August Weekend?

[Darren]

Is there to be no August Crunch?
There is a Bank Holdiday so it could be a three day one?

I vote for Seti or Simap

[UBT - Timbo]

Is there to be no August Crunch?
There is a Bank Holdiday so it could be a three day one?

I vote for Seti or Simap

Hi Darren,

Sounds fair to me.

Think some of the members might be against doing another SETI crunch (as we've already done 2 this year). So maybe SIMAP's turn again

EDIT: Next part removed as it was the right facts but for the wrong project  :oops:


regards,

Tim

[UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke]

EDIT: The following info is INCORRECT - "excepting that you need a fast PC and 1Gb of memory" - in fact this relates to SAP, not SIMAP

That's a shame. Time was it would run on the old 266 P2s I had lurking about when nothing else would return results from them in a decent time.

Anyway, happy to join in.

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

System requirements for participating in the BOINC SIMAP project

Medium bandwidth internet access, due to typical workunit and result sizes (estimated for approx. 1 hour of calculation time):
Workunit 2 MB
Result 0.5..1.5 MB
64 MB RAM for the SIMAP client
64 MB RAM free space on your harddisc for the SIMAP client

[UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke]

That's all very well but I've just tried it on the K6 550 and it's giving computation errors.

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

Well at least you now know that it won't work with SIMAP

[Darren]

Think some of the members might be against doing another SETI crunch (as we've already done 2 this year). So maybe SIMAP's turn again

regards,

Tim

SETI did come 2nd in the last poll that was run!
But I don't mind which project we run it for

[UBT - Halifax-lad]

Poll time again  :lol:  

[UBT-Shaman]

I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!

And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!

Robin
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[UBT - Halifax-lad]

I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!

And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!

Robin
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thats the point of an "S" club crunch theres more than 1 project out there with an S on the front of it so everyone can participate. Even if there was a crunch with a not suitable project for all, then you could crunch something alternative for the duration of the crunch as everything else

Edit: PS, looking forward to number 1 at SETI

[UBT - Timbo]

I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!

And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!

Robin
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Hi Robin

SIMAP doesn't have such a high requirement - I got it wrong  :oops: - it was SAP that requires 1Gb memory.

regards

Tim

[UBT-Shaman]

Ah that's ok then! If it is that way I'm all for SIMAP

R
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[Temujin]

it was SAP that requires 1Gb memory.

1GB is only a suggestion, I've got SAP running on several 512Mb machines, also a bunch 1GB dual CPU machines

[Swissnic]

Same here - Running SAP on a 1 gig machine (like the laptop i'm using now) means the machine is totally usable whilst crunching.

If you run it on a 512 machine, it become very sluggish.  So what I do is schedule SAP to run from 6pm to 9am on the 512mb machine at work - i.e. while noone is using them, and run 24/7 on my 1/2/4Gb machines...

If you have a dual-core / hyperthreaded processor, 1gb is just enough to run two wu's together.

On my quad core with 4 gb ram, 4 wu's running together with OS use about 2.2gb ram max, so the more proc's you have, the lower the requirement becomes...  :lol:

Hope this helps a few more people join us...  As Synergy are posting about 20k-25k credits today - about 5k-10k more than us!  If we don't really pull out the stops now, there is a chance we won't catch them up and therefore won't make the #1 spot...  :(

But that is highly unlikely knowing this team!!!    8)