The Scottish Boinc Team

I don't run SIMAP, so I turn my 4 cores over to Leiden for at least a week. Whether or not I stay on it depends on the credit returned, as I'm still aiming for my 5mil. After which I shall slow down and let the machine rest while I'm at work, instead for burning up the leccy.

Ian

Collatz seems to be back. Perhaps it doing it's holiday bounce and will be up and down till new year.

Ian

I think I had better revise my time a bit. Don't want to be too pessimistic.

14:00 26th December.

IAn

30th December 01:00 hrs.

Ian

Yep, Collatz has crashed and burned. I don't think it could stand the strain of all the ex-MW crunchers hitting it for tasks for their ATI cards.

Ian

I've just recently (this week) started running Collatz. The reduction in credit I saw when I got in from work was frightening till I tried the new app for it. I was surprised that it ran OK on my 9800GT, as MWGPU tells me it isn't CUDA 2.3 compatible. Collatz is giving me 500+ credits for 35 mins on...

I don't always like blowing my own trumpet, but that's 1,000,000 passed in GpuGrid, and shouldn't be too long before I get there in Milky way as well. WooHoo (Trumpet blast.) What I need now are a couple of other projects that pay as well. Unfortunately my graphics card won't run the MW CUDA app. Ian

Since I have a chance to change, again, I'll go for 10:00 on 4th Sept.

Ian

Hi,
Followinf everybody else, I think I'll move my guess ahead 24 hours from 5:00am 4th sep to 5:00am on the 3rd Sept.

Ian

Just to keep you looking at stats all through the night, I'll go for 4th Sept 05:00.

Ian

Hi, I just checked my account on the MW site, and all my credits are back, also showing up correctly in my BOINC manager. Just need to wait for the stats sites to catch up. I probably only lost the units that were cancelled, so no harm done to me. I think they have done a good job in getting the sys...

From what I can gather on the MW site, the MW app uses the ATI graphics cards, rather than the NVidia supported CUDA interface. So it'a OK with new'ish ATI card ( 3xxx nad 4xxx series) but doesn't run on NVidia cards.

Ian

Good advice there from Nightlord. In adition, I would reset the BIOS to it's defaults using the motherboard jumpers. The instructions should be in your mobo manual.

Ian

First thing I would try is reseating all the power cables to the motherboard, especially the 12V CPU power connector. If that doesn't work:- Disconnect all external peripherals and try again. Strip the system to PSU, CPU and mother board only (and leave in the graphics card if there is no onboard gr...

I have it installed on my notebook for evaluation. Seems pretty good so far. At first glance very like Vista, but feels much quicker. It still seems to want as much memory as Vista, but as I installed it as an upgrade to Vista, rather than as a fresh install, that may have something to do with it. I...

Assuming you are looking at the cards for GPU Boinc, which means the 260 and 280, the 260 is about Â£15 pound cheaper than Ebuyer and the 280 is the same. So both in the right ballpark for average to OK prices. Other suppliers may vary, but I use Ebuyer. http://www.ebuyer.com/search?limit=50&sto...

If it's a modern graphics card, the DVI port also supports Analogue Video. A cheap DVI-VGA adaptor will have the pictures on your screen. I use one for my 2nd monitor.

Ian

Well done Ian. I thought that with the new Ninja Cruncher you were going to beat me to the Mega Score. I've been watching BOINStats all day waiting for it to roll over. Looks like I picked the wrong one to look at. Now that I've got there, I'm going to cut back a bit. The electric bills keeping the ...

Well, I'm certainly willing to concede defeat. Even Rowpie's new Ninja MegaBox isn't going to give the boost it needs to get the total up. So unless there is a hiddden cache waiting to be downloaded...

All Hail The Hero.

Ian

Your numbers on BoincStats are certainly moving up. The flash I saw in my rear view mirror was deffie aided by the 12 1/2 K a day for GPU grid. A big increase over my 3k from a 9800GT. You should overtake me in about 10 days at that rate. And you had 7th best RAC in the team, from one box, today. We...

I kinda scared to do this after the last two competitions, but:-

168,250,000

Ian

Two competitions in a row. This is getting embarassing. Sorry Steve.

Many thanks to all the Crunchers whose efforts have helped TSBT get to number 50 a lot quicker than I expected.

Onward and upwards.

Ian

There only one Ian Baker, I just managed to mess up my signing on to the team. But I can't be lucky twice, can I?

Ian

Since it's still available, I'll take the 17th to pass Hungary.

Ian

I suspect the new Milky Way Client may have something to do with that. I've added about 4k credits with only 2 cores running it, over 12 hours.

Ian

Everything I have has been running Enigma for the last few months, so it's already getting all I have. Hopefully some of the "farms" out there will displace me from my currwnt #3 position.

Competitions in Enigma and PS3Grid. I love this game.

Ian

Cutting edge is what makes it fun.

I am still at BOINC 6.3.10, so I can only theorise that any changes have happened in the CPUGrid client.

