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How would you like about 30 new comps for TA (p3 550's and p200) all cracking? :)

K

Krish

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Well, I'm going to talk to the comp admin at my high school, and ask him whether I could do a little project to "test the integrity" of my HS's network. I was planning on using the guide that's up on one of the forum pages for having one buffer directory that all the computers shared from. This would be totally awesome if he says yes and this works out, but keep in mind, most of the comps are shutdown at night, so that would be a bummer....I'll keep you guys updated.
 
If it does go up, I'm definitely gonna use my email addy for a bit just so that I can laugh at my keyrate 🙂 Then I'll join the federation....
 
Welcome to you and (hopefully) you're school herd!

Just a thought, but you might want to look at using a personal proxy for a herd that size. remote buffers or shared buffers can get to be a pain at that size, especially if the main computer goes down, the others have nothing to work with!

JHutch
 
I agree, the pproxy is the way to go. They all helped me set one up here at work, it is a much cleaner setup. You just need one PC you can trust that no one will mess with.
 
I'd say... We love you Man ! : )

But by all mean, dont run all machines from a single shared directory ! The buffers would probably get corrupted.
Shared buffers would be a solution, but I wouldnt trust it for 30 machines. If youre new to networked crunching, we'll be glad to clear any doubts.
 
GO GO GO

All I can say 😀😀😀

I just remembered another thing:
If you are serious about joining the Feds, you should consider using the ta-cannibalcows@..... addy right away. Otherwise you need to run around 30 comps to change afterwards.🙁🙁
If you point the pproxy (if you're going to use it) to Mika's then you can trace the number of blocks by hostname. This should give you an indication of your keyrate. 😀😀
 
That would be a nice assimilation. 🙂

I would NOT usde shared buffers, that's too many machines, and too great an opportunity for locked buffers, which can be worse than randoms, as the PC keeps cracking, but can't either read or write blocks depending on which buffer file gets locked.

The best solution is running a proxy on one of the machines (the client can run on that one too).

The next best solution would be using remote buffers. Once cow would be the master and fetch/flush for the entire herd, and each cow has it's own local buffers, but instead of fetching/flushing from a dnet keyserver, they would fetch/flush to the "master". The issue is that if the network is down, the herd can't fetch/flush, but you can set the in-buff size on each cow to allow it to crack for a period of time without cracking randoms.
 
hmm.. I want to do that too.. we have over 100 computers in this school overall, about half for students, the rest for teachers.. if I could get all of them running rc5 (through my teacher of course), that would add.. a fair amount!

heh, what I COULD even do is get their current drive image, and put dnet on it. that would allow for future cracking after I graduate this year!

but first I need to ask my teacher..
 
i am going to find out(at lunch today, hopefully) if i can get our schools 30 500Mhz Celeron's to crack for the Cube 🙂
 


<< How would you like about 30 new comps for TA (p3 550's and p200) all cracking? 🙂 >>



I can't beleive you asked that question Krish.....Heck Yea! Welcome aboard and bring that wonder, beautiful herd along....They'll love the grassy fields of TA to roam, chew on the blocks and DUMP! (hehe!)...Welcome and post if you need assistance...Someone will GLADLY assist you!

P.S. With that many PC's...I would suggest a pproxy also 🙂

Have a great day all! 😀
 
kind of like asking &quot; how would you like $10,000 dollars ? &quot;


Tens and twentys in unmarked non-sequential bills please 😀😀😀

just in case anybodys got cash to get rid of.


mini-russ
 
OK, the proxy would go up on the school's web server (which also hosts all the students folders on one of it's network drives). What proxy proggie would I need, and how would I set it up? The only proxies I've worked with are ICS, so if it's similar, I should be able to figure it out. Gonna talk to the admin this Monday...hopefully he says yes 🙂
 
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