Join BABB teams for Einstein-, orbit-, LHC-, and seti-@home - Page 4

gopher65 · #91 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 02:18 PM

Darn it I just noticed this with a few minutes left on my "h1XXX..." WU

. 13 hours of CPU time down the drain hehe.

Klausnh · #92 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Allen

I found a script that I have used before, which I can use to grant credit to users/hosts/teams for workunits which I have cancelled. I am going to use this to grant credit to people who have had the misfortune of getting and doing work then having it cancelled.

Bruce

added:
The CPU time for science was wasted. But nice gesture to show the E@H team appreciates the time people donate.

Ken Vogt · #93 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 05:31 PM

Thanks again, Klaus. This may ease things, gopher, but I don't know exactly how it will give credit for aborted WUs. No matter, not a big issue for me, even if no "extra credit" is given.

And a couple posts down in the thread Klaus links:

Quote:

that is a nice touch, Bruce....Thank you very much.

Real science is VERY error prone. In fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of real research is that (especially the first and second time) one gets it wrong more often than not. The only saving grace in all of this is that with other scientists you get 99.9% forgiveness for being brutally honest about what happened and why. That's the one thing that I can promise Einstein@Home participants that they will get 100% of the time.

And not an easy mistake to be brutally honest about. We are lucky in both our projects to have such quality individuals in charge. Me, I cover up my mistakes like my cats in their litterbox whenever I can get away with it. Not a bad analogy, on several fronts.

Minbari · #94 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 08:56 PM

Nice, all systems are nominal again. =D> Go Team BABB

Ken Vogt · #95 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Minbari

Nice, all systems are nominal again. =D> Go Team BABB

Excellent, Minbari, excellent!

Somewhat mixed feelings as we pass my original team Spread Fiefox into 31st place; also now 21st in RAC.=D>=D>

Impending doom on the personal credit front, but I will try to be brave. :wink: 8)

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Edit: Added at 2300GMT 6/28:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Allen

Good news -- I'm giving credit for cancelled and 'download error' work as well as successful and valid results. Since these problems were my fault it seems the least I can do.

Minbari · #96 (**permalink**) 29-June-2005, 12:23 PM

Wounderful news, though it isn't really about the credits is it

All these new members are really helping push team BABB's Avg credts up. A few more members and/or hosts then we be looking at passing more on the ladder that are in our sights

Who would of ever thought that the public could of become this useful in conducting such important scientific research as this.

Totaly cool. Its great to feel one can truley contribute in a great way (regardless of occupation), also its excellent how these projects can bring together communities of similar minded people.

Great stuff.

=D>

TravisM · #97 (**permalink**) 29-June-2005, 06:51 PM

Joined the team for Orbit@Home...

Still busy'er than such-n-such and will attempt a distrbuted install with BoincView after I get in our new Celeron 2.0 GHz PCs...

8)

Edit to add:

OVER 70 MEMBERS STRONG!

=D>

Klausnh · #98 (**permalink**) 29-June-2005, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TravisM

Still busy'er than such-n-such and will attempt a distrbuted install with BoincView after I get in our new Celeron 2.0 GHz PCs...

8)

Edit to add:

OVER 70 MEMBERS STRONG!

=D>

Then I guess I have no chance of catching you.

Ken Vogt · #99 (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 01:22 AM

Einstein@Home

Congratulations to our newest members with 50,000 credits: Minbari, azazul, and, rapidly being left in the dust by the above, yours truly.

=D>=D>

And a very warm welcome to our 76th member, Udo, who joins with over 19,000 in prior credit and immediately becomes BABB team leader in RAC with over 844.=D>

Edit: And a very warm welcome also to our 77th member, KHarvey16, who joins with 1500 prior credits.=D>

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We now have a total of 109 computers registered to the team. Congratulations to all team members whose landmarks I've forgotten to post.

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BOINC

Incidentally, I just realized that the later versions of BOINCmanager also allow remote control, although much less flexibly than BOINCview. You switch between viewing your local and remote boxes by using "select computer" from the file menu.#-o

ops:

You first have to create the remote_hosts.cfg file on the remote box, just as with BV.

Biggest disadvantage to the BOINCmanager remote control is that you see only one computer at a time, and must switch manually between them, rather than all boxes in one view, like BOINCview. If there is interest, I'll try to update the ancient post about BV with the BOINCmanager method.

