47th on Predictor!

[Nflight]

What are my methods to make it go so fast?

Take the time to analyze your system, how it works every bit crunched, watch the process and notice that the more processes that you have installed on your system the more times the kernel has to do hand shakes that the kernel realizes the process is ready to go at a notice. This handshake happens sometimes every tenth of a second, and it is only a hand shake of sorts but it is still time that could be forwarded to the BOINC Client to which I have installed on my system. Optimized with Crunchr's3.

NOw to get that reduction in handshakes you decrease the applicable programs you have running in the background. Withdraw adobe, quicktime, real player, firefox, Shockwave, Flash, etc. Your getting the idea by now it is the introduced programs or processes that you have installed after the initial installation of the OS. Everytime you introduce one new program 3 OS sub programs must be intialized to handle the new directoret. Your not going to see the change right away, this of course takes time, but then this time is precious when it comes down to getting the most for your money.

So in order to get the most out of you system you need to take the time out and if your running windows look in Task Manager. Notice the Processes tab click on it and tell me how many you are running. If you have over 41 you have more then I do on my SIMAP machine or 4200 Dual Core.

My 3500 or Predictor machine runs about 61 processes but this is also my work machine, too compensate I have installed the fast Memory of DDR400 2 GIG, plus (2) SATA drives at 15,000 rpm. I clean the machine religiously of dust on the heat sinks to keep the temps in a low stressed enviroment. I defrag once a week. I ask myself to better my machine all the time. If you find the ways to improve on my designs and efforts please reply with good or better news that I have not already known before.

What this all boils down to is your turning your regular computer into a server, having it run one program only, optimizing the capability for maximum output. Although my funds are limited at this time the best OS that I have found is the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition. I will let you look at a link to prove my point.
http://predictor.scripps.edu/top_hosts.php
mDHurst is running his machines with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition. I have checked with Profs at my school I just attended and they confirm that there is a way to make the OS run like a server. I want everyone to experience the extasy of being so close to the top AMD users will rule the DC Universe.

[drezha]

:shock:

Sound a bit obssesed there but yeah.
TBH honest, my 3500+ is never gonna have little amount of services, it's my main rig. Games, music, DVD's, Internet, email etc....everything gets run on it.

It might help perhaps if items weren't in the registry? Might help you in your quest to run as fast as possible. I run portable programs as my main programs because it allows me to back up all my settings etc just like I would with my documents. :D

Try browsing here: http://www.portablefreeware.com/

All designed to not depend on other items being on the PC so you can close quicktime, Java etc and still happily run everything (less service's) Because they dont write to registry, I guess it might help speed up crunching. Beside's there's some good little apps there ;)

[Beerknurd]

As of today we are in 38th place!!!

We have gained 9 spots since the 1st post in November... If we keep up the current pace we can definately gain some more!!!!!

[Steve Lux]

I've bumped Predictor up to 50% of my capacity. Might increase it further, we'll see.