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gumby5647 · 10:06 PM

Well, we discussed doing a SETI race 8 months or so, but ruled it out do to SETI server problems. Well, the SETI servers are good now and both SETI and dFold need some attention.....

.....So how about a race? SETI or dFold? Take your pick, and for how long....

Scotttheking · Sep 28, 2002, 11:43 PM

I'm in.
Either one.
Don't care how long.

chris v · Sep 30, 2002, 04:46 PM

I'll take you on in SETI-- how about 30 days? Scott, set up a start/stop time.

10-1 to 11-1?

CV

Scotttheking · Sep 30, 2002, 06:47 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
I'll take you on in SETI-- how about 30 days? Scott, set up a start/stop time.

10-1 to 11-1?

CV

10-10 to 11-10?
That gives more people time to join and maybe reader50 can whip up some stats.

Anyone else want to join in?

chris v · Sep 30, 2002, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:

10-10 to 11-10?
That gives more people time to join and maybe reader50 can whip up some stats.

Sounds good. Make it so!

CV

gumby5647 · Sep 30, 2002, 09:40 PM

yeah sure. SETI is fine. yah 10-10 is good too, that'll give me some time to replace the modem in my PI 200 and bring it back online...

speaking of which,....is this an Unlimited CPU # race? Or are we going to restrict it?

Scotttheking · Sep 30, 2002, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by gumby5647:
speaking of which,....is this an Unlimited CPU # race? Or are we going to restrict it?

No restrictions at all.
The restrictions one really sucked.
How about teams?
Both of you vs me, or add some other people vs me too?

chris v · Oct 1, 2002, 07:01 PM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:

How about teams?
Both of you vs me, or add some other people vs me too?

Whatever gives us a fighting chance�. I've got 4 CPU's and could MAYBE push that to 6 or 7, tops. Maybe it should just be a free-for-all between whoever signs on by the 9th? Or will you crush us under your thumb unless we team up?

CV

gumby5647 · Oct 1, 2002, 07:50 PM

well, ive got a total of 466Mhz crunching SETI
400Mhz G3
66Mhz 601

So, im liking the Team Idea. But it doesn't really matter....

Scotttheking · Oct 1, 2002, 08:18 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
Or will you crush us under your thumb unless we team up?

CV

chris v · Oct 1, 2002, 08:36 PM

The smiley has spoken. Everybody gangs up on Scott.

CV

SkiBikeSki · Oct 2, 2002, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
The smiley has spoken. Everybody gangs up on Scott.

CV

I'll join. I need something for my G4 to do since RC5-64 finished.

I'll also throw my PC on SETI, but it's gone back to 1.466GHz, for some unknown reason it's no longer stable at 1.57. It doesn't give me the BSOD, just freezes like OS 9 did. I haven't seen WinXP do this on any other machine.

mikkyo · Oct 2, 2002, 01:59 PM

I'll race you all in dfold..
oh wait, I win

I could set up for Seti but I really don't like seti, also it isn't as tweakable as the other DC projects, unless thing have changed.

jswayze · Oct 2, 2002, 03:50 PM

What CPUs are you running to get all those WU's?

Originally posted by mikkyo:
I'll race you all in dfold..
oh wait, I win

I could set up for Seti but I really don't like seti, also it isn't as tweakable as the other DC projects, unless thing have changed.

Scotttheking · Oct 2, 2002, 10:40 PM

Everyone who is in the SETI race against me, post your seti usernames.

This race will be you all vs. me.

Is it ok if I change the starting date to Monday, oct 7th, at 12:01AM, EST, and set the ending date at midnight Nov 8th (right as nov 9th starts) EST?

Also, if you want, post your estimated daily production.
I choose to withold that info

Anything else that we need to get ironed out?

