Overclockers.com Rosetta Team - March Event 2011 - Status Thread

[baditude_df]

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED DURING THE MARCH EVENT!!!!!

Howdy All! This thread is for discussion of the contest, and status updates!

The Rosetta Team holds events at various times throughout the year to help forward science along a bit quicker and to give us a boost in the Standings.
We'll also be racing our old nemesis UK BOINC Team to 15th Place. They've just taken our #3 spot in the RAC standings, and I think we'll be taking that back thank you very much.
The sign up thread for this year's contest is HERE (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669587). You must be registered to be eligible for the prize draw at the end, so don't forget!


Prizes

- Biweekly $50 Gift Certificates from Newegg.com(.ca)

- $100 Bonus Prize (Locked)

- $100 Bonus Prize (Locked)

- $100 Bonus Prize (Locked)

- Weekly newegg.com prize pack givaways!

- 2 Biostar Motherboards: 1 TA870U3+ (http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=520#) and 1 TP67B+ (http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=509#)


Prize Sponsors

The generous manufacturers, vendors and team members who have stepped up to the plate so far to donate to the cause!

- drshivas !

- Jmtyra !

- molnarc (his 2nd donation to the team)

- Pete Church !

- BioStar ! Check em out here (http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/) if you havent already! Thank you Splat!

- Newegg.com ! Check them out here! (http://www.newegg.com/) Thank you IMOG!

- clash !


- This Space Reserved for the next Generous donor! :)


Update Area!

Team Progress Update:


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Max Team RAC-Contest: 222,587
Max Team RAC-Increase:79,322
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 105,670,677
Team Total Points Crunched: 31,965,860
Points Position: 15th

Updated: 6-Aug-11 @ 15:43


Event Goals

Our ultimate goal as a team is to reach 15th Place in the Total Points Standings. This event and the event goals will be instrumental in getting us there.

The Event Goals this year are threefold:

1. To reach 300,000 in team RAC. ($100 Gift Certificate)

2. To reach 15th Place in total points. ($100 Gift Certificate)

3. To beat UK BOINC Team to 15th Place. ($100 Gift Certificate)

As each of these goals are reached, the corresponding bonus prize will be unlocked and added to the prize pool!
Yep, the goals are pretty lofty, but if there's one thing I've learned about these Events, it's to never underestimate the members of overclockers.com!!!

There is only one condition! That is that our RAC does not drop below it's initial level on 18-Feb-11.



Contest FAQ

Q: What 3rd Party Service does this contest use?
A: random.org (http://www.random.org/)

Q: How will I know if my name was entered in the draw?
A: The draw will be Entrant Accessible. A link will be posted after the draw is made where the entrant can go to confirm that their identifier was entered into the draw and whether or not it won.

Q: How many draws will there be?
A: There will be one guaranteed draw every two weeks until we reach 15th place. There will be up to 3 additional draws made depending on whether or not we reach our Event Goals!

Q: Does the March Event end on March 31st?
A: NO! It goes until we reach 15th place as stated above, and there will be plenty of prizes given away until we reach that goal!

[baditude_df]

Welcome to 3rd place Team! Well done!

Let's get this contest started and take 2nd and 1st as well!!!

[baditude_df]

Team,
Remember to enlist whoever you can from outside the team as well. We need to really give it this time if we're gonna fight off these damn knights. :)

[Wayward_Son]

How can we donate to the prize pool, and how soon do we have to make those donations?

[drshivas]

Send big man a PM.

[Jmtyra]

Notification has been listed in the SETI forums (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669617) (via Pete) and the F@H forums (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669665). Hopefully we'll see some additional traction from both DC teams to assist in this Rosetta contest.

PS -- How many Rosetta contests usually occur annually?

[baditude_df]

How can we donate to the prize pool, and how soon do we have to make those donations?

We have a few weeks before the first prize goes out, and technically till the end of the contest to donate a prize if you so choose. PM me if you're interested. Thank you.


Notification has been listed in the SETI forums (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669617) (via Pete) and the F@H forums (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669665). Hopefully we'll see some additional traction from both DC teams to assist in this Rosetta contest.

