New to UK BOINC
New to UK BOINC
Good day all,
I'm Ian Matthews task crunching for SETI@home. I have only recently joined the SETI project (5 Apr) and have been quietly doing my own thing until yesterday when I joined UK BOINC. I'm a pom living in New Zealand so I think my joining the UK group shouldn't cause too many raised eyebrows!
I tend to leave my machine on all of the time, so the tasks crunch non-stop. I'm not sure how performance is measured, but I have been surprised that it's taken 2 weeks to break the 10k barrier - I thought it would be quicker looking at the other users into the 100s of millions! Perhaps my throughput is slow or I just need to stick at this for a lot more years.
Hope to be able to partcipate in other aspects of team activities.
Cheers,
Ian
I'm Ian Matthews task crunching for SETI@home. I have only recently joined the SETI project (5 Apr) and have been quietly doing my own thing until yesterday when I joined UK BOINC. I'm a pom living in New Zealand so I think my joining the UK group shouldn't cause too many raised eyebrows!
I tend to leave my machine on all of the time, so the tasks crunch non-stop. I'm not sure how performance is measured, but I have been surprised that it's taken 2 weeks to break the 10k barrier - I thought it would be quicker looking at the other users into the 100s of millions! Perhaps my throughput is slow or I just need to stick at this for a lot more years.
Hope to be able to partcipate in other aspects of team activities.
Cheers,
Ian
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Welcome aboard Ian
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I tell you what Ian, if you were to run the chicken optimised seti app on that core 2 6600, you'd get a much more satisfying 2000+ credits a day from it
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I tell you what Ian, if you were to run the chicken optimised seti app on that core 2 6600, you'd get a much more satisfying 2000+ credits a day from it
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Good day all,
Thank-you for the very friendly welcome. After two weeks I'm already close to admitting 'I'm Ian Matthews and I have a SETI problem'!. I have been bitten by the SETI@home bug - apart from having a whizz of a screensaver, I find myself subconsciously checking for milestone credits - first 500 then 1000, now 10k and so on - am I the only one? It's quite irrational and something of a worry - I haven't been like this since I swapped marbles as a boy 40 years ago! Joking aside, the bottom line for me is that my spare PC capacity and vacant staring at credits is doing some good.
Ian
Thank-you for the very friendly welcome. After two weeks I'm already close to admitting 'I'm Ian Matthews and I have a SETI problem'!. I have been bitten by the SETI@home bug - apart from having a whizz of a screensaver, I find myself subconsciously checking for milestone credits - first 500 then 1000, now 10k and so on - am I the only one? It's quite irrational and something of a worry - I haven't been like this since I swapped marbles as a boy 40 years ago! Joking aside, the bottom line for me is that my spare PC capacity and vacant staring at credits is doing some good.
Ian
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