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BadThad

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Feb 22, 2000
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I'm sure it will kickass. This project is difficult to benchmark because the jobs seem wildly different to me.
 
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Baldy18

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Yeah, they only benchmark that I would say is worth anything is CPU rating but even that can be sporatic sometimes.

I also have problems getting it to connect automatically. I have it set to once a day but the other day I checked it after 2 days of letting it run solo and it hadn't uploaded at all. It had downloaded to fill the queue when it got low but didn't upload. I'm not sure at what time of day it is set to do it's business when set to once a day but I wish you could set a specific time.
 
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Mloot

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Aug 24, 2002
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You know, all the time that I've run FAD, the client has never automatically contacted the server to upload or download for me. I usually make sure that I have about 12-15 jobs queued (sp?), then once a day or so, I take a few seconds to upload any completed jobs. Whenever I get low on queued jobs, I just download a few more. It's never been a problem for me, but I can see where, if you have a bunch of pc's running FAD, it might get tiresome doing that for every one, in which case the automatic upload and download would come in handy.
 
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BCinSC

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Mloot - only one PC need run the complete install aka Client and Server Queue. All the rest run Tray.exe over network. Mine uploads, though no consistency that I've seen. Always downloads to fill queue. Make sure Setup window reflects roughly you total CPU power.
 
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Adul

Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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danny.tangtam.com
Originally posted by: BCinSC
Preliminary draft for news article. Comments, changes, complete rewrites welcome.

Find-A-Drug Distributed Computing makes huge gains, but needs help.

Back in the top 25 and gaining on the Dutch Power Cows (the group many projects are trying to pass)

Some new blood and many returning crunchers. Come test your metal (er, silicon).

Slick, easy client runs in background using only idle cycles. Can run on across network without remote installs, just point to the master share and start crunching.
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Some userful links on how to join would be nice ;)
unless the ones stickied in the forum are good enough.

as for the news post, the wording could use some more work.
 
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BCinSC

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Oct 11, 1999
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OK, how about this:

TeAm Anandtech Find-A-Drug climbs a big 3, passing DPCs or FaD TeAm Leaps Over Cows
In the wee hours of this morning, December 16th, TeAm Anandtech surpassed the strong opposition of the Dutch Power Cows to take 24th place overall. We've generated nearly half a million points this week and looking for help to further our progress. Click to view the FaD Stats and specifically TeAm Stats. Find-A-Drug is working on cancer, HIV, SARS, bioterrorism antidotes and more. If you are interested in joining this or any other project the TeAm participates in, visit the Distributed Computing forum and read this thread.
 
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Mloot

Diamond Member
Aug 24, 2002
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Originally posted by: BCinSC
Mloot - only one PC need run the complete install aka Client and Server Queue. All the rest run Tray.exe over network. Mine uploads, though no consistency that I've seen. Always downloads to fill queue. Make sure Setup window reflects roughly you total CPU power.
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Hmmm, I did a complete install on my wife's laptop, along with my desktop. Seems to work fine, though.
 
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BCinSC

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Oh, absolutely it'll work. Just multiple queues to keep up with. I see in the stats there's now and Mloot;1; so you registered laptop under different name? I actually have 3 servers (one in each location), but registered them all under BCinSC for single point massing.
 
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BadThad

Lifer
Feb 22, 2000
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Originally posted by: Mloot
You know, all the time that I've run FAD, the client has never automatically contacted the server to upload or download for me. I usually make sure that I have about 12-15 jobs queued (sp?), then once a day or so, I take a few seconds to upload any completed jobs. Whenever I get low on queued jobs, I just download a few more. It's never been a problem for me, but I can see where, if you have a bunch of pc's running FAD, it might get tiresome doing that for every one, in which case the automatic upload and download would come in handy.
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That's what I figured, thanks for confirming my suspecions. They really need to address that issue IMO!

