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TAS is Lamé

Rudy Toody

Rudy Toody

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I am the top producer today on the August 2009 project, QMC@Home. I should be around 8-15th position, but there are no big-time TAS crunchers anymore.

What can we do to fix this?
 
The world order has shifted, you are teh big-time cruncher now. It may be that many folks dislike shifting resources around month after month. I really don't know. I lost a dual core machine to a bad mobo a few days ago, waiting for a replacement to arrive. Socket 939 will survive to crunch on...
 
I was wondering why I was limping lately!:shocked:

I shifted back to QMC a few hours back....be ready to be number 2 RT!:laugh:

PS: the real reason I'm back is aqua ran out of those big point WUs.😉
 
What can we do? I dunno--I could get BOINC running on my machine if I had a chance to work on it again. Unfortunately, I can't do that from work. 🙁
 
I would like to suggest that the TAS crunches be held every quarter instead of every month. If we made them a little more special, maybe we will get more response.

I would like to suggest the months of: January, April, July, and October. January is cold in the Northern Hemisphere and hot in the Southern Hemisphere. July is the opposite. April and October are moderate everywhere.
 
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
I would like to suggest that the TAS crunches be held every quarter instead of every month. If we made them a little more special, maybe we will get more response.

I would like to suggest the months of: January, April, July, and October. January is cold in the Northern Hemisphere and hot in the Southern Hemisphere. July is the opposite. April and October are moderate everywhere.
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sounds like a good idea to me
 
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
I am the top producer today on the August 2009 project, QMC@Home. I should be around 8-15th position, but there are no big-time TAS crunchers anymore.

What can we do to fix this?
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Many of my computers didn't switch projects when I told them to over the weekend but I think they are all running QMC now so I should start to catch up to you soon. 😉

edit: That, and I'm letting my computers do as much SIMAP work as they can on the first few days of each month until I get at least to the 250K milestone for Free-DC stats so I'll be slow starting out on the TAS projects each month.
 
Originally posted by: Fardringle
edit: That, and I'm letting my computers do as much SIMAP work as they can on the first few days of each month until I get at least to the 250K milestone for Free-DC stats so I'll be slow starting out on the TAS projects each month.
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Why not do it every month and go for a million, or more?
 
I changed the thread title to make it less harsh.

Edit: changing lame to lamé will confuse the search engines and we will be recruiting from sewing circles!
 
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
Originally posted by: Fardringle
edit: That, and I'm letting my computers do as much SIMAP work as they can on the first few days of each month until I get at least to the 250K milestone for Free-DC stats so I'll be slow starting out on the TAS projects each month.
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Why not do it every month and go for a million, or more?
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I probably will, but I'll do it at least until I get to 250K then decide if I want to keep doing it or not...
 
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
I changed the thread title to make it less harsh.

Edit: changing lame to lamé will confuse the search engines and we will be recruiting from sewing circles!
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:shocked::shocked:

Mission accomplished: I googled "TAS is lame" and no Anandtech hits!

Whew!😎
 
One reason could be that one reasonably big cruncher was on vacation for some time and could not swithch comps ...
An other one is that QMC is slighty more heat-generating than seti (using the optimized apps) and that makes my comps unhappy in summer.
A third reason is life outside DC - it is so much fun too ...

Please enjoy your position RT, I plan for joining the TAS-crunching for september!
 
maybe we could set "3-month goals" in up to 3 projects, like reaching 100k in project x and 0.5mil in project y and everybody can focus on it in a longer time frame while there can be production races between every member
 
The reason I've never crunched in the past year is because I've been in rather massive amounts of debt and can't afford power. With the CPUs underneath my desk, I'm sure I could do some damage (5 quad cores and 2 dual cores). But I only have the lower powered dual-core as my 5TB file server and a quad core to do my work from home online at idle at any point.
 
Originally posted by: Philippart
and you don't even mention your gpus 🙂
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Don't get me started on how much power GTX 260's OC'd on water, 8800GTS 512's, 8800GT's and whatever else I have in the boxes take in power.

My i7 with the 2x GTX 260's take up 300W at idle. I don't even think about turning it on unless I want to game. If I need MS Windows, it's in a virtual machine on my Mac.
 
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