PS -- How many Rosetta contests usually occur annually?

It seems as though F@H is having issues getting march madness off the ground this year so anyone from F@H or seti for that matter who want to help us for this event are most welcome. I would suggest though, that we give proportional support when either of those teams get events organized.

Rosetta typically only has one event per year, but we recently got taunted by another team we are about to pass and they are picking up production to keep us at bay, so I'm enlisting a bit of help to show them where the bears sh*t in the buckwheat.
Once the front page announcement is up, I'll head over to their forums and throw down the gauntlet.

[Jmtyra]

It seems as though F@H is having issues getting march madness off the ground this year so anyone from F@H or seti for that matter who want to help us for this event are most welcome.
Oh, I wasn't aware of the March Madness issues. I'm guessing it's due to the recently heated battle between some of the top-tier teams. However, I'm getting OT here.

:chair:

[Wayward_Son]

When do we get to start taunting them?

[baditude_df]

I'll head over there once the announcement for the contest is on the front page and throw down the gauntlet. Then hopefully they'll be motivated to take measures to make it a decent race, and we'll get some good back an forth going.

Remember everyone: The idea is to taunt them into doing more science (ie: precisely what they just did to us), and nothing more. Once they see that we've taken the bait and countered their taunt with a Team event, we should see their production increase rapidly as well.

[baditude_df]

Ok, counter taunt has been posted in their forums!

http://www.kwsnforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=182706#182706

Let's see if they take the bait!

EDIT: And challenge has been accepted! Let's go get em!

[baditude_df]

Update Time!

Well, the Event has officially started. See below for our progress so far!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 145,378
Team RAC-Increase: 2,113 in 1 day
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-21-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 74,115,400
Team Total Points Crunched: 410,583 in 1 day
Points Position: 20th

Updated: 21-Feb-11 @ 15:31


We're currently 68,861 points behind and gaining on the Knights who say Ni!
Our RAC is climbing and is currently 34.8K higher than theirs, however, their RAC has been steadily climbing since the 12th of January and they show no signs of slowing, so they will be no pushover I'm sure.
This should be a good race if they decide to put the hammer down!

[cyanstorm]

Well with this event in high gear and our honor on the line guess I will really have to move my arse and get those 2 other rigs crunching PRONTO, might even kidnap my wife's laptop while at it lol...wish rosetta had a GPU option too, have a monster 580 gtx and a couple of 570's folding for FAH:-/

[baditude_df]

Daily Update


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 146,020
Team RAC-Increase: 2,755 in 2 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 74,308,253
Team Total Points Crunched: 603436 in 2 days
Points Position: 20th

Updated: 22-Feb-11 @ 22:23


As it sits right now, we will pass BOINC@AUSTRALIA in 0.68 days, and The Knights who say Ni 0.28 days later, putting us in 18th place!
After that, we will need another 68 days at our current rate to pass the almost stagnant XS Team. Is it really going to take us that long???!! COME ON TEAM!!!
The Knights haven't made much in the way of gains over the past day, and I see in their forum there's alot of humming and hawing about whether or not they want to stay with Rosetta blah blah. So we may need to give up on those chumps and find another team to race. I'll give em another couple of days.

[Jmtyra]

Careful, I may get the Rosetta "itch" again and sic the SR-2 on whatever team feels froggy enough to challenge us...

;)

[baditude_df]

Careful, I may get the Rosetta "itch" again and sic the SR-2 on whatever team feels froggy enough to challenge us...

;)

EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET THE ROSETTA ITCH DAMMIT!!! I want a 10K RAC increase by the end of the week or I'm calling the whole thing off!
jk, but seriously. ;)

[psionic98]

I got nothing more to throw at it! work laptop maybe, but i could get in trouble for that :p I even have a junky tablet pc from long ago pulling 20+ a day :p

[PenguinsPal]

I guess I'll have to show my ugly face again, been awhile since I've done any folding. I'll just have to dust off some old rigs and give it a toss....

