Join the Einstein @ Home IceInSpace Team

[xstream]

Okay All,
With Mikes permission I've changed the the team name I had at Einstein @ Home to IceInSpace.
So all you you number crunchers that are interested in searching for Gravitational Waves (Pulsars) get on over and join up. And lets see if IceInSpace can be credited with finding some.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

[RapidEye]

I've been crunching away at it for a while (just check my signature link):P

I just tossed 14,000+ units to the pool :cool:

Cheers!

[xstream]

Well done Rapid, with the 75,000+ already in the pool that's some serious crunching thats been done. :thumbsup:

[Comet Hunter]

I've just signed up, but have no previous work to add.:ashamed:

[davidpretorius]

i have joined and downloading software

[h0ughy]

you guys should have included this link. I have just joined up.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/create_account_form.php?teamid=648

[davidpretorius]

13 mbytes downloaded and 10 hours of processing to go!

this is exciting!

[RapidEye]

I've been running Seti@Home since it first came out in 1999. I was pretty happy when they cut over to the new BOINC engine a while back. The old one didn't allow you to queue up work units so if their site was down or you didn't have network access, your PC sat there doing nothing.

The other obvious upgrade was that it allowed you to attach to mulitple projects such as Einstein@home.

Their servers have been a bit flakey the last month or so. If you have problems downloading or uploading results, be patient.

[xstream]

Sorry h0ughy! :doh:

[xstream]

As Rapid says just be patient. I also find if it's stuck sometimes it helps to shut the BOINC client down and restart it, but it is a rare occurrence.

[Wombat_In_Space]

Well just joined the team it will add another 9028 credits to the team hope it helps.:thumbsup:

[davidpretorius]

finally got my first lot credited - very exciting, loaded the softare onto 1 laptop, 2 workstations, and a backup server.

go iceinspace!!!

[xstream]

Well at that rate David you should be at the top of the avg. credit list in no time. :)

[davidpretorius]

it is great to be part of the research in a small way!!

[Comet Hunter]

As of about 9am today these are our rankings...

Recent Average Credit - 567.47 = 287th place
Total credit - 94,058.68 = 302nd place

[h0ughy]

cheering! I have completed two runs and one on the way

[Comet Hunter]

We're starting to ramp up production :cool2:...

Recent Average Credit - 1,298.27 = 157th place
Total Credit - 113,392.30 = 283rd place

[xstream]

Yeah numbers are starting to look good Andrew! :thumbsup:
A few more IIS members joining the team would make them even better. :D

Come on guys join the revolution! :prey:

[h0ughy]

hey thats great news, how many are on the team now?

[xstream]

Still only the 7 h0ughy, you know you're able to check the stats yourself.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=648

[h0ughy]

:poke: just lazy mate , just lazy :rofl: :D

[Comet Hunter]

Maybe some airtime as a Sticky would help keep us in the spotlight a bit more? :innocent:

[h0ughy]

I agree, maybe we need to petition Mike Et Al for this sticky?

[MiG]

7977 credits added.

[GrampianStars]

Sorry guy's can't help
I'm running SETI (21,000 hours) also BOINC

[xstream]

Mike as the guys suggest can we make this sticky please!
BTW I reckon the Master himself should join too. :D

You can run more than one app. on Boinc Robert!

[iceman]

Consider it stuckied!

[xstream]

Thanks Mike!

[ausastronomer]

Would someone please be good enough to explain to me actually what is going on here in some detail. I would be happy to join and help out if possible but I really have nfi what you guys are doing. :)

CS-John B

[vindictive666]

gday

ive just joined as well so how do you add the credits ?

ive been crunching numbers for years :)


:thumbsup:

[xstream]

John if you go to this link http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ it explains it in better detail than I can. But it's using you CPU's idle time to number crunch for Pulsars.

[xstream]

All you need do now John is go to teams and join IceInSpace team.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team.php

Ignore that last comment, I just checked and your in the team


http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=648

[xstream]

Currently we're ranked 123 in the Top Teams list, at that rank I can only find 3 Australian teams above us. So I believe that should make us the number 4 team in Australia.
A few more contributors and we could probably make No. 1 in Oz.

[Comet Hunter]

We'll crack the 100 in no time!

We're slowly creeping up with Total Credits also, now in 257th place. There's not many near us that have the output that we currently have so we should continue our slow climb up the overall ladder as the weeks pass. :)

I noticed we've had a few more join the team too, now up to 10 members, well done!

