March Poll posted @TAS!

[petrusbroder]

Here is the poll! Please vote!

 

[Rudy Toody]

Voted!

Edited: I will be there for the Ides of March challenge, too!

 

[filibusterman]

well it looks like the dc forum is closed to new members but I would like to vote for Aqua.

 

[petrusbroder]

Your vote has been registered, filibusterman!

 

[filibusterman]

Thanks you rock!! Just downloading ubuntu 9.10 and vmware player now.

 

[lizardth]

It's a tie!?!?!?!?!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Voted!

 

[petrusbroder]

No tie!

 

[rabrittain]

I accidentally voted for yoyo. I meant to vote for Leiden. I also plan on participating in the Primegrid race. One of My FX-60 machines is dual boot; XP64 is one of the operating systems. I believe that I'll be able to make the quad a dual boot machine as well. It will be an interesting month.

 

[biodoc]

Voted! I switched all 3 rigs to 64-bit linux for the Ides of March race. For now, I'm crunching NFS until I get a million points (5-6 days). After that I'll switch to PrimeGrid to ramp up for the race. After that, I'll switch to the project of the month!

 

[petrusbroder]

I accidentally voted for yoyo. I meant to vote for Leiden. I also plan on participating in the Primegrid race. One of My FX-60 machines is dual boot; XP64 is one of the operating systems. I believe that I'll be able to make the quad a dual boot machine as well. It will be an interesting month.

Corrected in the poll.

 

[Fardringle]

Still pretty much a tie. Does that mean we're doing two projects this month, or just Aqua since it has one more vote than Leiden?

 

[Rudy Toody]

AQUA is limited to quads and streamers which would leave out a bunch of power. We could do a quad challenge on AQUA and throw the rest on Leiden. Those who wish to have a streamer challenge on AQUA could also do so. It might be fun to have two challenges on AQUA and one on Leiden.

 

[Fardringle]

AQUA only runs on Quad cores now? I guess I won't be doing that one, then. I don't have any quads or any video cards capable of working with BOINC...

That's OK, though. I think I'd rather do Leiden since I already have 500K points in AQUA and only 140K in Leiden.

 

[petrusbroder]

The poll just now:

5 votes ____ Aqua
5 votes ____ Leiden Classical
2 votes ____ Rectilinear Numbers Crossing
12 votes

Some more votes, please!

 

[Orange Kid]

Leiden Classical, since I have no quads

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome to TAS, Orange Kid.
I'll sign you in as soon as I can. Your vote is added.

 

[petrusbroder]

We have 13 votes! A few more?

 

[rabrittain]

Real Life has been a bitch the last couple of days. I've lost my concentration, and I'm confused.

I believe that someone told me that we need to use 64 bit OS's to crunch Leiden. Anyway, ... that's what's in my head. Is that correct? (... maybe it was one of the voices.)

I'm done with EDGeS, and Simap seems not to have tasks. I think that I need to tune up XP64 on a couple of my machines.

 

[Fardringle]

Leiden runs just fine on 32 bit computers. That's all I have, and all of my machines are happily plugging away at Leiden work units right now...

 

[rabrittain]

Leiden runs just fine on 32 bit computers. That's all I have, and all of my machines are happily plugging away at Leiden work units right now...

Right on!! ... but will XP64 work with Leiden? I'm thinking that it will make it easier to switch a couple machines to the Primegrid race in the middle of the month.

:eek;

 

[Fardringle]

http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/apps.php

It doesn't look like there is a specific XP 64-bit client, but I imagine that the Windows/x86 client will run just fine in XP 64 just like pretty much any other 32-bit Windows application. It just won't use the 64-bit addressing. I could be wrong about that, of course, but I don't see anything in the Leiden message boards to suggest otherwise...

 

[filibusterman]

hmm i get a message that leiden may not have compatible work units for my 64 bit win7 or ubuntu distro, I will have to check and see if I can only accept certain WUs.

 

[filibusterman]

It appears my PII x4 with win7 64 bit gets work units fined from leiden but my ubuntu rigs cannot. Unless the available WU are just low. Anyone else start leiden classical?

 

[rabrittain]

I've been running Leiden on an XP64 machine - no problem - except the thermal insulating material is white paste and almost 4 years old - it's been overheating and locking up.

2 of my machines will be down some during the day or so. I will replace the T.I.M. on the FX60 dual boot machine with ICD7,and I will post the results in the ICD7 thread. I will be making the Phenom II X4 machine dual boot; I will install XP64 - gotta make sure I have all the proper drivers on hand first. It seems that I have been hit by at least one of those distributed computing laws that Rudy Toody was talking about.