[jr1]

I got nothing more to throw at it! work laptop maybe, but i could get in trouble for that :p I even have a junky tablet pc from long ago pulling 20+ a day :p

same here exept the work laptop since i don't have one
i am however thinking of upgrading from my 1055 to a 1100 cpu

[baditude_df]

Well, we just passed BOINC@AUSTRALIA and The Knights who say Ni! all in one fell swoop.

Welcome to 18th Place team!!

Team Members RAC Total Points
15 USA 1420 111,154 93,394,156
16 XtremeSystems 726 3,017 84,049,480
17 Team 2ch 2184 130,353 78,818,595
18 Overclockers.com 278 147,627 74,439,993
19 The Knights Who Say Ni! 772 112,042 74,429,124
20 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 1139 52,277 74,383,898

[Wayward_Son]

And there was much rejoicing.

/mehhhh, mehhhhhhhhh

HA! Congratulations to us!

[Pete Church]

Just like taking a walk through the park... And I just found out my company may have some hardware (web servers) that they're soon to deprecate and I may be able to leave them on Rosetta even after the contest. So hopefully that pans out, we'll see.

[Bobnova]

My celery-on 420 is OC'd 101% and folding it's single core heart out.
Big Box of Doom should be up within a couple weeks.
E5200 box de-clocked itself ($30 mobo, oh well), so it got cranked back up again.

[Nvidia Kid]

Welcome to 18th Place team!!
Great Job Team!!!!! :clap::clap:

[psionic98]

C'mom Bob.. we need your points back.. you're dropping off the map here! I certainly shouldn't have passed your old RAC :p

[PenguinsPal]

Dusting off some old CPU's over here, will have a Pent D 925 and E2160 up and running by tonight!!

[Bobnova]

I'm antsy too, I've been benching the celery 420 in pcmark05. That's how desperate I am!

[OnDborder]

:bday::rock::attn::thup:

[4GHZ_or_bust]

I seems to have a bit of problem getting WUs. I got only 2 in use and none available. Transfer tab shows many pending download, all backed off for another hour. :/

[baditude_df]

So there are no WU's in your buffer at all? If not, uninstall completely and reinstall. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure what's up.

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Yes I have 10 day buffer set in the preference but it seems like I can't quite get connected with the server. I have several completed WU that are stuck in upload and several WU waiting to be downloaded. I can only make one completed download every hour or so by the message tab. my other PC has hundred of WU but is also stuck on uploading and downloading new WUs.

EDIT just got 5 new WUs now. Could be internet issue.

[Jmtyra]

I seems to have a bit of problem getting WUs. I got only 2 in use and none available. Transfer tab shows many pending download, all backed off for another hour. :/

Looking at KWSN's site and the BONIC site, it appears there are some upgrades and downtime going on.

http://boincstats.com/index.php?pr=rosetta

2011-02-22: SLinCA - SERVER STATUS: Server hardware will be upgraded this week with a short interruption.
During the last weekend we determined the limits of hardware for stable server operation. Our server was stable up to processing ~20 KWUs (with some delays and faults after this value). We would like to thank you for cooperation that allowed us to find these limits. For the further stable scaling-up we will upgrade hardware during this week with a short interruption, which will be announced before this.


http://www.kwsnforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=182706#182706

Feb 23, 2011
Outage Notice: We are going to update our scheduler tomorrow, Thursday the 24th. The project will be offline intermittantly throughout the day.

[baditude_df]

Ahh yes, I just had a look through my messages and there are definitely some indications that you are right.

[psionic98]

I know there was some maintenance done earlier.. it stopped me from uploading work.. but its back up as far as I can tell now

[Bobnova]

They're having issues from time to time today, I got a couple or errors but have been able to get WUs.

[baditude_df]

Yep, all seems well now.

[HankB]

I seems to have a bit of problem getting WUs. I got only 2 in use and none available. Transfer tab shows many pending download, all backed off for another hour. :/Similar situation here. I got home and switched from SETI to Rosetta to help with the contest. I got some Rosetta WUs and before I had even wound down the buffered SETI WUs (I'm at default settings for that) the last Rosetta WU was processing. When I got down to one idle core, I opened the gate for SETI again to keep everyone busy. Since then some more Rosetta WUs have arrived and I'm winding down the SETI WUs. Rosetta was down for maintenance most of the afternoon and evening yesterday but they seem to be back up and the WUs are flowing.

