Newbie

[AQUAJOE]

My Name is Joe. I am an IT manager for a Fortune 40 company.

I am new to OCF. I started my first account in 2001 on Seti@home classic. I don't think I crunched for very long.

Just the other day I decided to log back into seti@home classic and try again with some newer systems.

Then saw this BOINC and started doing both at the same time and removed classic last night when I signed up for OC.

I am new at this not sure what actually is happening or even to determine how well I'm doing with the machines I have.

So some pointers would be nice and Happy crunching to everyone.

OH
Here is one of the machines I am running:

Windows XP Pro SP1a (SP2 not recommended yet blue screens machine when closing programs)

AMD Athlon64 Processor 3200+ 2.0 GHz 90nm Winchester Core OC'ed@ 2.16
AMD fan that came with processor

ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE PCI-EXPRESS (NVIDIA NfORCE4 SLI)

(x2)-MSI NX6800'S PCI-EXPRESS/16X (NVIDIA GeForce 6800)
Chipset/Core Speed: 325MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 256MB DDR/700MHz
256MB on each
67.02 NVIDIA Drivers

2.00 GB PC3200 DDR400 ram
(x2-512 Mushkin Blackline)
(x2-512 Corsair XMS TwinX)

80GB Seagate Baracuda SATA II 7200.7 Primary
100GB WD 8MB cache ATA 100
80GB Seagate Bacauda ATA 100 7200.7

Lite-on DVD-CD/RW-CD-rom 48X
Aspire 500w pwr supply
Antec PowerGamer case

[rajausa]

Welcome to the team. :D Glad to see new members coming to join us. :)
You should have no problem running boinc on any or all your machines. I am sure iff you run into troubles that someone here will give you advice and help you with no problem. Again wecome to the OCforum. :)

[creepy]

Welcome to the team :D.

[Hamm3r]

Welcome!!! :burn:

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

WELCOME TO THE TEAM AND THE FORUMS!

Be sure to check the sticky at the top of forum. It contains useful links to stats and other things.

sticky (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=333039)

[SunRedRX7]

Welcome to the team!

If you have any questions that are not answered in the sticky feel free to ask.

Your credit usually takes a couple days before it starts appearing due to the validation process they now use. Validation consists of "sending out 4 copies of each workunit and use a quorum size of 3 for validation". In other words, your credits are granted once 3 of the 4 people that also were sent the WU return theirs.

[Enkidu]

Welcome aboard! As you can see this is a pretty helpful bunch :) Don't hesitate to ask questions if you need help with anything!

[Steven4563]

welcome to the team and forum :D

crunch on people!! :beer:

[Tyrinon]

Welcome to the team! Hope you enjoy your stay! :)

[FloridaBear]

Welcome, Aquajoe. I hope you find the Overclockers team to your liking. As a relative newbie myself, I can say that I've enjoyed it so far!

P.S., check out BoincView here (http://www.boinc.dk/download.php?file=boincview_beta_0.9.1.zip) ...it makes managing multiple machines very painless. Don't forget to add a "remote_hosts.cfg" file in the BOINC directory of managed machines containing the IP address of the "manager". Either that, or specify a command line argument to boinc_gui.exe: -allow_remote_gui_rpc which will allow any host to connect. Have fun!

[ewl2]

I just want to say welcome also. Don't hesitate to ask questions. And don't forget to get all your friends to join the team also :)

[AQUAJOE]

Welcome, Aquajoe. I hope you find the Overclockers team to your liking. As a relative newbie myself, I can say that I've enjoyed it so far!

P.S., check out BoincView here (http://www.boinc.dk/download.php?file=boincview_beta_0.9.1.zip) ...it makes managing multiple machines very painless. Don't forget to add a "remote_hosts.cfg" file in the BOINC directory of managed machines containing the IP address of the "manager". Either that, or specify a command line argument to boinc_gui.exe: -allow_remote_gui_rpc which will allow any host to connect. Have fun!

I guess I am confused what to do with this. it is asking for a location what am I pointing it to?

[FloridaBear]

Each location in BoincView is one of your "crunchers." You'll need to put in the IP address or host name of the machine running BOINC, and select "via network access (using GUI RPC) for "Update mode". Then BoincView will connect to that machine and retrieve its Boinc status and display it. You can view and control a slew of Boincing PC's that way (assuming you have network access).

[AQUAJOE]

Ok
thanks

all set and up and running.

[The Wizard]

Welcome to the team !!



The Wizard

[Tyrinon]

Does BoincView use a lot of system resources while it's active?

[JigPu]

Welcome to the team! :) Hope to see you move through the ranks :D

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Here's what Task Manager brings up for BoincView (it's been running for the past 3 days):
CPU Time: 0:19:27
Memory Usage: 5260 KB
Peak Memory Usage: 8360 KB
Page File: 7704 KB

The only thing I'd say is that it can be a little CPU intensive. 19 minutes over 3 days isn't much, but it isn't exactly tiny either. You probably could decrease it so it takes up less time by decreasing the rate that it updates info. Right now I have it polling the 4 computers on my LAN every 10 seconds, and 2 comps over the internet every 60 seconds. If you wanted reduced CPU usage, you could probably get away with once every 30 or 60 seconds.

JigPu

[Tyrinon]

Cool! Thanks JigPu! :D

[Morpheus]

Welcome to the team!

Crunch on! :attn:

[AQUAJOE]

I am hoping to start moving up in the ranks once I start getting credited for the jobs that are Pending I think I have 46 pending right now.

[Cy]

Welcome aboard Aquajoe!

Cy