TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Hi guys, just saying that my new little one has joined the world today, a precious little princess.

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It's been a terribly long day, and I hope we get some sleep tonight... But we know that's not going to happen.

Congrats bud. This has to be about the most precious Christmas gift you guys could get.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

OMG, Congrats @manofthem ! Do you have a name for the little one yet?

 

[manofthem]

Thanks everyone for your kind and funny words!

OMG, Congrats @manofthem ! Do you have a name for the little one yet?

It took us a while, but we finally settled on Carly. Strangley enough, I've only known 1 other Carly growing up, a girl in school, and she was pretty awesome, so I liked the name. Wife liked it too so we settled

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Was someone looking for a test bench?
Danger Den Torture Rack: http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/sop/4816930887.html
Shipping would be no fun....

 

[Arjai]

I still have not gotten ANY OET WU's!!

WTF?

It's been over a week, Time wrote a story, along with a handful of other pubs. How is it that I, as in ME, the dedicated Cruncher that I, MEANING me, am can't get even one of them?

Are all the newbies, that read the story and stated Crunching because of it getting any OET's? The reason they started this?

There is no effing way I, meaning ME, will ever just quit all but one project in order to get some WU's, for whatever reason. So, that means I, meaning ME, will be totally left out of the loop?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I still have not gotten ANY OET WU's!!

WTF?

It's been over a week, Time wrote a story, along with a handful of other pubs. How is it that I, as in ME, the dedicated Cruncher that I, MEANING me, am can't get even one of them?

Are all the newbies, that read the story and stated Crunching because of it getting any OET's? The reason they started this?

There is no effing way I, meaning ME, will ever just quit all but one project in order to get some WU's, for whatever reason. So, that means I, meaning ME, will be totally left out of the loop?

I've had 18 of them so far.

 

[theonedub]

Hi guys, just saying that my new little one has joined the world today, a precious little princess.

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It's been a terribly long day, and I hope we get some sleep tonight... But we know that's not going to happen.

Congratulations!

Plus close enough to Christmas to bundle birthdays!

 

[stinger608]

Was someone looking for a test bench?
Danger Den Torture Rack: http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/sop/4816930887.html
Shipping would be no fun....

Actually @Paulieg is currently looking for an open case. That's a good price on that.
Shipping wouldn't be all that bad. They disassemble if I recall correctly.

 

[Norton]

Actually @Paulieg is currently looking for an open case. That's a good price on that.
Shipping wouldn't be all that bad. They disassemble if I recall correctly.

Spotswood tech stations are a little pricy but they are pretty nice!

http://richchomiczewski.wordpress.com/tech-station-landing/

@Paulieg check them out!

 

[twilyth]

I still have not gotten ANY OET WU's!!

WTF?

It's been over a week, Time wrote a story, along with a handful of other pubs. How is it that I, as in ME, the dedicated Cruncher that I, MEANING me, am can't get even one of them?

Are all the newbies, that read the story and stated Crunching because of it getting any OET's? The reason they started this?

There is no effing way I, meaning ME, will ever just quit all but one project in order to get some WU's, for whatever reason. So, that means I, meaning ME, will be totally left out of the loop?

This is a major screw up for WCG and this has been pointed out on the main forum. First of all, people are going to go to WCG expecting that they will be downloading OET work units. But there is no easy way for people to select just one project. We take this procedure for granted but for a newcomer, it's fairly complicated.

So imagine you're a new user and you see all of these other projects on your machine - everything BUT OET. You're going to be pissed. And as a second point, this doesn't seem to be an issue of devoting a profile just to OET. I have one server that has 24 threads and my phone with 4 both set to only OET. I haven't checked the server but I'm only getting FAAH on my phone. Plus every profile includes OET and altogether I have over 90 threads and I'm only at bronze for OET - just barely. So these wu's aren't flowing. That's a problem.

Now add to that there has been virtually no communication from WCG on this issue in weeks as far as I can tell. They admitted weeks ago that the project was off to a slow start but that it would be fixed in short order. I guess in typical WCG fashion, that will mean months rather than days or weeks.

To be fair, maybe some of the issues have to do with the researchers organizing it, but that doesn't excuse the lack of communication. And it's not going to fix the permanent damage to the image of WCG done in the minds of people going there solely for the ebola project.

 

[Tallencor]

Hi guys, just saying that my new little one has joined the world today, a precious little princess.

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It's been a terribly long day, and I hope we get some sleep tonight... But we know that's not going to happen.

Congrats Matt. She looks very healthy. I'm willing to bet she wont mind keeping her Father awake. After all that is her only job for now.

 

[twilyth]

Off topic but if you want to watch the interview, Sony put it online. You can watch it via Youtube movies, Xbox or Google Play - or wherever else you can find it (cough, cough).

 

[hat]

I haven't gotten any OET that I know of either. Doesn't matter much to me though... I don't mind which projects I run.

 

[Peter1986C]

Back again and crunching, albeit a little earlier than expected.

Hi guys, just saying that my new little one has joined the world today, a precious little princess.

Spoiler

It's been a terribly long day, and I hope we get some sleep tonight... But we know that's not going to happen.

