http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/ Project Blue Book Distributed Computing Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:46:01 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11842 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11842 Here's how our members are doing! Happy New Year and best wishes to all! Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:48:13 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11841 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11841 .. and to complete the set.. I have an older Sony Vaio laptop.. I haven't had it even plugged in since September! .. It doesn't run BOINC very much! (funny Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:06:11 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11840 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11840 yep. I usually wait until some bigger fixes come around.. then upgrade a bunch of machines at the same time. "pirates" was predicting a "7.something" just a Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:06:50 GMT bigkittymeow http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11839 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11839 Speaking of "old technology" the current version of BOINC is 6.10.18. :^) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:44:52 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11838 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11838 My Dell D600 laptop (for comparison to old technology!) BOINC Startup: Starting BOINC client version 6.4.7 for windows_intelx86 log flags: task, file_xfer, Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:25:17 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11837 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11837 That's cool.. I see that the "per cpu" number is close to my "per cpu" for my Intel duo-core. .. 'course, you got eight, and I got two! (We should plug our Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:08:29 GMT nighthawke75 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11836 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11836 Are you sure you want to get hit with this.. OK, you asked for it! 12/15/2009 9:53:27 PM Running CPU benchmarks 12/15/2009 9:53:28 PM Suspending computation Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:24:15 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11835 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11835 Cool. Hit us with the BOINC Benchmark data... Here's my "lame" duo-core. BOINC Startup: Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:30:00 GMT William Laskorski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11834 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11834 That sounds pretty good! If I go for the 3.7 GHz overclocked system it should speed up my 3D rendering significantly. ;-) I'd consider slapping a Tesla card in Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:33:16 GMT nighthawke75 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11833 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11833 Here's the specs that BOINC posts: 12/11/2009 9:34:39 PM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 26 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:05:11 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11832 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11832 sure, Morse. my dad is a ham. He still enjoys practicing with the code. He says there are lots of code that's broadcast via "automation". Hams tend to be Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:52:26 GMT William Laskorski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11831 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11831 Santa? I hope so. ;-) When you say "code" are you talking Morse? If so, no, I'm not very good at it. Never was. They removed the Code requirement on the Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:37:44 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11830 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11830 Bill: Best Wishes for getting the cash for your next box! .. and you'll be "rendering away". Any chances that Santa will be bringing it? hahahaha Are you into Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:05:39 GMT William Laskorski http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11829 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11829 Hi Brian, I haven't gotten a new system yet. I'm still waiting for my SSD back pay to come in. To be honest, I can buy two single i7 975 EE factory overclocked Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:01:27 GMT brianuitti http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11828 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/projectbluebookseti/message/11828 Bill: Are you still sizing up a system or did you get something yet? Cheers! // Brian