SkiBikeSki · Oct 3, 2002, 01:07 AM

My SETI username is of course SkiBikeSki. I'll publish my units/day, after I find out what it is.

chris v · Oct 3, 2002, 06:14 AM

CVREELAND@austin.rr.com (creative, huh?)

averaging 10 W/U's a day right now

CV

Scotttheking · Oct 3, 2002, 10:30 AM

Hmm, I'm only averaging 10.45 WU right now, I wonder if I'm in trouble

Scotttheking · Oct 3, 2002, 10:38 AM

Originally posted by mikkyo:
I'll race you all in dfold..
oh wait, I win

Just for that, I pushed you out of first on DF for a little while.
Now I'm starting to move to seti.

unregistered · Oct 3, 2002, 06:18 PM

SETI name: Gumby5647 (@yahoo.com)

uh, i think i can crank out about 1 a day

gumby5647 · Oct 3, 2002, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by Unregistered:
SETI name: Gumby5647 (@yahoo.com)

uh, i think i can crank out about 1 a day

Grrr. that was me.....stupid log in....

gumby5647 · Oct 4, 2002, 03:30 PM

so monday then?

Scotttheking · Oct 5, 2002, 11:37 AM

Looks like no objections to Monday.
I've switched over to seti.
Currently showing 25 WU/day. No clue how much more I can move then that.

SkiBikeSki · Oct 6, 2002, 12:37 AM

time to add SETI the cron, to make sure it's running every possible second.

Scotttheking · Oct 6, 2002, 02:21 PM

Hmm, 35 yesterday

SteevAK · Oct 6, 2002, 02:23 PM

I'm in. Death to Scott!

Scotttheking · 11:38 PM

here's the baseline that I've got.

Code:
Scott   		9681 
chris v 		179
gumby5647		1884
gumby 6100	28
skibikeski	712
steevak		23
reader50		1047

I also saved the page listing all members, but I think that if anyone else wants to join, it's only fair for them to start crunching from when they join.

Now I'll try and see if I can work a spreadsheet well enough to track stats.

reader50 · Oct 7, 2002, 02:48 AM

Ok, I'm in. Switching the Supercomputer from dFold to SETI.

Down with the evil Scott!

Scotttheking · Oct 7, 2002, 03:12 AM

Originally posted by reader50:
Down with the evil Scott!

Scotttheking · Oct 7, 2002, 03:18 AM

this is what happens when you oppose me

chris v · Oct 7, 2002, 08:06 AM

OK, that's it! you will now feel the wrath of my Power Center 150!

Even if it will screw up my average CPU time.

CV

gumby5647 · Oct 7, 2002, 10:51 AM

actually, you can unlist Powermac 6100/66 (gumby5647). To save confusion ive switched it over to gumby5647 for the duration of the race....

enola · Oct 7, 2002, 12:23 PM

Are there going to be a stats on the competition page for us folks watching on the sidelines?

Scotttheking · Oct 7, 2002, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
OK, that's it! you will now feel the wrath of my Power Center 150!

Even if it will screw up my average CPU time.

CV

I know what you mean. I won't run anything slower then a 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird with DDR ram in order to keep my times low. Don't worry though, if you guys get close, I'll switch all the "slow" machines over too

Originally posted by gumby5647:
actually, you can unlist Powermac 6100/66 (gumby5647). To save confusion ive switched it over to gumby5647 for the duration of the race....

Can do.

Originally posted by enola:
Are there going to be a stats on the competition page for us folks watching on the sidelines?

Yes, I've got a nice little spreadsheet that I'm hoping works. I'll post stats daily (when I remember, luckily the code really isn't time based, it just screws up the "yesterday" part), and if I have time, I'll make a graph and post it too.
Reader50 might have time to whip something up this weekend though, which will work even better.

chris v · Oct 7, 2002, 03:19 PM

Hey Scott, any old time those Beige G3's come in, you can send me mine, so's I can set 'em to trouncing you...

Gotta make another stab at getting bookkeeping to let me run SETI on their Hells. (350 PIII & 1.5 PIV) My daughter has a Gateway, too. Oooh, lookout!