Congratulations!

 

[hat]

It seems I'll be upgrading. The Q6600 will be replaced with an i5 2400 sometime soon. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I can run it at 3.8GHz.

With that said, I may be able to cobble together a second computer basically to run WCG on. The Q6600 will become a dedicated cruncher. I have AMD parts I was considering replacing the Q6600 with, but the i5 will undoubtedly blow it out of the water. I'm not sure but I may be able to bring that system online too... so I would have (hopefully) a 3.8GHz i5 2400 crunching (most of the time, I do gaming and some video transcoding), the Q6600 (depending on how things go, maybe 2.4GHz stock, or 3GHz, or 3.2GHz), and possibly an Athlon II x4 630, which will chug along at 2.8GHz, but most likely on some flavor of Linux.

 

[Toothless]

It seems I'll be upgrading. The Q6600 will be replaced with an i5 2400 sometime soon. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I can run it at 3.8GHz.

With that said, I may be able to cobble together a second computer basically to run WCG on. The Q6600 will become a dedicated cruncher. I have AMD parts I was considering replacing the Q6600 with, but the i5 will undoubtedly blow it out of the water. I'm not sure but I may be able to bring that system online too... so I would have (hopefully) a 3.8GHz i5 2400 crunching (most of the time, I do gaming and some video transcoding), the Q6600 (depending on how things go, maybe 2.4GHz stock, or 3GHz, or 3.2GHz), and possibly an Athlon II x4 630, which will chug along at 2.8GHz, but most likely on some flavor of Linux.

That line of Athlons are good overclockers and run cool. At least my 620 @2.9ghz did. The only difference between the 630 and 620 is a 200mhz clockspeed difference. If you need a GPU for the dedicated rig, I might be able to help in a month or two.

 

[hat]

I have a GT720 and a 9500GT I can use with them.

Come to think of it I can't use the Athlon anyway, unless it will go in whatever motherboard was being used with the DDR3 I pulled from it. I'll have to find out. My motherboard won't fit in that case. If it won't take the Atlhon x4 there's some sort of dual core in it.

 

[BarbaricSoul]

It seems I'll be upgrading. The Q6600 will be replaced with an i5 2400 sometime soon. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I can run it at 3.8GHz.
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3.6 is all I could get it to do in a Gigabyte Z68 board. No idea what it'll do in the H67 board your getting.

 

[Nordic]

Hey team, I just found a 8 port kvm switch on my local craigslist for an exceptional price. I would probably use it with only 3 computers, but it still would be nice to not have to move the mouse/keyboard and monitor to each computer. I have never used a KVM before and I can't seem to find how they connect to each computer.

 

[stinger608]

Hey team, I just found a 8 port kvm switch on my local craigslist for an exceptional price. I would probably use it with only 3 computers, but it still would be nice to not have to move the mouse/keyboard and monitor to each computer. I have never used a KVM before and I can't seem to find how they connect to each computer.

Usually they have a cable set that comes with the KVM switch. If its an older one, then it would have a pair of PS2 cables that attach to the PS2 mouse and keyboard ports on the computer. Usually in that version it will have the monitor DSub that attaches to the video output.

The problem with these older ones like the example, is many motherboards now don't even have the PS2 connectors or they will only have one. Also most of the newer video cards don't even have the DSub connector.

That type of KVM switch is pretty much obsolete any more.

Put a link to that sale man. That would really help in know if it is even worth buying LOL.

 

[Nordic]

This is all the information I have

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Up for sale is a Black Hawk 8-port Rack KVM Switch that is in great shape feel free to make me an offer or ask me any questions

Yes it does support ps2 keyboards but it has PS/2 plugs for the mice but you can always buy adapters. It uses VGA ports to connect to each computer.

 

[t_ski]

We used to have quite a few PS/2 KVMs around, but we started using PS/2 to USB adapters for the servers that needed them. These worked very well:

Trendnet I believe. And you can always use a D-sub to DVI adapter for video cards that don't have VGA ports on them.

 

[Nordic]

I am not so concerned about how a mouse and keyboard connect to the kvm. I have about 8 dvi to vga adapters so that is not a concern. I just don't understand how the kvm connects to, in this case, up to 8 computers. I know you press a button to switch between but it must be connected to each computer first.

 

[t_ski]

The ones I've seen take a standard VGA cable from the KYM to the monitor, and the mouse and keyboard plug into the KVM. The cables that go to each computer are sometimes proprietary, and have all the signals bundled on one cable, then they split off at the end. It would help to know the brand and model (I'm not familiar with the one in the picture), but it's probably only one connection at the KVM side for each PC, with the PS/2 cables splitting out from the VGA on the PC side.

 

[Nordic]

It looks like my form of posting it hid the rest of the quote, only showing the picture. Here is the full ad.
This is all the information I have

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Up for sale is a Black Hawk 8-port Rack KVM Switch that is in great shape feel free to make me an offer or ask me any questions
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Yes it does support ps2 keyboards but it has PS/2 plugs for the mice but you can always buy adapters. It uses VGA ports to connect to each computer.