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S.A. BOINC

Hello to meee

Anyone else want to say hello?

Careful, start talking to yourself and the next step is a nice room with padded walls

I crunch for einstein@home since I've always loved astronomy and find the whole field fascinating. I suck at maths though , so I might as well let my PC help the researchers in some small way even if I can't.

Astronomy Cast has a nice episode on Gravitational waves and many other topics, check it out if you're even slightly interested in the topic.

Hello everybody...

I'm running WCG.

Ok... now I'm crunching for Einstein@Home too...

Better late than never - was waiting for the BIG day
My main crunch is in Cosmology
Started Milkyway today

Oh the BIG day - Hit a MILLION today

Congrats Pongo!!:P

This is just a guess but you have BOINC installed and running on more than one machine right?

Thanks for asking

I have a small business converting vinyl, 8mm home films, BetaMax/VHS and anything old to digital – CD / DVD etc.
For this I use 3 machines: a dual core Intel E2200, an AMD 64X2 4200, a 2.8 Celeron and my daughters 2.3 Celeron.

Tell us what are you running?

Big milestone Pongo, well done!

I recently bought another Core2 Quad (ouch credit card hehe), so I hope I'll hit a million in the next 3 months or so. Pity Folding@home doesn't count towards your stats, the PS3 and graphics card apps could be useful.

Thanks Stackoverflow & Peter for your reply
I started with SETI classic in 1998.
I was then working for a company that supplied BIG Intel based servers.
When I say BIG I mean BIG. The one make of server we supplied was called an Axil.
This mean machine could run Windows NT4 Server with 8 x Pentium Pro 200Mhz procs and 2GB ram.( In 1998 !! )
This machines’ design eventually became the HP NetServer.
After an absence of 5 years I started crunching again, this time in BOIC.
I started again with SETI but they but soon found out that I was addicted to credit.
I mean, we don’t get paid with money – credits are the only awards.
I started gambling with an Alpha project that is researching the same basic cause as SETI :
– http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ –
It paid of with all their up’s & downs because they awarded the best credits.
No fancy screensaver graphics like SETI but sometimes with 8 x the credit awards.
OK I must admit all my machines are over-clocked to the limit

PS

S.A. BOINC what happened to you – long time no hear

Pongo wrote:S.A. BOINC what happened to you – long time no hear

I drop in here now from time to time, just to see if anyone starts talking to one another!. I'm very glad a few people have decided to break the silence!

Its a forum, so no harm in chatting once in a while. It does require a hand full of people to post messages.

I will visit more regular now that there might be some fellow crunchers to talk to

S.A. BOINC

Pongo wrote:This mean machine could run Windows NT4 Server with 8 x Pentium Pro 200Mhz procs and 2GB ram.( In 1998 !! )

Hehe, I remember carrying a 4x Pentium Pro 200Mhz server up four flights of stairs around about that time period (97-98 ). The lifts were down for maintenance when I got there, and I swear the thing weighed more than a 21" CRT. All I could think of was how long it would take me to pay the damages if I dropped it

Pongo wrote:Tell us what are you running?

Hi guys...

I wasn't expecting a response so soon. I'm actually just running BOINC on a single machine, my laptop. I've got an Intel Dual Core T5600, clocking at about 1.83Ghz. I use it at home and work and have BOINC running in the background.

I know I'm not going to hit 1 mil anytime soon which is another reason why I decided to join a team. It just makes my contribution feel more significant if I'm working in a team.

I started out with SETI as well... must have been after 2000 though. I can't remember but I don't crunch for them any longer. Can't do too many projects with only one machine...

I was one of the first members and also started the first website for this group. Retired and joined teamonline, basically as there was nothing going on here!!
Glad to see we (you) have an active teamleader. Things should go well now.
Best wishes for everyone.
I have done about 3,100,000 points for teamonline and it will break my heart to start all over for a new team!!
Lets wait and see.
I'm trying to reach Pongo for VHS stuff. Is it bad form to mention it here
He can contact me at faniediv at absamail dot coza.
My apologies if I am totally out of line
Stay well everyone and keep on crunching

Hi fanie

What's Teamonline?

fanie wrote:I was one of the first members and also started the first website for this group. Retired and joined teamonline, basically as there was nothing going on here!!
Glad to see we (you) have an active teamleader. Things should go well now.
Best wishes for everyone.
I have done about 3,100,000 points for teamonline and it will break my heart to start all over for a new team!!
Lets wait and see.
I'm trying to reach Pongo for VHS stuff. Is it bad form to mention it here
He can contact me at faniediv at absamail dot coza.
My apologies if I am totally out of line
Stay well everyone and keep on crunching

Hi fanie,
Good to see you registered here

You were indeed one of the original founders that tried to unite team South Africa in one website. Its a difficult thing to do!