CV

SkiBikeSki · Oct 7, 2002, 04:13 PM

I managed to whip up 8 units yesterday, but there was a few hour period when my PC was running RedHat without SETI. I've made sure that won't happen again (cron). So I now should be able to do 10 units a day. Maybe more if I beg my friends again, but I think I pestered them too much last time.

If I can do 10/day on my own, then I'm happy.

Microns · Oct 7, 2002, 07:26 PM

Better late than never. I'm in.

Seti username Microns

Let's make Scott get that old Mac IIsi with the DayStar 601 card out of the closet and fire it up.

All Seti, All the time...

Scotttheking · Oct 7, 2002, 11:16 PM

And, the first numbers are in

Code:
Team 1 (Scott)	
Yesterday			3 WU
Total			3 WU

Team 2 (Everyone else)
Yesterday			20 WU
Total			20 WU

reader50 · Oct 7, 2002, 11:39 PM

Regarding stats on the site, I'm keeping notes regarding starting figures and day for each participant. Maybe I can hack something up within the next week - 10 days.

Microns · Oct 8, 2002, 07:15 PM

Ouch!

The stats page shows Scott churning out 42 WU's yesterday!

Must have more power! I wonder if its too late to overclock the Hypersparcs. Oh wait, they're already hotter than the surface of the Sun...

All Seti, All the time...

SkiBikeSki · Oct 8, 2002, 08:24 PM

I think somehow the stats on the team site aren't the same stats being used in the competition. Two days ago scott had a lot more that 3. And I find it hard to believe that I turned in 40% of the units for yesterday.

I guess I ought to ask the question, where are the stats for the race coming from?

Scotttheking · Oct 8, 2002, 08:40 PM

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
I think somehow the stats on the team site aren't the same stats being used in the competition. Two days ago scott had a lot more that 3. And I find it hard to believe that I turned in 40% of the units for yesterday.

I guess I ought to ask the question, where are the stats for the race coming from?

I pull em from the total produced page at midnight eastern time. the seti proxy dumps at 2am eastern time. So stats looked funny for the first day. That will be fixed from now on, and on the last day I'll dump the seti proxy in time for the work to get on the stats.

SkiBikeSki · Oct 8, 2002, 08:43 PM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:

I pull em from the total produced page at midnight eastern time. the seti proxy dumps at 2am eastern time. So stats looked funny for the first day. That will be fixed from now on, and on the last day I'll dump the seti proxy in time for the work to get on the stats.

ah ha

Scotttheking · Oct 9, 2002, 12:07 AM

stats run at 1am (sorry, was sleeping at midnight) EST 10-09

Code:
Team 1		
Yesterday			81 WU completed
Total 			84 WU completed

Team 2
Yesterday			46 WU completed
Total			66 WU completed

enola · Oct 9, 2002, 12:54 AM

Wow! Do I have this right? Scott (team 1) vs. 5 other people (team 2).

Damn, Scott, I'm impressed!!

Scotttheking · Oct 9, 2002, 02:21 AM

Hmm, I think I'm going to need a little more oomph in order to keep ahead. I guess it's about time to sacrifice my nice time per WU in favor of more production. Oh well

At least I can move a few more WU/day as soon as I get the slow systems moved from DF to SETI.

SteevAK · Oct 9, 2002, 03:03 AM

Okay, I now have both processors churning on SETI.

Hey, Scott! Catch!

SkiBikeSki · Oct 9, 2002, 11:49 AM

Where on Earth did you find an animation of a smiley firing a redeemer from Unreal Tournament?

jswayze · Oct 9, 2002, 12:50 PM

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
Where on Earth did you find an animation of a smiley firing a redeemer from Unreal Tournament?

I think he found it at:

http://osx.beyondunreal.com/emoticons/s-redeemer.gif

jarling · Oct 9, 2002, 03:29 PM

Seeing how it is gang up on Scott month, I thought I'd point out to him that I just passed him in Folding.

Hey, I've got one lone computer....I take my victories where I can find them.