Guild Wars Distributed Computing contest

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: wahoyaho
Sunny's got like 12 computers running I'll never beat him

you have to start somewhere

Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task. Though I did just finish rebuilding/reinstalling my personal desktop, I'll be interested to see how it does. Now if I could just snag my wife's laptop...

 

[Canai]

I got everything set up last night. Threw on a bit of an O/C since it is cooler out now and I need something to heat my living room :laugh: But I should be running 24/7 with a 3Ghz C2D - I don't think I'll be able to keep up with videogames101's quad core, but I can try

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task.

You're still pumping out a ton of credits with them :thumbsup:

 

[L337Llama]

I'd be counted under new crunchers since this is the first time I've installed any of this.

 

[SunnyD]

Looks like I scared Andy off.

We need more people! Come on folks!

 

[Canai]

I'd like to remove myself from consideration for the GW: Nightfall prize. I already have NF & EotN on my acct, so there's really no reason for me to make a new account just for NF. I'm still going to crunch and get out as many credits as I can, but I don't need the prize

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have had someone donate their account for the contest as well. He has characters, and all 3 campaigns. I'm not sure how I'm going to integrate the new prize into the contest, but I'm working on it. Also, updated stats will be done tomorrow morning.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: Canai
I got everything set up last night. Threw on a bit of an O/C since it is cooler out now and I need something to heat my living room :laugh: But I should be running 24/7 with a 3Ghz C2D - I don't think I'll be able to keep up with videogames101's quad core, but I can try

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task.

You're still pumping out a ton of credits with them :thumbsup:

your just using a C2D? something must be up with my crunching then, because your doubling my output...

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: Canai
I got everything set up last night. Threw on a bit of an O/C since it is cooler out now and I need something to heat my living room :laugh: But I should be running 24/7 with a 3Ghz C2D - I don't think I'll be able to keep up with videogames101's quad core, but I can try

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task.

You're still pumping out a ton of credits with them :thumbsup:

your just using a C2D? something must be up with my crunching then, because your doubling my output...

It's overclocked. Docking@Home says it's 2.4GHz, Canai said it's 3GHz.

 

[SunnyD]

Just found out that my 3 Linux machines were artificially being held back - the kernel had power management downlocking the cores from 2.2GHz to 1.0GHz. That has now been fixed.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Just found out that my 3 Linux machines were artificially being held back - the kernel had power management downlocking the cores from 2.2GHz to 1.0GHz. That has now been fixed.

:beer: Our last project (TAS changes projects every month) was Yoyo@home, and it is highly optimized, so it runs very hot. A co-worker (actually my future supervisor starting 01NOV08) started crunching his quad on it, and he calls me up saying that his quad was overheating at 75+ Celsius. :laugh: I told him to replace the stock cooler when he bought it.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: Canai
I got everything set up last night. Threw on a bit of an O/C since it is cooler out now and I need something to heat my living room :laugh: But I should be running 24/7 with a 3Ghz C2D - I don't think I'll be able to keep up with videogames101's quad core, but I can try

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task.

You're still pumping out a ton of credits with them :thumbsup:

your just using a C2D? something must be up with my crunching then, because your doubling my output...

It's overclocked. Docking@Home says it's 2.4GHz, Canai said it's 3GHz.

my quad is overclocked

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: videogames101

Originally posted by: Canai
I got everything set up last night. Threw on a bit of an O/C since it is cooler out now and I need something to heat my living room :laugh: But I should be running 24/7 with a 3Ghz C2D - I don't think I'll be able to keep up with videogames101's quad core, but I can try

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pfft... half of them are celerons that are taking about 6 hours a piece to do a single task.

You're still pumping out a ton of credits with them :thumbsup:

your just using a C2D? something must be up with my crunching then, because your doubling my output...

It's overclocked. Docking@Home says it's 2.4GHz, Canai said it's 3GHz.

my quad is overclocked

Have you checked in the BOINC preferences? There are options for total CPU time usage and multiprocessor usage.

