Blurb

Welcome, Failte, & Fit Like? to the biggest, oldest (established in 1999 as Scotland's Seti) and best Scottish Boinc team around!
We crunch for all the major Boinc projects and nearly all the minor ones. Our aim is to use our spare computing power to advance human knowledge while enjoying some friendly competition amongst ourselves and with other teams. So if you're Scottish by birth, ancestry, residence, emotional attachment or even if you've no link at all with Scotland but just fancy being part of a lively friendly team, please come join us, everyone is welcome. The most important part of the site is our Forum . Even if you're not a member of any of our teams we'd be delighted to have you visit.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Website Down & GPUGrid Update

Bugger bugger bugger etc. The website is down, so is the Forum and my email. Obviously the weekend cleaner at the hosting company unplugged a server to plug in her hoover! I'll be onto them tomorrow.

Update on PS3/GPUGrid.
It has transformed my fortunes and boosted TSBT no end. I'm churning out about 20K per day on it. A few forays to my local PC shop & on ebay mean that I now have 4 PCs running it. The 260GTX that I got for the frankly rather feeble phenom gets thru a WU in 10 hours and as the value of each has increased to to 3232 that works out at 7760 per day meaning that the runt of the farm can manage 9,000 in total & out-crunch the Ubercruncher: Or at least it could if the ubercruncher hadn't been equiped with a 9800GT which cost 40% of the price of the 260 but manages 55% of its performance. So 3232 ever 18hr means 4300 per day, which added to 3 cores running optimised Seti means 9550 per day. Awesome!!

Awesome too, is the performance of TSBT, returning 100K per day on this one project. Our RAC has risen above 300K and we are going to be top 50 before long!

I'm going to use the miracle of GPU crunching to rationalise the farm: I reckon I can get down to 5 desktops & 2 laptops and still return 35K per day: And finance all the necessary upgrades by selling redundant components.