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First, I'd like to welcome all the new Team Members once again,
and then I'd like to whine about not being able to move up in the ranks!!!:D
This drove me to rebuild my old duallie 400 tonight- now up and (slowly) crunching again. I also have a K6-2 around here someplace, and that will be getting slapped together at some point, when work allows. I also have a couple of other things in the works!;)
Not compulsive am I!
Seriously, the competition in the team is tough, and it seems to me that this makes us stronger as a team:
World Wide #1 here we come!
Now I just need to label all these mice#$%7!
Sir-Epix
10-29-01, 06:05 AM
Ahhh the farms. Yes I to have been craving more work units. I even have an old Pentium 120 crunching. Now that is a slow cruncher. I am working on getting some ole K7's up and crunching for me. Also a friend said I can use their new XP system to crunch for me. Not bad at all!
Well I think we all want more WU's per day...if we all only had an endless supply of money
It almost makes me sick to go to work sometimes...we have 12-15 complete systems in parts new waiting to be sold that i would like to just put together and run SETI on for the time being
The company I work for sells surveillance equipment, and we custom build PC for digital video recording...we have Duron 900's...p3 1000's and Athlon 1000's just laying around with Epox, Asus, and MSI boards just sitting on shelves
IT DRIVES ME NUTS SOMETIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got my old compaq with its 266 pII , and it just need a monitor to go with it, might get it soon. any idea how long it take to crunch a WU on this thing?
You don't need a monitor to do SETI. I have 3 machines running with 2 monitors. Whenever I need to check out something on my firewall I just take the monitor from the K6 system and swap it out to the Cyrix. No problem, I don't even power down the computers. Just make sure you kill the power to the monitor before unplugging the data cable or you could have problems.
Originally posted by ymNA
I got my old compaq with its 266 pII , and it just need a monitor to go with it, might get it soon. any idea how long it take to crunch a WU on this thing?
In the vicinity of 20 hours. I've got a dual PII 350 rig that takes about 16 hours per processor, so I'd say 20h (give or take a couple) is about right.
I have a P133 system I put back together the other day that is now fully functional but when I got SETI setup on it I got the info back saying 50 hours estimated completion time. It won't be crunching I'm afraid. My 22+ WUs a day will have to be good enough, haha (at least until I get a few extra parts for this Celly2 566 and mobo I got under the couch!).
Originally posted by ymNA
I got my old compaq with its 266 pII , and it just need a monitor to go with it, might get it soon. any idea how long it take to crunch a WU on this thing?
Are they networked? If so this is a nice **FREE (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)** program from with wizards at AT&T labs. I use it to monitor my 2nd PC.
My K6-2 @550mhz turns in a wu about every 23-25hrs. A PII 266 should probably take longer than that, in my opinion.
Originally posted by rogerdugans
Now I just need to label all these mice#$%7!
I "labeled" four of mine with only three letters. "KVM", four computers, one monitor, keyboard and mouse. The only problem is I should have gotten a bigger switch, this one has only four ports.
This method has the added benefit of obscuring the true number of computers that your wife can see. I just keep these "extra" cases under my desk for future projects with the switch in a drawer. With my main system having three case fans and a WBK38 wiith the big Delta fan, you can't hear the others running. (just kidding, my wife is aware of everything I do with these things, keeps me home and out of trouble and the family reaps many benefits from my network)
The program that Basher mentioned, "VNC" is a good alternative. I use it to keep an eye on my kids. Don't flame me on this, it is my responsibility to keep them away from harm. They are aware of this program and my intentions to "pop" in on them at any given time, "My house, my computers and my rules."
My earlier Pentium MMX 233 @ 266 turns out WU's in the 30hr range.
Good Luck!
Eliminator
10-31-01, 12:38 AM
Originally posted by ymNA
I got my old compaq with its 266 pII , and it just need a monitor to go with it, might get it soon. any idea how long it take to crunch a WU on this thing?
I would say at least 26+ hours.
