Dimes Project

[vaughan]

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:

[bwhite]

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:

[Ohad]

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

[Lagu]

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

LAGU

[vaughan]

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.

[Beerknurd]

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


How often are stats updated?????

[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.

[Empty_5oul]

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.

[Beerknurd]

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

[Empty_5oul]

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.