[SkiBikeSki]

Welcome, I've started this topic to post information about the new RC5 Team MacNN. I hope to every day include the number of units crunched yesterday, a list of our 100 neighbors, and hopefully a listing of our new members and the day they joined.

[SkiBikeSki]

Well this is my first post in the log, please let me know of any other info I should include.

Team MacNN is currently ranked 7,055 and completed 7,787 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 24,193 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #570 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 5,911 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

The current members, in order of overall rank, are: bameling@wcnet.org, homyak@ptd.net, zac4mac@mac.com, KWSN - br0ck, jim@ampcast.com, SkiBikeSki, nswartze@indiana.edu, DocWest, Bockiemon@home.com, and sjaffa@mac.com.

Click below to see our 100 overall neighbors http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[brock76]

Thanks for the effort, and get use to the top spot belonging to me.


brock

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KWSN - br0ck

Member of KWSN - Migratory Coconuts since 3/14/01

[Scotttheking]

Grr, I'm the bottom spot, stupid lowly G3-400.
I'm working my mom for a new computer, holding out for dual 733s if they come out in the next month, other wise dual 533s.

[brock76]

This is for anyone who tries to stand in my way in RC5!!!!

http://206.107.238.45/varmints.wav

EVERYONE!!



brock

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KWSN - br0ck

Member of KWSN - Migratory Coconuts since 3/14/01

[This message has been edited by brock76 (edited 03-19-2001).]

[This message has been edited by brock76 (edited 03-19-2001).]

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is currently ranked 6876, and completed 5,246 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 16,299 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #813 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 9,161 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

Yesterday TheDreadedPirateWesley joined the team and brought us 2,446 blocks and is currently in ninth place.

Click below to see our 100 overall neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[monte]

If I could leave my G4 alone for more than 18 hours, I might be able to crank out more than just 1200 blocks per day

[DocWest]

Hey SkiBikeSki, how about including how much we are increasing in the rankings each day.
for example:
Team MacNN is currently ranked 6876, increasing 179 places since yesterday.
or:
Ranking: 6876 (up 179)

[zac4mac]

Time to get ready for work and school. Long day today, so I'm gonna turn off SETI on the G4 and crank up the priority for RC5 to 9. Let's see what this duallie can do floorboarded. Look out OCN

[brock76]

Let that MP roll!!!!!




brock

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KWSN - br0ck
Challengers?
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Member of KWSN - Migratory Coconuts since 3/14/01

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is currenlty ranked 6668 increasing 208 places since yesterday! We completed 10,170 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 31,597 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #521 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 5,562 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

There were no new memebres yesterday.

Click below to see our 100 overall neighbors.
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[zac4mac]

Welcome to Pirate Wesley...Looks like the priority setting had an effect. I climbed 4508 positions yesterday. hehehe. sustained rate of 6160.97 KKeys/sec. ssssmokin'

BTW, I think I recently learned how these guys at OCN can take a 700MHz Athlon and O-C it to 1+GHz, while I could only squeak out an extra 50 MHz from each of my processors. I'm told that AMD makes ONE chip, then cuts jumpers to slow it down. So they aren't really overclocking, they are re-enabling. Moto and IBM make a small enough lot to sort them, AMD and Intel can't sort their chips due to sheer volume. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[druber]

hey brock, it almost looks like some varmit is ahead of you. you take a couple days off? i'm a little worried about ya.

[brock76]

doooooooh,

DON"T MAKE MY UNLEASH THE HOUNDS!!!



if I'm not in first place by the weekend, then I'll unleash my fleet on RC5.

Right now my fleet has got me 10,058 WUs in S@H since last July.

I'm warning you, you don't want 40-50 Mkeys/sec shoved down you're throat.

cheers

brock

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KWSN - br0ck
Challengers?
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Member of KWSN - Migratory Coconuts since 3/14/01

[druber]

don't 'doh' at me, i'm nswartze sittin' just off the bottom.
those are some heavy seti numbers! you think that'd dissuade me from egging you on about rc5? oh, quite the contrary my friend.

