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Scotttheking · Sep 26, 2002, 10:55 AM

http://distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html

More to be posted when I get back from class

Cake · Sep 26, 2002, 10:56 AM

You beat me to it. Someone can delete my thread.

gumby5647 · Sep 26, 2002, 11:20 AM

So what now? A push in SETI to get back in the top 50? Push in dFold?

unregistered · Sep 26, 2002, 12:41 PM

SETI needs big help, there are big crunchers behind us...

reader50 · Sep 26, 2002, 12:55 PM

We have red teams behind us in SETI, Fold and dFold. I'm not sure where we stand in the new projects. Ubero seems secure, and it looks like RC5-72 will not get started right away.

gumby5647 · Sep 26, 2002, 01:06 PM

i guess ill move back to SETI...

SteevAK · Sep 26, 2002, 01:20 PM

I'm probably going to switch to dfold unless advised to do something else.

I was pretty close to hitting the 500k milestone too.

Scotttheking · Sep 26, 2002, 01:54 PM

Now that this is over, everyone is asking where to go from here.
This is what I would like to see happen.
1. Everyone who can, move to distributed folding.
2. Everyone else move to seti.

Obviously you can run anything, this is just what I'd like to see.

I have to go to work

, I'll post more in 5 or 6 hrs when I get home.
With luck, we will be able to assault distributed folding, and also shore up seti.

chris v · Sep 26, 2002, 02:15 PM

I was like 2 days from 2 million. Oh, well, good showing. We finished at # 52 for teams-- not bad considering where we started.

-- Now what?? Does Distributed.net have another project up their sleeves? What can a G4 take proper advantage of as well as RC 5?

CV

Scotttheking · Sep 27, 2002, 07:08 AM

Distributed Folding likes the G4s with L3 cache.

If people would be willing to rewrite the DF install instructions to be up to date, I'd really appreciate it. If not, I should be able to get to them this afternoon.
I'll also be posting some scripts I've made that should help with running the projects.

Hopefully we can move a lot of power over to DF and SETI, since we sure can use it.

For those who tried to join seti or get WUs earlier today (yesterday, I guess), their server was swamped. It's back to normal now.

BTW, please turn off all rc5 clients, especially those on the proxy.

--Scott

chris v · Sep 27, 2002, 08:28 AM

I downloaded the CLI SETI client last night, and when I input my email address, it says "no such email address" over and over.I tried again this morning, and same thing. Ther GUI client is running fine, but I really wanted to get it going in the terminal so I could take advantage of the speed gains, esp. with the dual proccessor machine. Can you run two diff instances of the GUI client simultaneously on a dual proccessor machine and get double the work?

Right now my Dual Gig is turning a work unit in ~8 hours. Compared to ~14 on a single 450, that's not much of a gain.

Does dfold take advantage of dual processors?

CV

Demonhood · Sep 27, 2002, 02:30 PM

hmm, guess this means i'll have to find those machines which are still running packets for me

for nostalgia's sake, first RC5 block i did: 27-Oct-1997

gumby5647 · Sep 27, 2002, 04:45 PM

Well, perhaps now would be a good time to fire up a Race in SETI now that the SETI server issues are fixed. Or perhaps dFold??

anybody?

just a random idea...

reader50 · Sep 27, 2002, 06:39 PM

I'm wondering if the winning cruncher is on our team. dnetc has not contacted us yet on the team email, but who knows.

Do we have any P3's in Tokyo?

Scotttheking · Sep 27, 2002, 07:00 PM

Originally posted by gumby5647:
Well, perhaps now would be a good time to fire up a Race in SETI now that the SETI server issues are fixed. Or perhaps dFold??

anybody?

just a random idea...

I'm game.
Make a new thread...