Edit: Doh! Guess I'm a little behind the conversation!

[psionic98]

Just switched my athlon x2 3800+ for an opty 170 @ 2.6, and switch the old opty 14x to the athlon x2 chip.. i should see a few hundred more rac before i level out :)

So how about an update.. seems this isn't being taken so seriously by the forums.. is there another contest we're interfering with? Seems when the folding forum wars take place we get half the distributed community to assist! Guess their prizes are better :p

Anyways.. enough griping.. I'm doing my part!

If my math is right.. we're not getting into 17 anytime soon..


Users RAC Total
16 XtremeSystems 726 2,755 84,054,879
17 Team 2ch 2184 127,757 79,150,040
18 Overclockers.com 278 153,794 74,919,851


To make up the 4million+ gap between us and 2ch while only about 26k RAC ahead of them should take us like 300+ days.. :rain:

I'd say we dropped the ball if no one else is going to step up here.

[baditude_df]

RL takes priority over Rosetta updates, work is busy.
No body dropped the ball, the front page announcements and front page announcements just haven't been posted yet. I'll get an update on the publishing tonight, but they should be up soon.
What's happening right now is the core team memebers and standbys are getting an early start to the "March" Event. Even though the official start date was the 21st, it always takes at least a few weeks to get things going. Have patience.
Our Team RAC has already risen substantially, and since this is going to be a rather long event, the sky's the limit.
I'll be announcing the first draw winner on march 7th, as that will be 2 weeks after the official start date.

[Wayward_Son]

You guys are going to make me buy a third computer, I know it.

Psionic: I'm keeping an eye on your new Opty 170. I can't to see what kind of RAC you get with my old dear beloved. It was my first dualie! Shipping it to you brought a tear to my eye. :cry: :D

[baditude_df]

Update Time!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 156,301
Team RAC-Increase: 13,113 in 9 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 75,129,842
Team Total Points Crunched: 1,425,025 in 9 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 27-Feb-11 @ 16:39


Again team, congratulations on pulling in to 18th place! BOINC@AUSTRALIA and The Knights who say Ni! are in our rearview.

Overtake Stats are as follows:

Days Pos. Team
60.36 16 XtremeSystems
161.11 17 Team 2ch
201.16 13 Free-DC


As you can see, our ultimate goal is ~201 days away at our current rate of speed. Obviously with some more help, we'll get there alot quicker.
Although they are almost 10MIL points ahead of us, the current 16th place team (XtremeSystems) will be the first victim, as thier RAC is almost non existant. This will put us in 17th place.
The current 17th place team (Team 2ch) will be the next victim to fall placing us in the 16th position. Although their RAC is currently only ~17K less than ours, we are only 4MIL points behind them.
The last team to fall, will be the current 13th place team (Free-DC ) which will put us at our goal of 15th Place. Their RAC is only ~19K, but they are sitting ~20MIL points ahead of us.

Keep up the great work team, and remember to pass the word on to anyone you think might be able to help out.
The front page announcement should be up soon, and hopefully an admin will help us our with a forum wide anouncement as well.

[cyanstorm]

You guys are going to make me buy a third computer, I know it.

Psionic: I'm keeping an eye on your new Opty 170. I can't to see what kind of RAC you get with my old dear beloved. It was my first dualie! Shipping it to you brought a tear to my eye. :cry: :D

tell me bout it, my father's old core duo just died and I purchased this puppy for him:
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-660 dual-core processor [3.33GHz, 512KB L2 + 4MB shared L3 cache, DMI 2.5GT/s]
• 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs]
• FREE UPGRADE! 750GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB

it will be here next week, and you know it will be crunching 24/7 too! I started with 2 rigs but now have a total of 5 (and next week 6) working for rosetta and team OC. Dont know what else to throw at it, except maybe our cat lol :p

[Wayward_Son]

Dont know what else to throw at it, except maybe our cat lol :p

I wouldn't advise it. I tried that with both of my tabbies and all they did was glare at me. Worthless cats. Worthless big old sweeties. Awwww, look at 'em. They're licking each others' butts again.

