Posts by XS_The

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Over night, The Dual Xeon 5335 will pass RAC=3000 :) (Message 32936) Posted 19 Dec 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: I agree, the rosetta cause is a noble one. Come on, put your machine here and let's see if you can process :) who? I would also like to see,:) But the soldier is already locked into battle with the Legend. The upstart against the mountain DDTUNG. This will be most interesting to follow also. The soldiers air cooled dual clovertown + single clover against DDTUNGS water cooled 2 Kentsfields + e6700. 30 days, winner gets bragging rights:) I say never say never.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Talk about Bad Timing (Message 32601) Posted 13 Dec 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Nice monitor Jose :)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Does overclocking adversley affect rosetta? (Message 32360) Posted 9 Dec 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: I was only a year off. Didn't look until Fluffy pointed it out:) Although i'm glad i looked at the Casp7 results,XS sure threw some logs on the fire for that party.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Does overclocking adversley affect rosetta? (Message 32308) Posted 9 Dec 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: To those who are really interested in knowing if overclocking afects the science just look at results of CASP 7, those machines that produced the best fit. The largest proportion of them belonged to people that overclock. Only 5 on the first page, that i know of personally. I don't have to look any farther to satisfy myself. Machines predictor Opteron 170 @ 2800Mhz. 24/7 cruncher.It now crunches WCG with 100% valid results, what ever that means. meatgrinder2 12/08/2006 21:32:04 0:166:07:43:06 518,857 1,035 166 days 7 hrs. 43min. 06 sec.= runtime WCG opps almost forgot 518,857 points that i don't care about generated :) heater
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Computer cooling (Message 27908) Posted 21 Sep 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Nice case Jose. I voted black ( mine is black) but silver is so clean and classy. I still can't believe we built this right under your nose and nobody let it slip. Quiet an achievement considering how many were involved. I have a 120mm fan mounted with industrial strength velcro placed in front of the mobo so that it blows air across the ram and mosfets. You can squeeze an extra WU out of it that way :} heater allmost forgot, Jose runs a naked cpu he is radical.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Building a new crunching rig? (Message 25925) Posted 3 Sep 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: No, you will need DDR2 RAM, which is different to DDR RAM. Dang, all my PC's have DDR Memory, it's all good memory & I was hoping to use it & save a little money. Oh well I'll just have to get the DDR2 Memory then, Thanks ... Poorboy, if you aren't planning to OC much, if any, there are some Asrock mobos that you can use DDR and AGP on that use VIA chipsets or the 945, IIRC.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25765) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Have you run prime95 x2 yet? You are sorted on running 2 instances? If so run the 8kb. or small FFT and that will stress both cores of cpu. Your in a process of elimination. Motherboard supports dual core. O.S. suports dual core. Memory test.(memtest) Cpu test.(prime95) PSU? (digital multimeter) Hang in there it's worth it :}
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25724) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: The recovery partition is specific to that Compaq/HP model and the hardware etc it came with. If you used that to re-install a cut down version of windows after a hardware change, you are not getting a true picture of things. This also came to me as i hit the bed. You are using a windows disc? Also untill sorted try i stick of 512 in slot nearest cpu.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25679) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Here is 1 you can run in the windows. http://hcidesign.com/memtest/
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25676) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: If your memory passes memtest i would try a new power supply. Weak power supplies can cause all kinds of problems. If a known good 350W power supply gives you the same results my guess faulty memory controller.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25674) Posted 31 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Thinking bad core on the cpu. Sorry if i have missed it but have you run 2 instances of prime95 set the effinity to 0 on 1 and set other to 1. Let it run for awhile.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Captivate And Retain Power Crunchers (Message 25550) Posted 30 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: I had never used the term power cruncher until that post it was a term i have seen used in other post so i used it as a general term. My thoughts of what a power cruncher is a person who uses multiple boxes devoted to a single project who tunes these rigs for maximum output. In general i see comments like the top users get board with a project after they reach the top position so i thought it may be of some benefit if some of these top users would list some things that may keep them captivated. In my observations as a member of such a team here are a few that i see come up in discussions. You must have a reliable stats server with backup takes the #1 spot. (we are stats junkies and need several fixes daily) also this is how we keep track on the performance of individual boxes. Projects that waste cpu power & electricity with quorums of 2-3 are not usually chosen. The project has to be worthy of all this expense in time and money. And i have personally have never seen mention that a project developer should visit our forum. It's nice but it can cause problems. I hope everybody has moved beyond that because it was an honest mistake made by someone who admittedily has very little experience in forums. Also these people need to keep there thoughts on science not a bunch of hard to please crunchers:) All comments made are personal and i in no way represent the XtremeSystems team. XS The Machine is a sub team with a membership that varies at any given time, i personally ran 2 opteron 170 at 2800 watercooled 24/7 on gentoo 64bit because before 5.5.0. these were the top producing rigs with a rac of 2200. I also ran 2 3.4EE on 5.5.0. sometimes 24/7 sometimes not due to heat with 4 rigs running in the same room. I was just a average user with team XS. heater
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Upgrade complete, sort of (Message 25350) Posted 28 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Well, NewEgg and UPS came through. I received my AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Dual Core and the Arctic Cooler Freezer 64 Pro this afternoon. Little bit of a challenge to remove the stock cpu fan. No problem removing the AMD Sempron 3400+. The X2 went right in to the Socket 939. Installing the Arctic Cooler, well, that was an adventure unto itself. The mobo bios had been updated. Ran the AMD Dual Core Optimizer. Windows XP Home booted fine. The new cpu was recognized. BOINC has two instances of Rosetta running at the same time. I assume this is what is supposed to happen with dual core systems. Strangest thing though, I seem to have lost all audio output. No, I didn't forget to plug the speaker cable back in. Hmm on that! Drivers?