I also took my cpu up to 3.37 the other night, and BOINC is showing 45-55 minutes per WU. I'm going to see how far I can push the chip this week, since it's finally cool enough outside to get some sub 20ºC air into my comp room

 

[SunnyD]

Woohoo! Broke 1k average credit!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Woohoo! Broke 1k average credit!

Congradulations! :beer:

 

[Canai]

My average credit is still going up yay. I wonder what it's going to peak at.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Canai
My average credit is still going up yay. I wonder what it's going to peak at.

Yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. It seems to continually go up.

A couple things that amuse me... an Atlhlon 64 2.0GHz is faster than a Core 2 T5200 @ 1.73GHz. A Pentium D 2.8GHz manages to hang very close to the above two machines. Funny to see different architectures at work.

 

[Canai]

Bump to get back to the first page / WHY HAS NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP??? :|

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Canai
Bump to get back to the first page / WHY HAS NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP??? :|

Not enough visitors in PC Gaming or Distributed Computing forums. Should ask mod if posting this in Off Topic would be ok.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I would have thought there would have been more signing up too. It's a bit late in the game at this point, but I guess we could do another contest with a new prize in OT.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I would have thought there would have been more signing up too. It's a bit late in the game at this point, but I guess we could do another contest with a new prize in OT.

Sounds good. It is multi-category, after all: it's gaming, contest, and distributed computing all in one :wink; I have a Half-Life Steam account (all HL games, from HL1 to HL2:Ep 2) and some other stuff to give away. The more prizes, the more people get excited about participating

 

[SunnyD]

I scared everybody off didn't I?

On a side note, the next contest I join I won't likely have the full force of machines behind me. I got fired from my previous job last week when I turned in my resignation (got a job offer elsewhere and the boss wasn't too happy with me because of it) - so a dozen or so machines are no longer under my control... at least not directly.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

LOL. Damn guys, 112,624 credits crunched this month so far. Very impressive.

 

[Calculator83]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
I scared everybody off didn't I?

On a side note, the next contest I join I won't likely have the full force of machines behind me. I got fired from my previous job last week when I turned in my resignation (got a job offer elsewhere and the boss wasn't too happy with me because of it) - so a dozen or so machines are no longer under my control... at least not directly.

LOLOLOLOL

I would run up all the comps at my job, all quad core cad comps, problem is, i can't risk the stuff saved on these computers. If only I had your balls.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: SunnyD
I scared everybody off didn't I?

On a side note, the next contest I join I won't likely have the full force of machines behind me. I got fired from my previous job last week when I turned in my resignation (got a job offer elsewhere and the boss wasn't too happy with me because of it) - so a dozen or so machines are no longer under my control... at least not directly.

LOLOLOLOL

I would run up all the comps at my job, all quad core cad comps, problem is, i can't risk the stuff saved on these computers. If only I had your balls.

I've tried to convince the IT people here to install DC clients on the comps in the lab, since they are all on 24/7 anyway. They haven't even bothered responding.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: Calculator83

Originally posted by: SunnyD
I scared everybody off didn't I?

On a side note, the next contest I join I won't likely have the full force of machines behind me. I got fired from my previous job last week when I turned in my resignation (got a job offer elsewhere and the boss wasn't too happy with me because of it) - so a dozen or so machines are no longer under my control... at least not directly.

LOLOLOLOL

I would run up all the comps at my job, all quad core cad comps, problem is, i can't risk the stuff saved on these computers. If only I had your balls.

I've tried to convince the IT people here to install DC clients on the comps in the lab, since they are all on 24/7 anyway. They haven't even bothered responding.

We had a "test bed" of machines that literally sat idle doing nothing other than to occasionally test our software against when we ran a new build. That happened maybe once every couple weeks. I actually started installing BOINC because I thought we had an issue with our software running on high CPU load machines, so it was a perfect test, and to be honest, I was really the only one that ever did anything with those test machines anyway. No one cared - small very informal company. Happy to be moving on to be honest.