Give back to the people here who helped you. join Team Anandtech with RC5!

[Soccerman]

c'mon all you people. there are hundreds of you with overclocked systems out there. many of you used Anandtech to get them working properly, now's time to give back, show your overclocked power in all it's beauty!

am I right in guessing that many of you don't know what RC5 is? if so, PLEASE take a look at this thread, http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=229131

or visit this forum http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=39

or this webpage http://216.151.100.101/rc5.html

ask all the questions you want, and please help recruite more people, becuase we are being beaten badly by the dutch power cows.

 

[Kanly]

Finally put RC-5 on my three comps. and signed up for Team AnandTech.

Also joined the Seti@home Anandtech Team for good measure..


Cmon people, it's an easy way to give something back for everything you've gotten out of Anandtech.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Don't split your processing time! Avoid Seti@Home, just run RC5. If you're doing Seti, that machine isn't doing RC5 (if they're both running, I'm not sure which one gets which processes, but Seti probably wins). They can't both run at full bore on the same machine, and running a machine with only Seti means that machine isn't doing RC5 (and nobody cares about Seti).

 

[Marty]

While RC5 also lies nearest and dearest to my heart consider that others may have a different opinion. Lord Evermore is right though, putting both on one machine usually yields poor results. Most people dedicate themselves to one, or if they do run two, the run Seti just as a screensaver, and RC5 the rest of the time.

Those thre machines will contribute nicely! Welcome to the team

Marty

 

[Tulkas]

I have been thinking about joining for a while now.

Well yu guys have me convinced im gonna join... even though i really dont know what RC5 is or how it works(not yet anyway).

 

[The Stigenator]

is there a way to run this without having any kind of indication other than it being on the process menu on the task manager under NT 4.. (hint: Background Process - no task bar icons or pop up's) if that can be done.. then great. I am the system admin for my company and I have it running on one machine here - mine, however I have some massive horse power to give you if you can tell me how to run it on teh back ground. Our 3D department head is nuts about having anything else run on the render farm. If I can hide it great, for that thing is idle most of the time, when its running its running for 30 hrs straight.

 

[Slapstick]

Careful Tulkas, you'll find your self addicted to improving your stats, needing that fix that only 1000+ blocks a day will give and when you reach it then on to 2000+ blocks a day.

You'll find your self wasting hours planning on trying to increase your herd and building the ultimate "Crack Rack" so the Borg will go down in defeat.

Ok so I'm only taking about me but It's a lot of fun, welcome aboard.

 

[Soccerman]

"Don't split your processing time! Avoid Seti@Home, just run RC5. If you're doing Seti, that machine isn't doing RC5 (if they're both running, I'm not sure which one gets which processes, but Seti probably wins). They can't both run at full bore on the same machine, and running a machine with only Seti means that machine isn't doing RC5 (and nobody cares about Seti)."

I personally will run Seti@home once RC-5 finishes, even though OGR will run great on my K6-2 (or so I've been told), I'd rather help Anandtech in Seti.

the faster we crack, the faster we can get to do other things.

"even though i really dont know what RC5 is or how it works(not yet anyway)."

well I'll help you there. RC-5 is a contest to crack a code that's hidden somewhere on the server (the details like that are kind of hazy actually) that your client connects to in intervals (that you set) to download packets to crack, and upload the results of the cracking of the last batch of packets.

you don't need major bandwidth either. it takes about a minute for me (on a 56K modem that dials up at 28000, to 36000bps) to download new packets and upload results.

when you run your RC5 program after a download of packets, the packets are put into a "buffer" file called buff-in, which is all the packets that were downloaded and ready to crack, and the results that you get, are put into an out buffer, called buff-out.

Flushing buffers is when you updated your buffers fully, in other words, there are no more packets in the in buffer, and the out buffer has all the results. it's normally done automatically by the program itself, you can set if it connects to the internet (say you're on a dial up connection) itself or not..

 

[Russ]

The_good_guy,

Yes, it can be installed as a service (hidden). Just add the switch "install". So, it would be dnetc.exe -install Than to start the service without rebooting: dnetc.exe -svcstart

Slapstick,

You know, we Borg have feelings too.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Soccerman]

The_good_guy, you should pose this question to RUSS, our resident RC-5 expert (he's got quite a herd himself!). that's in the other thread that I posted that's in this general hardware forum http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=229131

I'm referring this to you, becuase I honestly don't know.. I'll take a look though.

EDIT: Speak of the devil! hehe...

 

[The Stigenator]

Ok guys, by the end of the day you are going to have 32 P3-600E's under your boot command. Go Anandtech - more as I go.. but you get the idea.

 

[Kanly]

Lol, such passion.

Don't worry, Seti was set as the screensaver.

RC5 is running all the time.

 

[SSP]

WOW! Welcome to the team The_good_guy Thats one bichin heard.

According to [l]http://teamanandtech.dhs.org/speed.asp[l]

If you run those systems 24/7, this is the expected results:

Keyrate: 53.7 Mk/sec Blocks: 17303

Nice heard

MOOOooo! MOOooo!

 

[Soccerman]

see guys? it's sooo easy! just join! you help Anandtech out, and you don't lose A THING. it doesn't eat into your game speed, becuase it only uses UNUSED CPU cycles. I was skeptical about this at first, but it's TRUE!

