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Hi gang!

I know I've not posted for a age but I've been offline for the last month nearly! Its totally killing me and my crunching my systems sat at home just wanting some way to talk to the WCG server!

The new house I've moved into had never been lived in and a nice man from BT installed a line yesterday so I'm dialing up now :0) *cheers!*

Week for broadband then I'm back ready to rock! I'm having serious crunching withdrawals! the good news is like dave I'm investing in another machine! No way am I gonna get over taken by the captain!

Anyone know how well the A64X2 dual core chip performs with with WCG? was thinking if I'm doing anything else than cruching as in moving the pointer or playing solitare will that keep me on the stright and narrow as far no loss of crunching performance! As I'm on serious catch up!

Dropped above my age now so I have something to fight for!

On a lighter note just wanna say how well everyone is doing cant believe where not even in the top 20 as far as numbers of members and where pushing out the second biggest amount of points! Very impressive everyone! Keep up the fantasic work!

Is that a TW sighting?

Geck0 - I thought you had gone extinct

Thwack date down to 25 days - see you as we go past

Neat thing about stats.free-dc page is you can easily see how many points Dave is generating. So you can make sure he can't slip another machine or two on to the problem and have him forget to mention it ...

Maybe there should be a Dave thwack date prediction as well

Hi Stefan

My frustration on this score is immense. Even in my test bed I have at the moment 7 IBM PC's running 2.8Ghz Intels and I have 8 HP servers with 2.8Ghz Xeons and 4 miscellaneous servers running alsorts.

and then there's the laptop I write this on.

If the company I work for found the WCG agent even on this test bed I'd be out on my ear.

There's no way to load any app on any laptop within this workplace. We don't have CD Drives on our laptops and not even a floppy drive and you can't download .exe files from the net. ActiveX is banned as is Javascript on webpages

The noise of the servers in production is deafening we have rack after rack of them - probably over 300 of them and a few mainframes from a certain mainframe manufacturer you might know and then there are the ~4000 laptop/desktops all IBM

To be honest it's a miracle I can even post on this forum

I'm sure Big Brother is probably watching every key press

IBM need to have a quiet word about the Grid to their big corporate customers. It would be a great advert for the company (see how it works for EasyMobile) and good PR on a companies "Ethical Policy"

If they are reading this as I type I hope I might embarrass them into contributing.

Meanwhile it's down to us little guys


I had thought about recruiting the kids PC's onto my account but the team's stats would suffer as they wouldn't switch them on so early in the morning without getting their points. Plus I'd never hear the end of it.

I knew being able to see who had done what would cause trouble. That's why I've been sitting on the info that I have in an SQL database that Aldeb created a java app to populate daily with every detail available from the WCG stats pages.

Anyway like Jonathon says we're 22nd in number but producing second on points.

Once you've got the crunching bug there's no hope for you but it's great for what we are trying to achieve here at the WCG.

That supercomputer just gets more powerful every day


Gooooo folks keep 'em crunching
Regards
Dave