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is currently ranked #6496, increasing 172 since last time. We completed 10,876 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 33,791 Kkeys/second! Our best day ever! Team MacNN is ranked #482 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 4,952 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

Welcome to macnn@chattcrossroads.com, our newest member!

Click below to see our 100 overall neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[SkiBikeSki]

Nice to know that if we need it, brock has a lot of computing power to spare. I wish I had that much just lying around.

So what kind of machine(s) do you guys have lying around. I have a Power Mac 8500 with a 350 Mhz G4 upgrade, and I normally can do 3 MKeys or 1000 blocks a day.

[This message has been edited by SkiBikeSki (edited 03-21-2001).]

[zac4mac]

I have only two Macs. My old 8500 is at work so I don't have to use the PC they provide for anything but e-mail and the web. The 8500 has a G3-400 OC'd to 454(bus is at 56.8 MHz) with 240 MB interleaved EDO, 4 MB VRAM and a P.O.S. iX Micro TT 8MB vid card, a SCSI Zip in the floppy bay and 11 GB of 7200rpm SCSI HD's(a 2 GB and a 9GB)and a bunch of fans to keep everything cool. At home I have a G4 DP500, OC'd to 550 with 1GB RAM, a 45 and a 25 GB HD, both 7200 rpm also, internal zip, Radeon AGP and Orion PCI. RC5 is only running on the G4, so Brock ought to be able to pass me someday...
Jeez dude, I guess you "called out the hounds" on Feb 17-18.. how many Macs you got? I'm headin home soon, and RC5 is gonna drop back down to ~2k/day. I left it alone at max priority for a couple of days just to see what Max for my Mac is. Gotta play some DiabloII, the #1 spot has your name all over it Brock.

[This message has been edited by zac4mac (edited 03-21-2001).]

[Scotttheking]

I've got RC5 on two of my machines.
The listing of macs is my signature, and I've got a K6-233 linux machine.
RC5 runs on my G3, and runs on my 600MHz P3 at work.
S@H runs on my K6-2-300 at work.
It also runs on my P1-233, but that isn't plugged in anymore.
I'm going to figure out some way to get it plugged in and on the network, but I don't know how yet (Boss will notice if machines just start poping put on the network for no reason, so it needs an excuse.
I'll be rising now that the P3 is kicking in.
It runs about 4 hrs per day.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[brock76]

I have:

RC5: G4/350, G3/350, and 15 7200/120s.

Seti@Home and Genome@Home: 17 P3/800s.

brock

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KWSN - br0ck
Challengers?
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Member of KWSN - Migratory Coconuts since 3/14/01

[Scotttheking]

DAMN.

You a network admin, or do you collect computers on a large scale?

My work machine has Win2k Server, can I set up the service thing so that other comps get RC5 on their comp without them knowing/noticing ever? We are on a peer peer network, this is a temporary comp, but it will be on network always.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[Scotttheking]

I just added my new screamer.
I benchmarked it, and it does 26,949.56 keys/sec.
That's right, 27 thousand keys per second.
I guess every bit counts
I'm trying to get my PC compatibility cards to work, but I don't know if the software is compatible with 8.6, and I don't know how to make networking stuff work for the 7.5.5 machine.
It connects to the net using mactcp thru it's localtalk (printer) port.
Anyone know how to connect to the net using DOS 6.2.2, win 3.1, or win 95?
Also, can I use my PC card with 8.6?
And, last, can I put a PC card from a 6100 in a 7100?

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is ranked 6396, increasing 100 from yesterday. We completed 5,922 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 18,399 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #635 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 6,877 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

There were no new members yesterday.

Click below to see our 100 overall neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is currently ranked 6,202, increasing 194 since yesterday. We completed 14,726 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 45,752 Kkeys/second! Our best day yet! Team MacNN is ranked #452 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 4,518 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

There were no new members yesterday.

zac4mac is still ahead of brock in speed and overall stats. This could get messy!

Click below to see our 100 neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100


Also, yesterday was a very good day for the project itself! Processing blocks at over 200 GKeys/s, or 66,534,893 blocks in one day!


[This message has been edited by SkiBikeSki (edited 03-26-2001).]

[keyser_soze]

personally, I don't see Brock passing zac4mac, it just doesn't seem likely. Yes, Brock may be a seti god, but is he really committed to the rc5 effort. Maybe yes, maybe no.

