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[H-kon]

Not sure if anyone runs seti@home or similiar, but if you do, i hope you join Team H-kon.net

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

Team ID is 135573.

Got the following running it so far:  E8400@3,0Ghz, E6600@2,4Ghz, E6400@2,13,  P4 2,8Ghz non HT. Hope to add an E2180, a Celeron D 2,66 when i figure out whats bugging them

[Elf]

At the moment I am running Folding@Home on my computers.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

[H-kon]

I have been thinking about doing folding. Got a PS3 that has the client built in

Are you a part of a team?

[H-kon]

Crunching away. That image was from the last update. Got 32600 at the moment

I managed to get the E2180 up and a Celeron 2,6. The Celeron is going offline since it doesn't really produce that much on it's single core. Seems cache speed is everything in seti. My E8400 finishes a Work Unit (WU) in less than 2 hours.

I average around 2,500 a day now which would be 8th place of 1033 in the seti@home category for my old team (Ars Technica)

Xeons with large caches seems to be the fastest crunchers out there.

[Elf]

I have been thinking about doing folding. Got a PS3 that has the client built in

Are you a part of a team?

Yes I fold for HWC.
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=34878

[H-kon]

Passed 50K today

[H-kon]

And Mystic joined Thanks a lot

[H-kon]

I am passing 90K WU's today it looks like. We are passing a bunch of people every day with the team passing 70K tomorrow it looks like.

I am 17th in daily production in Norway alone (about 3K credits a day).

Team Stats Link:

http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=sah&id=135573

We're producing about 4500 credits a day which is extremely well for two people passing 500 teams a day and almost 5000 teams in the past week. For comparisons:

if Team H-kon.net was a country, we'd be in 94th place of 233 countries in daily production. Not that i believe those "below" is producing that much, but still

Team H-kon.net is  #760 of 52411 teams  in daily productions, just 4 points behind Team Canada   #1 is Team USA producing 1,3 million credits a day

Got a computer not doing much? Please join

[themystic]

Loving it!

[themystic]

Just OCed my CPU from 2.66 to 3.2GHz. Kept the ram at 800MHz.

Should give the compu some more points

Results of benchmarks (after OC):
3106 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
6806 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

[themystic]

Also a user called LordSnick, also from Norway, joined us today

[H-kon]

Cool Welcome Lordsnick Glad you could join us

I need a new motherboard so that i can oc this thing.

Passed 100K today I am at 101358 to be exact

[Elf]

With your current production H-kon.net could be in the top 20 teams in Norway.

H-kon are you still thinking of folding on your PS3?

[H-kon]

Yup. i have setup an account on my PS3 so i am preparing to fold a bit on it.

Mystic and I, (mostly mystic) redid the entire 2nd floor with regards to gigabit cabling today so i am thinking it will be a folder during this week sometime

Too bad it doesn't do seti

[themystic]

Some benchmarks:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 1.53GHz, 768MB RAM

1423 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2360 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU


Intel Pentium 4, 2.4GHz,768MB RAM

966 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
1836 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU


Intel Celeron, 1GHz, 768MB RAM

930 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
1573 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU


Intel Pentium 3 (katmai), 500MHz, 320MB RAM

456 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
749 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU


Intel Core2Duo, 2.66GHz clocked at 3.2GHz, 3.5GB RAM

3106 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
6806 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

[H-kon]

Status update

Welcome Lordsnick and Christer to the team   Be sure to download and install the optimized client http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads. It is quite a bit faster than the regular one which runs on everything. At this link, you can get the correct client for your CPU.


Some stats:

Looks like our team climbing like lunatic monkeys up the charts. We're currently the 456th best team based on the daily stats of the 13K teams producing any results (70K total teams).  To put it this way, we're  returning more than  98.37513% of all teams currently.

We're 40th best team in Norway, climbing fast. We should be top 10 in just a few months at this rate. We returned over 8K in units yesterday which is our new best and we are getting closer to HW.no every day in the dailies, but they still out-produce us.

"Immi" is the first team to beat though as they produce a bit more than us each day, but they're only 50K points ahead of us or so in the totals so a little race to beat this team would be excellent
I am going to try and get some more crunchers going as soon as i can

With the new members, our million mark has shifted from late November to August 29th as of this writing. With a bit more, we might even reach 2 million before new years.

Hardware.no is the team we are going to try to beat in the totals eventually. I am hoping to get a few more machines and upgrades in place later this spring. After upgrading, i might put in 7-8K a day if my calculations are correct which also involves OC'ing the hell out of my 2180 (2.0@3.0Ghz) The trick is just a CPU with enough cache for seti to fit inside. You will get them done in less than an hour if you do.

So welcome and start b0rg some machines

I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.

[LordSnick]

Finaly i got my new sata disk to work. With som tweaks it mange to complete one package at just under 2 hours  hehe

[H-kon]

Another status update

We are producing a bit less than i was hoping these days, but we average around 5K a day.

We are going to pass 200K units in less than 24 hours. We're just 11K units behind "Immi" and we have climbed to 31st place among the Norwegian teams. During next week, we will pass another 5 teams, including "Immi" which was my goal at least.

