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Mass DC recruiting.

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ssvegeta1010

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It seems that more and more projects are coming out all of the time, and while the TeAm is holding its own very well, we could always use more members. It seems that only a small percentage of users on these forums do DC projects. With people receiving new dual-core systems, the impact of a large recruiting spree could be, well, large. We all do our part by telling friends and signature links, but a little more power may be needed to reall get more people into DC. Do any of you agree?
 
Still theres no harm in trying. If we all go for it, maybe we could get one for all projects. The amount of choices may be a bit daunting though.
 
Or something more subtle? A front page poll with "What DC scheme to you follow" kind of thing. We a footnote to the effect that AT has teams in all of the major ones. . . .

. . . or something.

36th on the BOINC SETI team! 😀

Steg
 
Can you imagine the effect of a picture of Anand with a caption to the effect of Let me tell you about Distributed Computing and then a short blurb talking up TeAm Anandtech!

I'm sure he is aware of how many of us recommend his (et. al.) reviews. How cool would it be if he saw fit to return the favor to the Distributed Computing community here at the AT forum!

-Sid
 
Or when reviewing processors, he could benchmark (if possible) some DC clients and then link to the DC forums. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Originally posted by: JetBlack69
Or when reviewing processors, he could benchmark (if possible) some DC clients and then link to the DC forums. 🙂
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I'd like to see some DC benchmarks anyway.
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I really like this idea. If Anand were to use DC projects for stress and/or speed tests, that would be great PR and also a credible comparison for Anand to base an evaluation.

-Sid
 
He has in the past. The problem with respect to benchmarking is that they are generally well-optimized programs that generally fit inside caches and scale linearly with clock speed. For example, I could extrapolate with very high accuracy how many keys/second a 5ghz Athlon 64, or a 3.5ghz Athlon 64 X2 in RC5. Other programs generally play the same way. So there's nothing new to glean from benchmarking them for new speed bumps.

Of course, it can be useful when new architectures appear, but those don't happen very often....

All that said, if you look at arstechnica, they mention their teams on the front-page/articles at least once every couple months which helps. On the other hand, he does have a link to the team webpage, which is, of course, woefully out of date.
 
Originally posted by: BurntKooshie
He has in the past. The problem with respect to benchmarking is that they are generally well-optimized programs that generally fit inside caches and scale linearly with clock speed. For example, I could extrapolate with very high accuracy how many keys/second a 5ghz Athlon 64, or a 3.5ghz Athlon 64 X2 in RC5. Other programs generally play the same way. So there's nothing new to glean from benchmarking them for new speed bumps.

Of course, it can be useful when new architectures appear, but those don't happen very often....

All that said, if you look at arstechnica, they mention their teams on the front-page/articles at least once every couple months which helps. On the other hand, he does have a link to the team webpage, which is, of course, woefully out of date.
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I thought he did in the past. However, with 64-bit and dual core, it would be interesting which of AMD or Intel's offerings would be "better" for specific DC apps.
 
Originally posted by: BurntKooshie
He has in the past. The problem with respect to benchmarking is that they are generally well-optimized programs that generally fit inside caches and scale linearly with clock speed. For example, I could extrapolate with very high accuracy how many keys/second a 5ghz Athlon 64, or a 3.5ghz Athlon 64 X2 in RC5. Other programs generally play the same way. So there's nothing new to glean from benchmarking them for new speed bumps.

Of course, it can be useful when new architectures appear, but those don't happen very often....
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Yeah, but at least with Dual-Core CPUs coming out he could include them in his multitasking scenarios.
 
Originally posted by: BurntKooshie
He has in the past. The problem with respect to benchmarking is that they are generally well-optimized programs that generally fit inside caches and scale linearly with clock speed. For example, I could extrapolate with very high accuracy how many keys/second a 5ghz Athlon 64, or a 3.5ghz Athlon 64 X2 in RC5. Other programs generally play the same way. So there's nothing new to glean from benchmarking them for new speed bumps.