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Old/New Credit system comparisons (Message 25075) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: You will need to manually rebench between the switch (H.T. to non- H.T.) to make a valid conclusion. Is it enough to just set use max cpu to 1 or do I have to completely disable HT in the bios? Disable in bios.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Old/New Credit system comparisons (Message 25068) Posted 27 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Does someone have a viewable system that they run 24/7 with a 512 Meg P4 running at 3Ghz with HT off? One with HT On? (With 2 or 3 hour WU run times selected). So we can see the difference between old and new systems with Windows using a P4 with HT off, Windows using a P4 with HT on, Linux using a P4 with HT off, Linux using a P4 with HT on? All systems preferably dedicated crunchers, not being left running Zoo Tycoon all night until the animals all croak. What are suggestions for typical Macs? (High end, medium, low end)? I've got a P4 that meets those specs with HT on. It's a bog standard Dell Dimension 3600 running win XP. I'll give you two days 100% Rosetta. You will need to manually rebench between the switch (H.T. to non- H.T.) to make a valid conclusion.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Captivate And Retain Power Crunchers (Message 25034) Posted 26 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: I think it may be benificial to start a thred and have the power crunchers share their opinons as to what they expect out of a project. This in no way puts down the average users as most say they don't care so much for points as long as they are fair across the board and the others who install and forget.Also they would be welcomed to share if they so desire. This may help project managers who will have to deal with such issues in the future. Sorry for the off topic. Just trying to help in a small way. Delete as necessary i won't take it personally :D
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion of the new credit system (Message 25017) Posted 26 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Well at least a large base of people are fairly happy from getting a boost in credits from the standard client. Since some of the others in the thread were unable to explain it, I'll take a stab at it. Almost the entire base of std clients are seeing a rise due to a few things, averaging from higher powered machines, Why shoud you benifit if i choose to pick my equipment and finely tune it and it does nothing else but power crunch? The science benifits as i tune my rigs for the project nothing else.(this is a hobby for me and i spend a lot of time with my equipment) heater Edit: i run opteron 170's watercooled on linux and 1 p4 windows box on 5.5.0.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : New Crediting system: questions (Message 24978) Posted 26 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Isn't it better to start all over with the new system, like a rosetta 2 project. That makes the competition much greater. A gap from 4 million point takes way to long to close now It would seem the right thing to do after adopting a new credit system. Good luck DPC and may we meet again. heater
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion of project communication (Message 24773) Posted 24 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: Seems to me that people care more about their stats than MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. At last, you've see the lightbulb ;) It's so true, live with the fact that most of the people, who are crunching, lives in that box you have created. I'm one of them, I know I'm a loser, I'll throw me from the bridge for that, but first I want DPC be the number one on all projects, only then I'll find me a bridge. No DC community without descent stats, simple like that :D Let me know what bridge and i'll race you to it :D
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Building a new crunching rig? (Message 24483) Posted 24 Aug 2006 by XS_The_Machine Post: I am running a stock C2D fan on an E6400 in a caseless system. I've turned off all the machines in that room 'cept that one and I can't hear it running. So, I don't think it is loud at all. ...then again I had a lot of high powered machines running, so I may be going deaf! This guy dims the lights on the strip in Vegas when he fires up his rig's. ck. his nick..no joke. seriously some good suggestions have been made you won't be dissapointed with the 6600. Go for it and put it online. heater

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