#36 and climbing..

[Movieman]

I looked tonight and I'm up to #36 on the team after a late start!
I'd tease but I don't know who I passed when!:rofl:
You guys aren't going to let me get away with this are you?
All I have on so far is 3 DX's, the 3600, the 2400 and a old DX2000/512/400 IBM Intellistation that I paid $30.00 for..:D
Now to figure out how to catch the big guys on this team!
Damn!I don't know if thats possible but I will try!:p:

[WesM63]

Dave you are like a Xeon whore ;)

[Movieman]

Dave you are like a Xeon whore ;)
Find me an Opty 266 and I will have AMD here also..
And don't use the word "whore"..It's been a while and you'll get me thinking!:p:

[WesM63]

:rofl:

I've been keeping an eye out, but nothing so far.

[itznfb]

when i look at my name, i still have to scroll quite a ways down to see Movieman :p:

[Movieman]

when i look at my name, i still have to scroll quite a ways down to see Movieman :p:
Yes you do..for now..:D

[[XC] hipno650]

darn you:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :p: :D passing me!!!!!!:mad: :p: :D good job man!!!!!!!!!! you have way more power than me!!!! i run celly's at 1.5ghz and the like:D good to see you back in the thick of it!!!!!!!

[WindForce]

Yes you do..for now..:D

Come on Dave, bring it on...:D

[Jose]

I like a fight!!!!

That is why I feel so lonely at Riesel Sieve. :)

[[XC]melymel]

I like a fight!!!!

That is why I feel so lonely at Riesel Sieve. :)

I tried running that last night and was going to stop wcg, much to joshd's displeasure, but when i tried none of the links on their website worked... I took it as a sign that i have to stick to wcg :p:

[DAK1640]

Where is MM stats, page 6? :toast:

[mike047]

I didn't know you were on our team:D:


36????where's that:)

[brot]

:) I said that you would be roadkilling me..

But no problem, go as far on the top as you can. Good luck ;)

[[XC] leviathan18]

dont even dare to pass me until i have something to compete

[[XC] serlv]

I tried running that last night and was going to stop wcg, much to joshd's displeasure, but when i tried none of the links on their website worked... I took it as a sign that i have to stick to wcg :p:

Glad to hear it, buddy!

[Movieman]

I didn't know you were on our team:D:


36????where's that:)
You go to the team stats page, sort by points, set your screen resolution to 1600X1200 so all of the top 50 show on the screen, and then get your binoculars and step back 6 feet and you can see me WAAAAAY down the list!
:D

[itznfb]

lol ^^

i'm at 1680 x 1050, i guess i don't have a tall enough resolution to see you without scrolling
:rofl:

[itznfb]

uh oh, stats are updating, let see how many spots you jumped :p:

[[XC] leviathan18]

dave if you pass me in this update im going to be forced to shotern your MTBF so stay where you are

[njkid32]

Maybe I'll hold off a few more days so Dave can pass you Lev:rofl:

[itznfb]

MM you're still 14,000points behind levi :p:

[Movieman]

yes, BUT..Remember those 266's I was looking for?
I found them!:D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220026971499

[Martijn]

yes, BUT..Remember those 266's I was looking for?
I found them!:D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220026971499
But then you'll have one too much?

[[XC] leviathan18]

oh crap, i really dont have any luck you are going to fire that monster up... 2dx and 4 amd cores thats not fair i just have 2 core duo at 1.8ghz

ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO OC THIS INSPIRON 6400 ???

[[XC]melymel]

But then you'll have one too much?

That's why dave is sending one too me :D aren't you dave?.....:stick:

congrats on your find Dave i thought they'd cost more than that :toast:

[Movieman]

oh crap, i really dont have any luck you are going to fire that monster up... 2dx and 4 amd cores thats not fair i just have 2 core duo at 1.8ghz

ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO OC THIS INSPIRON 6400 ???
No,3 DX and one more to get set up AND that opty..:D

[itznfb]

nice find, thats one hell of a price for 2 opty's. hope it stays that low

[itznfb]

i just realized my C2D and 4xXeon haven't been reporting for the last 1/2 day =\

i had manually update.

[Martijn]

i just realized my C2D and 4xXeon haven't been reporting for the last 1/2 day =\

i had manually update.
That sucks... it didn't run out of work, I hope?

[Movieman]

i just realized my C2D and 4xXeon haven't been reporting for the last 1/2 day =\

i had manually update.
I've been seeing that too on one system..clueless, settings are the same as on the other systems

[carl.h]

Well done XS on over 2 million Boinc points and 14th place in WCG Boinc :clap: :clap: :clap:

That is over 2 million in the last 28 days too.....:clap: :banana:

[WindForce]

Well done XS on over 2 million Boinc points and 14th place in WCG Boinc :clap: :clap: :clap:

That is over 2 million in the last 28 days too.....:clap: :banana:
Thanks Carl, and wait until we start crunching seriously :D

[itznfb]

That sucks... it didn't run out of work, I hope?
no i caught it early. i've seen it do that before though. it went to 2 or 3 days without crunching.

