Good morning all

Evening all.

Welcome back to blighty RTS. Hope your rejoining the human race isn't too unpleasant, so relax and put your feet up.

Nice to see a couple of big Diamonds about. Also good to see a couple of new badges for two lesser spotted team members Forficula and applai as well as a bronze Beta for Bartough (as spotted on http://wcg.36arn.co.uk/, the team's stats page supplied by dcrobinson) . Well done

Oh and the sleep was very welcome DCR.

Afternoon all.

Welcome Bardwellruth to the team (slightly delayed welcome admittedly!) and for your first validated results. Hope you read this and drop a line in to introduce yourself, either way it's great to have you with us.

Well, I've now met Rod Peel (aka RTS48) "in the flesh", and I can safely say that he's real and he's a nice bloke
I hope you're all having a good weekend.

Morning all.

It's cool you guys met up.

My weekend's going well, managed to quieten down an old LGA771 server from 60db down to 48db , my crunching has been all over the place with my trial and error (a lot of those - should they be called 'learning opportunities' these days?) redesigning the case. It has been serving as a noisy heater the last week, now it's a tolerable one for the study, hopefully it can crunch solidly for the next week.

I too was a bit curious by the disparity of run-time/points on some projects vs others but I didn't change anything till Dave mentioned it too, after nearly a week of just FAH (and a chunk of 20hr FAH2 WU's which hung around from before) it's clear that there are many more points to be had, in fact around 20% more. What I didn't expect was also the run-time doesn't stack up, my 8 thread PC was previously putting in 6 or 7 days per day (so nearly a day per thread) but it now does 9 days per day - it seems the FAH project is over generous.

Although not really in the spirit of WCG - perhaps an opportunity for the team to make hay?

I do wonder if this is a mistake (perhaps too small a sample for benchmarking) or a deliberate mechanism to steer contributions for good reasons, I dunno - any of you crunch vets understand this?

Cheers,