NQueens (new boinc project)

[BobCat13]

Yet another boinc project (seems like a new one every other day):

http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/


Team created:

http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/team_display.php?teamid=53

[Bubben]

And this is what it does i think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nqueens

[vaughan]

Yet Another Boinc Project - YABP - I'm in too. :icon_wink:

My family said "What's the point of this one? Its not like its finding cures to cancer or anything".

I need more CPU cores just to allocate a core per project; its getting ridiculous. Maybe they (Intel & AMD (if they still exist)) need to consider 16 cores and just skip the octacore generation completely.

[NeoGen]

I'm in. There seems to be work available. Let's see how it goes.

[PoorBoy]

I need more CPU cores just to allocate a core per project; its getting ridiculous.

Got that right, if I doubled the Quads I have now I still wouldn't have enough Cores to go around. I have 66 BOINC Accounts now & I know I missed out on 4-6 Projects that have No Account Creation now.

[BobCat13]

Yet Another Boinc Project - YABP - I'm in too. :icon_wink:

Glad to see you in, and I'll transfer team founder to you, if I have your permission.

[vaughan]

Thanks BobCat13 when you're ready. At least this project has shorter task run-times; I get about 20 minutes each on my Core duo 1.66 notebook.

[BobCat13]

Transfer has been initiated.

Tasks are running about 10 minutes each on my X2 6000+.

[Robert P. Herbst]

I'm not in any way finding fault here, but I need to ask this question.
Exactly what is the purpose of this group?
I had thought these groups were established to find a single, or possibly two, scientific projects to invest some idle computer time into. Here the prime motivation seems to be to see how many different projects one can subscribe to.
Maybe, I'm wrong, but I feel that if I subscribe to one project and put all my effort to this one project, I might just make a difference. I only have three dual core computers, and I see many of you have a lot more computer power than I will ever have.
I have even thought of linking the computers I have into one massive parallel computer, but I don't know enough about computers to do it. Is there a program a fairly computer illiterate person like me can use to accomplish this?
Presently, I have all my eggs in one basket. I work on the SETI@home project, am I wrong to do this?

[vaughan]

Hi Robert, the answer to your question is simple - run whatever you want, after all its fun. I started in Distributed Computing many years ago when I had a particularly bad cold. I was surfing the internet on my 28kbps dial-up modem and was looking for information on fractals, you know Julia sets and Mandelbrots. Somehow I discovered Popular Power's web site and they had a Distributed Computing project that was looking for cures to Influenza. This struck a chord with me as I was feeling lousy, coughing and sneezing etc.

I started running PopPow and over the next few days realised I needed an "always on" connection. Oh I wished for an ISDN line :icon_razz: but couldn't afford it. Further searching with Alta Vista and I found Ubero which suggested that I could be paid for the work units I ran for them. So I joined up and ran that project. Then I went looking for a team and posted on the Ubero forum a question - which team should I join and why? Bruce White and Shnal, the original founders of AMD Users, had just started the AMD Users Distributed Computing Team and invited me to join them. I had just migrated from a PIII-733 to an AMD XP2000+ which could crunch a Seti task in 10 hours compared to my Intel machine's 24 hours. So I joined AMD Users as I was very impressed with the AMD's performance.

As time went by new projects came and went; new team mates came and went; the relentless improvement in computing power and affordability continued and continues today.

Now it seems as if a new project (usually BOINC based now) appears every week. I have gone from a P-133, P166, P200, P2-350 (Super Computer was its name :icon_redface: ), P3-733 and AMD XP2000+ to 39 full-time cores crunching 24/7 and 3 broadband connections with 5 dial-up ISPs as backup, all in a dedicated air conditioned computer room. Yet, I still don't have enough GHz.

Its an expensive hobby this crunching but its cheaper than some other big boys toys. :icon_wink:

[Robert P. Herbst]

There are places where you are paid for crunching numbers? Is this UMBERO still around, did they actually pay you for your computer time.

[Lagu]

Robert!

If you think there is live long beyond the space on another planet I cant se any wrong running SETI. You have chosen it and continue as you began.:icon_thumright: My second computer an Intel PII, 350 MHz and 6 GB hard disc (Supercomputer for travesty Vaughan) was my gateway to Distributed Computing. What project ran me? I ran just SETI. Our daily news had an article about it and my eyes fell on it. I read it and I had 256 Kbps connection as made it possible run that project. Then I ran D20L a while and still run it sometimes.
“The stripe will never leave one”.

But I’m not such a person as follow the stream. Right now I run MoneyBee on my 4 computers. I have 2 AMD’s and 2 Intel’s (one from 1999) and still going strong. Om my conscience I have as little as 14 Boinc-project and 5 other non-Boinc programs and many have I joined when we had our “race” as we have had 2 years in a roof.

We all are individuals and no one is the other alike. Of any cause our member’s runs 1, 2, 3 or more projects at the same time but let this fact not disturb you. Run SETI with a smile on your lip!:icon_wink:

I have visited your homepage and if my memory not is wrong I read you have made many of your furniture’s with your own hands. I’m impressed and they berate quality.

May I ask, have your profession been a cabinet maker or carpenter or have you it as a hobby?

I will tell you I’m totally deaf and from Sweden. (Do you know where it is?) I’ve noticed your stories containing over 1000 words. You may excuse me but I haven’t read any of them. Not because I’m uninterested rather it is because I must struggle trough the text as is on USA-English and it is to hard sometimes. The English language never stops be a challenge for me. My native language is Swedish.

I’m not a young man so I think we both have some life experience and can se things a little different and calmer.

I’m sure you are a real gentleman as have your own idea and as you have showed you want to know whish is right and your question legitimate.

Regards
Lagu:)