 
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Mloot

Diamond Member
Aug 24, 2002
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Originally posted by: BCinSC
Oh, absolutely it'll work. Just multiple queues to keep up with. I see in the stats there's now and Mloot;1; so you registered laptop under different name? I actually have 3 servers (one in each location), but registered them all under BCinSC for single point massing.
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Actually, for a short time I had the client installed on my work computer (didn't realize that I messed up the name, though), until I thought better of it since I didn't really have permission to do that. I'm now back to just my home setups.

 
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BCinSC

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Look out Ranzou, whoever you are. I shall take your place at the top within a day!!! :D
 
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BCinSC

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And we've passed Team Wanderlust for spot 23!!! 184K to spot 22. Just shy of 1.4M to the Top 20.
 
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dxkj

Lifer
Feb 17, 2001
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Hrm...

CPU rating 140- time spent crunching ~ 100hrs , total points? 780


That works out to only 6 hrs crunched instead of 100 hrs crunched....

140xhours = total points?


Just making sure I have this running right.
 
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BCinSC

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Oct 11, 1999
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100 hours? The counter is in seconds, which divided by 3600, gives you hours. I believe the 780 you refer to is total points to date. These are the jobs listed for you.
00:05 18-Dec-03 1phg-q2 m1551 dxkj 3002861 0 9807 319 0:000:02:13:58
00:05 18-Dec-03 1phg-q2 m600 . dxkj 3002861 0 9938 . 96 0:000:00:39:40
00:05 18-Dec-03 1phg-q2 m4017 dxkj 3002861 0 9557 109 0:000:00:49:12
00:05 18-Dec-03 1phg-q2 m3595 dxkj 3002861 0 9568 111 0:000:00:52:12
00:05 18-Dec-03 1phg-q2 m2461 dxkj 3002861 0 9437 145 0:000:01:12:45

If you mean that you computer has been on and theoretically crunching for 100 hours or more, you might look to what else is running. If you are Win9x or Me, F-a-D only gets truly idle cycles - gaming, surfing, even system take precedence. In Win2K and XP, the timeslice sharing is better, but again it's actual CPU time spent doing F-a-D calculations that gets factored.
 
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BCinSC

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Oct 11, 1999
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The people below rank 43 crunched before the point scale changed and were reset to zero. This probably annoyed them and they bailed.
Between ranks 20 and 40, you have about half no longer producing, so yes you can climb fast. Once in the top 20, the competition heats up. Beyond that, compare yourself to all members from all teams - you are currently ranked 2554.
 
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Adul

Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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danny.tangtam.com
Originally posted by: BCinSC
OK, how about this:

TeAm Anandtech Find-A-Drug climbs a big 3, passing DPCs or FaD TeAm Leaps Over Cows
In the wee hours of this morning, December 16th, TeAm Anandtech surpassed the strong opposition of the Dutch Power Cows to take 24th place overall. We've generated nearly half a million points this week and looking for help to further our progress. Click to view the FaD Stats and specifically TeAm Stats. Find-A-Drug is working on cancer, HIV, SARS, bioterrorism antidotes and more. If you are interested in joining this or any other project the TeAm participates in, visit the Distributed Computing forum and read this thread.
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much better :)
 
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Baldy18

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Oct 30, 2000
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Originally posted by: BCinSC
The people below rank 87 crunched before the point scale changed and were reset to zero. This probably annoyed them and they bailed.
Between ranks 35 and 87, you have about half no longer producing, so yes you can climb fast. Once in the top 20, the competition heats up. Beyond that, compare yourself to all members from all teams - you are currently ranked 2554.
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;)
 
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Baldy18

Diamond Member
Oct 30, 2000
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Oh sorry about that. Badthad was talking about teams so when I read your post it confused me because I assumed you were talking about teams also.
 
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BCinSC

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Actually, I think BadThad was talking about personal gains after referencing team move to 23rd place, as team movement is generally fairly slow.
 
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