I'm a newbie. Greetings to all the AMD Users! :)

[NeoGen]

Hello everyone

I just recently found this great team that is AMD Users.
As this is my first post, I must say to all that I'm a very proud owner of an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 Mb of DDR RAM :D
I'm from Portugal and I'm a student of IT engineering. I'm also a bit of a maniac for distributed computing projects, and I'm currently working on my single PC for 5 projects at the same time.
How can I be cruel enough to do this to my poor machine? (you are thinking...) Hehe. I made a little app in visual basic to schedule the days that each project runs, so for example today, saturday, it's Seti@Home day. For the nearly 16 hours that my PC is running today, it's all for Seti. Tomorrow will be Distributed.net and United Devices running in parallel... and so on.
I found out that some projects hog the CPU over other ones, so I had to put them all side by side in pairs running and see which ones would share the resources and which ones would hog over the others.
I'm currently running Seti@home, Folding@home/Genome@home (I don't understand very well but I guess that the app runs both projects), United Devices, Distributed.net, Climate Prediction and RSAttack, altough I'm thinking about quitting on this last one because I can't understand what is it doing when it runs and how liable the project is.
I'm moving my accounts in all projects and joining your team in all of them. I just recently joined up in the Seti project, and I jumpstarted right onto 7th place in the group. 8) hehe
Well, I guess I've said it all already... too much in fact. Lol.
Hope this great team keeps growing and expanding, I'll give my best for it! :D

p.s. - About the Seti project.... could you please correct the typo that is in the Group description on the Seti site? It says "This is the Seta@home team..." Seta??? Lol
p.p.s - I hope I haven't posted this twice... I don't know how to work very well with forums...

[Bionic_Redneck]

Welcome to the team.

[since1876]

Sounds great, but it sounds like you're just using those programs to test out your computer instead of to better the world! Everyone knows that we need to find aliens more than we need to find out how to cure aids or cancer!!!

[NeoGen]

Yes. Indeed, I admit that I'm in it more for the fun than to find a cure for AIDS or anything like that. But I believe every distributed computing project has a honorable goal, not only the humanitary ones, and one should help on as many as he can, even if it's something we don't like much like for example maths! hehe
I'm helping only the ones that attracted me more because I have only one machine to run. If I had several machines under my command I'd run them all!
I was thinking about quitting on the RSAttack and I think I've found a good replacement for it. I understand that D2OL is currently a top priority project here at AMD Users now, so I might switch to that one in the next couple of days. :wink:

[Jeff]

On behalf of the team, welcome to AMD Users. We are a very friendly team and I guess you could say we have a pretty close group of people here. If you have a question, feel free to ask.

Jeff

[jlangner]

Welcome!! :D

[Bionic_Redneck]

Sounds great, but it sounds like you're just using those programs to test out your computer instead of to better the world! Everyone knows that we need to find aliens more than we need to find out how to cure aids or cancer!!!

I will have to agree that seti doesn't really have much of a purpose but in the same token many of other project seem to be a waste but whatever float the person boat.

[vaughan]

Welcome NeoGen I like your attitude.
Yes we are a positive team and we like to try out lots of different distributed computing projects. Would you be able to post a link or something to your "time sharing" application? I've been searching for something like that. I've also found that some projects suit Athlons more than P4s and vice versa. As an example, I find that my 2.53 GHz P4s perform better at Seventeen or Bust than my Athlons. I've also found that Chessbrain is a well behaved client as it plays well when paired with Ubero, Distributed Folding, D2OL, TSC, Seti, Eon and Ecc2 (I haven't tried it with RSAttak, F@H/G@H, dNet or GridOnTap).
vaughan

[Arminiusc]

Sounds great, but it sounds like you're just using those programs to test out your computer instead of to better the world! Everyone knows that we need to find aliens more than we need to find out how to cure aids or cancer!!!

Almost every DC project is worth doing. Although I dont run seti... just think if they do find alien intelligence and manage to communicate... they might already have the cure for cancer and be willing to share it with us! :D

[Jeff]

But what if we discover aliens and then they go all "Independence Day" on us?