross 3,000,000
Dave 5,000,000
Gordon Proctor 5,000,000


New Members
None


Splitters
None


Members' Weekly Cobbly Dumpage
(Highlighted entries are GPU assisted)
1 ReaVerUK 378,023
2 Grimgoth 262,664
3 Meridian 229,701
4 br83taylor 207,739
5 loudbob 179,497
6 GrandMasterD 152,236
7 Odan 100,123
8 MadMaC 96,575
9 pnutty 72,952
10 Dave 67,691
11 halz 64,723
12 TheTross 61,346
13 Berserker 58,745
14 Simon 51,282
15 ToxicTBag 50,695
16 Mr Ludwig 49,511
17 kolala 45,050
18 Slashiem 40,634
19 geoff 36,758
20 Zarniwoop 36,191
21 Jonathan Jeffrey Davis 35,334
22 wayne 31,591
23 Burlsey 30,574
24 CGS 29,609
25 Ross Graham 29,240

26 Gordon Proctor 28,403
27 Graham 27,662
28 Pilgrim57 22,683
29 Stephen D. Ord 21,862
30 Vaz 18,488
31 Stuart Gibson 18,348
32 retch 16,556
33 Lee Dixon 15,465
34 carbon8ed 14,024
35 Sparkles01 13,454
36 Bob Townsend 12,807
37 Peter Lawson 11,882
38 Chasser 11,821
39 Cluster 9,834
40 TJLUK 9,015
41 Cyclone 8,996
42 kev.morris 8,708
43 Soulfire 8,179
44 shady 7,560
45 Dr Grey 6,997
46 Team Cake Boy's 6,873
47 easygoin' 6,382
48 hamesy 6,199
49 Robert McHattie 6,165
50 Mark 5,430

51 the_running_man 5,085
52 FluffySheep 4,939
53 kruptikos 4,856
54 dreadhead 4,448
55 TwoFace76 4,331
56 john 4,245
57 Pro2type 835 4,048
58 Bungle_Bear 3,895
59 BENJAMIN HERBLE 3,814
60 Derek 3,624
61 w00druff 3,512
62 Conor Robinson 3,221
63 Dave Curr 3,190
64 Ben 2,610
65 Admin 2,548
66 Fezzer 2,510
67 Neil 2,380
68 Bradshawma 2,364
69 duck 2,303
70 Shane 2,100
71 dmc1970 1,846
72 God 1,818
73 Corsair 1,740
74 Dorsai 1,636
75 Chris 1,619

76 KevinH 1,524
77 Grid 1,438
78 David 1,418
79 Hammer 1,333
80 xrobert 1,302
81 Lynxman 1,272
82 Mark 1,246
83 H@WK_EYES 1,121
84 supernovagt 1,079
85 Tim 1,021
86 David McNutt 1,016
87 Iain Cochran [xenoc] 946
88 JayMax 940
89 TheDogFather 853
90 Barbie 804
91 Jgolby 757
92 Area 51 717
93 Shining69 710
94 lancediamond 690
95 aggie 649
96 quackers 639
97 cyclo 633
98 Warspite 617
99 BurningHorizons 571
100 lips of a moose 566

101 CaptainSuave 525
102 s33r 505
103 stegoman 494
104 Stompie79 489
105 Keith Symington 479
106 REVOLUTiON 456
107 mutz_nutz_uk 453
108 Geoff Fielder 394
109 Mad Pierre 364
110 Alex Javed 340
111 Richard Smith 324
112 hilly 308
113 reggyt 292
114 SteveT 273
115 William Lack 232
116 Raymond Clark 185
117 JB 179
118 cjo9900 172
119 DeathStalker 138
120 IAN 123
121 Smurfinho 119
122 froggy 104
123 john 104
124 DrJohn 88
125 Jez 87

126 ezy50 86
127 Ez-up 85
128 ______Y_o_z_z_e_r______ 59
129 Reg 27

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Our RAC has jumped up markedly over the last week, rising by nearly 27,000! As a result, for the first time in a long time (and possibly since I've been doing the news), we have no teams on our tail! Keep it up folks

Also, a special mention to ReaVerUK, whose output has shot up by an alarming amount since last week and now tops the weekly dumpage list by a long, long way - what on earth are you being fed sah?

Welcome to the new members, and as always congrats to the tiffy winners! Don't forget that you can get your tiffies from www.teamocuk.co.uk; simply click on your username, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the relevant urls to display them in all their Technicolor beauty on this forum! If you think you have been missed off the milestones list, please let me know and I’ll add you manually.

 

[TheTross]

Oh, and I earned this during the week too:

 

[loudbob]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

 

[ToxicTBag]

Now thats impressive very well done TT excellent

 

[loudbob]

Members' Weekly Cobbly Dumpage
(Highlighted entries are GPU assisted)
1 ReaVerUK 378,023
2 Grimgoth 262,664
3 Meridian 229,701
4 br83taylor 207,739
5 loudbob 179,497

Also, a special mention to ReaVerUK, whose output has shot up by an alarming amount since last week and now tops the weekly dumpage list by a long, long way - what on earth are you being fed sah?

It's no good.......

I can't just sit idly by and watch these upstarts (a'hem) pass me by.

I'm used to being up in the top two or three........now I'm down to fifth.

And Reaver (what can I say).......how can I compete with three GTX295's in ONE rig? (Congrat's by the way).