Keyser: "Brock, what is best in life?"

Brock: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women"

Keyser: "That is good."

didn't proof read, might as well give a bonus since you gotta know why it was edited so:

SAM: "What's new, Normie?"
NORM: "Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach & they're demanding beer."

SAM: "What'd you like, Normie?"
NORM: "A reason to live. Give me another beer."

SAM: "What'll you have Normie?"
NORM: "Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap."
SAM: "Looks like beer, Norm."
NORM: "Call me Mister Lucky."

WOODY: "What's the story, Mr. Peterson?"
NORM: "The Bobbsey twins go to the brewery. Let's cut to the happy ending."

WOODY: "Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you."
NORM: "I know. If she calls, I'm not here."

SAM: "Beer, Norm?"
NORM: "Have I gotten that predictable? Good."

WOODY: "How's it going, Mr. Peterson?"
NORM: "Poor."
WOODY: "I'm sorry to hear that."
NORM: "No, I mean pour."
SAM: "What's going down, Normie?"
NORM: "My butt cheeks on that bar stool."
WOODY: "Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?"
NORM: "All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty."

SAM: "What's the story, Norm?"
NORM: "Boy meets beer. Boy drinks beer. Boy meets another beer."
WOODY: "What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"
NORM: "The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson? A beer please, Woody."
WOODY: "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?"
NORM: "A little early isn't it, Woody?"
WOODY: "For a beer?"
NORM: "No, for stupid questions."


See, i think that once brock takes that attitude about rc5, then we will really start to excel as a team.

Oh yeah, if that is too long, especially on OSX release day, lemme know and i'll get rid of it, or if misha reads this and thinks its too long, then feel free to cut down on the content

[This message has been edited by keyser_soze (edited 03-24-2001).]

[druber]

lol! keyser, no need to apologize for being funny. even as things are we're making a decent showing. i'm sure we'll pull a few new members.

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is ranked 6076 and increased 126 from yesterday. Team MacNN completed 10,551 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 32,781 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #492 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 5,049 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

No new memebers this time.

Click below to see our heighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[SkiBikeSki]

I'm with druber, we are making a good showing for only 12 members. We constantly rank in the top 500 for yesterday. That means that we are about the 500th fastest team, and given enought time will be the 500th team overall.

p.s. brock, if you want to be #1 in our team, then you'd better act fast before zac4mac gets to far ahead of you. Sorry zac4mac, but I love stats and brock can, if he wants, give them to us.

[zac4mac]

No offense taken, SBS. I saw the numbers he posted in Feb, pretty impressive. I'm enjoying the spot while I can
I started SETI and joined MacCPU's team, just before wlonh started the team here. I was number 13/13 then, and am 8/42 now. Mostly Macs, but a sprinkling of PC's. Most notably a 40+ headed Athlon Beowulf cluster in Idaho.
This team will get bigger. Look what the SETI team has done.

Zack

[SkiBikeSki]

Team MacNN is currenlty ranked 5962, increasing 114 from yesterday. We completed 10,347 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 32,147 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #451 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 4,533 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

No new members today.

Click below to see our neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[SkiBikeSki]

We are currently ranked 5864, up 98 from yesterday. Team MacNN completed 8,370 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 26,005 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #534 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 5,644 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

There were no new members yesterday.

Click below to see our 100 neighbors.
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[SkiBikeSki]

We are now ranked 5768, up 96 from last time. We completed 7,060 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 21,935 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #706 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 6,691 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

Misha has joined the team! Despite the fact that he's only been crunching for a few days, Misha is ranked 10 out of 13.

Click below for our neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[This message has been edited by SkiBikeSki (edited 03-28-2001).]

[zac4mac]

Hey SBS, hate to break the news, but Misha's a guy.

and he lives in Texas

[SkiBikeSki]

that's a typo really, i'm sorry misha.

[zac4mac]

We got a new member yesterday.
WHO is CHRIS? wow! We are now #1715
Team MacNN jumped up 3821 places due to the new #1, Thanks Chris!

