Alright, somebody get this guy to join the TeAm!

[BadThad]

6449 hosts?

He is SMOKING in Rosetta@Home. WTH? :Q

 

[Night201]

Probably puts it on all his work/school computers...?

 

[Night201]

We need to move him over to F@H!!!

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: BadThad
6449 hosts?

He is SMOKING in Rosetta@Home. WTH? :Q

Note that they're all dual core, but not a single one of 'em seems to be anywhere near full time. The highest RAC is 254.76? Hmmm. Size (i.e., quantity) does matter.

-jim

 

[networkman]

Could also be it's not legit. Only the admins of the project could tell us for sure, but I get a little suspicious especially when the number of hosts is in the hundreds or thousands. Certainly, he could be in some kind of IT Director type position, and love the concept of Distributed Computing as I do, but at some point you've gotta be asking yourself about the costs of the electricity involved as well as wear and tear on the machines. That's a heck of alot of host to have singular control of - and tio dedicate and significant quantity to DC efforts? Seems a little screwy to me.

 

[Assimilator1]

Wow thats awesome! :Q

I'd love to have that sorta power .....if someone else payed the elec bill

Seems he's added more systems!
6,587 host

Hmm....

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Maybe he is adding hosts via virus. Now wouldn't that be interesting....

 

[caferace]

Could be VM's as well. That would explain the low RAC's.

-jim

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Maybe he is adding hosts via virus. Now wouldn't that be interesting....

Sure looks suspecious to me. I seriously doubt that somebody with access to nearly 10,000 PC's could get away with running a DC client on them.

 

[BadThad]

Explained by Project Developer

 

[Assimilator1]

Err ,I don't see anything explained their BT ,I just see R@H stats ,wrong link?

 

[Fardringle]

I get the same thing. Just Rosetta stats for lwh1.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

It's the wrong link.

But on the Rosey forums, they explained it like this: These machines alkl roll back at night to theit initial state, like PCs in a college PC pool. So, every morning, when they fetch WUs from Rosey, they generate a new PC entry. That's also why their RAC is so low, they only have 24 hours to send in work, then they reset, and start all over again.

 

[Assimilator1]

Ah I see ,how does R@H idenify a PC then? is it just a randomly (but sequential) assigned number/ID?