Of course, it can be useful when new architectures appear, but those don't happen very often....

All that said, if you look at arstechnica, they mention their teams on the front-page/articles at least once every couple months which helps. On the other hand, he does have a link to the team webpage, which is, of course, woefully out of date.
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Currently it's just an apache splash screen!

You have to imagine that if the Anandtech staff doesn?t think we are taking it seriously enough to keep our team page updated what reason do they have to promote it!

That said we do have several "unofficial" team sites that get updated quite frequently. Perhaps the combined efforts of those webmasters could be pooled to keep the teamanandtech page current.
 
GLeeM, I agree that he should at least mention it in a multitasking scenario, or in a way to test stability. The best thing possible would be to write an article about DCs help in bettering the world at a small cost to the user. I find it hard to explain to my parents and friends why I run my computers as close to 24/7 as possible. They just dont get why I would do DC.
 
Originally posted by: ICXRa


All that said, if you look at arstechnica, they mention their teams on the front-page/articles at least once every couple months which helps. On the other hand, he does have a link to the team webpage, which is, of course, woefully out of date.
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Currently it's just an apache splash screen!

You have to imagine that if the Anandtech staff doesn?t think we are taking it seriously enough to keep our team page updated what reason do they have to promote it!

That said we do have several "unofficial" team sites that get updated quite frequently. Perhaps the combined efforts of those webmasters could be pooled to keep the teamanandtech page current.
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Um you do know that virge is the owner of Teamanandtech.com
and is an active participant on the anandtech forums.

A pm to him would be your first course of action, but be advised ...he may not know his site is down, as well he rebuffwedc any changes the "last few times he was asked", not that he isn't receptive, he gets bugged about this a lot.
 
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Actually no I didn't know that Virge owned the Teamanandtech domain and actually I wouldn't have even known it was down if I hadn't checked it today after reading the post that mentioned it. I realize what work it takes to keep a website running and to keep content up to date as I do this myself and I am in no way being critical. I'm just stating the fact that in all the years I have been coming here it hasn't been changed often.
 
From looking at the locations of the keys on the keyboard, all I can assume is that the mystery word is a typo for "rebuffed." 😉

And from what I've seen, changes that would make things better and/or more up to date have been suggested, and rejected... That's why other team members have made their own DC info pages, but for reasons that may be obvious, it would be hard to get any official links pointing to the more useful and up to date sites (particularly because said individuals may not have been here as long and may not know the right people and/or have special status). 🙁
 
Sorry guys

I always make mistakes in hurried typing (or any other typing for that matter)

rebuffed

I also came across wrong again as usual, thanks josh, for making it understandable😛

:beer: to you all.

Mike
 
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
From looking at the locations of the keys on the keyboard, all I can assume is that the mystery word is a typo for "rebuffed." 😉

And from what I've seen, changes that would make things better and/or more up to date have been suggested, and rejected... That's why other team members have made their own DC info pages, but for reasons that may be obvious, it would be hard to get any official links pointing to the more useful and up to date sites (particularly because said individuals may not have been here as long and may not know the right people and/or have special status). 🙁
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I have tried many times to get our link on AnandTech's Front Page to point to the Distributed Computing Forum ... without success. 🙁

The "Welcome to the DC Forum" thread, over which we have some influence, contains the following:

______________________________________________________

If you would be interested in running one of our TeAm Projects, please visit our TeAm AnandTech Websites:

The Reddeye Xpress hosted by "Wolfsraider"

TeAm AnandTech DC Projects hosted by "amdxborg"

_______________________________________________________

The two linked sites are constantly maintained and kept up to date.
Thank you "Wolfsraider" and "amdxborg". :wine:
 
Yep those are a couple of the ones I had in mind among others but of course I had thought of Reddeye since that is also where the RA site is 😀
 
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