[Howzat]

Here's the link to the teams sig
http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_13037.gif

http://www.boincstats.com/signature/team_13037.gif

[RapidEye]

I didn't know they did sigfiles for team stats - guess it never dawned on me.


Here is the graphic that is linked in my sig file:

http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-1469.jpg

I wonder what is up with the Seti II stats - they aren't working right today...

That one is Waaaaaaay up there =-)

[lookupinthesky]

Ok let my com crunch for the team
hope it helps

[Comet Hunter]

Well done guys, we've cracked the 100. Currently sitting on 95th place, and 229th in Total Points.

[rochler]

I've joined up, very easy too... may as well not waste all those MIPs hehe....

[JohnH]

Another CPU joins the cause...

[chunkylad]

Hi guys

Wanna hear a funny story????

I added my cpu to the team's cause on Sunday. Coincidentally, just as the IIS sever decided to slooooww down and stop. I thought, not knowing any better at the time, that the BOINC software was the cause for the slowdown. Until, that is, I had time to hit some other websites. The penny slowly dropped that it was indeed a server prob, and nothing to do with E@H!!! lol

I know what you're saying to yourself right now..............but we can all be a little dopey every now and then, can't we????

Cheers

Dave W

[Comet Hunter]

It's great to see alot of new members join up recently - we're up to 17 now!

We've crept up into 87th place for Recent Average Credit and 212th for Total Credit.

Way to go Team.

[davidpretorius]

what do you mean you hit some other sites! you two timing b@@@@@@d


pack up your things and get out of the house. You will hear from my lawyer.

Ice & moderators, please ban this individual from coming back, he is courting another website!!!!

[chunkylad]

:scared: :scared: :scared:

Ahhhh, errrrr, I mean.........I had to check my webmail........Yeah, that's it! Webmail!!!!

Pleeeeeeaaaase don't send me to that briar patch, brere David:prey:

[davidpretorius]

just cos your name is dave and you have the world's premium scope (spelt dob), we shall let you back in,

but no visiting any more websites, there is only one!!!!!

[chunkylad]

Thanks evuh soh much suh, foh not sending me away, or beating me......you see, I've hardly ever played dominos befoh. Oops, sorry. I seem to have had an attack of Gone with the wind!!!:violin:
I promise never, ever to visit another website, because no others exist:prey2:

[davidpretorius]

good boy!!!

[chunkylad]

As of Nov 29, we're ranked 101!!! Love to see us crack the top 100

[h0ughy]

Thats great news! We need more members to get on board :help3:

[rowena]

I joined up... now just downloading the software! :)
used to do setti a long time ago.. but turned it off cause it was bugging up my computer due to the screen saver.

[chunkylad]

Welcome to the crew, Rowena. Btw, I like the little plug for IIS in your profile!:gday::astron:

We just cracked 99th place for recent average credit!!!:cool2:
Dave

[xstream]

Cracked the Top 100!!!!!!!!!

Well done guys keep it going.

[xstream]

More importantly No.3 Australian Team.

[FNQ_View]

Great Idea Guys!!!
Add me to the list ( I've Just signed up )

I had forgotten about shared processing projects such as this, I've just added my 2.8Ghz to the project. ( Might even load it on the PCs at work - aside from anti-virus updates & scans, they just sit idle at work for 16hrs a day );)

[chunkylad]

We are currently placed #80 for r.a.c. Well done everyone!!!

[rowena]

sorry guys, i had to remove the program. It kept taking ALL my cpu time, even when i was using the computer, and then if i left my computer over night and then come back to it, everything would freeze up! remove the program and its all back to normal! sorry!

[xstream]

No probs Rowena, you have to restrict it's usage.
I have a 2.8 Ghz. pent4, but only allow it to use half.

[lost_in_space]

Downloaded and installed. Username is Damonomad. Ready to do my bit to help the cause. Pooter on 24/7 and used 8/7. Might stoke up the other box and add that too.

[Comet Hunter]

Great to see some new members. I'm back to full production today after a few weeks away.

[xstream]

It sure is Andrew.

I see a few have been slacking off on the crunching. :)

[Comet Hunter]

H0ughy, whats going on? Your RAC is bugger all...:confuse3:

[h0ughy]

sorry, have rebuilt my PC and was preoccupied by lostock camp. will be up and running within week

[xstream]

Your RAC is still dormant Dave.
Have you given up?

