Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 06.12.2007

[Rattledagger]

The Three Leaves Insect (Dec 05 2007)

Moving on... This morning Eric noticed our donation processing pipeline was clogged. Some backstory: central campus handles all the donation stuff. They send us an automated e-mail whenever people donate so we can give them a green star. I had to write a script that parses these e-mails. Not very elegant, but it works most of the time. But every so often, without warning, the format of the automated e-mail changes. This is exactly what happened a couple weeks ago - they removed a single "the" from one line and my parser went kaput. I fixed it, and suddenly we're a little bit richer. Sweet.

This morning had a nitpicker (near time persistency checker) design review. Maybe we'll post the (rather cryptic) minutes somewhere soon. I did update the plans page - it's really hard for us to keep all these informative pages in sync and up to date. I do have a public SETI wiki ready to go but we're too busy to get it started (import the current pages, etc.). Usual manpower problems around here.

Our friend at Intel gave us a 1U server missing CPUs a few months ago, and yesterday came through with a pair of quad cores. I scraped together 4GB of RAM, and we're ordering some drives now. This may very well become our new public web server. If it actually works once I install an OS (no guarantees yet - it's an engineering test model) I'll take this off the hardware donation page.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_______AWD________overtake________Team-name
01______375.147.579______579.738______576.840______impossible______SETI.USA
02______304.385.910______418.857______431.260______impossible______SETI.Germany
03______131.069.558______189.075______181.448______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
04______113.714.240_______60.642_______54.633______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
05______109.501.560______113.287______121.906______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______95.893.348_______64.001_______44.790______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______88.274.977_______96.466_______87.156______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______77.320.144______121.303______121.320______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______41.919.838______-28.813______-35.531______1.180 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
10_______41.594.432_______60.241_______72.386______impossible______Overclockers.com
11_______39.230.346_______23.950_______22.590______impossible______Team Art Bell
12_______33.261.172_________-365_______-5.589______5.951 days______Team 2ch
13_______28.719.471_______-2.039_______-3.675______7.815 days______The Planetary Society
14_______27.589.519_______34.147_______31.088______impossible______Team MacNN
15_______25.755.426______-80.136______-96.297________267 days______BOINC.Italy
16_______13.946.950______-50.839______-64.271________217 days______Ars Technica
17__________247.473______-64.258______-77.388__________3 days______Universe Examiners
18_______69.582.550______161.238______172.425______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19___________-2.815______-11.607______-19.077______impossible______SETI@Taiwan
20_______-1.050.289_______66.849_______51.208_________21 days______Team China
21_______-1.420.681______-30.863______-31.862______impossible______Phoenix Rising
22_______-5.220.876_______12.860________7.656________682 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
23______-13.458.634______-51.567______-49.460______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
24______-13.544.269______-43.733______-54.209______impossible______Canada
25______-14.824.522______-95.438_____-101.421______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
26______-15.081.214______-69.239______-48.548______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
27______-15.121.783______-75.552______-75.643______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
28______-20.336.003______-44.725______-34.324______impossible______UK BOINC Team
29______-21.433.484______-84.401______-95.808______impossible______Team MacAddict
30______-21.738.461______-62.380______-74.776______impossible______Team NIPPON
31______-22.879.269______-40.022______-64.296______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
32______-22.942.586______-35.181______-45.784______impossible______US NAVY
33______-23.260.161______-58.347______-64.414______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
34______-23.904.090_____-109.597_____-122.798______impossible______2CPU.com
35______-24.144.160_____-125.057_____-130.485______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
36______-24.222.876______-68.506______-85.268______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
37______-24.275.555________9.261________6.506______3.731 days______AUSTRIA - NATIONAL - TEAM
38______-24.439.853______-65.372______-79.544______impossible______Hungary
39______-26.401.893______-34.162______-48.481______impossible______U.S.Air Force
40______-29.581.844_____-114.625_____-128.594______impossible______Portugal@Home
41______-31.479.679______-82.712_____-105.610______impossible______SETI.hr
42______-32.261.844______-82.110______-94.609______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
43______-35.040.669_____-114.225_____-123.225______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-35.252.096_____-107.449_____-120.937______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-35.280.727_____-139.889_____-149.891______impossible______Picard
46______-35.886.897______-93.311______-99.655______impossible______BOINC.SK
47______-36.057.647_____-141.947_____-152.383______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
48______-36.652.459_____-102.715_____-110.028______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
49______-39.313.231______-53.542______-66.675______impossible______BOINC@Poland
50______-39.807.393_____-122.897_____-130.880______impossible______BOINC UK

Appart for Anandtech's stats, it shows how much more/less than Anandtech.
Also shows based on Average Work Done how many days for Anandtech to overtake the team, or be overtaken by a team behind...

 

[dajeepster]

Taiwan has fallen... next on the list... Universe 😀

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, Rattledagger. 😀
And the production is somewhat more this day. :thumbsup: we may even take the Universe soon ... :sun:

 

[dajeepster]

if someone can find me an ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE from a reliable etailor in the US... I could put this Phenom9500 that is collecting dust on my desk to work :Q

 

[Assimilator1]

Well if you forget the 'US' bit you could get the board from OverclockersUK ,I think they ship abroad.
At £158 though it ain't cheap! :Q ,not to mention the poor (for you) exchange rate.....


Thx RD & goodbye Taiwan 😀

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: dajeepster
if someone can find me an ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE from a reliable etailor in the US... I could put this Phenom9500 that is collecting dust on my desk to work :Q

What about the msi 790fx boards. I've read good things about them.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: dajeepster
if someone can find me an ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE from a reliable etailor in the US... I could put this Phenom9500 that is collecting dust on my desk to work :Q

What about the msi 790fx boards. I've read good things about them.

when you populate the PCIe slots with graphic cards... you start to block the SATA ports... The Asus board has the SATA connector angled to be parallel with the board, and so you therefore don't block the SATA connector with graphic cards.... otherwise I would have gove with the MSI K9A2 Platinum

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: bryanW1995

Originally posted by: dajeepster
if someone can find me an ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE from a reliable etailor in the US... I could put this Phenom9500 that is collecting dust on my desk to work :Q

What about the msi 790fx boards. I've read good things about them.

when you populate the PCIe slots with graphic cards... you start to block the SATA ports... The Asus board has the SATA connector angled to be parallel with the board, and so you therefore don't block the SATA connector with graphic cards.... otherwise I would have gove with the MSI K9A2 Platinum

the asus board just came into stock at mwave... i'll have it sometime next week. 😀