boinc stuff

[Brucifer]

Yes that's PoorBoy. He has done very well in the stats race in fact he's currently 4th in the world.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=boincusers

So is he one of the corporate crunchers? Or just a simple little super wealthy boy with a couple barns full of air conditioning and computers??? I mean if he is #4 in the world then we are talking some massive horsepower there.

[PoorBoy]

So is he one of the corporate crunchers? Or just a simple little super wealthy boy with a couple barns full of air conditioning and computers??? I mean if he is #4 in the world then we are talking some massive horsepower there.

Hi all, I'm neither Wealth nor Corporate, I've run BOINC for the last 7.5 years out of my home as a Hobby. With the advent of GPU Crunching it has allowed me to assemble an impressive arsenal of 14 GPU Crunching Box's that's able to Rival & even Surpass the Mega Corporate & Collage Crunchers.

I was a Member of the BOINCstats Team for awhile (1 Year) after leaving the AMD User's Team. But after some dissension on the BS Team over the use of GPU's for BOINC Processing & with the urging of some of the Former BS Team Members I made the decision to leave their Team after lifting them from a High 20's Team to a Top 10 Team.

When I left the BOINCstats Team 4 of the other Top 6 Members of the Team went with me and we Created the PBToyz Team which is very GPU Active and it has done quite well in it's 3.5 Month existence. We are already in the Top 25 in Combined Teams and moving up.

Oh and by the way I'm in 3'rd Combined now with my eyes set on 2'nd in 3-4 Weeks or less and then onward and upward to 1'st someday maybe ...

[Brucifer]

@PoorBoy -- Lol, Good to hear from you!! I thought about dropping by and posting a note. However your flyer on the boinc thing makes it sound like you guys are just the big time.

Too bad about the travails with some of the BS team members. I don't know what it is that makes some people lose their common sense about teams and points. They carry on like a member's points are their own and the team's points and forget that they truly belong to the person that crunched them, who pays the electrical billz and buys the hardware. The other item is how some of them get ticked because someone gives someone else some points and crunches for them ---- saying that those points don't belong to the other person, meanwhile those same people will gladly take ownership of the points they crunch on corporate computers that aren't "their" machines. Or they get really incensed when someone crunchez stuff for another team, failing to realize that anything anyone does for any team is a gift. But maybe then I'm just an old fashioned old fart.

Yes, the GPU's are in a totally different league than the cpu's. And things are progressing at the point with them that now (ATI at least) some serious improvements are_being/have_been made in the power consumption arena. I have just finished changing out my cuda gpu's and am now 100% ATI. And while performance was definitely a consideration, the main issue was the lower power consumption and heat generation. Like you, I keep a number of systems going in one room, and have a/c issues to take into account as how it all impacts my monthly electrical bill. I have even gotten to the point that I don't like to run anything that uses the cpu's, rather just concentrating on capitalizing on the far superior crunching of the gpu. Those quads suck up a lot of power at full load.

But it's good to see that you are doing well and happy and now have a place to crunch where you feel comfortable and have team mates in the same category.

The crunching world has definitely changed since the beginning of the classic seti project years ago. My interest in it now has grown to the point that I'm no longer a total team maven that I was in the earlier days. There have been enough years at it now that I have accumulated a good number of friends on different teams. And that's what drives my crunching anymore. I've done considerable crunching for multiple teams. In the beginning I caught a lot of heat over it, and some folks really got upset with me. However as time has marched on most of the places I crunch for have realized that I have friends on several teams, and try to help all of them. It's more of a friend thing now days than the early days of just total team competition. LOL So in my long story here, basically I guess what I'm saying is that I totally understand your reasons behind your PB Toyz Team, and am glad that you are having fun in the crunching world. Who knows, maybe I'll even add yours to my list of crunching efforts at some point in time. :-)