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[H-kon]

Looks like someone is on to us. "Seti Norge" or Seti Norway is outproducing us at the moment. They're in 12th now and will overtake 11th and 10th pretty soon.
Can we hold them off?

[themystic]

Got another machine crunching now in addition to the others

Core2Duo E6550 2.33GHz.

I'll try to have a machine at work crunch some more. spotted a brand new 'puter the other day with a core2quad 2.33GHz.

[H-kon]

Keep them coming.

I am having some crunching problems, Seems like both my oc'ed computers are having problems staying online. I am going to take a look at that later on.

[Elf]

I seem to be working on a big WU. It has taken 191 hours to do 73% and estimates another 66 hours to completion. Do many WU's take this long?
I don't know how much credit this will give to the team.

Benchmarks for my computer.

AMD Athlon 1800+

1518 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2551 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

[H-kon]

Thats one monster wu. you'll get at least 1000 points for that one, but i cannot say for sure.  It is going to be interesting to see

My P4 2.0 Ghz cruncher at the time got one also, it spent 280 hours on one before the power supply burned out on it so i never got to see the credit for it.  Those are very rare though, so perhaps there is something important inside that work unit. None of my other computers have ever gotten one.

Your XP1800 seems like a perfect fit for this. It's very fast i must say :-)

[Elf]

You couldn't replace the PSU to finish the WU?

It's interesting that my benchmarks are faster than Chris's 1800+.

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

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

I did buy a good quality motherboard when I built the computer years ago, wonder if that makes a difference.

[H-kon]

A good quality motherboard can make up to 5-8% difference in benchmarks. I have experiences with some really bad motherboards almost ruining the computing experience because of shoddy quality (Asus P5K-CPL S775 that i regret owning now), and then there are some great ones that make you keep the part forever. (hugs my Asus A7V-133 with an Athlon 1200, except for that it hates Soundblaster Live cards which isn't strange as they are made outside of the PCI specifications)

I never got the machine together after the burnout so i never got to complete the unit since the disk was corrupted (linux) which i have little experience in fixing so the power was wasted on that one. I tried transffering the disk to a new computer, but linux panicked on it

I have read that people have gotten at least 1000 points out of these huge work units so this will be interesting

The XP1800 as i recall was a great performer. I remember owning one not that long ago, then i got an XP2400 which is being used by my nephew right now and he is happy as a clam :-)

[H-kon]

I am still amazed over the floating point performance of the Athlon XP series. Compared to the E2xxx series from Intel that is fairly new, it is neck and neck.

My Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit install says this about my E2180@ 2,75Ghz:

FPU: 1566:
Integer: 7200. The integer performance is due to the 64 bit extensions, and would be about half under a 32-bit environment.  Remember that the optimized clients does not affect the benchmark mode in BOINC since the optimized clients run alongside BOINC in a different process.

The Pentium IV that i have tested cannot compete with the Athlon XP in BOINC, not the older 400/533 fsb versions.  I don't have any 800fsb version Pentium IV so i cannot comment on it.

Maybe "Teal" can comment on it since he pulls in about 800 points a day with his computer.  I'll see if i can get access to an XP2400 with 768MB to see what the difference is.

The E5200 that i have at 3,4Ghz is close to my E8400 in benchmark mode, but not so under real load. My E8400 finishes a WU with the newest 64 bit client under XP-64 bit in about 35 minutes, where my E5200 finishes a WU in just under an hour.  The E2180 is not that far behind at about 1 hour and 10 minutes.  A big cache seems to be what BOINC likes.

[Elf]

Is there a long delay in updating the stats on Bionic?
In my account I have 925 total credit but the Bionic stats say i have 117 total credit.

[H-kon]

Boincstats usually updates once a day, usually around 22:00 GMT +1, and the update takes quite some time.

I did manage to bring the monster wu disk back to life yesterday and its still working on it even though the work unit is long overdue.

Just for laughs, i installed kubuntu 8.10 on the athlon 1200 with 512mb sdram and found out that the performance vs the pentium 4 2.0 is identical.

966 fp
2650 integer

Now, if i could get a Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L for christmas, i'll be adding a S775 2,8Ghz Pentium IV to the mix.

[Elf]

Thanks for the info. Will check tomorrow.

Will you still receive credit if the work unit is overdue?

[H-kon]

I have no idea i'll check that tomorrow

[H-kon]

I did get credit for it. Around 800 points   The computer will be running until i get the parts to replace it down the road. It takes around 8 hours for a normal work unit to finish on it.

I am having some problems with my E2180 which wont even be up for a day before it freezes. It used to run at 2,8 Ghz with no problems under Windows Server R2. it's now down to 2,4

I do think there is something wrong with it as it takes around 3 hours pr work unit pr core which is about 3 times as long as it used to take. The E5200 takes around an hour for each unit, and its roughly the same processor.

I wonder if if it is because of linux. I think i am going to downgrade from 64 bits to 32 bits to see if it makes a difference.