[Pete Church]

I wouldn't advise it. I tried that with both of my tabbies and all they did was glare at me. Worthless cats. Worthless big old sweeties. Awwww, look at 'em. They're licking each others' butts again.

Hahaha :rolls eyes: haha :)

[PenguinsPal]

I wouldn't advise it. I tried that with both of my tabbies and all they did was glare at me. Worthless cats. Worthless big old sweeties. Awwww, look at 'em. They're licking each others' butts again.

:eh?:lmao:rofl:

[jr1]

I wouldn't advise it. I tried that with both of my tabbies and all they did was glare at me. Worthless cats. Worthless big old sweeties. Awwww, look at 'em. They're licking each others' butts again.

HEHE :rofl:

On the other note this march event is a good reason to get an 1100T cpu :clap:
A little later tonight i'll se how far i can push it just with the multi ( i'm a totally noob when it comes to ocing the proper way )
Anyways it should give a little boost in rac i think

[psionic98]

I should look into whether or not its worth keeping 2x 939 systems up and running or just somehow get a new one (cost of running them that is)


@ wayward.. so far that opty has been blowing up the rac.. still consistently rising.. i have it at 2.6 and got that w/o a hitch.. unfortunately my athlon x2 is now running @ stock since its in a gateway.. maybe ill have to find a way to get ntune on there or something, but its running mint now

If anyone has a system they don't want to run due to power issues, you can lend it this way.. I shoulda got a 2nd x58 system instead of buyin all this 939 junk :p

[baditude_df]

Update For the Day!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 158,916
Team RAC-Increase: 15,651 in 10 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 75,357,711
Team Total Points Crunched: 1,670,894 in 10 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 28-Feb-11 @ 23:17

[baditude_df]

I'm happy to announce that the winner of the first draw of the March Event is none other than our number one cruncher:
PolRoger!

Check your PM's to claim your $50 Gift Certificate!

Currently there are 21 eligible entrants, and all were entered into the draw.
The results were randomized at Random.org (http://www.random.org/), and the draw is entrant accessible (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5255) so that you can verify that your name was entered and whether or not you were the winner.

I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank drshivas, Jmtyra and molnarc for their generous prize donations. :)

The next draw will be made on March 15th!

[drshivas]

Congrats, PolRoger! :clap:

I guess this means $50 worth of more RAC?

[Jmtyra]

Congrats! :)

[Nvidia Kid]

Congrats PolRoger:burn:

[Bobnova]

Congrats Pol!



On an unrelated topic, this celery 420 appears to do about the same work in a day as my 980x does in two hours.

[psionic98]

Grats Pol!

[PolRoger]

Thanks guys!

[muddocktor]

Congrats to you, PolRoger! I hope there are some more B3 1155 boards available for when I get in from the rig in a week. Then I will put that 2600k I bought from you to use trying to catch you. :D

[baditude_df]

Almost at 160K RAC and climbing! Nice work Team!

[drshivas]

Congrats to you, PolRoger! I hope there are some more B3 1155 boards available for when I get in from the rig in a week. Then I will put that 2600k I bought from you to use trying to catch you. :D

The updated BIOSTAR P67 board is already for sale on newegg according to http://hotdlz.com/.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138298

[baditude_df]

Update Time!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 160,614
Team RAC-Increase: 17,349 in 12 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 75,685,541
Team Total Points Crunched: 1,980,724 in 12 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 2-Mar-11 @ 22:08


We're putting up some good numbers team! Keep it up!

[PolRoger]

Congrats to you, PolRoger! I hope there are some more B3 1155 boards available for when I get in from the rig in a week. Then I will put that 2600k I bought from you to use trying to catch you. :D

Bring it on!!! Mudd :)........ Yes 2600K's make for easy 4.5/4.6 daily "crunchers".

BTW... just so that it is not too easy for you... I fired up an idled i7 920 and brought it back online today to give my RAC a little nudge. :cool:

[psionic98]

thats one little nudge :P if @ 4 thats like 4.5k+ :p

[PenguinsPal]

Congrats PolRoger!! Let's keep it going!!