[druber]

holy bajoly, chris! wow, that's a lot of chips to throw on the table at once! and the 100,000 block day? you make my baby g3 cry.

[Bockie]

My Rev B is in denial right now. It's going to find a distant corner of the Internet to hide in for a while. It keeps telling me that it needs companionship (cough,newG4,cough) but a new washer and dryer *somehow* keeps getting put at the top of the family "To Buy" list.

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"Life cannot be contained...Life finds a way."
-Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park (movie version)

[druber]

heading to lunch today saw someone pulling boxes out of a moving van. right there in back was a big white box with a g4 on the side. i didn't want to try and take it or anything. just wanted to go talk to the guy, you know, ask him if he likes it 'n' stuff. a little pathetic, really. our day will come around..

[Scotttheking]

Chris has helped our total, but not our chances of finding the key.
He doesn't do many blocks per day.

I too am waiting for a G4.
I'm holding out for a dual processor 733 for home.
Maybe a quad 1GHz for college

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[druber]

I only did 250 blocks yesterday, should I drop out too? People do what they can with what they've got, and it looks like his usual rate is at least twice what he did yesterday. Besides, it quite a show of moral support to crunch for several years and then throw the whole effort behind a team. Give the guy a break.

[Scotttheking]

That isn't what I'm saying.
I just don't see him as a big deal.
But it is cool to make us ranked much higher.

I may be getting a new machine at work in the next couple of weeks , in addition to the two I have crunching now there, which are a P3 550 and P3 600.
I can't really put SETI on, because it isn't stealthy enough.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[SkiBikeSki]

Just my luck, I leave town for a couple days and something as big as a new member, with 1.4 million blocks, happens. Great. I guess it's still good to know that stuff does go on without me.

Welcome Chris, thank you for all the blocks. I hope you can get us another million but in less time than before (1200 days)

[SkiBikeSki]

We are now ranked 1715! Up 3821 places from yesterday. Team MacNN completed 10,865 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 33,756 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #494 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 5,012 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

Our new member is Chris, and he brought 1.4 million blocks, that helps our rank a lot!

Click below to see our neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100

[malson]

Well, in an effort to raise my per day block production I have enlisted a few of my university's machines in the computer lab. So far, I've configured the faceless client on 5 of the 30 G4/400's in the lab. I would have done more but the lab assistants look at you funny when you change machines every couple of minutes. I guess I'll see if it helps. Here's hoping...

[OoklaTheMok]

hey
I'll be donating to your team for a couple days at least...
It's nice that it's not like SETI where if you leave a team all your units go with you. In RC5 you can join a team for just 2 days and have the units you do during those 2 days permanently added to that team's totals.

[Scotttheking]

Ookla, you Chris?

My production time is going to drop.
My G3 is no longer crunching, and may not be up again until monday night.

Also, most of my crunching is done by my two machines at work, and I'm only at work 4 hrs a day
Good and bad.
And I'm not there on weekends.
So my time is going to be nothing fancy for a few days.

Depends on how hard it is to get the hard drive out of my G3.

STUPID FIREWIRE HARD DRIVE NOT WORKING. AHHHH.

--Scott

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[cteselle]

<----------- The infamous Chris

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Promote Chicken Randomness

[Scotttheking]

Hello Chris.

What machine(s) do you have crunching?
Just out of curiosity, how did you get 100,000 units in one day?


I got my hard drive in, formatting should be done in about 12 or so hours.
Then back to crunching for me.
I wonder if I can get my money back for the firewire case i bought.

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G3 400, 384, 12 + 75 GB
PM 8500 - 150, 48, 1 GB
PM 7100 - 66, 32, 700 MB
PM 6100 - 66, 40, 4.5 GB

[OoklaTheMok]

Chris probably just had never been on a team before, so he had lots saved up when he joined yours.

anyway...

HA! Yesterday was my best day ever! and it went to you guys.

[malson]

Team MacNN is ranked 1669 up 33 from yesterday. Team MacNN completed 49,905 blocks yesterday at a sustained rate of 155,049 Kkeys/second! Team MacNN is ranked #96 for yesterday! The odds are 1 in 979 that this team will find the key before anyone else does.

Click below to see our neighbors
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/...&limit=100