[h0ughy]

It is conflicting with other software I have running and i have unfortunately had to remove it ( it kept locking up the system)

[robagar]

the IIS team now has the awesome power of my 400 mhz celeron fileserver - watch those numbercrunching stats skyrocket! Oh well, gives the poor old thing something to do...

[wraithe]

ah a thread for me to post in....
slight boost to the team stats....
45 minute crunch times per work unit on one pc and 58 minute crunch times on other...
new pc on way and should get four workunits per 45 minutes ...
ahh yes duel core/ dual cpu server...
but if i cant get linux to do those times then i shall get a usb drive to run win and use it that way unless i have got high enough stats for this project then it will be crunching another project....any body not in the know about optimizing, you are welcome to contact me and i shall assist as much as i can to help...
i mostly use linux but like this project, i use win to get faster crunch times, and can optimize most distros of linux and of course win...
if you dont know what optimizing will do then consider this...
my sempron pc was taking 2 - 3 hrs per work unit before optimizing, now takes 45 minutes average...
the celeron-D was taking 3 hrs average and now 58 minutes average...
short workunits are done in 10 minutes or less....
the error stat is very good too, so no loss there...i have lost only a couple of units to errors but lost just as many when not optimized...
to allow slower pc's to recieve there credits they deserve, i recomend using an optimized boinc client as the slower pc's will get a better return and i think its cruel not to use the optimized boinc client...you can crunch a wu quickly but if two pc's crunch a wu fast and show low credit request then the slow pc will get very little for a great deal of crunching....
anyway....the team stats should rise with my little help....

[Shawn]

hi all

4 Pentiums of different flavour and 2 ADSL lines,,,can I help ???

[xstream]

Go for it Shawn..........every little bit counts. :thumbsup:

[Shawn]

So whats the procedure, ?

S

[Shawn]

And is anyone still actively involved... or was it a fad..LOL

[xstream]

Go to the link below and follow the d/load instructions.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Then join the IceInSpace Team.

There are 18 members 11 are still active.

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/create_account_form.php?teamid=648

[Omaroo]

Hmmm... slightly confused over this. I've joined, downloaded the client application and crunched two jobs that took nearly all night. The messages screen seems to say that I've successfully uploaded results and the next job has been requested and downloaded.

Still my stats haven't changed. Can someone pretty-please explain to me what I might still need to do to contribute? I have literally 5 high-end CPU's I can use idle time on and a 10mbps connection to the internet backbone via microwave - so I'm not short on resources. If I can see a contribution starting to happen I'll fire them all up!

Cheers
Chris

[xstream]

Chris your stats won't change untill another computer has also crunched your work unit, all W/U have to be verified by more than 1 computer. If you go to Your Account and look under Pending Credit, you'll see what is in waiting.

Stats can take up to a week to change.

[Omaroo]

Thanks xstream :) I'll try to get the rest going then..... :thumbsup: The "pending credit" count took a fair while to update - hence the confusion. Thanks again!

[digitaljedi]

Adding a P4 2.8 to the effort.

Crunching Einstein and Seti with a 50/50 split. Running most nights.

[xstream]

Happy crunching guys. ;)

[Omaroo]

Catching up...... now #5 in the group after my credit average started catching up to the claimed credit figures...

Go IIS!

1) davidpretorius (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=108106) 139,099.84 442.56 Australia 2) xstream (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=14901) 110,439.65 283.70 Australia 3) RapidEye (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=25317) 56,128.17 217.33 United States 4) MiG82 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=74229) 26,659.79 137.24 Australia 5) Omaroo (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=210518) 1,565.14 123.94 Australia 6) vindictive (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=17845) 18,023.02 94.37 Australia 7) FNQ_View (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=137961) 15,394.97 57.03 Australia 8) Damonomad (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=158558) 7,369.84 44.55 Australia 9) Howzat (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=108120) 100,118.84 36.10 Australia 10) Chris.Jensen (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=211146) 465.27 27.25 Australia

I'm adding a few more systems to the cause as well. Should have around 15 cpu's going by next week.