Another stat i just found out is that Team H-kon.net is the 72nd best team in March 2008. We climbed 17708 places in March.  Thats no small feat. Congrats to all

It looks like it is impossible for us to touch hw.no at the current rate. They are only producing 8K a day, but it is still 3K more than what we produce each day so for each day that pass, they are getting further and further away so a goal adjustment is in order until we can get more people joining.
2 million credits before new years eve.

Recruiting a few people would probably be our best choice. Got someone with spare cpu cycles.? Let them know about the project.

My current farm is the following.

Core 2 Duo E8400@3.0Ghz - My workhorse, producing two WU's in 1:24 hours.

E2180@2,7Ghz - Producing more than i thought it would
Core 2 Duo 2,4Ghz -
Pentium 4 Northwood at 1,6Ghz (defect motherboard) Spending 12 hours on each work unit, but at least it produces.
Core 2 Duo 2,13Ghz - Not much online as my GF turns it off all the time. Gonna try to keep it running.

I am also trying to get a few more older machines up and running.

Lets try to reach 2 million credits before new years eve!

[H-kon]

That was fast. We're now in 27th place, passing 4 teams in the same day

We're also in 6th place in production pr day in Norway At the current rate we should be in the top 10 by August if my calculations are correct.

Just a few more machines and we are bound to pass 2 million credits by new years eve. Just hope the quads get a bit cheaper before i spring for one

Any way we can add a few more machines to the cause?

[H-kon]

We gained another place, so we're at 26th in Norway at the moment.

In two weeks, we will take the 20th spot, but from then on it will get harder.  We're still the 6th best daily team on average in Norway so we are gaining fast.

After we have secured some places, its time to go international

[H-kon]

Another little update

We're cranking out Wu's pretty fast, even beating HW.no some days. They're still 4 million points ahead of us so there is no chance we'll catch them unless someone offers some machines  to the cause.

We're set to pass 5 teams the next few days with the current production and our 20th spot seems to be secured in only 9 days. After that, the climb will be slower.

We're set to pass our 1 million Wu mark on August 9th, coincidently the same day i leave for Thailand for 3 weeks. (i'll figure out a way to leave them all on)

[H-kon]

Coming up on 500K units now in a few days. The numbers are declining a bit, but if i land a new job, a few quads are getting a new home

[H-kon]

We're in 15th place now, passing another two teams in a few days before it gets tough as we're gearing up for the million mark.

I seem to be the only cruncher these days though   Not sure what happened to Lordsnick and Mystic to be honest. And there is one named "Christer" that i don't know who is, but he stopped the same day i guess.

I ordered two new E2180's that will probably replace the two E6400 and E6600's that are crunching at work down the line so my totals will be going down until fall where i will have to see about ordering a few quads for the cause. I wonder how it would have been back in the old days with the populated forum. We would have had a few million by now.

Hope others want to join in too. It just sits silently in your tray eating up any unused cpu cycles that you do not use.  I tried folding on the PS3, but the noise was just too great for it to run 24/7.

Time to update the news bit

[Teal]

How does one go about getting started with this endeavor?

[Teal]

Never mind, I think I figured it out. I joined the Team and have my main computer running 24/7

[H-kon]

Thank you Teal You will be rocketing up the charts

Here is a link to the optimized client. (seperate install). The SSE3 client is faster if you have a Core 2 Duo or Quad or a Phenom.
http://calbe.dw70.de/seti.html

Here is the Team stats page that we use:

http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=sah&id=135573

My own CPU stats:

E8400:3Ghz       1700 a day (Desktop machine. Waiting for a new motherboard so that i can overclock this thing).
E6600:2,4Ghz    1450 a day  (Work machine that will work for perhaps another month before its turned off).
E2180@2,7Ghz   1350 a day  (My fileserver).

[H-kon]

Added an XP2400 Barton for kicks. According to the integrated benchmark in the BOINC manager, it is 50% slower than a single core of the E8400 so it should deliver around 350 credits a day i believe. Probably not worth the electricity, but i am going to run it for a few days to find out.  it's faster than a Celeron 2,6 (non D) and a Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz. If anyone needs the CPU's, i'll ship them for free if you pay shipping. I'll even add a Celeron D 2,66 that i have never used since i do not have the motherboard for it.

[H-kon]

Turned the XP2400 off for a while. It got some pretty big WU's that it spent ages on finishing so i guess my first estimate was a bit premature.

I had to replace a motherboard on my main computer the other day, so now it's running at 3,6 ghz finishing a work unit in between 11 and 48 minutes (the big ones).  I can probably get it to 4.0 ghz with some better memory and a better hsf.

[H-kon]

In between painting the house, i rebuilt all computers that i am using which will bring a bit more firepower for the short term.

My E8400 3Ghz is now running at 3,6Ghz finishing a normal WU in 48 minutes, the small ones in under 10 minutes.
One E2200 is running at 3 Ghz finishing a normal wu in 1H 27M
One E2180 is running at 3 Ghz finishing a normal wu in 1H:33M  (slower memory)

I am pretty excited to see what kind of production this will bring in the end

[H-kon]

The last couple of days have been insane. Looks like the rebuild has paid off. I am averaging over 2000 points more each day.

We have managed to report 50.000 points in the last 5 days!!!  July 13th was our second best ever with 13500 points reported, and another 11K today.

With a couple of quads in the autumn, our little team can really climb the charts. Good work everyone!