Team Anandtech OGR #1 for July 23, 2000

[Joe O]

We beat /. yesterday by 22,486 GNodes
We are ahead of them by 222,757 GNodes
Keep up the good work!

 

[TwoFace]

YEAH Trash the /

 

[LANMAN]

Way Cool!!

Currently at:

1 - PIII 733
3 - PIII 700's
1 - PIII 500's
2 - PIII 650's
1 - dual 550

They say all the stubs have been issued; guess after last night I got all the small ones. 50 in the in-buff, 100 ready on the proxy - found it doing RC5 this morning. Damn thing.. finished doing OGR. Guess I need to bump it to 200.

--LANMAN

 

[amok]

Does anybody know exactly how many nodes there are in the entire project? If we knew that we could determine how many of the possible nodes we have already completed and get an idea as to how much longer OGR-24 will last...

 

[imported_Thunder]

Amok,

I don't know the answer to your question (especially since I barely survived intro trig in college. ). However, I'd like to at least voice my opinion here (and soon to the good folks at D.Net) that a percentage done indicator of some type would sure be nice.

I know that they have expressed the fact that without knowing exactly how many nodes will have to be computed for each stub (which is impossible) there's no way to truly guage the % done of the project, but even if we only saw a % of completed stubs vs. total stubs it would sure go a long way towards making me feel the progress of the contest in a tangible way.

Would anyone else like to see this done? Does anyone know of any technical hurdles that would preclude this?

-Brian

 

[BoberFett]

I'd sure like to see that. If they know how many stubs there are then just show a percentage of completed stubs. Even it wasn't completely accurate it would be close. The fact that stubs are different sizes would be mostly negated by the random distribution of the stubs. Chances are pretty good that there will be about the same ratio of large stubs to small stubs at the end of the project as there was in the beginning.

 

[Sloth]

With OGR the "contest" is only over once every stub has been checked. Like everyone has said... the number of nodes is a mystery but they do know the number of stubs.

The extra details added to the OGR ranking is nice. Wish they would let us know how far things have gone into the search though. I wonder if they are afraid of the same thing that happened with CSC.. 110 %


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