D2OL - When will we catch them?

[GeoffS]

According to griz's stats page....

When do you get them (based on last week output):

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Team.................................................Diff....................Score.................Days
Team AnandTech.......................................................71359
SAK-Tech & [Liberty]NTWasted.......-4227.................89182...................5....Currently 7th
Team MacNN...................................-2910.................86359...................6....Currently 8th
Rechenkraft.net - Germany.............-4341................110563.................10...Currently 6th
HardCOREware...............................-3285................117173.................14...Currently 5th
Team USA.......................................-3582.................206454.................38...Currently 4th
Ars Technica Team Frozen Yogurt...-3736.................272847.................54...Currently 3rd
BIOHazard Research Group Italy....-4239.................351353.................67...Currently 2nd
Dutch Power Cows.........................-2230..................420166...............157...Currently 1st

w00t! We've cut between 70-100 days off of DPC's lead over the last week, I believe!

Geoff

 

[peter584]

5th in 2 weeks!! That would be sweet!

 

[GeoffS]

Hard to believe! I would guess that the growth from RC5 and ECCp ending has been extraordinary!

Geoff

 

[tbates757]

It looks like DPC is starting to step up their output

 

[Slatzman]

Possibly 2nd by the end of the year :Q

You will have to keep this updated every 4 or 5 days.

Thanks Geoff

Slatz

 

[mastertech01]

another 50-75 strong nodes and we will be there for sure.

 

[Mardeth]

DPC has clearly put some more nodes but they are still light years after us in the daily output.

 

[GeoffS]

Well.. if our dailies keep looking like this (this is just from the first 100 participants and I may have missed some) :

Rank Name Cands Confs
3 TA_GeoffS 491 9,820
7 TA_Covert_Ops 340 6,800
14 TA_Irc_Deception_Net 199 3,974
15 TA_Slapstick 181 3,620
18 TA_shuxclams 158 3,160
19 TA_WX 154 3,080
30 TA_Spleenus 125 2,500
31 TA_ReaganCRW 124 2,480
32 TA_Bunker 124 2,480
33 TA_Jagators 122 2,440
34 TA_Daaavo 122 2,440
37 TA_mastertech01 121 2,420
40 FoBoT 114 2,280
48 TA_Dudleydog73 93 1,860
50 TA_peter584 89 1,780
52 TA_Remy 87 1,740
64 merlocka 67 1,340
70 appletalking 63 1,260
71 TA_TheReaper 63 1,260
72 TA_ThomasL 63 1,260
74 Chipster22 61 1,220
81 InverseofNeo 54 1,080
91 TA_OrangeKid 51 1,020
92 TA_Mardeth 49 980
93 TA_JWMiddleton 48 960


25 of the top 100 are TeAm AT! That's awesome!

Geoff

 

[GeoffS]

From griz's site again... our progress in terms of the lead that Team MacNN has on us is here

Geoff

 

[RemyCanad]

Look at the difference after ECCp finished!!!!

 

[Spleenus]

WOW!
30 TA_Spleenus 125 2,500
That's me

I think we're gonna have to get even more production . I took a look at the DPC forums and I could make out the following,

PANIEK, RED ALERT....blah.... Anandtech :Q

 

[RemyCanad]

hahaha thats great! I promise more when I finish this semister! (No money coming in right now...) Kinda like a backup I guess you coudl say.

 

[GeoffS]

I've decided to try Linux on one of my machines. I'd like to convert them all, but I also want to keep the same node number... not make 16 new nodes and discontinue 16 nodes. I'm hoping that the crew at D2OL can give me an answer about that.

I do have concerns about the Linux client though... my knowledge of Linux is pretty limitted and it looks like there is a lot of work and patching that needs to be done to get it running.... true?

Geoff

 

[Baldy18]

I'll be done with my commitment to the DF team tomorrow and then I'll be ready to rock'em and sock'em again.

 

[RemyCanad]

Originally posted by: GeoffS
I've decided to try Linux on one of my machines. I'd like to convert them all, but I also want to keep the same node number... not make 16 new nodes and discontinue 16 nodes. I'm hoping that the crew at D2OL can give me an answer about that.

I do have concerns about the Linux client though... my knowledge of Linux is pretty limitted and it looks like there is a lot of work and patching that needs to be done to get it running.... true?

Geoff

Well my install of RedHat 7.3 was a pain. But I installed 8.0 and then installed D2OL and no modifying needed. It was as easy as win98 if not easier. Just install and go, no tar files to deal with.

Also if you want I can try and give this thing a node number from a win98 machine. I think it would be easy enough. Just let me know.

 

[GeoffS]

I think it may just be the node.prp file in the SengentD2OL/D2OL/res directory, but I'm not 100% certain

Geoff

 

[Ken g6]

Modern linuxes are actually quite easy to set up. Weird issues occasionally come up, but I've never had to patch a kernel or anything like that.

 

[RemyCanad]

Your right its the node.prp file. I have already used it multiple times. There is also another file called stats.prp and that needs to be moved.

 

[GeoffS]

The question is can those two files from a Windows box simply be dropped into the directories on the Linux box without issues?

Why the stats one?

Geoff

 

[RemyCanad]

I can try to just drop it into linux and check it out. It can't do any hard so why not.

I move the stats so that I can keep that stats on the machine. (How many and such) Not sure what all it does. When MereMortal posted how to do it, he listed it too...

 

[zeruty]

I am having a terrible time getting d2ol working in slackware 8.1

I updated the libgcc to 3, which I've found as a fix on other forums, but it hasn't helped any
The gui client just cycles through candidates without doing any processing, and the cli client just exits with java and X errors (when I do D2OL controller:cli at the console)

I really dont want to change my distro as this one is good and stable (it's the machine irc.deception.net is on)

if anyone has any suggestions they'd be greatly appreciated...

Also has anyone set it up on solaris? because I am thinking of installing solaris on my pIII 800, but if it's a PITA to get it working there, I may not...

 

[RemyCanad]

Well I need to take back what I said. Looks like things have changed. After letting it run for all day it seems to have messed up a bit. It is not processing some things and is acting very strange in general. So I decided I would reinstall it.......well that was the wrong idea. Now I cannot get it to inittialize at all! Well I guess its time to try the lib files. They really need to do some work on this new client. Every single OS has a problem!

 

[mastertech01]

I just completed putting together one of my Tualatin Celeron machines with Mandrake 8.1 and the latest download of DDOL... so far so good.
Ill know more by morning. I just need to figure out how to disable all power management stuffs so I can rest assured it will crunch day and night unattended.

 

[mastertech01]

Well my first 8 hours with the 1.2 Tualatin Celeron and Mandrake 8.1 with no mods is 22 Cands completed... Im sold brothers if this keeps up..

 

[RemyCanad]

Hey did you have to turn off some power save features? I am thinking I prematurly reinstalled D2OL and thats why its screwed up. I am thinking it was just not working becuase it went to sleep....