[Movieman]

Those 266's went beyond what I'm willing to pay. My max was $326.00 and they are allready up to $380.00 with 3 hours left.
275's I'd have gone more $$ for but the 266's you have to be very carefull with voltage on..a shame..would have made a good cruncher..:(

[[XC]melymel]

Those 266's went beyond what I'm willing to pay. My max was $326.00 and they are allready up to $380.00 with 3 hours left.
275's I'd have gone more $$ for but the 266's you have to be very carefull with voltage on..a shame..would have made a good cruncher..:(

Why not ebay the 266 and buy a pair of 275's? I bet there's someone out there willing to pay a more than reaonsonable price for your 266 due to there rarity, people in the same situation as you who only need 1 more ;). :toast:

[mike047]

I've been seeing that too on one system..clueless, settings are the same as on the other systems


I have noticed the same thing, it is on the boxes with the 5.4.11 BOINC core.

[[XC] leviathan18]

you had to bid at the last minute to get them

[Privateer]

I'm at 45, one of my rigs died, I'm replacing it with a AM2 so my scores should improve soon.

[Movieman]

Why not ebay the 266 and buy a pair of 275's? I bet there's someone out there willing to pay a more than reaonsonable price for your 266 due to there rarity, people in the same situation as you who only need 1 more ;). :toast:
A pair of 275's are close to $1000.00..My 266 might be worth maybe $250.00??
If I'm spending that kind of $$ there's going to be a "Ho" in the name!:D

I'm at 45, one of my rigs died, I'm replacing it with a AM2 so my scores should improve soon.
Sorry to hear that..what kind of machine did you lose? Maybe I have some parts to help

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

A pair of 275's are close to $1000.00..My 266 might be worth maybe $250.00??
If I'm spending that kind of $$ there's going to be a "Ho" in the name!:D

Sorry to hear that..what kind of machine did you lose? Maybe I have some parts to help

You can get me a "Ho" while you are at it :woot: :toast:

[Movieman]

You can get me a "Ho" while you are at it :woot: :toast:
HMM, No spare Ho's here..pinned or 2 legged..Wish I had one..of each!:D

[rob725]

Me too. 2 of c2d's always have a large work queue, but the other gets jobs as it finishes jobs and I have seen times where only one core was crunching. I have had to manually update several of them to get them to report. Been looking for settings I may have missed, because I thought I was the only one having problems.

I have also noticed reduced production the last several days and I don't mean points (though they are also down). I mean both results and more strangely run time. The only thing I've changed since bringing up the other two c2ds last weekend is the client.

I figured I'd wait to see if I was experiencing a strange validation lag or just noticing a statisitcal anomoly, because team runtime seemed ok. Seeing this I thought I'd just ask if anyone else has seen an inexplicable drop in run time on a per-machine basis since switching clients.

[rob725]

Btw, I hope nobody's thinking that I am trying to push for going back to the opti's because I don't like reduction in claimed credits. Near as I can tell the benchmarks are doing what they are supposed; claimed credits are usually pretty close in the quarom regardless of machine speed.

I was wondering however, if crunch3r's compiler optimizations had some positive effect beyond the bechmark. If so, it might be possible to compile a version that doesn't use sse (so doesn't improve benchmark dramatically), but simply is more correctly optimised for intel and thus runs better. My understanding (could be wrong) is that crunch3r's opti's do not modify the berkely boinc source, but simply recompile them with more optimal settings.

[Privateer]

A pair of 275's are close to $1000.00..My 266 might be worth maybe $250.00??
If I'm spending that kind of $$ there's going to be a "Ho" in the name!:D

Sorry to hear that..what kind of machine did you lose? Maybe I have some parts to help

My A64, Asus K8N.

It boots but goes to a blue screen, a while ago fixing PCs would have been easy, but I
have Cerebellar Ataxia, it severely limits what I can do, Ive got a friend, to build my new PC.

[brot]

I am building my versions here with sse enabled in the gcc options. It gives a small speedup, but not really much. Crunchers optimisations have a changed benchmark algorithm, i am pretty sure here. (will compile here with -mfpmath= see and see if that was it ;) )

[rob725]

I am building my versions here with sse enabled in the gcc options. It gives a small speedup, but not really much. Crunchers optimisations have a changed benchmark algorithm, i am pretty sure here. (will compile here with -mfpmath= see and see if that was it ;) )

Maybe; not really sure myself; the information out there seemed to be all over the map. Had seen a page that was supposed to have shown different compiler options used by varying opties. I'll see if I can find it.

[brot]

using sse as the floating point processor doesnt seem to increase the benchmarks. werid, isnt it ?

