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    Dimes Project

    Bruce has started an AMD Users team at the Dimes Project. - Distributed Internet Measurement and Simulations.

    http://www.netdimes.org/index.html

    I found joining our team to be problematic. I hope my e-mail to the project admins gets it sorted out. I had to download the software, install it, create username and password, and give e-mail address. Then from the Home page attempt to login. This failed to recognise my password. Then I got them to re-send my password which was now different to the one I had chosen (go figure). Then I could login again and join our team (top of the list - way to go AMD Users).

    Vaughan

    ps. AMD Users is ranked #2 or #3 in this depending on the stats figure you measure by. We are beating Intel Users (sorry Beerknurd and Boosted Integra). Bruce is leading the charge with a well constructed World #4 rank. :hello1:


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    DIMES just started the teams feature not to long ago and will be releasing a new agent soon. The present agent doesn't allow the merging of stats for a user, in other words if bwhite installed DIMES on 4 computers 4 separate bwhites would show up in the stats. They are fixing this adding more features. DIMES uses very little bandwidth and almost no CPU time...does a traceroute about once a minute and maps the results. Others have had problems with emails/passwords as mentioned in their forums but thy have responded and tried to fix.

    I have been running dimes for a while and changes are in the works. They respond to questions and try to fix. Now may be a good time to get in on this one as it is just starting for teams. AMD Users could us a little help...I see Free-DC has found the project in a big way :shock:

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    Even more than that...
    We are currently working on user-groups, so that you can install multiple agents for the same user - just as some DIMES users proposed.
    Anyway, we hope the next version will come out no later then April ( this year i hope... ) , we have some nice screenshots of the measurements in our forum.
    enjoy :
    http://www.netdimes.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41

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    How Is the DIMES to chrunsh? RAM, Bandwidh tough or light? How long time take a WU?

    LAGU

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    Bandwidth usage is low. Uses Java so on my PC it is using 747MB RAM (I have 1 Gig). As Bruce says it sends "pings" so wus are tiny and thus CPU use is tiny. It just runs in the background.


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    Well I joined and it's running...... We'll see how it goes...


    How often are stats updated?????

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    our server sends ping and traceroute scripts which take about an hour or two to execute. it takes us a couple more minutes to update the stats.

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    i joined aswell, doesnt seem to go too well with SOB but soon i think i willo switch to CB and this for a bit.

    ohad its good having almost uptodate statistics, especially with signing up as i was under AMD Users instantly so knew everything had worked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ohad
    our server sends ping and traceroute scripts which take about an hour or two to execute. it takes us a couple more minutes to update the stats.
    Thanks

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    seems to be running fairly well on this machine.
    beer what is SOB on for you right now as you have a much greater dimes score than me and have been running same time.

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