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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There it is Sek
----------------------------------------133:010:07:51:46 The 133 year Saturday  We are well on our way to those next milestones  |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
You guys kill me! Talk about stats freaks!
---------------------------------------- Some people say kill the stats. I'm a big beleiver in them. Lets everyone see what is being accomplished in nice plain numbers. David: I've come to the conclusion that we have to get a dual clover into your house one way or another. Maybe it's time that we approach Intel,Supermicro, one of the big memory makers and see if we can get some donations for this good cause. Toss that idea at the people with some "pull" and see what happens. 10 dual clovers will do 500 fah WU a day, every day, thats 182,500 a year from just 10 machines. Now imagine that on 100 machines..... What's that old expression: "Dare to think big." All thats needed is for the right people to talk to the right people.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
A triple high today!
156.891 CPU years 48,408,767 points 189,053 results And on top of that I made it into the top 10% in my current ranking! This does have more to do with the number of people joining than my prodigious output, but I'll take it and run. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks Movieman
----------------------------------------It's a flaw in my character  geophysic that can't be right 156.891 CPU years - It's not a Tuesday  Sponsorship is a great idea Movieman the best of it is I'm developing something at the moment that could use that kind of oommpphh. I did think about 3000 posts ago that if I kept mentioning arctic-cooling asus corsair maxtor and amd on the boards enough times then eventually someone might sit up and take notice. Arctic Cooling is the only way I can hear myself think in the "office". My (still 3200+  ) main PC is built into one of these http://www.arctic-cooling.com/pc_case2.php?idx=117 and it is as quiet as a mouse which is handy when you do a bit of audio work and just what the doctor ordered when it comes to quiet crunching.Having said that before I bought a 815 Mobo from Asus many years ago for my awesome 733 P3 I had had only SuperMicro's in my PC's. My first hosted server was a 466 Celeron on an Intel SuperMicro Mobo I think it's still out there running somewhere. (Is that enough name dropping do you think  )Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Jan 30, 2007 5:45:53 AM] |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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that our first 57,000+ day roll on the 60,000 thread it won't be long
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
Thanks Movieman It's a flaw in my character geophysic that can't be right 156.891 CPU years - It's not a Tuesday Sponsorship is a great idea Movieman the best of it is I'm developing something at the moment that could use that kind of oommpphh. I did think about 3000 posts ago that if I kept mentioning arctic-cooling asus corsair maxtor and amd on the boards enough times then eventually someone might sit up and take notice. Arctic Cooling is the only way I can hear myself think in the "office". My (still 3200+ ) main PC is built into one of these http://www.arctic-cooling.com/pc_case2.php?idx=117 and it is as quiet as a mouse which is handy when you do a bit of audio work and just what the doctor ordered when it comes to quiet crunching.Having said that before I bought a 815 Mobo from Asus many years ago for my awesome 733 P3 I had had only SuperMicro's in my PC's. My first hosted server was a 466 Celeron on an Intel SuperMicro Mobo I think it's still out there running somewhere. (Is that enough name dropping do you think )Dave I've been thinking about this since I wrote that message and I think it might be doable. Big companies like to donate when they see there is a good purpose behind it. There isn't anyone that I can think of that wouldn't like to find a cure for aids,cancer,etc and it is a tax writeoff here in the US. Maybe a small aproach to get started: 10 Supermicro X7DAL-E's($4000.00 retail) 20-Intel X5355's($30,000.00 retail) 40-1 gig DDR2-667 FBDimms($6600.00 retail) 10-PCP+C 750w PSU($2000.00 retail) 10-80 gig WD SATA drives($600.00) Cases can be found, so can cdroms and the other asst parts.. I have contacts at Intel,supermicro and at a top memory maker. Will see what they think and if I can get names for who to contact. At that point it would probably work better coming from someone within WCG(IBM) than from me. Like I said, top people like to talk to top people, not the peons. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'd love to see you succeed Movieman. One question though - who would they donate this equipment to? I know there's plenty of us here that would be more than willing to accept it
---------------------------------------- but they'll be looking for some tax-exempt group. If you have connections to one, let them be the target. But here's a second angle - convince your contacts to start crunching for WCG. Sell them on it and then work with them as they work within their companies to sell becoming a partner with WCG. Donating equipment would be great. Getting every machine in Intel, etc. crunching for WCG would be amazing. Imagine them adding something like "Intel Inside - Crunching for Cures" to their ads! There's a donation they'd be making every day that cost them virtually nothing! |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
I'd love to see you succeed Movieman. One question though - who would they donate this equipment to? I know there's plenty of us here that would be more than willing to accept it but they'll be looking for some tax-exempt group. If you have connections to one, let them be the target. But here's a second angle - convince your contacts to start crunching for WCG. Sell them on it and then work with them as they work within their companies to sell becoming a partner with WCG. Donating equipment would be great. Getting every machine in Intel, etc. crunching for WCG would be amazing. Imagine them adding something like "Intel Inside - Crunching for Cures" to their ads! There's a donation they'd be making every day that cost them virtually nothing! Good points! Companies are "funky" about what they will and won't let run internally. Some IT managers( a lot) take the perspective that if they totally lock down every port they can't be held responsible if something goes wrong. The old C.Y.A. mentality. I do some access system work for a town in Massachusetts. Became quite friendly with the town manager and his admin asst. and broached this idea to them. A week later I get a nice note from them saying they'd love to but their IT guy said no way. I asked to get a meeting with this guy and the reply was" he doesn't want to discuss anything that would compromise the town's security." When you run into people that won't even discuss a issue you get to a point where you want to throw up your hands in disgust. They have 42 Dell P4-3000's there each with a gig of ram. Not a huge amount but enough that I hate missing the opportunity. What I need is a scientific fact sheet of exactly what WCG working through BOINC does and doesn't do to give to yo-yo's like this. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yea, but fact sheets will mean nothing to folks like that. They know enough to keep things running nicely for the town but not enough about security to know that they won't get hacked. Fact sheets will only deal with facts, not fear. Not that I can blame them. It's tough enough keeping everything running nicely as it is. With the way hackers are these days, the "stock the moat with piranha, get the oil hot and raise the drawbridge" mentality is more a matter of self-preservation. After all, if something did go wrong, it would be their rear end on the line regardless of the facts - that is, for those that still have cheeks to begin with. Looking at it from their side, can you blame them? If you have the expertise, I'm sure it has to be tempting to ask them why they allow access to the internet at all, even for the townsfolk to get to the city's website. After all, that alone has to expose them to most of the same dangers as running WCG (if not more).
----------------------------------------Your only real hope is to get the higher ups to make the decision that they are doing to do it and it's up to the IT folks to see to it that it's done and still secure. Recruiting for WCG seems to be like selling insurance. You have to make a lot of cold calls to get one good lead. But one good lead is worth it if you can take all the rejection. |
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Former Member
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Another triple high!
157.506 CPU days - and it is a Tuesday 48,417,369 points 195,319 results The seven day CPU total has been over a thousand years for the thirteenth day in a row as well. |
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