Newbie Questions

[Pretender]

Ok, I'm a newbie at this distributed computing stuff. I know little more about it then how to spell it. Anyway, I'm wondering how I can help Team Anandtech. I don't have hundreds of Dual PIII-700's lying around, but I'm getting a new PIII-650, which will be running at 866, and it won't be doing anything most of the time, so I decided to come here and see if it would be helpful. Could someone just write the basics or something, either here or in an FAQ thread on this board or something, or just mail me one (sandman@tripart.com).

Thx.

 

[JHutch]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187766

Team FAQ ... Should get you going! If you have anymore questions, just ask!

Welcome to the team!

JHutch

 

[Pretender]

Ok, I've signed up. Um, out of curiousity, what are our computers doing/cracking?

 

[Pretender]

Also, what are avg./good benchmark times? I'm running on a C300A right now until I upgrade later this week, but how are these times:
[Jul 24 23:16:31 UTC] Benchmark for RC5 core #2 (RG class 6)
0.00:00:08.87 [802,119.50 keys/sec]
[Jul 24 23:15:09 UTC] Benchmark for OGR core #0 (GARSP 5.13)
0.00:00:16.20 [1,947,993.45 nodes/sec]

Sorry for the annoying (and somewhat dumb questions), but I'm new at this.

 

[TwoFace]

Hey any questions are allowed WELCOME to the TEAM!

 

[Viztech]

Here is some good links for you to chew on.
Mika's speedometer page http://teamanandtech.dhs.org/speed.asp
Dnet info on RC5 http://www.distributed.net/rc5/
Dnet info on OGR http://www.distributed.net/ogr/

To add to the fun, you can configure your client to dump with the team round robin proxies, so you can get your stats updated on a half hour basis.
RC5 weekly stats http://teamanandtech.dhs.org/dnet/rc5/weekstats/byemail.asp
OGR weekly stats http://www.teamanandtech.com/dnet/ogr/weekstats/byemail.asp

And welcome to the Team!

viz

 

[mindless]

any Seti guys out there want to add some links here?

 

[TwoFace]

Sure since I do both OGR and SETI I can supply some links:

Setiq (nice for storing wus):

http://www.reneris.com/seti/default.htm

Setispy nice for following the text client:

http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/

Team pages:

-http://hobbitt.worldkey.net/~seti/
-http://www.mattzone.com/ta_users.php3
-http://teamanandtech.homepage.com/
-http://www.orangekid.dyn.dhs.org/
-http://www.cjnetworks.com/~brmartin/benchmarks.htm

Enough for now! Good luck