Quad down!

As if making concessions to the risk of a fatal paternal hyperthermia wasn't threatening my RAC enough, I tried to fire up the farm again and one of the quads just wouldn't respond. Maybe it's a PSU not quite making the grade anymore, but whatever it is, it is totally deid! It'll be two weeks before I get a chance to sort it. Arse, arse & thrice arse!

Dilemmas, dilemmas!

My dad's come to visit. Which in most respects is a positive. But it does bring some dilemmas. Such as how hot and noisy is acceptable for a guest bedroom? As it is I switched 3 of the desktops in the farmyard/guestroom at tea time so that the ambient temp might drop below tropical.

At bedtime the other three went. The silence was just not natural; I didn't like it at all. As I post we have running only Jo's E6600 and the two laptops. Scary!

The next dilemma is how early can you fire them up again. Assuming his slumber survives the racket, it would take at least 3 hours for the room to become dangerously overheated, so a 6am boot up wouldn't be too antisocial, would it?

Is this cheating?

Prompted by my anonymous and indeed solitary visitor, I downloaded Crunch3r's optimised Seti application. Boy did it increase my enthusiasm for our biggest project. So far I have contributed just 0.5% of our 28 million. That will change and I hope to be a millionaire in it by Xmas.

Just look at these stats & drool! Or more constructively, and prosocially, download.

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit _______ Credit/Day
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs ___________ 286 _____________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 _____________ 1877
Einstein ______ 43.8hrs __________ 1425 _____________ 3123
Cosmology ____ 3.22hrs ____ ______ 300 _____________ 8944
Seti__________ 12.2hrs ___ _______ 374 _____________ 2951
Seti[optimised] _ 5.9hrs ___________ 431 _____________ 7013
Yoyo _________ 42.3hrs __________ 1692 ____________ 3840

As regards the post title: Of course it isn't. Doing the same science in 40% of the time is a major service to the project so getting 250% the credit is only fair.

Why is it never easy?

Having established Cosmology as the prefered suitor for the Uberchruncher, the project promptly went tits up, with little work to be had generally and sfa for this very willing host. Just as well then that Yoyo is proving a decent second. At less than half the pay of Cosmo but double the credit of WCG it's useful enough for now & even going half & half with CPDN means that the Ubercruncher is out perfoming the two PCs it replaced by a clear margin.

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit _______ Credit/Day
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs ___________ 286 _____________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 _____________ 1877
Einstein ______ 43.8hrs __________ 1425 _____________ 3123
Cosmology ____ 3.22hrs ____ ______ 300 _____________ 8944
Seti _________ 12.2hrs ___ _______ 374 ______________ 2951
Yoyo ________ 42.3hrs __________ 1692 _____________ 3840

Seti Update

I finally got enough Seti results to update the table.
It's not bad, unless you compare it with Cosmology!
Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit _______ Credit/Day
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs ___________ 286 _____________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 _____________ 1877
Einstein ______ 43.8hrs __________ 1425 _____________ 3123
Cosmology ____ 3.22hrs __________ 300 _____________ 8944
Seti _________ 12.2hrs ___________ 374 _____________ 2951

The Ubercruncher finds a Sugar Daddy

Holy Moly! I knew Cosmology would be good but this is stop-the-experiment-I'll-just-stick-with this exceptional. And I happen to like the science of the Cosmology project so it's not even credit-whoring but true project lurve!

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit _______ Credit/Day
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs ___________ 286 _____________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 _____________ 1877
Einstein ______ 43.8hrs __________ 1425 _____________ 3123
Cosmology ____ 3.22hrs __________ 300 _____________ 8944

I'll report on CPDN & Seti once they're done. But for just now, flakey servers and all, I'm sticking with Cosmology on the Ubercruncher. The rest of the farm will of course be mainly doing WCG. For now!

The Ubercruncher does Einstein

I couldn't get any work from Cosmology so I did some Einstein. At last we have a clear leader. For now. The Seti test is started & looks as if it might be comparable to Rosetta.

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit _______ Credit/Day
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs ___________ 286 _____________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 _____________ 1877
Einstein ______ 43.8hrs __________ 1425 _____________ 3123

By the way, these tests are all being done on Windows XP professional. Once I've got loads of windows results I'll try it with 64 bit Linux.

The Ubercruncher Sallies Forth.

Okay here are some results for WCG now

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit __________ PCPD
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs __________ 286 ______________ 2474
WCG _________ 20.4hrs __________ 399 ______________ 1877

Dearie me. There's no doubt about it WCG - is one seriously stingy project. Once we hit 100 for WCG & I've got my million for it - got my Rosetta one today- then I'm off. Certainly it's no project for credit-whores. So CPDN it is now. You'll have to wait a couple of weeks for the results of that but I'll maybe do some Seti & Cosmology along the way, if the latter sorts out its work flow issues

Dawn of the Ubercruncher

Hi y'all.
I thought I'd post again. There's no point in banging on about the fortunes of TSBT, which are thriving, despite half a dozen projects going on strike. The TSBT forum takes care of all that.
No, instead I'll burble on about my personal Boinc quest.

The latest addition to the farm is Q9450 based cruncher with a Gigabyte P35 based mobo and 2Gig of DDR3 Ram which I have overclocked from 2.66MHz to 3.26MHz using a cheapo Thermaltake water cooling system. It replaces a Q6600 on a pisspoor mother board (this CPU will be reused in the fullness) and an AMD 64x2 6000+ (this will be sold ASAP, AMD just aren't competing these days). Finally it gets me down to just 7 desktops in the house!

I'm going to use it as the farm credit-whore & regardless of other targets will run it at whatever gets me and the team the most credits. Of course I need to do some experiments first.

To calibrate it I started it off on Rosetta which I hope to get to 1 million in the next few minutes. My method is to run a batch of WUs, select the final 6, total the time(T) & credit (C) granted and then calculate the projected credit per day (PCPD=(C x 96)/T ). So, the results so far

Project ______ 6WUTime ________ 6WUCredit __________ PCPD
Rosetta _______ 11.1hrs __________ 286 _______________ 2474

Not bad, but I'm sure it'll be beaten. Next up World Community Grid & CPDN.