Posts by BIG DAVE*

1) Message boards : Number crunching : FLOPS/$ (Message 22268) Posted 11 Aug 2006 by BIG DAVE* Post: You guys better forget about that Mercury cell card, it will sell for 7999$ !!! According to xbitlabs: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060731225157.html
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Dr. Baker receives $10m+ grant for Rosetta HIV research! (Message 21245) Posted 26 Jul 2006 by BIG DAVE* Post: The world would be a much better place if all the rich and powerfull like Gates would put their money for a better use...
3) Message boards : Number crunching : code release and redundancy (Message 4880) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: I didn't make myself clear on my last post, when I said there should be more optimized clients I meant not just the Boinc app but Rosetta too... There should be optimized Rosetta for Every kind of OS and processors be it Intel, Amd, Mac, Sun or whatever... And these optimized apps should be made standard by Rosetta so everybody would have to use them, any other app used should be rejected. This way, we'd all be crunching much faster and the cheating would be kept to a minimum. This would help the project in every way, more consistant results and in the points awarded, less cheating and a lot more units being crunched. Sorry for the repeat
4) Message boards : Number crunching : @Admins: quorum of 3 results needed (Message 4879) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: I didn't make myself clear on my last post, when I said there should be more optimized clients I meant not just the Boinc app but Rosetta too... There should be optimized Rosetta for Every kind of OS and processors be it Intel, Amd, Mac, Sun or whatever... And these optimized apps should be made standard by Rosetta so everybody would have to use them, any other app used should be rejected. This way, we'd all be crunching much faster and the cheating would be kept to a minimum. This would help the project in every way, more consistant results and in the points awarded, less cheating and a lot more units being crunched.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : code release and redundancy (Message 4698) Posted 29 Nov 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: I'm repeating myself but it applies to this thread too... To me there's not enough optimized clients! There should be Rosetta clients optimized for every kind of cpu and OS out there and also a default unoptimized client for those who don't know what kind of cpu they have (sse,sse2,sse3 etc etc) To me, the thing that matters the most is getting the maximum amout of valid units crunched for the project. Now all these optimized clients should be made official by the project and only those official clients should be used. This would eliminate almost any kind of cheating, no need for a quorum of 3 and would get more units crunched because almost everybody would be using specifically optimized clients. Cheating can never be totally eradicated so at least this way a lot more crunching will get done and this is only good for the project.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : @Admins: quorum of 3 results needed (Message 4697) Posted 29 Nov 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: To me there's not enough optimized clients! There should be Rosetta clients optimized for every kind of cpu and OS out there and also a default unoptimized client for those who don't know what kind of cpu they have (sse,sse2,sse3 etc etc) To me, the thing that matters the most is getting the maximum amout of valid units crunched for the project. Now all these optimized clients should be made official by the project and only those should be used. This would eliminate almost any kind of cheating, no need for a quorum of 3 and would get more units crunched because almost everybody would be using specifically optimized clients.
7) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Rosetta & Predictor (Message 3811) Posted 21 Nov 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: This is what's great about this project, people actually take time to explain the science! Good luck in your research Vanita.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Processor Speeds (Message 3364) Posted 16 Nov 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: If it's a Celeron M it has a meg of cache so it does help. Maybe you've got some power saving options on that throttles down your p4 processor since it's a laptop?
9) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Graphics (Message 2295) Posted 4 Nov 2005 by BIG DAVE* Post: I myself always leave the graphics off but I know alot of people that love to see them. Having these new cool graphics will definitely help the project!