[themystic]

Have you tried downgrading from 64-bit to 32-bit on the linux box yet?

[H-kon]

Nope. Haven't gotten that far yet. I am waiting for a GA-G31M-S2L that will replace the one the E2180 uses which is the P5ND2-SE. The latter will be sold together with a P4-2,8 S775

[themystic]

What do you guys think about this new Astropulse thing? The SETI@Home project has already begun sending out WUs to the standard SETI@Home clients out there. Link: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php

[H-kon]

I have gotten a few of those. They're generally huge work units that takes days to complete.

I don't care if i get them really, as long as the credit i am given is about the same pr hour of cpu use

[H-kon]

Over 200.000 credits added since December 4th. wow!

We're averaging about 11 thousand a day now. Mighty impressive i must say.

I had to retired the E2180 for now, but it's replaced with another E5200

[H-kon]

We're coming up on 1,7 million units now. Going very fast!

At this rate, we will pass 6 million units come new years eve 2010.

I am selling at least one computer come January, and will replace said computer with a Quad which will boost our stats a bit more.  I also cleaned up my hosts a bit so that most of them are now merged.

Mystic is really producing a lot of units these days. I can't keep up

Our magic marker is at the moment 2,5 million where we will become a top tre digit team in the whole world.

4th is the best we can hope for in Norway which we will get at the current rate in 260 days, but a few quads will actually get us a fighting chance to pass the largest tech site in Norway - hardware.no

[H-kon]

Passed 1,8 million cobblestones   Mystic sent me a nice little link telling us that we've now passed the Holy See of Vatican state in total cobblestones returned.

If we were a country, we'd be placed in 114th place in total now.

Time to get into the top 100

[Elf]

Sorry guys but my boinc computer is dead.

The motherboard had bad caps and has trouble starting up from a cold start. I have a spare motherboard that fits the AMD 1800+ cpu but can't seem to get it to work. The spare board had good caps. Haven't finished trouble shooting it yet but I have limited time to work on it.

[H-kon]

I am sorry to hear that Elf    Maybe we can help you out 

[Elf]

Maybe you can help?

[H-kon]

Well, perhaps we can get it going What make and model is the new working board?

[Elf]

I'll will get back to you for the name and model of the spare motherboard. I'm not sure it works yet.
I have tried working ram and working video card (both agp and pci) on this board and it doesn't post. The board is out of the case so there is no grounding issue. I am using the psu that was used in the 1800+ computer with the motherboard that has bad caps. I can get another psu if needed.

The cpu is my old 900mhz tbird that was working about a year ago but has been sitting in a draw for that time. I will try the 1800+ athlon in the spare board when I have some time. Hopefully soon.

[H-kon]

Another 100K in just a few days meaning we have passed 1,9 million now in total.

Also welcome to Javier Silber on our team Hope you say hello to us in here

[H-kon]

Enabled the news item again. Should it stay or should it go?

[H-kon]

A little status update.

We're currently in 8th in Norway with 2.2 million cobblestones having overtaken "Kometland Seti" just recently. We are currently producing a few K's short of  400.000 cobblestones a month which is amazing.

The 23rd of Feb marks our 1st anniversary, at which point we will be close to 2,5 million which will be quite impressive to be honest.  Even more impressive is that we're looking at around 7,6 million in total by years end if we stay the course which is veeeery impressive.

We have a chance to secure 3rd place in Norway down the line, it's slim, but it's there. Beating "Hardware.no" which is Norway's largest tech site has always been a silly goal since our formation, but the truth is that we do have a shot down the line if they don't ramp up.

http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=sah&st=0&co=Norway#8

A realistic goal is 5th or 6th.  Our next target is "Morlock.nu" which has ramped up quite a bit seeing our threat, but we're neck and neck in the daily stats, and he has a 300K lead on us which means one thing.  We're at a point where it is going to take some massive firepower to achieve a 3rd place.  Mystic's recent contributions has doubled our daily averages which is just fantastic. Thank you! 
I do see a threat in the ranks below us "Salte" is doing what we have been doing, but he is still 1,6 mill behind us but gaining fast (outproducing us now and then in the dailies)

We need more computing power   If you have access to a computer that is sitting idle most of the time, please consider donating the spare cpu cycles to our cause.

Some more good news. As a world player, we're currently in placed as number 1973. It maybe sound weak, but we're gaining a few places every day. (Up 400 since new years)  We're the 600th best producer in the world, and this involves nations and mega corporations as well.

Hmm. One Q9650 vs two Q6600/Q8200's. Which would be the better choice?

[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

New motherboard and new ram. Higher FSB, about the same CPU clock (3.28GHz)

New results:
3092 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
9427 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

[themystic]

Hmm. One Q9650 vs two Q6600/Q8200's. Which would be the better choice?

I'd go for the Q9650, but I only have one workstation computer. Maybe two Q6600's would do the trick?