21) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc farms. (Message 15350)
Posted 4 Nov 2006 by Profile clownius
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Hmm mine started out with 6 K6/2 300Mhz systems but as time went on my mobos died until i was down to just 1.
When my last faithfull k6/2 went kaboom i got myself a cleron 2Ghz cpu second hand grabbed a cheap mobo and off i went.
After this the bug struck and i started looking for second hand stuff to boost my capacity (and found linux much to my wallets liking)
I picked up a clery 700Mhz to add to my farm
And not long after had to buy a computer (celery 1.8Ghz) for my 7yo sisters birthday which now crunches part time. As you can guess i was thinking cruncher first lol.
Recently the poor old 700 quit due to a mobo issue and was down for weeks before i had the time to fix it. Unfortunatly i lost one of my 2 ram slots.
So when i thought it just might be terminal i went out pricing a replacement and ended up ordering a core 2 duo sytem when i was looking for another 2Ghz or so second hander.

So my current farm includes

Celery 700Mhz 256Mb RAM
Celery 1.8Ghz 512Mb RAM (part time)
Celery 2Ghz 512Mb RAM (the desktop i use)

And comming soon
Core 2 Duo 2.13Mhz 1Gb RAM

So 4 within a week or two and from there who knows but im not know for giving up on PCs that still run at all lol
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Why can't I get any work? (Message 14392)
Posted 21 Jul 2006 by Profile clownius
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Im getting crumbs of one or two very short work units every couple of days atm. The very small batches being released get snapped up in minutes. Hopefully another big run soon as im getting bored with so few little Wu's
23) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 14337)
Posted 17 Jul 2006 by Profile clownius
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*sigh*

When are people going to realise that most of these delays are caused by lost WU's that need to be reissued. No matter how carefull people are. No matter what they do some WU's wont process properly for one reaon or another (eg> crashed computer). No matter how fast everyone returns the rest of the WU's we still have to wait for any that have got lost to be reissued and crunched. The way to speed this up is shorter deadlines not smaller caches.

Use your brains for a change.....................
24) Message boards : Number crunching : O.K., I'm New! No Work?? (Message 14257)
Posted 7 Jul 2006 by Profile clownius
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Same reason as many others have no work. LHC issues work in small amounts irreguarly. It can be weeks between having work but thats just part of the project.
25) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 14196)
Posted 27 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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This is a sad sad argument to still be going. i dont think a single person is still crunching results atm. I think it would be likely found that those WU's still waiting to be crunched are all proberbly lost units due to hardware problems and peoples computers going down. The only way they could get done any faster is shorter deadlines on returning. The will go late get reissued and then be promptly crunched. Quite possibly by those large WU junkies like me with a 99.8% resource share.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@home/CERN. Where Is Our Support! (Message 14143)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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But yet, there are many, many crunchers complaining about the lack of work.
The implication is that the number of crunchers greatly exceeds the need.

so, you might do well, given your feelings to just move on to other projects.


Um??? Ok u lost me is it if you dont like it leave? Rather nice way to put it
27) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@home/CERN. Where Is Our Support! (Message 14138)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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Yes i do feel a bit alone on this project. Im also crunching malaria, seti beta and einstein(sp?). In all of those i see something done when things go boom. In this one theres no mesage from anyone except the ex-admin about it being fixed. It just dies then works again one day. I enjoy this project and its the one now getting the lions share of my two admitedly slow machines. I will throw more at it as i gain faster machines but id love to see someone at CERN take an interest. Ive invested hours and hours in this project. I just wish someone at CERN would too.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Faster than a speeding hadron..... (Message 14051)
Posted 19 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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Omg no they gone already lol. Ok im used to it.
29) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 14015)
Posted 17 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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I could go into my previous posts that some haven't liked but y bother lol. I will be a work hog as much due to the fact id prefer to be crunching LHC as much as the fact i enjoy upsetting the dont hog people (actually proberbly more the second reason).
Most people seem to complain about the late returners of which im definatly not one and to some extent i do agree no point hogging what u cant process. I can and will process the WU's i recieve within a very reasonable time frame so stop crying unless your just upset u dont get a nice big cache of workunits too. It's a funny thing but when i try and see how quickly these whingers return their WU's and what they run em on they either hide their computers or have a 5 day plus average return time (much more than mine).

