Introduce Yourself

[Dirk Broer]

Both Chris Skull and me have obtained a sensor from KarmannGaz, Chris by sending KarmannGaz his own, partially completed, sensor and me by buying a sensor that KarmannGaz had left over.
Though a tad more expensive, a sensor could in theory also be built using a Raspberry, an Arduino-to-Raspberry shield, a radiation board and some other stuff (mainly the geiger counter), though KarmannGaz warned in the past on the Radioactive@Home forum that this built-your-own may not be able to communicate with the project (just as I have with connecting the Raspberry Pi -with SenseHat- to the various Quake Catcher Network projects) .

[Dirk Broer]

According to the Seti Records, I started crunching on March 4 2001, Wow am I old

I remember crunching under an IBM account -using even 80486 machines sometimes-, even before the year 2000...

These were our premium crunchers then:

Real 133/166 MHz Pentium monsters (then)...

These our 486 work horses:

We used them to robotize part of our tasks (password resets), as they were already old school then.

Being developpers we were not allowed the newest as our customers did not have the newest either. At home I was already using a K6III-400....

[Nflight]

Welcome to the Team Effort KarmannGaz! You are in lots of different projects that is a good thing for most of us are involved in as many as it can help the Team Effort. Again Welcome aboard the AMDUsers Team Effort!

[vaughan]

Welcome KarmannGaz and congratulations on your first prime number. Persistence pays off at Primegrid. I know I've had plenty of CPU and GPU hours crunching that project. I think Sophie Germaine primes are still the "easiest" to find, but they are still darned hard to catch.

[Dirk Broer]

I have trouble catching Sophie Germain WUs in the first place, let alone finding primes in them.....Passed the 100 million mark at PrimeGrid without finding anything worthwhile yet!
The 'P' from my middle name could as well have been meant for persistence.. (But actually stands for Pieter)

[NeoGen]

Welcome KarmannGaz!

We are happy to have you here, and sorry to hear about BOINC UK shutting down. If anyone else you know wants to come by and say hi they are welcome to.
I'm curious about Radioactive@Home as the project has had little news for a couple of years already. Do you know if there is an easy way to order one of those geiger counters to attach to PC? Their old batch orders have been closed for a long time.

[Tweeder]

Hello all,

Thanks to Nflight for the message and pointing me to the forums. I have been a long time user of Boinc, back to the SETI at home days whatever it was called back then. Memories of staying up late to see if I could find some aliens. I got back into BOINC once I was finally able to set up my home server. My newest build is an AMD FX 8320E that I have up to 3.7 ghz so far. My server also hosts a few websites for the family, but most of the time it is crunching. I typically like to focus on the biomedical type projects. I am currently about 2 classes away from completing my masters in data science so bioinformatic type projects are interesting to me. Look forward to contributing to the forums where I can and inserting really bad jokes as necessary!

[Dirk Broer]

Hi Tweeder,

Saw you in the rankings for the various projects. Seti@Home must have been the first project for many of us. I remember running it myself as early as 1999, but under an IBM account.

the earliest screen shot I could find, version 1.0

[Nflight]

KarmannGaz we also have a chatty Facebook page which gets daily activity along with our Forum. Please feel free to ask to join: Welcome to the Team effort...

[NeoGen]

Hi Euphoriabuzz

Welcome to the Team. Hope you feel at home here, like Dirk said we are AMD Users but really anything that can crunch (GPUs, Intel, ARM, etc) is always more than welcome. I also see you on the Amicable Numbers project. They just sent out an announcement yesterday saying the time is now if you want to find some Amicable Pairs. According to predictions after the project passes the 50% mark it will be a lot more difficult to find them.
I myself am mostly AMD gear oriented, my main machines are a Phenom II X6 1100T and two FX-8370s. I'm reading up and getting ready to upgrade at least one of my machines to a full blown Ryzen/Vega build this year, but I'm still contemplating as I read up on it on the news and reviews. The budget is limited so I have to be sure I get the best bang for the buck even if I have to wait a little more than I want.

Our admin vaughan should be able to check on the Primaboinca project, I see that sometimes with new projects too, the "Join" button not being there. About the Facebook page I'm not sure but someone there probably can help too. I myself don't have an account on it, and really don't like all the social media stuff. I much rather prefer a simple bulletin board like this and email to communicate.