Computer ID (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hosts_user.php?show_all=0&sort=id)
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AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Linux
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RackMac3,1 Darwin
7.9.0 65 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?hostid=725699) 5 Sep 2006 4:40:16 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-05_04/2006-09-05_04:40.txt) 721152 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=721152) omaroo 70.27 928.73 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 10 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?hostid=721152) 5 Sep 2006 4:00:31 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-05_04/2006-09-05_04:00.txt) 728405 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=728405) chris-malikoffs-mac.local 2.55 25.84 Power Macintosh
PowerBook5,4 Darwin
8.7.0 6 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?hostid=728405) 5 Sep 2006 3:55:16 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-05_03/2006-09-05_03:55.txt) 728403 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=728403) CHRIS-TABLET 1.20 12.15 GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.20GHz Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 3 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?hostid=728403) 5 Sep 2006 1:18:08 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-05_01/2006-09-05_01:18.txt) 725777 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=725777) einstein.digitalads.com.au 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Linux
2.4.19-16mdk 0 5 Sep 2006 1:07:23 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-05_01/2006-09-05_01:07.txt) 721497 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=721497) chris 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 2 (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?hostid=721497) 1 Sep 2006 13:38:31 UTC (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/sched_logs/2006-09-01_13/2006-09-01_13:38.txt)

[xstream]

It will certainly make our World ranking start to climb.
Our current Boinc combined position is 1354 and or einstien@home is 191

[robagar]

good work, but I'm glad I don't pay your electricity bill, Omaroo! :P

[Omaroo]

LOL robagar :)

No... they're otherwise idle development servers and work desktop Macs. I will also have a couple of dual-G5 XServes in play to complement the one going now. It'd be nice if both processors were actually taken advantage of though.... :shrug:

[Omaroo]

Just interested to know if some people are having issues with BOINC running on their systems? There appears to be a whole pile of us who have suddenly dropped to 0.0 credit average...

Can I ask if you fellas that have stopped running predominantly Win/PC or Mac/Unix/'nix environments?

Cheers
Chris

[xstream]

Chris, I've been running it on Win/PC XP since Feb 05 a nd never hand any issues with it. I know h0ughy found it was conflicting with some S/ware he was using so he deleted it.
I think you'll find with most it's probably more a power issue than a s/ware one, or they've tired of running it.

[h0ughy]

still a software issue for me John. System locks after 4 hours running:sadeyes:

[DobDobDob]

G'day everyone, just wanted to let you know I signed up for the IIS team and am crunching my first lot now. It's sad to think I am two years behind some of you :(

[xstream]

:thumbsup: Every little bit counts.

[vindictive666]

nah no worries here crunching 24/7

[DobDobDob]

Does it chew up your HDD space or does that takes ages? I don't mind the CPU speed, but don't have a huge amount of disk space left on this laptop.

[xstream]

Hi tailwag, you allocate how much disk space it will use under your preferences.
From memory without going to check, I think I allocated about a 100MB and it seems to use about 65MB on my HD on average.

The WU you d/load are only held till you have processed them then they are sent back.

[DobDobDob]

Cool, just checked all the options, it's a pretty neat software program, aside from the actual science I mean. Now I have to wait to see if I get a credit, I have a unit pending: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?userid=243454

Once I get the hang of this and know exactly how it all works, i'll turn it loose on my half a dozen other computers, in an effort to catch you guys :whistle:

[Omaroo]

Tailwag - G'Day :)

It may take a day or two for your first credits to appear. When you do units of work for the project, they are waiting for a result of another machine that they have sent the same unit to - for comparison. If the results of the other system match your own, then the result is considered reliable and you are then credited.

Good to see another contributor!

Cheers
Chris

[DobDobDob]

Thanks Chris :)

When you are in Sydney, what part are you in?

[Omaroo]

Hey Tailwag

We actually live in Sydney (down past Campbelltown on the way to Appin) and only have a property in Cooma that we use on weekends and holidays.

Any you? I take it you're near Paramatatta somewhere...

Cheers
Chris

[DobDobDob]

Yep, not far from Parramatta, but closer to Blacktown. I am on a bit of a hill and believe it or not, the nights (when the moon permits) is quite dark, and I have been able to do a bit of binocular observing from my backyard with what I consider amazing results. I can't wait to get to a truly dark site.

Out where you are would be perfect I suspect.

[Omaroo]

It's not too bad at home, no. It's much better out at The Oaks or Belanglo Forest where our astronomy club (Macarthur Astro Society) goes though. You should come along one night and have a peek!

Cheers
Chris

[DobDobDob]

That is not as easy as it sounds, I have every Sunday night off and then if I know something special is happening, I can reorganize my roster to have either a Wednesday or Thursday night off, but never a Friday or Saturday night.

