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I'm always on the prowl for a good deal. And I just found a cool one (I've known about this for a while).
Cruzin' the internet at a interstate rest stop (right now)....cool. I guess my next build should be a carpc.
I've seen the signs for most of the winter at a bunch of rest stops, I just never took the time to pull in. Now I can recoup some of my tax dollars, and use the restroom if necessary...:icon_mrgreen:
Oh, I'm werking right now. This is a planned 'lunch' stop. I am returning from an early morning service call. My work laptop is plugged into an inverter. I have the laptop for logging work accomplished and stuff, so it stays on all the time....
So....I crunch a little D2OL between jobs.
Must be nice to goof off when the boss isn't looking
Modern computers have so much capacity they can work while they are waiting on us. Probably 99.99% or more of our average computer processing capacity is spent waiting on us humans. No wonder SkyNet decided it didn't need us.
Steve Lux are you talking about this Skynet http://www.skynet-tel.com/
Or this Skynet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29
Most likely the terminator version!
Look its SkyNet back in the conversation; http://ec2-23-23-126-96.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pogs/ Actually its a new project, sort of I have been on it for just a few days now and have generated hordes of points. Yes to all those that know me I have just 2 cores, yet I am pushing out over 2,000 a day.
Currently we have only 5 members of our Team, and I am the only one crunching this project, come join me! :blob3:
As Eek the Cat says: It never hurts to help! (followed by very hurtful/painful noises...)
BTW: Vaughan seems to be as least as active as you are -if not more so- so you're not the only one!
I put a Linux box on it a while back. Let me know if we have a target to hit and I can switch more GHz on.
Nothing shocking here. We're currently the 32nd team world-wide, and have 310,784 credits.
Within a week we will be passed by Crystal Dream, but we will pass Alien City soon after.
Team Norway, the University of Crete and Rechenkraft.net will also pass us this month,
after which we will pass SETI@Netherlands.
Some extra Ghz/Cores will all change these predictions of course...
My focus here is more then last Vaughan, I really hate being last! :(
We're not last by a long way, there are 157 teams with a score.
But we dropped seven places this month in this project,
and our highest position -16th- was in September of this year,
so it is a bit of a volatile project so to speak.
And they -extra Ghz/Cores- went to the UK BOINC Team, who jumped five places and is now ahead of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dirk Broer
Team Norway has taken the bus and is also ahead of us now, yet we're back at a 32nd place as there apear some discrepancies between BOINCStats (today) and FreeDC (yesterday). Crystal Dream is still close behind us, but we've overtaken Alien City.
I took myself offline during the height of #Sandy. The storm has passed over night, and I plugged the system back in and cranked up the hamster treadmill for juice to keep the system up and operational. To bad I am soon out of food for the Hamsters. Oh Well I have discovered when I pull out the whip and lash those critters they keep the juices flowing without fail.
None the less, most of my trees are bare of leaves, a few branches left their nested locations on the trunk of my trees with none causing any severe damage that I can see at this time. There is a freight train line ~ 1 mile north of my location that I hear daily and all night long. Last night I swear they moved the railroad to within inches of my window glass. Wave after wave of horrendous wind sounds emanated into my bedroom, which of course made for such noise that I did not sleep much. Today the railroad line has returned to where it was before last evenings misunderstanding between Mother Nature and who ever she was on a date with. I wish she would select a better choice of men in her life. I like my nature less noisy!
Daylight has brought out the neighbors from their hiding spaces. Lots of faces of complete despair as the roadway is not even visible, leaves cover the entire roadway. Across the street from my house is a silver maple tree which lost one of its branches and it is lodged in the neighbors garage roof. Yes it came down with the pointed end first, the first thing the homeowner did was to back his two perfectly kept cars out into the weather that is still occurring. Now his cars are all full of leaves and other debris, they were fine in the garage, I would have left them their!
I have a web address from my local EMA dispatch center, near 4 AM this morning the calls were being displayed about every 3 minutes. It must have been too much as the system is now down and the web site is stagnant, still stating 4 AM's dispatches. Our local newspaper follows up with some goodies on twitter and through a subscription news feed that over 360 dispatches for trees down, and trees on wires were made in an 8 hour period of time. My Old haunt of a fire station had 15 fireman and 4 ambulance personnel ready and on call for 24 hours of pure dedication. This morning they decided to post their findings on the situation and spoke of the turmoil they endured overnight. Most inhabitants stayed home, not venturing out on the highways with curious intervention not in their favor. But the tree lined landscapes of the neighborhoods did not fair as well. Their crew had over 35 calls for help with trees on homes, cars, and several trees closing off all access to the community.
I survived #Sandy of 2012
Glad you and your computers held out. Pity on your hamsters though.
Should hang the food above the threadmill so they can't reach it no matter how fast they run.
Feed them when they're exhausted, they will grow up as real athletes.
