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#1 Knock knock
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:05 am
by Mook
Hi,
I finally got my forum account so I thought it best to make use of it and say 'Hi'. Don't really know what else to say at the moment, apart from I joined SETI@Home back in July with no real aim or reason. I have no interest in SciFi what so ever but I thought maybe some good could come from my idle processor time.
So if any one has any suggestions then I'd appreciate them.
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Mook.
#2
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:37 pm
by skywalker tsbt
Welcome Mook!!
I met a guy yesterday that has been crunching SETI for many years. Just SETI. I was replacing his motherboard and when I powered it on to test, I saw the BOINC logo. I asked him about it and he said "What is BOINC?" I laughed and opened it up to show him. He said, "Oh that, that's what that is called?" I laughed a bit, and talked about how any crunching is furthering science no matter how small. (Plus I tried to get him to join our team)
And your crunching for TSBT. Not to shabby!!
Arrrrrr
#3
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:13 pm
by Alez
Welcome to the team and welcome to the forum.
We crunch on fairly much every project there is on boinc. Have a look around, post up any questions you may have and join us on any project that takes your fancy !!
Welcome onboard YARRR !!
#4
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:23 pm
by Mook
Skywalker TSBT wrote:... And your crunching for TSBT. Not to shabby!! ...
I'll take that as a compliment.
#5
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 5:31 pm
by Mook
alezevo1 wrote:Welcome to the team and welcome to the forum.
We crunch on fairly much every project there is on boinc. Have a look around, post up any questions you may have and join us on any project that takes your fancy !!
Welcome onboard YARRR !!
Thanks.
Well to be honest I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm willing to be guided by those that do.
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Mook
#6
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:26 pm
by Megacruncher
Welcome
My apologies for the delay in creating your account. I shall check the gmail account rather more assiduously in future.
If you don't know what you are doing you are in good company. The important thing is that we are doing it.
#7
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:15 am
by Janos (retired)
Welcome Mook!
You will find us, generally, a friendly helpful bunch. Friendly and helpful until it gets competitive and Megacruncher comes out with some fighting talk.
Oh, and watch out for the Penguin.
#8
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:54 am
by Janos (retired)
Mook, do you have a decent graphics card? If so, you can use that for crunching as well. The crunching power of a modern graphics card is astounding.
#9
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:36 am
by Mook
Janos wrote:Mook, do you have a decent graphics card? If so, you can use that for crunching as well. The crunching power of a modern graphics card is astounding.
Well it's not the best it's an old NVidia GeForce 8800 I've used it for SETI before but it didn't help the performance of my desktop while it was running so I stopped using it.
#10
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:21 am
by Janos (retired)
There is a setting to turn off gpu crunching when the computer is in use.
#11
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 3:30 pm
by Alez
Mook wrote:Janos wrote:Mook, do you have a decent graphics card? If so, you can use that for crunching as well. The crunching power of a modern graphics card is astounding.
Well it's not the best it's an old NVidia GeForce 8800 I've used it for SETI before but it didn't help the performance of my desktop while it was running so I stopped using it.
Don't worry about it too much, you'll end up buying a new one anyway
#12
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:23 pm
by Mook
alezevo1 wrote:Don't worry about it too much, you'll end up buying a new one anyway
Well I'm trying the convince the directors we need to get a Quadro K6000 or similar for our own projects so when it not in use...
#13
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:33 pm
by Alez
A monster for sure .... would recommend something a tad cheaper for the 8800 replacement though ...
#14
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:41 pm
by PinkPenguin
Mook wrote:Well I'm trying the convince the directors we need to get a Quadro K6000 or similar for our own projects so when it not in use...
Now, that reminds me of something warm 'n cosy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42Xg-mAkGg...
#15
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:57 am
by Mook
alezevo1 wrote:A monster for sure .... would recommend something a tad cheaper for the 8800 replacement though ...
True, but we already do our own GPU programming here anyway so the 8800 was really used as a proof of concept and assuming they want to go ahead with the project they can dig in to their pockets and do it (the project) justice.