Go cry to the project admin if u dont like people processing your Wu's mayby they can give u a special batch :)

*flameproof trousers---check*
30) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 14002)
Posted 16 Jun 2006 by Profile clownius
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Well my cache is nice and empty atm for all projects although boinc is doing some strange things of recent. Its running my lowest priority project most of the time and hang the others. Cant wait till the next load of WU's comes out so i grab a nice big selection and crunch away as quickly as possible. Running a 2 day cache atm and ill bump it to 10 at the first sign of work. Im shure that will make a few people unhappy but rest assured my work will still be returned faster than most even if i do grab a batch. If you crunch it fast grab all you can.
31) Message boards : Team invites : Australian Alliance (Message 13784)
Posted 29 May 2006 by Profile clownius
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Click the emoticon above :-)




I must agree :) Join us. Its a great supportive forum and website with many active posters and crunchers...but we could always use more.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 13782)
Posted 29 May 2006 by Profile clownius
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Oh we have definitely a delay in completion, thanks to big-cache-junkies who mainly crunch for there personal benefit (how silly it even may) and the inadequacies of the boincsystem to counteract WU-crabbers.


I agree the number of WU's still being crunched is rather silly. I can understand some get lost. For example after the last time i got WU's before this run BOINC died on me and i lost all my pending WU's. But many have been snatched up by those that dont crunch them fast and now have to reissue cause the cache was just to big. This aint cool....

Unfortunatly LHC and Einstein are the only "hard science" (physics) projekts in non-alpha/beta stage. And its needs the completion of the current work to issue the next one.


And this is the reason i turn my computer 100% to it when it has work and crunch as much and as fast as i can. Many of those last WU's get horded by those caching up to get the last few units...at least im crunching em nice and quick.

No offence intended. This was a gentle dig aimed at the 'credit-racers', of whom you claim you're not one. But judging by your sensitivity to it I'd guess that you are 'racing' more than you let on.


Ok in this case i withdraw my comment it was uncalled for. But yours were not exactly required either. But just out of common curtosy next time you reply to anothers post try not to flame them if they havent flamed you. Its really not required and juvinile. Ill act my age and appoligise to you. Hope you do the same.
If you took the time to take a look at my sig u will notice im not really crunching big numbers in any project and if thats racing im scared as its more a slow stroll lol.
33) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 13776)
Posted 29 May 2006 by Profile clownius
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On average my huge 10 day cache lasts...oh about 2 days so results still come back very quickly and i get maximum work crunched for LHC whenever it has work to do.


Why on earth go through all this rigmarole. Why not set LHC at, say, 80% resource share, and cache at 0.1 day. Enable all projects. Leave well alone.

BOINC will manage the work fetch cycle based on your cache size and you'll get loads of work for LHC when it's there. There won't be any work hoarded, so others can do it. Work will get done quicker overall.

Oh - I see the problem now: you might not get as many of those rare and valuable LHC credits to spend on goodies in the local shopping mall. You'll have more credits from other projects but I guess they aren't worth as much.

What's that? You can't spend the credits? Oh my...

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Actually if u wish to reread my post i do it this way to crunch maximum work when available and as fast as possible. I give up the credit on other project to crunch this one as quickly as possible and return as fast as possible.

I personally feel this project has better scientific cred than the other projects i crunch and so i dedicate my entire computer to it when it needs crunching.
This isnt a credit race!! Its purely using my computer for the project i feel is the most important.

Seriously though im guessing saying nasty things to others make u feel good so fire away im very thick skinned and i like making others happy.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 13767)
Posted 28 May 2006 by Profile clownius
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Personally this is how i have started doing LHC. It has an over 50% resource share on boinc. I generally run a 0.1 day cache as im on a DSL connection..
1.Im sitting at my computer and notice LHC has work.
2.I suspend all other project and bump cache to 10 days.
3.Until the work runs out i leave cache at 10 days and only run LHC.
4.LHC has no work.
5.Cache goes back to 0.1 days and i allow a very low proirity project to fetch work.
6.I run out of LHC work and switch all other projects back on.

On average my huge 10 day cache lasts...oh about 2 days so results still come back very quickly and i get maximum work crunched for LHC whenever it has work to do.


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