Nice project that produces maps of the solar system:
"theSkyNet POGS is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in astronomy. We will combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. We will measure physical parameters (such as stellar mass surface density, star formation rate surface density, attenuation, and first-order star formation history) on a resolved pixel-by-pixel basis using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques in a distributed computing mode. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer."
As I discovered to be able to do 10k a day here, I will return as soon as I finished my baker's dozen.
Seems they might have badges in the future too! And I am a real badge fetishist -leftover from my boyscout days.
Sadly we have a family relative that was one of the ones that had a house in the section of 50+ homes burned down. An elderly gal. Now it remains to be seen what will happen with the insurance companies.... Of course that doesn't take care of all the little things accumulated in life that money can't replace. And there are going to turn out to be a lot of folks that have lost everything in this storm. Consider yourself a very fortunate soul Nflight! I'm glad you came through this in good stead. :-) Meanwhile my heart goes out to all those that have had their lives rocked to it's core and lost everything and have to rebuild a new life.
I have a first cousin who lives 1/2 mile from the ocean 25 miles north of the Atlantic City NJ. Her family is fine, the house is fine because her husband is carpenter and placed the house higher then the landscape. He also placed hurricane proofing on the home some 20 years ago, and this storm proved that the investment was worth every dime spent. (NO harm came to those fictitious Hamsters I mentioned in the previous post)
I placed an order for some product today and found a response on the email confirming my order stating that there is 4 feet of sand in the parking lot of their facility and around the neighborhood. It seems they are struggling with removing the sand. The local Economic Development group placed white sand on the beaches, and now it is on the streets. Removal of the sand will cost plenty and lets hope they put it back where the ocean found it. The company is located in Middlesex NJ, it might be some time till we get that product...
More news from my work place. On Friday we were all stunned by the news in Conn with the gunmen in an elementary school. I brushed this off and went to work as a school bus driver in the afternoon. Low and behold not one mile from the school a student sitting behind me stabbed the student sitting beside him. I had to make a retreat to the school to return the attacker and the victim. Seeing the expression on the attackees face is flashing through my mind about 60 times a day right now. They both ride the bus and it is morning, I suppose they will both be on this morning. I will get more news later as I have to drop of my personal writeup of the actual mishap with my boss.
You read the news & I lived it !!! :blob3:
I always heard every older generation saying that the younger generation is worse than before... but it feels like in the history of many generations in several decades past this has to be THE WORST, most self-destructive generation we've seen to date. :icon_neutral:
I am happy you are are safe and sound Nflight, although the shock will take some time to heal.
Where are the parents of these ticking time-bombs??? :icon_evil:
p.s. - Yea, I don't have kids... :icon_rolleyes:
Hi All. Long time no see. I have a few fat and lazy cores just lying around here sucking electricity. I guess I can point a few of them at this Skynet project. Oh and Neo I don't worry about the new kids. For every wingnut in the bunch I see 50 or 100 great kids that the press ignores. My son just turned down a free ride to the Air Farce Academy in Colorado Springs because he wants to attend University of TN. M daughter is starting a local college here in a few days. (Austin Peay. I think Jeff knows where that is) The point I'm making is that the youngsters that I meet are the ones that run around with my kids and I can't say I see a really bad one in the bunch. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and has a Very Happy New Year.
A free Ride to the Air Force Academy oh for Pete's Sake! Please do the NCIS Dinozzo head slap a few times for me on your Son, Thanks in Advance! Thanks for joining us on SkyNet Pogs and dishing up some good points values already. If I could ask I would love a helpful hand in getting more help on my one main project I can't get anyone else to join me on, That one project is Quake Cather Network. You have to purchase a seismic unit and tape it to your outside foundation wall or floor but then leave the system on for ever and ever and I know that is not hard to do. Even for us old guys ! :blob3: Its great that your back on the saddle Terry Welcome back, Great to hear your voice and your stories! :)
Looking into it Nflight. Welcome to the team Terry1953.
"A few fat and lazy cores"
Well, that sounds interesting...want to enlighten us?
16-core Opteron 6300-series? Or is that just asking too much?
"16-core Opteron 6300-series? Or is that just asking too much" LOL yep that's asking wayyyyy to much. Just some old junk that we threw together out of parts laying around.
Know that, did the same and have a room full to prove it. Just remember that to be able to crunch successfullyQuote:
Originally Posted by Terry1953
-both credit and powerbil wise- the CPUs must not be too old, or it takes either forever to complete a WU of a given project,
or you will not get work from some projects, because the CPU is lacking a mandatory instruction set
(e.g. POEM needs at least SSE2 from now on).
My old IBM PS/2 collection is nowadays just museum material, as is my Apple G3 and my RS/6000.
Some 10 years ago I had a Seti-pharm build from eight Pentium MMX-200's
which I had to dismantle for lack of results and bankrupting me with the daily wattage.
And don't underestimate the constant power hunger of otherwise mediocre GPUs either.....