The Scottish Boinc Team

Posted: **Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:23 pm**

The console type that is!

If you happen to have a PS3, the PS3Grid project is now open to all.

Visit the site to sign up, or just use the link on this page to create it already linked to our team.

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:55 pm**

Not sure what section this update should be in so I'm sticking it here on the end of this one!

Jost and FlyingfocRS - do you know that you can run Yoyo@home on your PS3? There is also a push to get RCN & Sudoku to support it as well. I wouldn't want you to let the No.1 placing slip, but spreading a few cycles around may be worthwhile. :)

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:36 pm**

I actually told my PS3 to attach to Yoyo last night.
Will see what happens.

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:39 pm**

Looks like I'm PS3 UOTD today as well. 8)

Posted: **Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:46 pm**

Looks like I'm PS3 UOTD today as well. 8)

Congratulations!

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:41 am**

Well I appear to have picked up a yoyo w/u on the PS3.
Will just have to wait and see what happens.
Credit is supposed to be around the 3500 per 24 hours or so.
So slightly less than PS3grid but not by much.
Will just have to see what happens.

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:16 pm**

Here is the result of a yoyo w/u done on the PS3
secs - 18,951.51
claimed credit - 18.71
awarded credit - 523.24
so that's as near as damn it 100 credits and hour. 8) 8)

Posted: **Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:34 pm**

Dammit, I'm going to have to buy one of these PS3 thingies.

The thing is I'll have to hide it: Jo will see it as a child corrupting bit of nonsense and hate it; The kids will love it for the same reasons, and will want to misuse it to play games.

I can just imagine my 7 year-old sayng me with precocious sarcasm (that's my boy

) "So, you bought a PS3 but there's no games? That really makes sense, Dad!"

So, any tips on disguising a PS3?

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:41 am**

He he
I'm struggling to justify to myself that I don't need to get another one!

But will just get the basic 40Gb model this time as the wireless doesn't work.

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:24 pm**

He he
I'm struggling to justify to myself that I don't need to get another one!
But will just get the basic 40Gb model this time as the wireless doesn't work.

Someone over there must have heard me as I'm UOTD for the second time this week!

Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:33 am**

Well after the first success with yoyo looks like the second w/u got stuck in an endless loop with no progress, I'm only guessing this because the PS3 hasn't reported any results for two days now.
Managed to detach the project using BAM and the PS3 has contacted the PS3Grid project so is hopefully back crunching again.

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:57 pm**

Hi giving yoyo@home a go on the PS3 I heard that you have to untick the "Leave applications in memory while supended " box or it will not switch over will report back if it works.

Jim

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:01 pm**

ahhh
Might be what happend with my second w/u
will be back crunching again on Monday when I finally get home and get to sort the blooming thing.

Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:43 am**

As far as I can tell that works just watched it change over from yoyo to Grid with no probs

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:13 pm**

It still got probs got to 20% on the next PS3Grid wu after 22 hours I think a resets needed o well you cant win them all

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:09 am**

yeah rebooted mine yesterday afternoon adn it is now crunching away merrily at grid.

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:47 am**

crunched away merrily and then point blank refused to connect to the internet.
thought it was that yoyo had mucked up the installation so wiped the USB stick and started again but still no joy.
had to boot into the console to reset the internet connection, now it says I need to do a system update which usually takes a couple of hours.

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:21 am**

crunched away merrily and then point blank refused to connect to the internet.
thought it was that yoyo had mucked up the installation so wiped the USB stick and started again but still no joy.
had to boot into the console to reset the internet connection, now it says I need to do a system update which usually takes a couple of hours.

Well, speaking for myself, it's nice to know that there are suitable trials and tribulations to go with the humongous amounts of credit those things produce. Of course, it's probably only cos I haven't figured out how to get one past herself yet....

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:05 pm**

trials and tribulations.
That's an understatement.
After I did the firmware update Linux refused to boot at all.

tried re-installing it etc no luck.
then read on the PS3grid forum that the 2.10 version of the firmware isn't compatible with the pendrive installation.
Or in otherwords it doesn't work!

But by downloading a new otheros.bld file from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 3/otheros/ it now boots.
So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now

PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:58 pm**

Lol@ flying brick, glad to see it behaves like a normal computer then

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:13 pm**

So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now
PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!

Be honest, you'd be bored brainless if it all worked perfectly!

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:04 pm**

So that is me now finally back crunching again!
off for a lie down now
PS3 was close to becoming an expensive flying brick at one point this morning!
Be honest, you'd be bored brainless if it all worked perfectly!

True too true!

Posted: **Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:46 pm**

Thought i'd highlight this news article from the website:

Febrary 11, 2008 New PS3GRID live pen drive released.
We have released an updated version of the ps3grid live pendrive compatible with firmware version 2.10.

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