Gday everyone!
Well, a lot of you have probably been curious as to my performance figures of late. I'll give you a little run down of my SETI history and my history with TA. Then I'll give you the juicy good news 🙂
About 2.218 years ago 😉 I retrieved and submitted my first WU on the GUI interface client on my PII-400. I was doing RC5 at the time, and did a WU of SETI every day or 3. Basically, after about a year, I'd turned in around 60 results. At this time, I considered swapping from RC5 to SETI because RC5 was boring me (and I could never get it to work on the school computers which are protected by a firewall that never let me through). However, after joing TA and submitting about another 20WUs in the space of a fortnight, I returned to RC5 to "see it through". Fast forward to September last year. After lurking in the DC forum for a while (there is an unbelievable wealth of knowledge in this place 😀) I decided to wipe RC5 of my Athlon 1.2@1.4 and Duron 700@910 and install SETI. I started turning in around 8 WUs a day, which was waaaaay cool compared to my 1/3 WU/day when i began 😛
I got involved in my very first Race to 1000 set up by the Elite Ohiodude, and was in the company of esteemed TeAmmates Tarca, panhead49 and kruptikos (sorry if I forgot anyone 😱) Needless to say, after upping my production to about 15/20WUs/day by October, I thought I had this won! But Tarca came through with his fleet of P4s!! I came to the realisation that the 2 schools where I work at had a tonne of CPU horsepower doing nothing, so I set about assimilating. I began at the smaller of the schools, and gradually increased by daily output to around 40-50WUs a day, where it stayed, try as I might to increase it, until around the end of January this year (after losing to Tarca AGAIN in a race to 2250 by only a few hours!!!! AAARGGGHH!!! that drove me nuts!!)
Anyway, I got permission at the smaller school to run SETI on all of it's machines, which now currently put out about 60WU/day. This combines with my AthlonXP@1600 to push out roughly 67WU/day. I still have a further 2 PIII 933s at that school to assimilate once they are placed on the network, so that should push my total production to around 72WUs/day peak.
Now comes the good part. The other school where I work at has approximately 60-70 computers. I have currently installed SETI on 21 PIII550s, 800EBs and 933s. These give me a peak output of around 45-55WU/day depending on the usage they get. That brings me up to around 130WU/day peak at present. This has only happened in the last week!
The story does not end there! Tomorrow I will be adding an additional 9 PIII 550s and 600s on BX chipsets that turn in around 2.2WUs/day each (that's FAST for such an old machine) so that's another 22 or so WU/day peak. If I'm quick enough, I may get another 6 PIII 800s and 933s on as well, giving me around 15 WUs a day to that. Over the coming month, the school gets 14 P4 1.7GHz PCs (running on crappy PC133 SDRAM) 🙁 but I'm guessing that at worst, they should return about 4.5WU/day, so that would give me about another 60WU/day. Over the next 2 or 3 months, a further 18 PII 400s will be added (for another 25WU/day) and I will be adding around another 40 or so WU/day worth of machines!!
So let's see what this totals up to:
72+55+22+15+60+25+40=289WU/day PEAK!!! WUUUUU MUUUUU!!! This is gonna be waaaaay fun. 😀😀😀
Systems are FINALLY online!
-PieDerro
Well, a lot of you have probably been curious as to my performance figures of late. I'll give you a little run down of my SETI history and my history with TA. Then I'll give you the juicy good news 🙂
About 2.218 years ago 😉 I retrieved and submitted my first WU on the GUI interface client on my PII-400. I was doing RC5 at the time, and did a WU of SETI every day or 3. Basically, after about a year, I'd turned in around 60 results. At this time, I considered swapping from RC5 to SETI because RC5 was boring me (and I could never get it to work on the school computers which are protected by a firewall that never let me through). However, after joing TA and submitting about another 20WUs in the space of a fortnight, I returned to RC5 to "see it through". Fast forward to September last year. After lurking in the DC forum for a while (there is an unbelievable wealth of knowledge in this place 😀) I decided to wipe RC5 of my Athlon 1.2@1.4 and Duron 700@910 and install SETI. I started turning in around 8 WUs a day, which was waaaaay cool compared to my 1/3 WU/day when i began 😛
I got involved in my very first Race to 1000 set up by the Elite Ohiodude, and was in the company of esteemed TeAmmates Tarca, panhead49 and kruptikos (sorry if I forgot anyone 😱) Needless to say, after upping my production to about 15/20WUs/day by October, I thought I had this won! But Tarca came through with his fleet of P4s!! I came to the realisation that the 2 schools where I work at had a tonne of CPU horsepower doing nothing, so I set about assimilating. I began at the smaller of the schools, and gradually increased by daily output to around 40-50WUs a day, where it stayed, try as I might to increase it, until around the end of January this year (after losing to Tarca AGAIN in a race to 2250 by only a few hours!!!! AAARGGGHH!!! that drove me nuts!!)
Anyway, I got permission at the smaller school to run SETI on all of it's machines, which now currently put out about 60WU/day. This combines with my AthlonXP@1600 to push out roughly 67WU/day. I still have a further 2 PIII 933s at that school to assimilate once they are placed on the network, so that should push my total production to around 72WUs/day peak.
Now comes the good part. The other school where I work at has approximately 60-70 computers. I have currently installed SETI on 21 PIII550s, 800EBs and 933s. These give me a peak output of around 45-55WU/day depending on the usage they get. That brings me up to around 130WU/day peak at present. This has only happened in the last week!
The story does not end there! Tomorrow I will be adding an additional 9 PIII 550s and 600s on BX chipsets that turn in around 2.2WUs/day each (that's FAST for such an old machine) so that's another 22 or so WU/day peak. If I'm quick enough, I may get another 6 PIII 800s and 933s on as well, giving me around 15 WUs a day to that. Over the coming month, the school gets 14 P4 1.7GHz PCs (running on crappy PC133 SDRAM) 🙁 but I'm guessing that at worst, they should return about 4.5WU/day, so that would give me about another 60WU/day. Over the next 2 or 3 months, a further 18 PII 400s will be added (for another 25WU/day) and I will be adding around another 40 or so WU/day worth of machines!!
So let's see what this totals up to:
72+55+22+15+60+25+40=289WU/day PEAK!!! WUUUUU MUUUUU!!! This is gonna be waaaaay fun. 😀😀😀
Systems are FINALLY online!
-PieDerro
