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.
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I agree that WCG is a pain but life ain't easy - I promised and broken promises [oops!] on a return to WCG but I'm getting BOINC blues and loosing the 'points make prizes' crusade I've been on
- to stay enthused how about, not a race but CPU v CPU showdown, I'll pitch my intel Quad [2.66GHz] v one of your Quads and we can compare points etc - I'd also go for the Nutricious Rice WCG project as it runs for 8 hours exactly - or it did the last time!
... what you think and anyone else up for a mini challenge/comparison?
Okay but all my Quads are running on 3 cores, with the 4th one tied to the GPU running PS3Grid. I do have a disused Quad that I retired over spring & summer. Now that the chilly nights are here it could be pressed into service again. We could race from next week maybe?
As far as the blues go, the figures from WCG are pretty depressing & I confess that I oscilate from "we must keep it top 100" to "stuff it, I can get 4 times the credit with optimised Seti". Do whatever you have to!
Ok, so I don't look at the front page a lot! Just noticed that the FAQ has been updated - but it looks a tad strange...
It seems to be located within a (non-scrolling) scroll window within the page. It also looks somewhat familiar... - are the two related?
Whilst we as a team (and I certainly) don't say it often, the work on the site is always appreciated.
I'll hold comment on the downsizing as it all sounds fairly 'deja vu' like. :)
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