Gidday there guys from over the ditch, Acrux here. Just saying hi now that I have got onto the top 50 list of points generated got a little brother living in Adalaide so i sort of have a connection. Just got a intel i7 system running man they fly, gone from 10 to 40 results a day! I'm only doing World Community Grid rather than other boinc tasks.
Dave (Acrux) :wavey2:
Auckland
NZ
G'day acrux, nice to see you on the boards and welcome to BOINC@Australia!
If you need any help with getting the most out of your new system, or anything else for that matter, just post a message.
Have your first dose of "Aussie Karma". biggrin
Hello (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/sgcooke/Smiles/greet013.gif)
oh and here is a little something to make you feel well & truly at home while you're in here
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/sgcooke/sheep.gif)
+1 from me too acrux.
I lived in Wellington for 4 years and loved it. Great country, great people.
Welcome Acrux ! this is the sort of invasion we dont mind at all..!
I am running an i7 also (Ubuntu 8.10 OS for crunching, Windows for games .... never play games but ! :rofl:) and you're right, they are great.
You'll soon have a nice collection of medals over at WCG at that rate... and move up the rankings within the team quite quickly too I imagine.
Anyways, again .. Welcome, and don't be a stranger.. any questions you have about anything, fire away !
(+1 Aussie Karma for coming on the boards too)
(EDIT: I spent a few weeks there, and it only took THAT long to realise that if I was ever kicked out of Australia, NZ is where I'd be headed...)
Welcome acrux, BOINC@Aus isn't in a crash hot position with respect to WCG, in worldwide rankings, so a dedicated i7 cruncher will be a big help in keeping the team holding on, and perhaps pushing up a position or two.
Well done and +1 to you too .... Kiwis are always welcome!
Acrux - Welcome mate. :welbor:
I've just added 2x i7's to my Quads and are only running them at standard settings at the moment - need some study to speed them up when the coolers finally get here. At the moment both of them manage to do less work than 1x Q6600.
We might have to get together and maybe do something at WCG when I'm all sorted out. biggrin
Glad to see you aboard OZ's greatest team. :rocks
Welcome to the team Acrux, glad you could join us! As you can see we're a friendly bunch, any questions don't hesitate to ask!
My other half is a Kiwi, so I've been to your side of the ditch a few times.. Great place!
:welcome1:
Welcome acrux, and glad to have you as a member of the Team. WCG is a very worthwhile project to run that has many worthwhile projects. It will be great to have you I7 crunching WCG for us. :welcome1:
Welcome Acrux, I'm proud to share a little space on the internet. Glad to have you in the team. Maybe we should start up an affiliate team, BOINC@NZ? biggrin
Quote from: teemac on July 06, 2009, 09:06:58 PMneed some study to speed them up when the coolers finally get here. At the moment both of them manage to do less work than 1x Q6600.
It's soooo cold in Dandenong at the moment I don't need heatsinks and I could overclock the becrap out of the CPU's and not worry. Four degrees Celsius tonight and about the same for the next three nights!
:shock
Quote from: Mike Mitchell on July 07, 2009, 01:17:57 AM
Four degrees Celsius tonight and about the same for the next three nights!
:shock
Loooxury!!! :rofl:
Hi Dave, welcome, and happy crunching with the team! I hope you'll enjoy it here ;D
Hey thanks guys great to have such a huge number of replies, btw yes I do secretly love sheep, just to prove your theory :-)
Yeah the i7 is a crunching beast. I have a really old laptop with a dead screen still crunching, a iMac 24" and a Asus dual core intel laptop all going hard they only ever got about 10 results a day on WCG now I often get over forty!!! That is of course with it throttled back so it's no to noisy as my media center PC :-)
So thanks again for the welcome. Actually be jumping the ditch to go rock climbing in about five weeks in Nowra south of Sydney
Dave
Auckland :thanks1:
I've recently moved from down that way... I imagine you'll be climbing around the Shoalhaven river somewhere.... there are some beautiful rock faces along the river... used to go and stay up the river in my boat and we'd feel like we were back in pre-historic times with the towering rocks around us !
Hope you enjoy yourself !
Quote from: Mike Mitchell on July 07, 2009, 01:17:57 AM
Welcome Acrux, I'm proud to share a little space on the internet. Glad to have you in the team. Maybe we should start up an affiliate team, BOINC@NZ? biggrin
Quote from: teemac on July 06, 2009, 09:06:58 PMneed some study to speed them up when the coolers finally get here. At the moment both of them manage to do less work than 1x Q6600.
It's soooo cold in Dandenong at the moment I don't need heatsinks and I could overclock the becrap out of the CPU's and not worry. Four degrees Celsius tonight and about the same for the next three nights!