I have been scouring the astronomy clubs looking for one of them that has dark site observing night on either Wednesday/Thursday nights but there are few that are close. I noticed that North Sydney follows the lunar calendar in having dark nights on days when the moon is at its smallest, however their site does not really spell out the exact days i.e. a mid-week as opposed to a weekend after the best lunar conditions.

Most of the clubs have their non-observing meetings at times that I might be able to get to, but observing, field work is what it's all about for me. I need to use a range of telescopes to make a firm judgement on what I like before spending lots of money on my telescope. No point in purchasing something that is not matched to my interests and observing style.

[Omaroo]

We observe at a moments' notice - any night of the week. An email amongst a few MAS friends and away we go! :)

[DobDobDob]

Thanks for the info, I also just went through the MAS website, didn't see any images by you, could it be that you are not into astrophotography but rather just visual astronomy? :P

[Omaroo]

At this stage - yes.

[DobDobDob]

Hmnnnn astrophotography sounds both contagious and expensive, I better take things one step at a time: eyes -> binoculars -> 1st telescope -> 2nd telescope -> CCD camera ;)

[Karls48]

I just noticed this tread and I joined for IIS team. I leave my computer running and idle sometimes. This way it can do something useful.

[xstream]

:thumbsup:

[a1120028]

Count me in. I'll dload the soft now.

[Ingo]

I run seti@home, sorry guys :(

[vindictive666]

i run boinc with multiple projects with seti being one of them

[mill]

Running it now.

[hookedonsaturn]

Just signed up and d/l first project.Will see how it goes and if all is well will fire up spare computer in garage and leave it on 24/7. beings it doesnt do anything except get the wife to nag me to sell it.This way I get to keep puter and contribite to science:thumbsup:

[hookedonsaturn]

well i completed 2 units but had problems signing in It said there was no hookedonsaturn and the keycode would not work.I posted in the help section and got no reply for 2 days then reposted as i couldnt sign in.The response was >>>>do not double post<<<<the person went on to say if no one answered that meant they needed more info.All in all i found the blokes attitude very arrogant .Since i have been on there this machine ran 24/7.I did at least let the 3rd set finish
However after his trying to make me seem like a total moron,well what can i say ? this is one person who will definately donateing my computer time:mad2:

[Glenhuon]

Just joined in, since this 'puter is on 12Hrs+ a day it might as well be doing something usefull while I'm not playing with it. :)

[Glenhuon]

Just uninstalled, anything that won't stop when I tell it, locks up the computer and comes on in the middle of my other work in spite of the settings telling it otherwise, is not on here. Used to have Seti@Home and Folding@Home, and never knew they were there most of the time. I'm afraid the "improvements" to BOINC are anything but.

[mickal555]

Ahhh

I'll have to leave the BAUT team.... What to do :sadeyes:

[akritc]

hey

[AlexN]

I've got SETI@Home running, 99,000 points to date... I'll add Einstein@home to Boinc when I get home from work.. I figure, I have 2 spare CPU's sitting there Idle.. I can dedicate on to this.. :) might also fire up my old dual CPU server and get it crunching away... Do they have a *nix version of Boinc?

[DistroMan]

As much as this is tempting, I already belong to Boinc@Australia (the biggest Australian Team) and have over two and a half million credits. Been there too long to leave now. :)

Hope you all do well though. :thumbsup:

[markcollier8]

It sounds a bit beyond me considering I got kicked out of boot camp!!I don't think I can even spell it!!:)

[AussieAaron]

Guys, Can someone explain to me exactly what the Einstein @ home is?????

[Chris Southby]

Have been on Einstein@home and climateprediction.net for a while now,
and have 180,000 credits on Einstein@home and 233,000 on climateprediction.net. I didn't think there were many out there on them but am plesantly supprised.

Cheers

Chris

[mswhin63]

I have 3 Dual Xeon Servers mothballing at the moment. I am though living in a RIM location with severely restrictive Broadband ASDL 8000/384.

I have been speed limited twice and have had to upgrade to a 25G plan but am concern whether Einstein would further diminish my download limit and create further restriction. Unfortunately Telstra are worthless but the only provider I can effectively join in my area. Would be nice if Bigpond ran Einstein in free zone.

I also use VoIP for my business during working hours and i dont want to affect operations during these times.

I couldn't find much information on typical download level for this. Can anyone advise please sounds like a worthwhile program to join. :thumbsup:

And my kids enjoy World of Warcraft :P

[hayez]

From the website - Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

[mithrandir]

I have about 600000 on BOINC and 500000 on World Community Grid



Yes, and runs - slowly - on a dual CPU P-III 866.