[Wayward_Son]

Okay, I'm going to throw out a challenge of my own, and one that will be funded by myself.

I would like to point out that I currently have the #1 AMD single-physical-core processor on the entire project (my 1090T @ 4.0 ghz 24/7). I would further like to point out that I have the #1 AMD single-physical-core QUAD-CORE processor on the entire project (my 740BE running as a quad core @ 3.6ghz 24/7). This is in terms of raw RAC, not total points accumulated.

My two rigs are both numero freaking UNO in their respective classes.

I challenge all of you to do better!

I will provide a $50 gift certificate to the online retailer of the winner's choice (with the caveat that IT MUST BE AN ONLINE RETAILER DEALING IN COMPUTER HARDWARE, IE Newegg, CrazyPC, Pitlabs, XoXide, TigerDirect, etc.) to the FIRST OCF Rosetta member that can beat me/edge me out in RAC in terms of Best Overall Single-Physical-Processor AMD chip (will probably end up being a hex, I don't see any quads doing this kind of damage) and also in terms of Best Overall AMD Single-Physical-Quad-Core on the Rosetta project.

To give more clarity, if you have an AMD hex core that can get more RAC than my 1090T, I'll give you a $50 gift card to the online retailer of your choice, under the regulations that I outlined above. All you have to do is get higher on the Rosetta Top Computers ranking than my 1090T and you win the gift card. Furthermore, if you have an AMD single-physical quad core (a 955BE, a 970BE, an X3 unlocked to a quad, etc.) that beats my own unlocked 740BE in RAC then you will also win a $50 gift card to the online retailer of your choice, also bound by the aforementioned regulations of this challenge.

In order to collect your prize, you must post back to this thread WITH A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR AMD COMPUTER OUTRANKING MINE IN ONE (OR BOTH) OF THE TWO ALLOTTED CATEGORIES. It would behoove you to capture your screenshot ASAP, because we all know that RAC has its ups and downs. If you can't provide a screenshot showing your user name and my user name on the Rosetta Top Computers chart with your AMD rig beating my AMD rig in the appropriate category in terms of RAC, then no gift card for you.

Further caveats: This challenge is open ONLY as long as the March 2011 Rosetta Event is taking place. This challenge is ONLY open to AMD members' rigs running AMD processors. It is true that this challenge is expected to last for several months, so my personal challenge is open for as long as the March 2011 event runs. If nobody claims either of my two prizes in that time, and the OCF March 2011 event ends, then this personal challenge of mine will be nullified at the same time the OCF March 2011 even ends.

Keep in mind that my challenge is still open even if I experience an extended power outage and you don't. If this event is still going on in October 2011 and nobody has claimed a prize from me, and I have to evacuate for a hurricane and my rigs are both down for three weeks and my RAC falls and one of you beats me out in the respective classes, then you'll still earn your prize... provided you can submit a screenshot as proof.


There it is. Challenge submitted. Gauntlet thrown down. There's money on the line, folks.

Let's do some science!

:comp:

EDIT: Keep in mind that when I keep making reference to "single-physical-processors" I really mean single physical processors running on a motherboard capable of running only one processor. There are plenty of AMD rigs on the project that beat my top rig out in RAC, but they're all Opteron server systems with multiple physical processors on motherboards capable of supporting multiple physical processors, IE 2 or 4 physical procs with anywhere from 8 to 24 logical cores. For the terms of my challenge, these setups DO NOT COUNT!! My challenge is only open to setups running a motherboard running a SINGLE PHYSICAL PROCESSOR.

EDIT x2: To keep everyone honest, including myself, I will accept screenshots submitted by other people who aren't even in the running. IE, if someone notices that Psionic98's 1100T is higher on the RAC chart than my 1090T, then they should post the screenshot in THIS THREAD and I will honor it. Keep in mind that the prize will still go to Psionic98 in this hypothetical example. This will allow the best chance of the prize going to the rightful winner even if the owner of the winning chip isn't near his computer and online at the time that his processor beats out my processor. Someone else can still take a screenshot and submit it in this thread, and the owner of the OCF processor that beats mine will get the gift card.