It also depends on how much RAM u have, too. About 2.5 years ago I had a PII 300 w/64MB Ram crunching Seti and it took WELL OVER 36 hours. I remember I had some units taking as long as 60+ hours. Once I installed more RAM, It lowered my WU's considerably. This was on the screensaver version, I might add.
My old Celeron 300 w/ 128MB RAM crunched in 23-26 hours on client version.
Originally posted by FRANK
My earlier Pentium MMX 233 @ 266 turns out WU's in the 30hr range.
What's your crunch time for your K6 system? That MMX time seems awfully close to my K6's times given the speed diferences, was that clc or screen saver?
Well, so far I'm still winning the "Slowest compuer for SETI" award! Pentium 100 OC'd to an amazing 133Mhz!!!!1 WOOHOO! :D
Can't give out any times because I just swapped the original P-90 in it (Which had the FPU bug. Therefore no SETI for it!) with my brand new P-100. The extra 6Mhz of FSB should help SETI a little.
JigPu
Originally posted by eobard
What's your crunch time for your K6 system? That MMX time seems awfully close to my K6's times given the speed diferences, was that clc or screen saver?
I can't say for sure right now, the K6-2 seems to be in the 25 to 30 hr / WU range. The MMX is actually in the 30+ range depending on the WU, I've only had it running for about a week. Keep in mind that SETI is all that is run on that machine, everything is shut off in the start up and I run it on high priority.
I've been pretty busy lately and have to spend some time "tweaking" these machines, I think that they should be faster. I'm trying RAM DISK on one right now and it doesn't seem to help that much. That machine is the A7V133 with 768MBs PC133 running an AXIA 1g @ 1.37 (137*10) right now and two ATA 100 hard drives in a RAID 0 array. This RAM DISK would probably show more of an increase on one of the other machines with slower hard drive performance.
I also want to see if I can get the BUS up on that K6-2, I'm running 100MHz at the moment, I'd like to get up to 112 if possible. I miss that K6III+!
I find it hard to monitor any individual machine as to it's performance, after completion of a WU, the results are returned and averaged with all of my machines. It shows the same average on each machine. Average of all combined is in the 9:50 / WU range. The only indication of the performance of each machine I can get is the real time performance of a given WU through the SETI Spy.
I use the CLC on all of these machines except the AD11 when it's booted to WIN 98SE for the kids games.
LandShark
10-31-01, 10:37 PM
actually u could check the ave. time of ur individual machine when u r using SETI Spy!!
in SETI Spy, go to the "result" tab. and click "view log" on each machine. it'll show u all the WU u did w/ tons of info. the most important info for me is just "each WU's time".
What's the minimum # for a farm? Is 2 machines good enough?
Originally posted by eobard
What's the minimum # for a farm? Is 2 machines good enough?
No that would be a flower box on your porch :)
Originally posted by eobard
What's your crunch time for your K6 system? That MMX time seems awfully close to my K6's times given the speed diferences, was that clc or screen saver?
I wasn't aware that the SETI Spy kept a log for the individual machine, I assumed that these were the results for the whole account.
I found some interesting things, first, as "eobard" said, the K6 is running in the 25 WU/hr range with the 266MMX in the 35 to 40WU/hr range. On the other hand, I found that my faster systems are doing better than I thought. The A7V133 with the AXIA 1g @ 1.4g is in the 5.25 to 5.5 WU/hr range with an occasional dip into the upper 4hr territory, the AD11 machine does a bit better than that.
Originally posted by JigPu
Well, so far I'm still winning the "Slowest compuer for SETI" award! Pentium 100 OC'd to an amazing 133Mhz!!!!1 WOOHOO! :D
Can't give out any times because I just swapped the original P-90 in it (Which had the FPU bug. Therefore no SETI for it!) with my brand new P-100. The extra 6Mhz of FSB should help SETI a little.
JigPu
I may have you beat!
I've got a P133 crunching at the moment (for the time being) that's taking 67:20h to complete a work unit! 16.78Mflops/7.89CpF, haha!
Soon as I get the VH6-II I ordered in, some parts are coming out of it to build a Celly 600@900 cruncher though...so it will be back in the garage again.
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