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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.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Coding Blues & Farm Plans.

I made a new site &, after lots of revisions, it seems to have been well enough received. I've some ideas for the content too. A major frustration has been getting the page centred. I have now figured out how to do that but at the expense of scrambling every element on the page.

I've said it before, but this time I mean it, and t I'm going to downsize the farm to an ultra efficient croft. I reckon with the 2 laptops, [1.5K/d optSeti], my work PC [1.2K/d optSeti], Jo's desktop [4K/day running PS3Grid & OptSeti] and just 3 Quads & a phenom in the farm [together up to 36K on PS3Grid & OptSeti] I could have enough crunching power to get into the top 200 & stay there. Losing 3 machines upstairs would reduce the heat & noise considerably. Selling the spare parts would raise loot which I could use to upgrade the current mATX cases which are so small that they need an awful lot of fast fans to keep them cool. My one full tower is almost silent & it would be nice if they could all be like that. So keep looking on ebay.

WCG is the poor, and also rather standoffish, relation in the SBT family. Nobody loves it and so after only a very brief stay at 100th it has drifted downwards again. I'm going to make it my #1 priority, even after bagging my WCG million to drive us back into the premier league even if it drops my RAC to 30K. The wonder of PS3/Gpugrid is that it frees you up to crunch poorly paid projects as the PS3grid returns dewarf everything else.