Fram · #**100** (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 08:08 AM

As we are still slowly rising on RAC (recent average credit), and some of the teams ahead of us are dropping (due to the summer?), it looks like we may enter the top 20 (the first page!) on RAC pretty soon. I'm preparing a celebration already :wink:

Wolverine · #**101** (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 08:52 AM

My contributions have diminished a bit due to a newly developed Battlefield 2 addiction.

ops:

gopher65 · #**102** (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolverine

My contributions have diminished a bit due to a newly developed Battlefield 2 addiction.

ops:

I hear that is a pretty computer intensive game

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Laser Jock · #**103** (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolverine

My contributions have diminished a bit due to a newly developed Battlefield 2 addiction.

ops:

I've also had to reduce mine because I've "upgraded" my system. I got some high-performance memory, but it is so power-thirsty, I can't overclock my system anymore with my stock 400 W power supply.

I'm looking to get a new power supply, but that may be a while.

Ken Vogt · #**104** (**permalink**) 06-July-2005, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fram

As we are still slowly rising on RAC (recent average credit), and some of the teams ahead of us are dropping (due to the summer?), it looks like we may enter the top 20 (the first page!) on RAC pretty soon. I'm preparing a celebration already :wink:

Fram, Top 20 RAC, Indeed! =D> =D>
Congratulations to the whole team for this achievement.

[Edit]: Temporarily, one hopes, we've slipped back to #21, by 44 points to Poland.

ops: The competition for these top 20 spots is fierce, see this from #18 Team Canada.[/edit]

And a warm welcome to member #78, Stagefright.

Thanks also to Archer17 for bumping the BAAB blurb he posted over at the Cafe Einstein.

Sympathy to Laser Jock on the power supply. And to Wolverine...well...Battlefield 2 also advances the cause of Scientific Progress? :wink:

Or displaces aggression, also a good thing?

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orbit@home

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pasquale Tricarico

News

July 5, 2005
Orbit@home status update: we didn't manage to fix the few website problems still around, and we didn't write the intro page yet. The main reason for this is that we're using all of our very limited resources to try to get orbit@home funded. This first funding wave will end on July 22. After that, a preliminary application and some work units should be available shortly. The subscription phase ended one week after the orbit@home website launch, and for the alpha phase we can count on 1036 users and about 1400 computers, with about [55% Intel, 43% AMD, 2% PPC], [92% Windows, 6% Linux, 2% Darwin] and [78% 1-CPU, 20% 2-CPUs, 2% 4-CPUs or more].

I'll let you know when the PayPal link appears over at o@h.

Actually, PT earlier posted that if he couldn't get funding he'd fund o@h himself; maybe he's backing off that now that he has the leverage of 1000+ users chomping at the bit?

azazul · #**105** (**permalink**) 06-July-2005, 07:47 AM

For those who don't read BABBling, here is a post about the team's future web page.

Laser Jock · #**106** (**permalink**) 06-July-2005, 04:32 PM

I've noticed another oddity on one of my machines. It is claiming ~74 credits/WU instead of ~96 credits/WU. The time it takes to complete a WU seems about the same. It seems to have started with the new S4 data set. My other machine did not seem to change much; 93/WU instead of 91/WU. Has anyone else noticed anything?

Ken Vogt · #**107** (**permalink**) 06-July-2005, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Laser Jock

I've noticed another oddity on one of my machines. It is claiming ~74 credits/WU instead of ~96 credits/WU. The time it takes to complete a WU seems about the same. It seems to have started with the new S4 data set. My other machine did not seem to change much; 93/WU instead of 91/WU. Has anyone else noticed anything?

Is this the machine you recently declocked? Did BM redo the benchmarks when you restarted? If not, you might try that; I know when I changed OCing a while back it had to run renchmarks before crunching again.

Other than that L J, I can't think of anything; your results for computer does look strange with the sudden shift to lower credit.

Both my boxes show no appreciable change before and after S4. Anyone else know something?

Klausnh · #**108** (**permalink**) 06-July-2005, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ken Vogt

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laser Jock

I've noticed another oddity on one of my machines. It is claiming ~74 credits/WU instead of ~96 credits/WU. The time it takes to complete a WU seems about the same. It seems to have started with the new S4 data set. My other machine did not seem to change much; 93/WU instead of 91/WU. Has anyone else noticed anything?

Is this the machine you recently declocked? Did BM redo the benchmarks when you restarted? If not, you might try that; I know when I changed OCing a while back it had to run renchmarks before crunching again.

Other than that L J, I can't think of anything; your results for computer does look strange with the sudden shift to lower credit.

Both my boxes show no appreciable change before and after S4. Anyone else know something?

no change on my machine