Posts by Sparkylabs

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21) Message boards : Questions and problems : Jumping to Linux (mind debian) - anything i need to know Message 42481 Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	My win7 key has been found out, I'm not going back to vista that I swapped for 7 so I think I'm going to setup with Linux Mint Debian Edition as my main system that will run boinc with an nVidia cuda GPU, is there anything i need to be aware of ?
22) Message boards : News : WCG/Harvard Clean Energy Project Video Message 42462 Posted 5 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	As noted in my other reply to you on deadlines, it is helps if you bring your issues to the Clean Energy Project forum http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/listthreads?forum=480. There where the project staff read and write. thx --//-- um so why was the video posted here at all, if any discussion of it is to be on the other forum best thing is to post it on the other forum and post a link here to the thread, I mean what do you want me to do, go over there start a random thread saying - "hey that video you made is crap" and upset everyone ?? I was hoping to be able to put it on my facebook or something but really I don't think it would help.
23) Message boards : News : WCG/Harvard Clean Energy Project Video Message 42460 Posted 5 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	I was having trouble understanding most of what was being said, there was a lot of background noise (which I tend to have problems with). When the website was mentioned I did not even hear it. To be honest I'm sure it could have been cleaned up a bit, a low pass filter to get rid of some hiss would have been a good start.
24) Message boards : The Lounge : Projects' licenses (?) Message 42458 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	what your looking for is possibly projects that make the results you contribute to public, that means when you go through the list you avoid "commercial" projects
25) Message boards : News : Clean Energy Project announces early results Message 42457 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	I did get a few tasks suddenly pop up that wanted it in a couple of days (during the week) and it was on high priority, not good, usually I get them done no problems
26) Message boards : News : WCG/Harvard Clean Energy Project Video Message 42454 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	uh the audio was seriously so bad i wanted to give up after two minutes, naturally the bits at the end (by which time most people would have given up) about how to get involved were pitiful, the only way to find it would be to google "clean energy project" because the instructions were so unclear and no website was clearly given. I also don't get why everyone keeps calling it a screen saver, this may have been true years ago but these days any computer can run distributed computing projects while using their PC, I'm crunching 5 projects right now (one being a GPU project) and I'm getting no performance impact. Infact I have always done distributed computing while using my PC even 10 years ago.
27) Message boards : News : Clean Energy Project announces early results Message 42453 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	what a pity they left the public support and input into the project until last and quickly glossed over it giving no details and not even explaining that the general public can get involved ! but then we are supposed to go round recruiting new volunteers. Really if WE the ones doing the crunching got some credit and it was better explained in articles what we do WE may get more members ! Great news that they are making progress of course. Although the clean energy project has annoyed me at times with unrealistic expectations in deadlines.
28) Message boards : Questions and problems : Please help us with our project! Message 42452 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	this is a group email address that any tom dick or harry cannot just email. Please provide a proper email address.
29) Message boards : Questions and problems : "app speed" in GFLOP/s Message 42451 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	I've noticed that the "properties" box of running tasks tells me the speed that the task is running at. Now while i assume that this is how fast the computer is crunching the task I note that it varies between tasks on the same CPU. Why is this ? it is related to the FSB speed ?
30) Message boards : The Lounge : Do you want over kill for BOINC?! Message 42450 Posted 4 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	how do you design a task for over 88K processors ? certainly something amazing, but really does it not amount to a lot of small computers interconnected ? I'm not that informed on how such computers archirtecture works.
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : what types of proccessors and memory speeds Message 42444 Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	just to give an example - I run rosetta@home on my dads pc, now it has 2 cores in the proccessor (C2D @ 1.86 GHz / 1066 FSB and a dual channel 800 MHz DDR2 memory bank). now when I let it use both cores things run, if i force it to use only one core then the remaining task works faster although it has the same CPU power as before, the only difference is that it now has full access to the FSB and memory bus so i assume that 533MHz is not enough FSB throughput for a 1.86GHz core on that project, of course either way the processor "appears" to by running at 100% load but i think we are possibly talking about FSB load not core load.
32) Message boards : Questions and problems : what types of proccessors and memory speeds Message 42443 Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	OK so I have various computers of varying processor speeds and memory speeds. Now i know that various processors excel in certain tasks, I remember that long ago Athlon XP's were rated better than pentiums because pentiums were geared up for multimedia stuff whereas the athlons were good with the arithmetic unit sowere faster crunchers. Things have really moved on since then with DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 memory and multicore CPU's all presumably fighting over memory. Is there an ideal CPU (core) speed to FSB/memory speed ratio (or portion of for multicore CPU's) ? would this vary with task ? I seem to remember from somewhere that the CPU load figure/percentage is actually theload on the FSB not the core, obviously if the FSB is saturated the CPu is maxed out for sll practical purposes so the figure can be misleading. Same goes i guess for video cards, I have a GT520 GPU and running GPU grid i think it only loads half the memory speed.
33) Message boards : The Lounge : They haven't landed yet! Message 42421 Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	um Roswell ? Of course a government will say that, for starters they know the population (who are mostly very ignorant) will panic if they told them that extraterrestrials really were not a figment of the imagination of mad conspiracy theorists.
34) Message boards : The Lounge : I'm building a mainframe Message 42420 Posted 3 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	what are you wondering ? if you can build a mainfraime or if boinc can benefit. As for building a mainframe I just know that it is a massive computer with multiple proccessors ect. Wheather or not it can run boinc depends on the OS for a start.
35) Message boards : Projects : how many protein folding projects ? Message 42413 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	I get the impression that there are quite a few projects for protein folding. Without too much looking i know of rosetta@home, protenom folding under the world community grid umbrella and there is of course FAH which while not a boinc project is working on the same problem. Is there a risk that these projects overlap ? that we do the same processing more than once ? or does each work on a different area of protein folding ?
36) Message boards : GPUs : what is the cuda "compute capability" figure Message 42412 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	The nvidia website lists CUDa enabled GPU's: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus what does the "compute capability figure mean ? there is only a 1.0 to 2.1 range so it must be a different measurement from brute speed.
37) Message boards : Promotion : Anonymous Participation Message 42408 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	running anonymously is not too bad an idea and surely not that insecure, if a password or something like that is sent with the task and returned with it, it will be safe enough, the computer can still be logged as having the task sent to it, all of my PC's pop up with weird names I never assigned but are the names of the computer assigned during Os instalation. I would like to spread the word about boinc to a few organizartions I am a member of and being able to say to them to just download and install would be nice, I do see registering as a slight deterent but all in all i'm not too bothered. Just because I am registered that does not stop me trying to send garbadge back, the only difference is that you will know it is me and what other PC's i own or control (I have boinc on my work pc, a collegues pc, my sisters pc, my dads pc)
38) Message boards : Promotion : Boinc.org is available Message 42407 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	following on from the other thread about boinc merchandise O looked up boinc.org - It is free, isn't it worth buying and redirecting to the main site ? it would be a much more memorable thing to have on promotional material.....
39) Message boards : Promotion : Namespace collision Message 42406 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	What was the outcome ? I think they will have a hard job "evicting" our use of the word, many searchs for the word will bring us up as much as them so it was a stupid idea on their part from the beginning and if they were half intelligent they would have googled the word to at least see what it applied to and what it clashes with. hec when I wanted a web address an potential name for a company (sparkylabs) I actually googled it and found little of consequence apart from music.
40) Message boards : Promotion : YouTube BOINC How-To Videos Message 42405 Posted 2 Feb 2012 by Sparkylabs	I tried to follow your video about setting up dotch, frankly I was left puzzled, I can hardly understand you, the audio is awful.

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