I actually ran Seti@Home and RC5 at once, Seti runs like a normal program, so it got as much CPU time it could grab, RC-5 took up the rest (boy RC-5 barely cracked a thing, SETI RAN NORMALLY).

yeah thanks Good guy!

"Keyrate: 53.7 Mk/sec Blocks: 17303"

that's 17303 blocks A DAY? wow, that would add alot! GOOD JOB!

 

[Slapstick]

Russ,

The Borg have feelings? I don?t think so. I?ve watch over the last few months as they have assimilated every spare CPU cycle they come in contact with to further the goal of TA being #1. I live in fear of the Borg and their assimilating ways. (Or maybe I?m just jealous )

 

[Kanly]

I have to say, Paulson's little tutorial was extremely easy to follow and very helpful.

 

[Russ]

<< you are going to have 32 P3-600E's under your boot command >>



The_good_guy,

We love you, man!

Slapstick,

We are a kinder, gentler Borg.

Russ, NCNE

 

[The Stigenator]

actually I have RC5 running at home and my system at work - this one, but as of the last 10 minutes I put it on the following machines:

* Reception - 233Mhz - 64MB RAM - she uses it for data entry and surfing.
* Accouting Server - 200Mhz - 128MB RAM - Used to file server accouting packages.. idle 99% - that 1% transmitting shared files and daily backup
* My machine - now as a service - 120Mhz
* Render Farm Master System - P3 600EB - 192MB RAM - Used to file server and recieve data back from the client systems (16 machines with dual 600E's - 32 Proc's). Also used to control the render farm.
* Copy Room - P100 - 32MB RAM - yeah it just controls out going faxes and general non essential stuff.. Idle 99%


I will get the 16 machines with 32 Proc's later since its rendering now and I cant disturb them for the next 10-12 hrs or so.

One thing will this make the system unstable if DNETC runs when SoftImage or Maya are running at 100% - there are hardly any cycles left when they are at work.. any way to pause DNETC when available cycles drop below say 30%

 

[Russ]

<< RUSS, our resident RC-5 expert >>



Soccerman,

Obviously, you missed this thread.:Q

http://forums.anandtech.com/arcmessageview.cfm?catid=39&amp;threadid=164545

The_good_guy,

Not to worry, the client is very well-behaved. It will do nothing if it has no CPU cycles. You can see this in action if you're a gamer. Check the keyrate normally, and then play a few rounds of UT or Q3. Crunching will go in the toilet as it steps aside.

BTW, these games are not recommended.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Soccerman]

:Q

I had no idea :Q

still, you are a major motivator!

 

[Engineer]

All you guys are Amazing...Welcome to the team The_Good_Guy....Stats addiction is just around the corner, hehe!

 

[The Stigenator]

I guess I am over that.. the initial thing was there for a week or so, now I really dont bother about the stats.. I have been contributing for teh last 6 months or so but was unsure how it would run on the render farm. Now that I have got a way to hide the process (hoping that those systems dont crash - they are built stable but the damn rendering takes a toll on them) more are on the way.

 

[Tulkas]

Ok i just download what i needed and installed the program and then gave my email address.

Ok i have this cow in corner and last line in thread says &quot;1 cruncher has been started&quot;

Now I have a few questions

1) Now how do i know if its actually doing something???
2) Whats the Flush Work, Fetch Work, and Update Buffers Do?
3) Can i run the program while i do other things like surf and play games?

Sorry for all the newbie ?'s that i could find the answers too. Im just so dam lazy though

 

[Tulkas]

Forget about Question 2.... just found the answer in a previous post.

I just enter my email address and had the program run with the settings that were there. Is that ok???

Or should i change them? Im on a 56k connection.

Any thoughts?

 

[Soccerman]

Quoted from my post above:

&quot;you don't need major bandwidth either. it takes about a minute for me (on a 56K modem that dials up at 28000, to 36000bps) to download new packets and upload results.

when you run your RC5 program after a download of packets, the packets are put into a &quot;buffer&quot; file called buff-in, which is all the packets that were downloaded and ready to crack, and the results that you get, are put into an out buffer, called buff-out.

Flushing buffers is when you updated your buffers fully, in other words, there are no more packets in the in buffer, and the out buffer has all the results. it's normally done automatically by the program itself, you can set if it connects to the internet (say you're on a dial up connection) itself or not..&quot;

now that that is done you can tell that your program is cracking by double clicking the cow icon on the bottom, and watching the progress thing. for tweaking your program I suggest you go to paulson's site, I'm sure it has something on there (I've not looked yet).

EDIT: just saw you figured out one question.. I begain writing this before your post showed up!

you can run the program all the time, it only takes up UNUSED CPU cycles, that is, when the CPU isn't doing anything in a cycle (a tick of the clock) it uses that time. it doesn't interfere with games at all (that I've noticed). try some benchmarks!

also, you'll probably want to increase your buffer size so that your computer downloads more packets into it's buff-in so you don't have to connect so much (I have mine set to download about 48 hours worth of packets).

edit #3: here's the link for tweaking your RC-5 client so it downloads more packets, and other tweaks too! from Paulson's site (good job BTW! could be a little cleaner though): http://www.originpoint.com/paulsonrc5/useful.html