Introduce Yourself

[Nflight]

I permitted your entry to the group about an hour later sorry I do sleep here on the East Coast or the other side of the pond for your blokes. Pretending Jolly humor, not to irk anyone either!

[Vyper68]

I permitted your entry to the group about an hour later sorry I do sleep here on the East Coast or the other side of the pond for your blokes. Pretending Jolly humor, not to irk anyone either!

No problem, i don't expect immediate replies to things, we all have lives outside of the internet and Facebook - thanks for approving it.

[MichaelG]

Hello I'm Michael (aka Miguel - long story involving being born in Argentina to English parents during a military dictatorship) I'm 39 and currently based in Argentina for health reasons however do research for the University of Sussex in England. I started the Distributed Hardware Evolution Project in 2003 whilst doing my PhD and unfortunately had to shut it down as my subsequent employer was very demanding. However I always yearned to restart it and now 14 years later I've packed in my other job and am doing just that. The results gained in that short period are still the best in the field even 14 years later proving it was a worthwhile research direction. We're about to finally publish the results in a good journal (so far they're only in an internal paper http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~mmg20/files/garvie_sc.pdf and my thesis http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~mmg20/files/thesis.pdf) and always acknowledging the contributions of this wonderful community - the first paper explicitly mentions AMD_Users . Now it's been quite a bit of work to get this working and I'm seeing the distributed computing community has changed somewhat and is almost saturated with projects so I'm wondering how many people will be joining dhep.

My last desktop was an overclocked Athlon, but that was a long time ago and have had iBooks and mac books since then as have had to be mostly on the move.

[BLUWOLF]

hi all thanks for letting me join the team . just got back in to crunching

[Dirk Broer]

hi all thanks for letting me join the team . just got back in to crunching

Hi Bluwolf, what are you crunching with nowadays? Are you a Seti@Home Classic veteran, or have you been using BOINC before?

[NeoGen]

hi all thanks for letting me join the team . just got back in to crunching

Welcome Bluwolf, happy to have you here!
As you say you just got back into crunching I second Dirk's question, how far back in crunching are you from? I remember the good old days when BOINC didn't exist and a quad-core CPU was something to drool for
Having a "Distributed Computing" folder on your little hard drive (because having a 80Gb hard drive was a lot back then!), and 30 different sub-folders, each one with a different application for each project that you were on, that you had to keep updated yourself manually, editing configuration files manually sometimes, downloading files in the old days of modem speeds, and trying to juggle between all those different point metrics versus the MHz of the CPUs for each DC project to stay ahead of your mates... ahhh the good old days!
But in all seriousness, I make it sound like it was more complicated back then by saying it like this, but the truth is that it was second nature just like driving, and you didn't even think about it, it actually felt as easy as it is now.

Anyone else wanna chime in on the good old days?

[Dirk Broer]

I remember the good old days when BOINC didn't exist and a quad-core CPU was something to drool for

I remember drooling on a computer fair at the Amsterdam RAI before an IBM PC Server 704, with four Pentium Pro CPUs, back when quad-core meant four CPUs on one mobo.
It was within my budget, but impossible to transport...I was by train.

[Keith75]

I remember drooling on a computer fair at the Amsterdam RAI before an IBM PC Server 704, with four Pentium Pro CPUs, back when quad-core meant four CPUs on one mobo.
It was within my budget, but impossible to transport...I was by train.

Funny to look back at all that expensive hardware. My family runs a print shop and my parents bought a machine that made film back in 1989 that was pretty revolutionary at the time. It came with a few Macintosh computers for desktop publishing and 19" monitors. The package of equipment cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was actually a lot back then. lol I remember getting to play some games on those big 19" monitors and being just giddy. The monitors alone cost almost $5,000.

My dad's first computer was a Tandy Model I and we still have it along with dozens of newer Tandy Computers that we just wrapped up and stuck in the basement at work when we retired them. Just thinking about them brings back so many fond memories of reading computer mags and drooling about the newest computer to come out.