[Martijn]

Damn it, I cought my main rig as well not updating, but it DID run out of work... Really, the only night I leave it on, it stops crunching :mad:. I couldn't even sleep because of the noise, and it was all for nothing :slapass:

[mike047]

Damn it, I cought my main rig as well not updating, but it DID run out of work... Really, the only night I leave it on, it stops crunching :mad:. I couldn't even sleep because of the noise, and it was all for nothing :slapass:


Which client are you using? 5.4.11 would not return and update for me. I returned them to 5.4.9 and alls well:).

[rob725]

I'm 5.4.11. Anyone know where I can get 5.4.9?

[itznfb]

i've only been able to find 5.4.9 for MacOSX

[Movieman]

I have a copy of 5.4.9 here..
I save everything!:D

[itznfb]

i can't host it on my site if you want me to

[Martijn]

Which client are you using? 5.4.11 would not return and update for me. I returned them to 5.4.9 and alls well:).
Yep, 5.4.11 here as well :mad:

EDIT: I found a copy of 5.4.9 on my computer, swapping the files now :)

[mike047]

Try this;

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/download.php

[rob725]

Thanks, Mike. Downloading now.

[meshmesh]

So are you guys seeing this in your message tab? Ie if you count the "Computation..." message in Boincmngr you see something wrong?

@rob725: Are all three PCs using the same prifile? My Grid -> Device manager
What about looking at My Grid -> Device manager -> Results status ->filtered by device name, sorted by Sent time. Can you compare the return counts? Do you see a low turnover?

One more thing: Everyone is aware that you select the projects to participate in using My Grid -> My Projects. Specifying the projects in My grid -> Device manager -> Device Profiles -> then click to edit profile HAS NO IMPACT if you are using Boinc client. Only the former counts. So please make sure that you check the "If there is no work available for my computer ...." box in the former, the latter does not matter at all unless you are using UD.


i can't host it on my site if you want me to

If you can host it, then yes please. And I will edit that sticky to point to the 5.4.9 files. Thnaks.

[rob725]

@Mike
What procedure did you use to switch your machines back without fubar'ing your existing installation and wip. I installed 5.4.9 on laptop that is new to grid, so I have access to both install file and working directory.

[rob725]

So are you guys seeing this in your message tab? Ie if you count the "Computation..." message in Boincmngr you see something wrong?

@rob725: Are all three PCs using the same prifile? My Grid -> Device manager
What about looking at My Grid -> Device manager -> Results status ->filtered by device name, sorted by Sent time. Can you compare the return counts? Do you see a low turnover?

No, nothing like that. Just a significant drop in runtime and results returned even though nothing had changed. Similar to what happened to XS last stats run. I know we were missing a major contributor, but our drop in runtime and returns was way more than can be explained by that. It's only one day, so may just be wierd statistical thing, but that's what I thought about my own stats and they still (4 days) have not returned to previous levels.

[mike047]

If you can host it, then yes please. And I will edit that sticky to point to the 5.4.9 files. Thnaks.

I have already posted a link to 5.4.9 a couple of posts above.post #55

[mike047]

@Mike
What procedure did you use to switch your machines back without fubar'ing your existing installation and wip. I installed 5.4.9 on laptop that is new to grid, so I have access to both install file and working directory.


Delete ;
BOINC
BOINC.dll
Boinccmd
Boinmgr

Then reinstall, it will pick up at the last checkpoint.

[rob725]

Thanks!

[Movieman]

oh...#30..:D

[itznfb]

here are some more links if you want to post them:

http://www.itznfb.com/BOINC/boinc_5.4.9_windows_intelx86.rar
http://www.itznfb.com/BOINC/boinc_5.4.9_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

thanks to MM for getting me the windows installer.

[[XC] 4X4N]

How about if someone can zip up just main 5.4.9 boinc file and the boinc dll? It's a lot easier to just overwrite the current files. I have been seeing my rigs not updateing regularly since switching to the 5.4.11 version.

[rob725]

How about if someone can zip up just main 5.4.9 boinc file and the boinc dll? It's a lot easier to just overwrite the current files.
Will that work ok?

[computerman0416]

I dont think I will be able to catch you with my DX 3.0's running right now. Even if I install on my gaming machine, will ever catch you. Electricity is expensive over here. :fact:

[meshmesh]

Will that work ok?
yes. I'd rather not go through a full download and reinstall.

[Jaco]

I have the same problem with the 5.4.11 client ... doesn't upload/update automaticly.

I just hope the 5.4.9 version isn't slower than 5.4.11 :rolleyes:

I'm gonna try linux 64bit (downloaded Fedora 5.92 last night)

[meshmesh]

A file (size 900KB) containing the 5.4.9 four executables listed in the message #61 (posted by mike047 above), is available for download in zipped format from here (http://www.itznfb.com/BOINC/BOINC_5_4_9_executables_only.zip) (once again itznft to the rescew. Thanks.)

The sticky (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1714594) has been updated to reflect the change.

[[XC] 4X4N]

Hey, thanks for files guys. :toast:

[itznfb]

yea i finally got all my rigs changed over and i haven't had any problems since.