:shock
Mike, I was in Dandenong on Saturday for the first time ...... yes, I froze. Very cold :)
It sounds like I need to start on WCG after I reach my Einstein goal! :aus1:
Edit: signed up, downloaded a couple. On my way :)
I started crunching for WCG when I heard about the clean energy project which is looking for materials to make cheap efficient solar panels. This appealed to me more than my only other contact with grid computing which was SETI. Pity really I have been a astronomer (ametuer) for a while now and don't really think SETI was a good use of my CPU time. I now am part of an international collaberation, uFun, that is searching for extra solar planets. As a team they have found nine already and I have been part of one of those!
True clean energy project don't give out many units. I get more as I only have that and the influenza project running at present. I have taken to only doing one or two at a time till I get gold then move to the next. Just a day or so away from having gold on all the current projects. I only joined late last year so I have none of the projects before that.
I see aussie boinc is 48th in the number of members in WCG but about 58 in points generated. Is there any way to communicate with the team as a whole to set a goal of getting the WCG ratings up? There must be those who would love the types of projects that WCG puts forward, they are all real practical science rather than some of the more esoteric excersises of some of the boinc projects.
http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org
:cheers:
I'll add my welcome to acrux as well, glad to see you here! :thumbsup:
Once I get to my Einstein target of 250k (should be about another 10 days) I'll swap back to WCG for a while, haven't got too much credit in this project.
Quote from: veebee on July 08, 2009, 07:34:22 AM
I've recently moved from down that way... ..... Shoalhaven river somewhere....
I used to love scuba diving around there too, terrific marine park and plenty of tame fish and squid.
Quote from: ONYX on July 08, 2009, 12:28:59 PMMike, I was in Dandenong on Saturday for the first time ...... yes, I froze. Very cold :)
Did you get out alive? :rofl:
Hmm OK I've heard about this AA several times now, enlighten me. :wink
We may have to change the name to ANZA now. biggrin
We pick a project and get the team to through as much CPU power at it that they like for three weeks.
Once I have my final gold on WCG count me in biggrin
Dumb question (well I am a Kiwi) how do I get my BoincStat pic at the bottom of my signature?
Just like this:
[img]http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_1825392.gif[/img]
Which shows as:
(http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_1825392.gif)
And another dumb question: what does BSrac in the stats sig mean?
I think BSrac means BoincStats recent accumulated credit which is an your position or points on an average of I think the last 60 days. So if you haven't been doing much for years and have a low over all average your rac is a better indication of how you are fairly compared to others who are currently active.
Thanks.
It is Recent Average Credit, and there is a definition of how it is calculated here (http://boincstats.com/page/faq.php#61)
Quote from: Drudge on July 11, 2009, 11:00:12 AM
And another dumb question: what does BSrac in the stats sig mean?
Your recent average (daily) credit as calculated by BOINCStats.
Well I'm happy now I have just got my last gold in WCG so I have a full rack now! :yahoo:
Congrats! :congrats
I've just obtained my first bronze medal so I have a long way to go.
Thanks WikiWill it won't take long. I started crunching only in about October last year generally with either four slow machines and recently an i7 monster :-)
The one PC at work was fine untill they blocked that port so it couldn't send or get results.
My old Toshiba laptop isn't crunching now as it won't even boot. Went for four months still crunching without a usable screen, just lots of horrible vertical lines! I couldn'd use the external VGA either but I had LogMeIn installed and could get in that way to keep Boinc going!
Another PC is a remote weather station PC a five year old IBM cheapie, had to stop crunching on that when I got a new weather station that used more processor time and was becoming unstable when Boinc ws going as well.
So now it is just the 24" IMac, Asus Laptop (the replacement) and an i7 that is also my HTPC (home theatre) but the i7 is throttled back so as to use less power and be quieter.
Dave.
Last gold in WCG, eh? Well done!
Just have to shoot for Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire now...
So these AA things, how will I know when one is going to happen? I have my email address correct in this forum is that all I need?
Dave M ???
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I hope you enjoy the next AA, I always like taking part when I am able. :)
Thanks Kashi have done that now. How many weeks away is the next one happening?
They are every 3 months, so AA19 should start in just over 7 weeks I think.
When Mysteron was talking about these other badges I thought he was pulling my leg as I hadn't seen that these three new levels were added in the last month.
Ruby - 180 days
Emerald - 1 year
Sapphire - 2 years
This adds a whole new level to hard to get badges !!!
Quote from: Mysteron347 on July 15, 2009, 11:00:03 PM
Last gold in WCG, eh? Well done!
Just have to shoot for Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire now...