Posts by eks

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to inform us.. (Message 20823) Posted 25 Nov 2008 by eks Post: Whilst I agree that the science is the most important aspect, I do not understand your last point. The climateprediction models are amongst the least generous with credits and the science behind them is about the most accessible of all the BOINC projects. I\'ve meant the difficulty to finish such a big work unit. 1400 hours are some 60 days of non stop working. It might be good to have some backup system on that. :)
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Is it possible to inform us.. (Message 20821) Posted 25 Nov 2008 by eks Post: People, just a quick reminder. The goal here is to do science and help progress. Or at least it should be, IMHO. Not win a race of who gets the most numbers crunched. If you want to face BOINC as a challenge, may I suggest climateprediction.net and it's 1400+ hours work units.
3) Message boards : LHC@home Science : END OF THE WORLD (Message 20100) Posted 10 Sep 2008 by eks Post: According to a CERN specialist, LHC has already destroyed earth. On the future. http://gist.github.com/9810 :D eks
4) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 5.10.x?? (Message 20027) Posted 8 Sep 2008 by eks Post: Hello, Just to be sure, the news page states it\'s better to use 5.10.x version of BOINC, but on their webpage there\'s a 6.x version to download. Is that right? I did not upgraded on my work machine yet (Windows), but I was planning to. If that\'s the case I will keep this version. I upgraded BOINC on my home machine, on the Windows boot, but it blew up the climateprediction work unit it was crunching, so I was going to research before upgrading it on work. (In the end I uninstalled it there altogether, I was barely booting on Windows at home anyway.) eks
5) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Maybe this will calm the crazies (Message 19741) Posted 26 Jun 2008 by eks Post: It seems it didn't... But here's a nice post about, from a MIT professor, on why LHC should start as soon as possible: http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=334&etc :) eks
6) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC Countdown?? (Message 19720) Posted 13 Jun 2008 by eks Post: Another countdown, this a more funny one: http://quegrande.org/countdown/ :D eks
7) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC Countdown?? (Message 19711) Posted 11 Jun 2008 by eks Post: What's up with this? http://www.lhcountdown.com Is it a true countdown? eks EDIT: ops, sorry: http://www.lhcountdown.com/?p=7 And I didn't found a way to actually delete the post...
8) Message boards : Number crunching : aAvgApi.exe takes all CPU time (Message 19710) Posted 11 Jun 2008 by eks Post: I'm another one that switched to Ubuntu and recommend it. It's advisable to have a little bit of patience at the beginning to learn the new system, you still have to use the command line occasionally, but it's really much more simpler than Windows to do any thing you want. And also easier to find information about what you want to do. I use Windows just for occasional gaming. And at work... eks
9) Message boards : LHC@home Science : why are you going to slaughter us all, scientists? (Message 19650) Posted 22 May 2008 by eks Post: Now it's not even slaughter any more, the LHC will bring Satan himself to earth!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0 Run for your lifes!! :D eks

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