[Merged] Team Seti & distributed computing

[Rob]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

Well I just happened to look at my homepage and my stats sig there says that I'm a member of the Netherlands SETI team I've disjoined the team and re-joined the CF team but it would seem that either the database has being corrupted or my account has been hacked.

Very odd

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

There was a database migration about a month ago, it totally messed up my account with someone elses which I had to get sorted. LHC@Home have ran out of work (again ) so I've had to attach SETI@Home for a while. Hoping to be able to alpha test PlanetQuest when it's up

That might explain it. Would have been nice for SETI to have emailed everyone about it though.

[Maggy J]

I've given up.For some reason I was chucked off the team,I never got any credits and I need all my CPU power to render my pictures at the moment as both Daz Studio and Bryce are very greedy.Not much point in running summat you keep having to turn off.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

I've given up.For some reason I was chucked off the team,I never got any credits and I need all my CPU power to render my pictures at the moment as both Daz Studio and Bryce are very greedy.Not much point in running summat you keep having to turn off.

BOINC should only use free CPU power - shouldn't deprive other applications.

You're really into this design stuff - most impressed. I can manage stick men

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

BOINC should only use free CPU power - shouldn't deprive other applications.

You're really into this design stuff - most impressed. I can manage stick men

I find I need to turn all apps that I can off if I want to render any halfway decent stuff.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

BOINC should only use free CPU power - shouldn't deprive other applications.
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Whilst that is theoretically true, I think in practice there is a marginal performance loss, more noticeable on lower spec machines that are pushed to capacity. There has to be a momentary period while the PC becomes aware of the fact you are doing something so boinc must release power, Equally, especially if you have limited memory, the PC may need to swap out boinc used memory to the HD to free enough space for what you really want to do. Most people won't notice the difference. I dont on my well specced desktops, but my laptop - that's another matter

[greencreeper]

I stand corrected

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

Whilst that is theoretically true, I think in practice there is a marginal performance loss, more noticeable on lower spec machines that are pushed to capacity. There has to be a momentary period while the PC becomes aware of the fact you are doing something so boinc must release power, Equally, especially if you have limited memory, the PC may need to swap out boinc used memory to the HD to free enough space for what you really want to do. Most people won't notice the difference. I dont on my well specced desktops, but my laptop - that's another matter

Yep I've got extra memory to install here..just waiting for someone to do it for me....Then I should have 1 GB of Ram...Hopefully I can render three high res figures in metallic suits with a complex background. Then maybe I can consider Seti again.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Yep I've got extra memory to install here..just waiting for someone to do it for me....Then I should have 1 GB of Ram...Hopefully I can render three high res figures in metallic suits with a complex background. Then maybe I can consider Seti again.

Install it yourself, Coggy. Dead easy - only goes in one place, one way. Should have instructions with the memory or PC - normally the chip either goes straight in at 90 degrees with little clips to hold it in, or it goes in at 45 degrees and flips up. I think the standard these days is straight down.

Even with my system at the moment, I feel a slight speed boost when ever I close BOINC down to play my games. Not to mention how much disk activity LHC@Home has started to use, every second I hear the HDD writing/reading from the drive, even when I'm using a highly CPU + Graphics intensive program.

So far I've taken part in a ton of projects, my favourites being LHC@Home and Seventeen or Bust.

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

Install it yourself, Coggy. Dead easy - only goes in one place, one way. Should have instructions with the memory or PC - normally the chip either goes straight in at 90 degrees with little clips to hold it in, or it goes in at 45 degrees and flips up. I think the standard these days is straight down.

Oh no! By getting someone else to install it I've got someone else to blame if things go wrong...

Drat, LHC@Home let off a few hundred WUs today and neither of my systems were able to catch any

My laptop is dry, so SETI@Home is running on it as a backup and this system has about 100 remaining.

[eric@]

How does one join your team?

Originally Posted by eric@

How does one join your team?

I think the team has died. I havn't been part of it for months

[Rob]

Originally Posted by eric@

How does one join your team?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dwarfin...uted-links.htm (curtesy of Greencreeper) is a series of current links. That should show not only the projects but once you have set up your account in a project, the links to join the CF team. Note that some of the details may have changed a little, for example the boinc client is now up to version 4.45.

I'm not sure how active anyone is anymore

There are other boinc based projects now online, such as Einstein (an astronomy something), but CF hasn't developed a team for that since everything quietened down.