Help CivFanatics fight Cancer! Join our team.

I really hope that we all will be benefitted from this project: the results will be available to scientists from all around the world and help them fight Cancer better and efficiently.

It seems that our Team is doing well for only one week!
 
dolby71 said:
OK people. Wer'e only 17 members, and we already put 97 days of CPU work all together, and wer'e only running for a week, so i wannna see some action! I wanna see more people joining in, and obviously, some mods/admins joining in, it could set a great example!! LET'S GO!!!
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I'm tempted to add the grid.org program to a couple of our underutilized production servers, but I think I'll resist for now. :mischief:


edit: our = my workplace's
 
dolby71 said:
hehe... nice idea mate. But if it's a server, than it isn't recommended :)
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I can't find anything on the grid.org page about servers not being recommended, other than the possibility of the employer/server owner being displeased.

Anyway, for unrelated reasons I've had to pull the utility off a server and a workstation at work, so you might catch up to me for the lead now. :)
 
I noticed something else with this program.

My laptop can slice thru a work unit in about 6.5 hours. But that gets it only about 200 points. OTOH, I have two dog slow white boxes that takes about 33 hours to plod thru a work unit. However, when they sumbit a WU they get around 500 points. I also checked the points scoring system and see why this might be the issue. They use a multiplicative factor for time and cpu (which is obviously wrong).

So to get more points run it on slow machines. Slower the better. :rolleyes:
 
Fight cancer? :confused:

As a smoker, I can't join out of principle. But how about I go out and fight somebody who has cancer? :satan:
 
Panda said:
Fight cancer? :confused:

As a smoker, I can't join out of principle. But how about I go out and fight somebody who has cancer? :satan:
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What is the principle involved in not using your workstation to assist in figuring out a cure for cancer? :confused:
 
IglooDude said:
What is the principle involved in not using your workstation to assist in figuring out a cure for cancer? :confused:
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It's messed up to work on getting cancer while simultaneously getting rid off cancer. Doh.

Also, I'm not giving away bandwidth or processing power to some obscure fabrication that is most likely a mere ruse by NAMBLA, will use your machine to store child pornography and lands you in prison where you get sodomized on a regular basis. In the a*s.
 
betazed said:
I noticed something else with this program.

My laptop can slice thru a work unit in about 6.5 hours. But that gets it only about 200 points. OTOH, I have two dog slow white boxes that takes about 33 hours to plod thru a work unit. However, when they sumbit a WU they get around 500 points. I also checked the points scoring system and see why this might be the issue. They use a multiplicative factor for time and cpu (which is obviously wrong).

So to get more points run it on slow machines. Slower the better. :rolleyes:
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your desktop PCs might have more RAM/Storage/better modems than your laptop, and that could change everything.

And as for Igloodude, I know they don't say anything. It just that the UD agent is totally abusing the CPU, and servers need the CPU for the IIS/Apache and the server-side apps such as PHP, ASP, etc.
If the server is quite busy, then it is not recommended, and if it itsn't, then it probably won't do any harm.
BTW, I have to mention that you are taking this project VERY seriously, and I really appreciate it.
 
dolby71 said:
your desktop PCs might have more RAM/Storage/better modems than your laptop, and that could change everything.
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Nope that's not it. My laptop is far and away the most powerful machine in a hundred meter radius around me (which includes servers). Those white boxes (1.8 ghz, single cpu, 256 Mb ram puppies) are no match for my laptop (twin cpu 3.2 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, Raid-0 monster).
 
betazed said:
I noticed something else with this program.

My laptop can slice thru a work unit in about 6.5 hours. But that gets it only about 200 points. OTOH, I have two dog slow white boxes that takes about 33 hours to plod thru a work unit. However, when they sumbit a WU they get around 500 points. I also checked the points scoring system and see why this might be the issue. They use a multiplicative factor for time and cpu (which is obviously wrong).

So to get more points run it on slow machines. Slower the better. :rolleyes:
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From the little that I have read on this WU can be different sizes. Plus, isn't getting 200 points for 6.5 hours of work much better than 500 points for 33 hours. In the same 33 hours your fast machince could do 5 WU and get 1000 points.
 
Duke of Marlbrough said:
Plus, isn't getting 200 points for 6.5 hours of work much better than 500 points for 33 hours. In the same 33 hours your fast machince could do 5 WU and get 1000 points.
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Good point.

The point about WU size is also valid, but if that is so then I think it is very odd that my laptop always gets smaller WUs and the desktops get larger WUs.
 
The points system is comprehensively explained here Essentially it is machine power, including connection speed to reduce pressure on their server * CPU time

I don't agree with their ratings though. This 333Mhz CPU scores 33% of a 1.5Ghz CPU. Still, I guess it doesn't matter one way or another.
 
betazed said:
Good point.

The point about WU size is also valid, but if that is so then I think it is very odd that my laptop always gets smaller WUs and the desktops get larger WUs.
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By the way (and sorry for the :bump: ) I'm glad you mentioned that you've got more running than just your laptop - I just looked at the stats for Team CFC and as much of a beast as your laptop is, I was trying to figure out how it could be putting out more than half of the output of my collective machines (three or four P-4s running idle more than 80% of the day, along with a couple older desktops).

And a laptop running dual-CPU and mirrored hard drives? That sounds more like a portable server than anything else. :lol: Why not a beowulf cluster of HP scientific calculators? ;)
 
IglooDude said:
And a laptop running dual-CPU and mirrored hard drives? That sounds more like a portable server than anything else. :lol: Why not a beowulf cluster of HP scientific calculators? ;)
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because it needs to run Mathematica, SQl server, and Visual Studio .NET together!

Actually, my laptop does very little grid computing since it is almost always maxed out doing other stuff. But i need to burn it down to the ground before my wife will allow a new one. :)
 
Since forgetting my password I've done bugger all.
 
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