You're welcome...

[Warrenton]

I just added my P3 600@800 and my Celeron566@850

I am going to do some more OC on my 800 and get it to 852.

Both are running RC5 exclusive, no OGR.

cfrisch@mt.net

 

[Russ]

Thank you.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Warrenton]

FYI right now my P3-800 does 2.03mkeys/s and my celeron is not as fast.

 

[Engineer]

As Russ said, Thanks a bunch


Well done!!!

 

[SYST3M]

YAY! i get worked up about this stuff, welcome abaord, glad to have ya! and a big Mooooo to ya!

 

[mechBgon]

Wooo, nice strong start there! If you're new to Team Anandtech, welcome! Your email isn't coming up at Dnet yet, so I'm assuming you just got rolling?

 

[RaySun2Be]

Welcome to the Team, Warrenton!

 

[Warrenton]

Actually my celeron is 2.39Mkeys/s

Contributing 4.41Mkeys/s

 

[Warrenton]

yeah just started today.

im going to go add a K6-2 333.

Soon I will add a PPro 150, as soon as my uncle gets a new machine.

I was half tempted to try to get RC5 running on every machine at my dad's office. But they have a rule against programs that automatically connect to the internet. Damn, because that would have been over 350 P3-500 or greater machines.

 

[networkman]

Just testing.. ignore...



:|

:Q

 

[Warrenton]

FYI: 4.64mkeys/s is my total right now.

 

[LeBlatt]

/ignore networkman

 

[JonB]

<< But they have a rule against programs that automatically connect to the internet >>



That really isn't a problem. The DNet client can be configured to sit quietly and peacefully until something else creates an Internet connection, then it will update its buffers. Even if it runs out of work, it will sit tight.

Its called &quot;lurking&quot; and it works great.

In the configuration menu, the choices would be:

#2 buffer update options
#6 keyserver connectivity
#9 dial-up options
then #2, to &quot;lurk&quot;

 

[LeBlatt]

350 P3s! Damn we need these !

You'll want to setup a proxy to feed that huge herd. So all cows connect to your proxy. And you can control when the proxy connects to the net, by having a large enough block reserve.

 

[dkappos]

Welcome to the team Warrenton!

 

[PeterN]

LeBlatt is right, Warrenton!!

We definitely need those PIII's. Assuming they are all 500 MHz, those 350 puters will fetch ~157000 blocks a day when they are on 24/7.

Please, please, please.

If you need any help in setting up the perproxy, clients or something else, don't hesitate to post.

All of TA will be thrilled with such an addition.
Also, this will keep the TA-Cube working on assimilations.


BTW, Got so excited I forgot to welcome you. So:

WELCOME TO THE TEAM!!!

 

[PeterN]

Yep, we do need some additions to keep up with the DPC's!
They just invited a participant, who was not on a team before, to join them! He said yes, which means he will add over 9.3 million blocks :Q to their totals and ~55k+ :| to their daily output!

 

[mindless]

welcome to the team.

If all those machines are networked they wouldnt be connecting to the net automatically if you used a proxy. Just set them to connect to a pproxy and they would never connect to the internet for cracking purposes, only to the pproxy which would connect only to fetch and flush. And even if they aren't just set them to fetch and flush only if there is an internet connection present. The client is very well behaved, much more so than the SETI one so it would be perfect.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Warrenton,
I agree with Mindless. If you do get permission to install RC5 on your dad's work PCs, I would suggest setting up a proxy server (it doesn't take much resources, mine is running on a P233 with 64M Ram)
to keep that large a herd fed.

If you need help getting permission at your dad's work, or if the IT guys have questions, post here. I'm sure there would be some Network Admins who would be more than willing to talk to them about how little bandwidth the client uses, security concerns, etc.

Prepare yourself with the facts so that you can show them it is a legitimate undertaking, that the client is very stable and is set at the lowest priority, so work apps will get access first, etc.

Approach them in a professional manner. Even with that, they may still say no.

And if they do say no, you are still very Welcome and everything you contribute will help the team out!

 

[Ken g6]

With a proxy server, you could also control when it connects to the internet, while allowing the other machines to connect to it. Set it as a &quot;personal proxy on a protected LAN&quot; on the herd to keep them from going to the internet. If necessary, you might even be able to sneakernet a few days' worth of blocks on a zip disk.

And if they don't even go for that, you might try selling them on SETI. With Sun Microsystems supporting them, it's hard to go wrong.

Oh, BTW, it might be better if you ran OGR on that K6. They're as good at OGR as G4's are at RC5!

See also (far) below:
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[Warrenton]

I'd love to do it, but its a state government agency. They have a T1 for the building that goes out to the rest of the state network, which has a T1 for the internet. Its only on 10mbit ethernet.

I don't think it would be even possible to do it.

I do think I can get permission for two P3-650's at my work. They are not used very much at all.

 

[office boy]

<< I'd love to do it, but its a state government agency >>


Gota love those... Heck the IT guy's there might already be Running RC5 or Seti...
MY little bit of the .gov sure is

 

[Warrenton]

I highly doubt that. One time my dad was having issues with connecting to the server, and I was talking to the head of thier IT dept. They couldn't figure out what was wrong. I decide to try, and I ask the tech if they can ping the server, and his response was &quot;Ping? what are you talking about?&quot; I said what ping was, and he says to me and my dad &quot;Kids, they think they know everything. Terry, (my dad) why don't you have him go home before he causes any problems&quot;

The moron didn't know what ping was, and thought I was making it up. They just switched to Ethernet and TCP/IP from token ring and IPX/SPX, so I guess they can be forgiven for being morons.

 

[office boy]

Ouch... The guy I replaced was an old (I mean OLD) navy computer guy, and he was absolutely clueless...
Must be common

 

[Warrenton]

Well, the head tech is an old navy computer guy. What was the name of the guy you replaced?

This guy was really stupid, or is

He did something as stupid as when they put a new database into production, or without using test data. He just grabbed the old database and imported, which made it incompatible with the old database. Well the new database was buggy and had bad data types set. As a result the import process threw out about 1/3 of the fields. Oh yeah, the backup hadn't been run first, and the backup only was done once a month (dumb), so they lost a months work.