SETI@home News Vol. 109 (01/07/2010)

[Senture]

*Goes and folds*

@$#% there goes my plan

 

[Marine Iguana]

Ha ha!

Ahh the sound of fans kicking into action

 

[TheTross]

Slight change of plan again with the news.

I'm going to put it back to Fridays from now on; as things stand it doesn't make too much sense posting it on Thursdays anymore, as I'll probably be waiting all day for the stats to update - if, indeed, they do get updated in time for me to do the news to a decent degree of accuracy on Thursday.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Ha ha!

Ahh the sound of fans kicking into action

Yup i couldn't stand the quiet for too long am folding too

Slight change of plan again with the news.

I'm going to put it back to Fridays from now on; as things stand it doesn't make too much sense posting it on Thursdays anymore, as I'll probably be waiting all day for the stats to update - if, indeed, they do get updated in time for me to do the news to a decent degree of accuracy on Thursday.

Makes sense TT thanks for the update

 

[CGS]

For 8800 specs see here -

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/geforce_8800.html

To compare it to other gpu's see here -

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/graphics_cards_buy_now_uk.html

Stream Processors (cores) is were it counts, the more you can get the better.

mmm mine has 96 cores

Would a GeForce GTS 250 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card be better with 128cores or does clock speed count a lot as well ?

 

[Biffa]

Biffa - Why folding and not Rosetta - no reason other than simple curiousity?

I've done both in the past. Folding because we have a good team that is losing numbers, but we have thrown some kit at it and have stopped slipping down so fast. Plus its my pet project along with Seti

Rosetta, nothing wrong with it just not played with it that much except I had it as an alternative project way back when I just did Seti.

I guess the main reason is Rosetta doesn't use the GPU. So its of less interest technically to me. Science wise I think its on a level with the other protein study sciences, but no GPU = no me

 

[derk]

mmm mine has 96 cores

Would a GeForce GTS 250 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card be better with 128cores or does clock speed count a lot as well ?

Yes it would be better, dont know your budget but a second hand 9800GX2 would give you 256 cores and I just happen to have one for sale

 

[ToxicTBag]

Evening Mr Halz sah, i know your a buisy man but when you get a chance - no rush - can i get if not the same tiffy but one of the like of the first ones you did, would be much appreciated and this time i will keep a back up....cheers

 

[derk]

Evening Mr Halz sah, i know your a buisy man but when you get a chance - no rush - can i get if not the same tiffy but one of the like of the first ones you did, would be much appreciated and this time i will keep a back up....cheers

I'm not sure what you mean mate, tiffy ?

 

[ToxicTBag]

Sorry....had a Toxic moment...siggy, one begs ones pardon, tis the pills!

 

[derk]

Sorry....had a Toxic moment...siggy, one begs ones pardon, tis the pills!

Didnt save the other one, will this do ?

 

[ToxicTBag]

Yeah thats brill ta very much sah

 

[derk]

Thats one forum account about to go south

Edit: and its gone!

 

[ToxicTBag]

indeed!

 

[Marine Iguana]

Do what?

 

[ToxicTBag]

I think someone must be real bored tonight

 

[Senture]

Booze + forum = bad idea

 

[derk]

Booze + forum = bad idea

Post will be removed soon enough

 

[CGS]

Yes it would be better, dont know your budget but a second hand 9800GX2 would give you 256 cores and I just happen to have one for sale

May get back to you on that as i have a few other options to explore
When is seti back up thought it was only three day downtime ?

 

[derk]

No worries.

Yes it is the weekly 3 day outage, trouble is when they go back online the entire seti community tries to connect to get some work and it crashes.
So its a 4 day outage really