Fanie could i suggest that its OK to be on both teams!. You can be part of teamonline and team South Africa and that way, you have the best of both worlds!

Just pop in here from time to time and post a message or two

stackoverflow,
Teamonline is another team on some of the BOINC projects. There are about 60,000 teams in total. Our team is called "South Africa" and there is only one team with that exact spelling!. Its the largest South African team by a very large margin. You can see the top 100 team members on the images on the front page here.

S.A. BOINC

Next Q

SA Boinc - Can't find your name / stats
Are you listed under an other name?

Pongo wrote:Next Q

SA Boinc - Can't find your name / stats
Are you listed under an other name?

Pongo,
You have asked a very good question there! "Why does the name S.A. BOINC not appear in any stats?"

The answer is simple. This account called "S.A. BOINC" does not have any credit on any BOINC project, none!. I simply invented the name because its short for South Africa BOINC. So i set up this account just for the specific purpose of being a completely neutral account so that the name is not any specific persons name, website name or anything like that. The name is simple, neutral and functional.

By the very nature of the various BOINC projects, people come and people go. They join a project like SETI@home, Climate prediction, Rosetta, whatever. They often start a team on the project and then they get tired of it after a while and leave. So as a result, team South Africa has over 10 different team founders on different projects. Some of these founders are active and some are gone. That leaves the non-active founders teams with nobody to update the team info with this website address for instance. Read this; Team South Africa list of team founders and team Info

So if i get tired of running BOINC projects, then i will willingly hand over the whole "S.A. BOINC" account details and passwords to the next person who is willing to mind this team for a few years. And i would hope that person would then do the same thing when they get tired of minding the team. In this way, team South Africa will always have at least one person minding the "Team Account" and allowing this team to last well into the future!

My name is John. (And i'm not "John Neale" who is the founder on SETI@home/Beta. I'm just John!!!)

Thats very thoughtful of you...

But seriously Mr BOINC / John, do you crunch and if so, which projects are you working on? (if you don't mind me asking)...

stackoverflow wrote:Thats very thoughtful of you...

But seriously Mr BOINC / John, do you crunch and if so, which projects are you working on? (if you don't mind me asking)...

I started on SETI@home just like the vast majority of people running BOINC projects. But i have a general interest in all things scientific so i have run a wide variety of the projects. But if i was to say i had a preference, it would be for space science and astronomy projects like SETI@home, Einstein@home, etc.

What projects are you running stackoverflow?

S.A. BOINC wrote:What projects are you running stackoverflow?

I was running just WCG, then recently I added Einstein@Home and shortly after that Cosmology@Home... I like all things science related and do not have a preference... Yet.

stackoverflow wrote:Hi fanie

What's Teamonline?

Sorry for the late reply. The team's official name is myonlineteam

My apologies to John as I complained in another tread that we do not know his name.
Should have looked before opening my big mouth

Cool... Now that everybody's been introduced to everybody else it starting to feel like that weird moment at a dinner party where no one has anything else to say...

Godzilla is on. I cannot believe that something so Big could jump in the water without making a huge splash.

Can someone with more brains than me please explain?
I sold my AMD X64 4200+ box and replaced it with an Intel E4600
I ran the Boinc CPU benchmarks before and after
The 2497 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU on the AMD increased to 2854 and
the 4586 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU increased to 5901
Both CPUs over clocked to its max: The AMD to 2.40Ghz and the Intel to 2.90Ghz / CPU. Not a very big increase.
But now the funny part!
The average CPU time / Cosmology work unit (average of 80 units) dropped from 4211 second to 2356.
Nearly twice as fast

Hi Pongo

I admit that what I know about overclocking is dangerous , but wouldn't the clock speed of your FSB and that of the RAM be factors in the performance improvement?