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.

Happy 2008

Happy New Year everyone.

Resolutions for 2008

1. Relegate personal ambitions to 2nd place to help get all TSBT teams to 100th place or higher.
2. Get Rosetta, WCG, Seti, & Cosmology to 1,000,000 credits each - that'll be 8 million plus projects.
3. Reach 10,000,000 overall & stay in the top 500.
4. Reduce my home PC farm from 10 to 9 machines (including 2 laptops) - upgrades over proliferation.
5. Sell all the sellable PC bits on e-bay. Recycle everything else.
6. Lose 2 stones, exercise lots, drink little & go to bed before midnight every night. Aye, right!

Top 100 Campaign

Buster and Nightlord (and in a smaller way, lots of others) have transformed WCG adding an extra 10K per day and moving us from 235th up to 223rd place in a few days. Rosetta is making steady but unspectacular progress with an RAC that would make us 66th and there are immediate prospects of Total Credit gains in the next week. Lots of new members seem to be flocking to join us.

Progress Update

Last update 00:45 16th December 2007
This update 00:30 6th January 2008
Total Active Members 322 (+23)
Recent Active Members 157 (+17)
Total Credit 49,813,936(+2,985,054=136K/day )
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (+2)