Sweating.....tremblling......must resist.....ooops.....too late.

The deed has been done........the cards have been bought (eta 27/04/10).......the gauntlet was thrown.....and now it shall return.

Let the games begin.

 

[ReaVerUK]

Also, a special mention to ReaVerUK, whose output has shot up by an alarming amount since last week and now tops the weekly dumpage list by a long, long way - what on earth are you being fed sah?

Being Fed I can't afford food i'm saving up for the expected leccy bill.

It's no good.......

I can't just sit idly by and watch these upstarts (a'hem) pass me by.

I'm used to being up in the top two or three........now I'm down to fifth.

Sweating.....tremblling......must resist.....ooops.....too late.

The deed has been done........the cards have been bought (eta 27/04/10).......the gauntlet was thrown.....and now it shall return.

Awww come on at least give me a little time at the top Resists temptation i ain't doing anything stupid until i know how much it's costing in leccy. Was hoping to shut down the Q6600 rig when it's cleared it cache but i suppose if you've challanged it would be rude not to keep it going flat out atleast for the time being.

Do we get any ideas if you've already bought

On a side note was looking at the recent average figures for the UK and 5/6 of our team are in the top 15 in the country. Would be 6/6 but br83taylor isn't based in the UK

 

[loudbob]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-119-EA&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1410

I may not be able to reach your RAC dizzy heights, but two of these will hold you off for now, because if things stay the same you will be passing me by in about a month.

 

[ReaVerUK]

I thought about 3 of those rather than 2 more 295's but wasn't 100% sure if they acted as individual cards for Boinc or not. Do you have any conclusive info on that?

 

[loudbob]

I would imagine that it would be the same as a Dual GPU Card but without the internal sli bridge.

Therefore, with the use all GPU workaround we should be good to go.

However, I shall confirm on Wednesday.

But for now nothing conclusive.

 

[ReaVerUK]

I did read somewhere that they were working with Boinc so i'm sure you'll be OK. I could only find 1 mention so i went with what i knew.

 

[loudbob]

If they don't I'm sure OcUK won't mind me returning them to replace with some 285's or 295's (depending whats in stock).

 

[ToxicTBag]

Oh my this is getting interesting, i wish i had gone for 295's too but the availability is a bit poo pants so its 285's for me.
I've worked out the elctric for my 3 rigs its gone from an average of £1.37 a day to £2.40 but i wouldnt know what your 295's are consuming Reaver.
I do hunt the net but if someone spots any 295's please feel free to pass me the nod
Loudbob i wish you well with your new cards the price does not seem to bad.
Can i ask as i am not 100% upto scratch, with a dedicated physics card would it match 285 for output as looking at the cards you have bought they have 1200mb as opposed to my 285's single gpu and 1024 mb

 

[loudbob]

I would imagine that the 275 & 250 combi would surpass a 285 as it has 368 CUDA's to play with.

That is of course as long as they play well together.

I think this little project of mine is gonna turn out to be an interesting journey as I will have 2 x GTX275's, 1 x GTX260 & 2 x GTS250's all in the same rig.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Oh mother of mercy you can mix them hmmmmm....thinking those 2 breville toasters i have awaiting dday could go back to the box and 3 spare slots....i think we could talk

 

[ReaVerUK]

I've worked out the elctric for my 3 rigs its gone from an average of £1.37 a day to £2.40 but i wouldnt know what your 295's are consuming Reaver.

I don't really want to know i'll just live in ignorance then when the bill comes in give someone my card to pay it then burn the bill .

I think this little project of mine is gonna turn out to be an interesting journey as I will have 2 x GTX275's, 1 x GTX260 & 2 x GTS250's all in the same rig.

I initially had problems getting the 3 295's to run together but hopefully you wont have any issues.

 

[loudbob]

I initially had problems getting the 3 295's to run together but hopefully you wont have any issues.

What operating system are you running?

Hmmmm............now you have just raised a doubt in my mind.

Ponders........as the 250's are physx will they be recognised?

And wonders if a new power supply will be requried........

Well, will find out on tuesday/wednesday, so no point worrying about it now

 

[ReaVerUK]

XP64 on that rig as i couldn't be bothered getting it to work with 7 seen as it is a purely crunching rig.

The problems i had were probly due to never having a multi gpu rig before. The most annoying was no POST screen showing until i disabled all other screens which isn't an issue with XP as you don't need dummy plugs but if the same problem exists with vista onwards it could be problamatic.

 

[loudbob]

Ahhhhhh, I see,

I should be fine then.

I run dual boot systems.

XP for seti, internet and general stuff & 7 for gaming etc

 

[loudbob]

Ahhhhhh, I see,

I should be fine then.

I run dual boot systems.

XP for seti, internet and general stuff & 7 for gaming etc

Luckily for me, Microsoft were happy for me to transfer XP from my old machines to the new ones.

 

[Biffa]

I've just built a triple boot disk with Win7-64, Vista-64 and XP-64, to find out what is the best, read some awesomely awful threads on the nvidia forums about people trying to enumerate more than 4 GPU's in Vista and Win7.. so thought I'd better play it safe and work out whats best for my rig.

Still on the P6T7 at the moment, but got the ASrock back from RMA so am sorely tempted to try it out again.

Probably best to get it stable on the P6T7 and then try on the Asrock or if I can't get it stable on the P6T7 then switch over.

Oh decisions, and all before the wife divorces me