I stopped running it on my Q6600 - the box was getting too hot with four BOINC tasks running.

[that_guy]

what does this do though??

[that_guy]

not even knowing what it is... I decided to download it :eek:

cheers! :thumbsup:
Tony

[that_guy]

Is it meant to run the same application at the same time??

[mswhin63]

Basically it is using your computer along with other computer combing to provide more processing power (I Think). Well that was the impression I got.

I now have a 25G plan and have some spare bandwith every month available I now may consider the option of joining the program now.

[that_guy]

had to delete it makeing my computer all glitchy

[mswhin63]

Best to use other computers if it is critical to use processor power. I don't think it will be glitchy just using more processing power limiting your own. I believe it is possible to only use resources when not in use, but I don't know.

[mithrandir]

BOINC apps can be set to run all the time and they run at very low priority. The box can always be 100% busy, but still responsive. You are more likely to have issues if you don't have enough memory. On one box with 1.5GB RAM I have two copies of World Community Grid running and they are using about 40MB of memory each. Another box with 4GB RAM has two copies (BOINC has been told to only use 2 CPUs out of 4) of WCG running different projects - one is using 9MB, the other 90MB.

It makes no difference to the response time - only the power usage.

[kustard]

Used to run SETI@Home for years then stopped for years and for some reason only just noticed this thread so I've resigned up (don't have my SETI account, can't remember it so made a new one for the boinc client) and will put all my units to IIS.

[Ric]

Hi all

Just signed up and downloaded the software. Also joined up to the IIS team.

Just processing the first couple on units now.

Anybody else still processing???

[mithrandir]

Ric, there are four people BOINC considers "active"

Name Total credit Recent average credit Country
1) mithrandir 1,591,662 1,280.50 Australia
2) steve 1,448,232 714.97 Australia
3) vindictive 439,719 11.49 Australia
4) Jason 4,339 10.25 Australia

[Ric]

I see I have some catching up to do Andrew. :lol:

Cheers

[Ric]

I was having a look at the team stats this morning.

Team IIS is currently ranked 362 out of 10443 teams

That put us in the top 3.5%, go team. :cool:

[Max Vondel]

Just joined...

:)

[Ric]

Welcome to the team Peter

[Shano592]

Just joined.

Total credit 103,880
Recent average credit 5,319.49

[Shano592]

10,000,000 credits for IceInSpace! Well done, crunchers.

And another milestone, congratulations to Mithrandir for breaking 2,000,000 credits recently.

[mithrandir]

Thanks for noticing Shane. I've a couple more computers I could add to the farm. :)

[Ric]

Well done Andrew.

2,000,000 credits is an amazing achievement.

Cheers

[mithrandir]

It's not hard Ric. You just need a some computers that would already be running day and night and a bit over 3 years. One box is over 12 years old (dual P-III). Another is about 5 (Q6600).
If I replace the video card in the Q6600 with an NVidia I can use the GPU to speed thing up some more. I loaded it on my i7 Qosmio yesterday and that has NVidia graphics.
SWMBO has another instance on her i7 quad core desktop, but she turns that off when she's not using it.
I've throttled all the BOINC instances it to 2 CPUs per box to keep the temperature down.

There's another project that might be of interest to the IIS crowd. Asteroids@home (http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/)

[Shano592]

Mine is running on a 5yo Dell Lappy, and a new Dell Lappy.

The new one is pumping out on 8 processors, plus a 2GB GPU.

Given the chance, it runs around the clock. Current RAC for this one is 12600, but I think it can go up to 20000, if left alone. It has done around 900,000 in about 3 months, so I'm happy with that.

The old one just chugs away on 2 units at a time. Current RAC around 500. Poor old thing. 40,000 in 3 months. The other one does it in 3 days!

[Slawomir]

Hi all,

Just a quick question; is anyone still involved with this project?

[spacetff]

Just joined this. I was already running seti and milky way. Seems a long time since anyone has posted here. EAH says there are still 68 members from IIS contributing so good one.

[Zuts]

I used to have around 10 machines running SETI@Home. My home PC a laptop, 4 development servers at work, and many of my colleagues development machines.

If I knew what I know now they would have all been generating Bitcoins :)

[Drac0]

Is the group still active? Noticed 69 members but only 3 active. Been running folding@home for a few years, is it worth switching to this?

Cheers,
Mark