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DSLReports has challenged us to a race!

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Sukhoi

Elite Member
DSLReports.com has challenged us to a race in SETI@home! It commences January 1st, and runs through February 28th. The team with the most output during that time period wins! The official rules of the race are in this thread.


Will you allow Team AnandTech to be beaten? I think not! If you already have a SETI@home account, please join us here. If not, you can make an account when you run the client for the first time. We need all the help we can get! 🙂

Over the last 30 days DSLR is beating us by an average of 982 work units (WUs) per day. To compound this problem, they are currently only 55,395 WUs behind us. At this rate they are going to catch us in 56 days!! :Q:Q This can't happen!

For those of you unfamiliar with the SETI@home client, we have many helpful pages to help you get it installed. One of the best is teriba's site. In addition, my help thread has links to all the relevent utilities and such.

There are also an abundance of stats available for SETI@home. Each morning Hellburner posts the day's stats. Around 1:00 p.m. CST Smokeball posts another stats update. We also have many races. Individual races are coordinated by OhioDude, and DarkMajiq runs the mini-team races.

So come and check us out in the Distributed Computing forum! 🙂

We can't let DSLReports beat us!!

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And for those of you not interested in SETI@home, Team AnandTech participates in many other distributed computing programs. Some of these include RC5, OGR, ECCp-109, United Devices' cancer research, Folding@home, and Genome@home.

Edit: I changed the projected numbers section from seven days to 30 days. DSLReports had a new member with ~30,000 WUs I believe join in the last week, so it really messed up the seven day average.
 
How many work units/day would you expect my athlonXP 1600+ and dual P3 450 machines to do? I may install it if it'll be any significant help.
 
We're doomed, doomed, doomed!

Or we'll kick their butt. It all depends how many join in the cause.

Michael
 
notfred, that will be great help! I have pII600 that can do 4 a day and a PIII 933 xeon that puts out 6 a day. Your rigs have to at least be able to match that!

If you want some more detailed assesments, head on over to the distributed computing forum and ask away there!
 
windows client - this is the screensaver client, which can be set to run only in screensaver mode or at all times. note that while the graphics of this client are showing the graphics eat about 50% of the processor time, so it is best to use the screensaver "settings" to tell it to "blank screen" after a short while. this is not the same as having the computer turn the monitor off. or it could be run at all times minimized. but if you're going to do that then...

windows "dos" client - this is the fast windows client. its not pretty, but its much faster than the windows screensaver client.

linux client - again, not pretty, but rather fast. linux users with wine might try using the windows "dos" client, there have been reports of it being faster than the straight-up linux client.

linux client 2 - uses an older libc, might work if the first doens't.

i386 linux client - general IA-32 client, the previous 2 are designed for 686 type processors. use this one for pentiums and below.
 
ack! I just checked my old stats and found out I never broke even just 50 WUs for the team (got a very crappy system).

Lousy DSLReport people, I'll restart on the 1st just to smack 'em down and finish my obligatory 50 units. Go AT! 🙂
 
notfred- Your machines would do about 11WUs/day. The race is 59 days long. That is 649WUs!!!! That would help a ton! Basically we need all the help we can get. Here is some more info on what is going on.


Our team has been one of the top teams for quite some time now but DSLR Team Starfire is really putting us to the test and putting our reputation on the line. We have the ability to beat them but it is going to take everything we have plus some help from you guys. Do you love this site? Do you love the people here? Are you pissed you don't have broadband?(well I am at least) Help us show them which site has the most power.

They are broadband user. Home users. We are computer enthusiests (sp?) and technicians. We should be able to come up with more processor power than them right? Well actually we already have. You see we are almost producing as many units as they are, and they have 500! more people than we do! Now just think if the numbers were even. That is why we need you. Please stop by the Distributed computing forum and help us out.
 
Oh and I forgot to mention notfred that the average Team Anandtech SETI member does 12WUs/day (taken directly from yesterdays stats done by Soni). So you will fit right in with a very large portion of our members.
 
I signed up for team anandtech and doing running seti. Is there any way i can see stats of the team and individuals, etc?

peace
sean
 
Redownloaded the client. Will put more computers to the task when I get my network back up and running. So far I have a 1.2GHz T-Bird, and a 800MHz Duron. Both running 24/7. How many wu's should I get per day? 😀
 
well i added my home system. only Duron 700. 🙁 but I got 2 systems at work that will help a bit. dual PIII 1 ghz and a 1.33 GHz T-bird. 🙂.

will do that on monday.

should be good for about 12 wu per day.
 
I joined it last time, but the race was postponed due to 9/11. This time I'm getting a new computer and I'll have my old athlon slot A 750 as a server. Hmm, this and my new XP 1800+ should contribute something. GImme a few days to get it startted though.
 
1800+? 7 a day. reliably. its awesome. its almost like we were back in the 3.00 days. (3.00 did half as much work as 3.03 does)
 
Don't forget to join the team when you add the client to your machines. Be sure to join before the 1st because any production you bring on before you join the team won't count towards the race. If you have questions, go to the DC forum and ask away. You won't find a friendlier group of people anywhere.
 
I would like to extend the invitation to join TeAm AnandTech! 😀 ...and, in the slight chance that SETI isn't your boat, you could drop by the Distributed Computing forum to join one of the other TA fine DC TeAms! 😀

Let's beat DSLR....hey buddy, can you spare a CPU cycle or two? huh?

Happy Holidays all! 😀
 
I will continue to use my free cpu cycles for a worthwhile distributed computing project....Genome@Home.
I could not possibly care less about searching for aliens!
 
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