Ian

I noticed that one of my grid WUs errored out, fortunatelu after only a few seconds. The rest seem to be OK. On a lighter ( for me) note. I put a new heatsink (Zalman VF1000) on to my 9800GT and the temperature has dropped from 90 DegC to 67 DegC, plus it is running much quieter even with the fan at...

There have been some more "upgrades" I've noticed on GPUGRID. A week or so ago, it changed from minimal CPU time to taking about 20% of a core. This evening, I noticed that I have 4 instances of Enigma running, along with my one GPUGrid, with the GPUGrid taking around 7% of one core, and t...

According to http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=316
the 256Mb 8800GT will run fine. And at that price, two will run even better.

Ian

Good to hear you are back up and running. I spent a whole weekend once having to take the graphics card out, reset the BIOS, rinse and repeat, until I got it working again.

Ian

I had a similar experience on mu P5K-E mobo. The first few times I was able to recover it by reseting the BIOS with the jumpers, which are cleverly hidden under the graphics card. You may have to also do a BIOS recovery using a USB memory key with a good BIOS version on it to reflash the BIOS. Also ...

WOW!!!!!

Brilliant. Now we know where the red-tops get their news.

Ian

The first complete WU just finished on my new 9800GT, giving the usual 3232 credit in 16hrs, instead of the 42hrs that the 8600GTS oc took. That will give me an extra 3k per day. Next thing to try, when I get time, is to put the 8600GTS back in the 2nd PCIe slot and try running 2 WUs at once. But th...

As a wee addition to the "weirdness" of PS3Grid. After I restart my system from hibernation, the PS3 grid does not run. It shows as running, takes up one core of the Quad, but is not running on the GPU. I can tell this because the temperature is sitting at the "resting" value. If...

That's the 9800GT ordered. I can't believe I just spent that much money to run BOINC. I'll need to start doing some serious gaming to justify it.

Ian

Woo Hoo. Thank you, thank you thank you.

(Waits for thunderous applause to stop)

I'd like to thank my agent, my manager , and especially all the crunchers on TSBT for contributing their CPU cycles and electricity.

Ian

Cheers Buster. If I can finish a GPU unit tomorrow that will help me along as long well.

But it's not over yet.

Ian

I was looking at:-

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148064

which seemed to offer most of what I was looking for. It's a few Â£ more expensive then the one in your URL, but probably exactly the same.

Some very good prices from that supplier. Time for a browse...

Ian

My first WU finished just inside the deadline, running for about 42 hrs, and gave me 3232.06 credit. Not bad for (in my case) three days on one core plus the GPU. I have been looking at the 9800GT card, with 112 shaders, compared to the 32 in my 8600GTS. Does anyone know how the app scales (assuming...

It's not over the the last cache empties...

PSU should be OK, it's a Hiper Type-R 580W modular. But after looking at the higher end cards, they wont fit my case anyway. The end of the graphics card goes exactly where my drive cage is, and overlaps it by abot 1"". I would need to find somewhere to relocate 4 off my HDDs to let anythi...

Hi guys, thanks for the info. I don't have another box to use so I'm stuck with waiting it out till completion. As you said I have 4 WUs d'loaded and the running one is increasing it's Time to Complete at about the same rate as it's runtime. Currently at 3hrs runtime and 8 hrs to completion. Looking...

I thought I would give this a try, always looking for things to experiemnt with. So I've installed the latest CUDA drivers, downloaded and installed the application from the site and have one WU running. I didn't notice any difference, except that the temp of my 8600GTS card has gone from 50 DeC to ...

Yeah, I don't know what the change in the BIOS to stop it from slowing down, but since my system runs BOINC at 100% all the time, it's not really a problem. Your temps seem quite low. Is that the core temp or the CPU temp which you are quoting? My CPU temp at full load ( and currently slowed down to...

I have a similar setup (well, the motherboard and PSU are the same, but with a Q6600) and get the same slowdown when the system is not under load. According to CPU-Z, it's the multiplier which is reducing from 9x to 6x when the system is unloaded, but the clock speed stays the same.

Ian

That's a pretty low temp you have for that speed and voltage. I have 1.288V at 9 x 333Mhz and my temp is 65 DegC.

What are using to cool your proc?

Ian

Hi, Here's my take on a cheap cruncher. I can't guarantee it will do much else tho'. But it does include a Quad as requested All the parts are from Ebuyer, just because you can get them all there, so I have included their QuickFind code. Foxconn G31MX-K iG31 Socket 775 Â£33.08 141238 Intel Core 2 Qu...

Hi, I left all the voltage settings on Auto. Currently the CPU Voltage (according to PC Wizard which I use to monitor the CPU) is varying between 1.288V and 1.296V. As I write, it is reporting:- CPU: 3005.83MHz CPU Temp: 45 Deg C Core #1: 61 DegC Core #2: 61 DegC Core #3: 56 DegC Core #4: 58 DegC CP...

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