The Scottish Boinc Team

Yikes, My KVM has stopped working! Which means that short of an unfeasible amount of cable plugging & unplugging I can't control the 5 PCs in the basement which are the bulk of the farm. At present my stats are holding up, so presumably all is well even if I can't see anything, but expect some drop off until I get it working again or replace it.

Here's a nice one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

but only for 4 PC's

Megacruncher wrote: but expect some drop off until I get it working again or replace it.

Why? Surely they are all connected to BAM! (or equivalent) and therefore will quite happily chug away, change projects and such like without any actual direct contact... Or do you have them so overclocked that they need constant maintenance?

MacDitch wrote: Surely they are all connected to BAM! (or equivalent) and therefore will quite happily chug away, change projects and such like without any actual direct contact... Or do you have them so overclocked that they need constant maintenance?

I've tried BAM but there's nothing like hands on one to one contact with each cruncher every day. :) I've given up on overclocking but some of the dual GPU machines do need the odd kick to get going again if they stop for whatever reason.

Thankfully they seem to be doing okay in the dark without Daddy to keep them right.

Now did your KVM stop working because it is broken, or because your computers are now self aware, and are trying to take over the world?

You should not leave them unsupervised for long, or we may need to welcome our new crunching overlords.

It's alright the Skynet scenario has not come to pass! Although after reading your post I did fear to enter the basement lest the farm had found some way of mixing PC spares and bicycle parts to construct a murderous cyborg, all the while arranging a nuclear cataclysm!

No, all it took was a replacement AC adapter from Maplin to get the errant switch operational again and it's business as usual. :)

Megacruncher wrote:No, all it took was a replacement AC adapter from Maplin to get the errant switch operational again and it's business as usual. :)

Is that all it takes to save the planet from total destruction and evil world domination schemes.... perhaps we should inform the MoD...

I wonder how much Boinc is worth annually to Maplin

Talking of out of control farms ...

What's happened to Steve?

Yes the Mighty One's torrent has slowed to a trickle over the last 48hrs: Down from a customary 5 or 6 Meg daily to 302K on sunday & 512 on Monday.

Could be he's caused a melt-down in his local sub-station [again ] or a UN Task Force against Global Warming has realised that his house is using more 'lecky than India and China combined & troops have been sent in to switch everything off apart from a laptop running simap?

Whatever Steve, hurry back. UBT are getting further ahead of us, there are the Italians to catch and, for once, a lot of us are gaining on you. And you've got that world #2 slot to secure.

Megacruncher wrote:Could be he's caused a melt-down in his local sub-station [again ] or a UN Task Force against Global Warming has realised that his house is using more 'lecky than India and China combined & troops have been sent in to switch everything off apart from a laptop running simap?

.... hopefully it's just a case of spring cleaning ...he needed the wall socket to plug in the vacuum cleaner... UN sez' they can't spare the task force as they're all tied up elsewhere...

your computers are now self aware

" I compute therfore I am ! "

I know whats happened. After months of getting estimated lecky bills in he has finally had a meter reader round and got the correct bill

That's 5 days with minimal crunching and no word from Steve.
The positive spin we can put on this, otherwise worrying, situation is that our daily output is still enough to keep us in the top 40 teams each day - ie even without our star player we remain a world class team.

But, Holy AWOL Big Hitters, what's happened to Aardvark also zilcho for 48 hrs?

DNETC, ANDROintc and to a lesser extent Milkyway have become very unreliable over the last few days. I have been recieving fantastic credit from the first two projects but as they have bee down I have had to rely on Milkyway and docking for credit. If Steve has not been checking his farm this may account for the loss of output......

Sorry for spelling of "been" bee busy getting pissed

Gary Mc wrote:Sorry for spelling of "been" bee busy getting pissed

... I'll drink to that !

My current hypothesis is that the aardvark's toaster has discovered cheese and he's, right now, trying clean it out of the fans... does clog up the works a bit!

It'd be good to hear from Steve. I hope he's OK and wish him the best whatever he's up to... :)

Aardvark also zilcho for 48 hrs

I'm nae deed

Just become concious of the leccy bill, and my time has been taken up with my new hobby of Astro photography.

While Boinc is trying to save the world me and the toaster will be looking out for balistic objects hurtling towards the third rock. It is not my intention to stop crunching :)

aardvark wrote:
I'm nae deed

Glad to hear it.

aardvark wrote: Just become concious of the leccy bill, and my time has been taken up with my new hobby of Astro photography.

Best not to think about the leccy bill.

Crack on with the Astrophotography while you have the chance, fit wi' the Aiberdeen nichts fair drawin' oot.

Post us some of your photties, if you want.

Post us some of your photties, if you want.

Now that might be asking for trouble :)

On a scale of one to ten I might be about a two or three. Got some cracking shots of the moon tonight.

Tried one of the galaxies last night, but I'm not quite set up yet for capturing the longer exposures needed. Ended up with a slight smudge. But the image processing software can do some amazing things, so I might be able to improve on it yet

Decided to pick up one of those crafty switches I listed above for a new build I'm on. Just short a MB and OS.

Came across this webpage and thought is was worth a gander. Would imagine there stuff might be pricey but anyway....
http://www.bridgeview.com/kvm/index.php