[Jmtyra]

I'll switch over the SR-2 when I get home on Friday ;)

[baditude_df]

This just in (for those of you that haven't seen the front page announcement yet)!
The Generous folks at Biostar (http://www.biostar.com.tw/), by way of our good friend and forum moderator splat (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/member.php?u=15957), have seen fit to donate
two of their latest series AMD and Intel motherboards to the cause!

In order to give these puppies away we'll be holding an additional contest throughout the month of March!

This contest will follow the same structure as the RAC Harvest, and therefore be points based.

Each contestant will receive 1 entry into the draw per required amount of points crunched.

The required points per entry will be based on RAC (Recent Average Credit) and categorized per the table below.

RAC <1000 - 3,000 pts per entry
RAC 1000-3000 - 5,000 pts per entry
RAC 3000-5000 - 7,000 pts per entry
RAC 5000-7500 - 10,000 pts per entry
RAC >7500 - 12,500 pts per entry

Total points and RAC for each contestant have already been recorded, and will be recorded again at midnight of the 31st. After which, points will be tallied and entries made per RAC category then randomized by a third party.

Draws will be made on the 1st of April, and entry confirmation will be provided.

For details on these two excellent motherboards, head over to the front page announcement HERE! (http://www.overclockers.com/overclockerscom-rosetta-team-contest-march-2011/)

[thideras]

After finding that CentOS 5.5 absolutely hates BOINC in any way, shape or form, I had given up on trying to get it to crunch points for me. Earlier tonight, I had realized I looked over a major factor of the server. It runs Windows VM's...

/facepalm

Just added my server. Not much power from an AMD Phenom X4 I 2.6GHz, but it will do better than being idle.

[Jmtyra]

WOW! What a way to sweeten the pot baditude! :thup:

[baditude_df]

Splat did the legwork, I just made the announcement.

[PenguinsPal]

I was lookin for a way into Sandy Bridge ... That's awesome Thank you very much BioStar.... Did I mention that I run a BioStar TH55 HD for my 1156 i3-550 ;-) Great HIGH quality MotherBoard ... :-D

[Jmtyra]

Splat did the legwork, I just made the announcement.

Well my hats off to you both! :)

[baditude_df]

And a big thanks to Pete Church for making our fourth member donation to the Event.
Hats off to you sir!!!! :santa:

[psionic98]

Wow.. great going everyone that's donating.. thank you to everyone helping out.

[baditude_df]

Update Time!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 162,753
Team RAC-Increase: 19,488 in 14 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 75,998,456
Team Total Points Crunched: 2,393,639 in 14 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 4-Mar-11 @ 17:30

[Evochuck]

wow this is awesome!

i just looked up your 740, and theres not way i can beat it, i mean i DO use my computer evenings, aka often use too much ressources to compute, but thill im 1k rac under you, any kind of optimisations i can do?

[Evochuck]

heh bumped all my stuffs to the max, lets see how it fares

[psionic98]

rosetta doesn't have enhancements like seti does.. pure processing power.. turn off anything using memory etc :P

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 163,727
Team RAC-Increase: 20,462 in 16 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 76,292,381
Team Total Points Crunched: 2,587,564 in 16 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 6-Mar-11 @ 11:19

[cyanstorm]

My father's PC is finally here: Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache
I setup that puppy and fired up rosetta right after, its currently crunching 24/7. I got my RAC's up to 4k and hopefully I'll hit 5k with this bad boy! :rock:

[psionic98]

Good stuff.. more big machines!

I thought I was going to settle in the 5.5k rac range, but apparently I'm not leveled out yet.. @ 5.7k and climbing still.. sorry djcorpse.. I took you out of 7th

[Wayward_Son]

Well if anyone wants to meet my personal challenge, now's the time. We had a severe electrical storm Saturday morning and both rigs have been stalling or failing work unit after work unit ever since. They're currently both down while I'm running Prime95 to check my hardware. I've lost 800 RAC in 48 hours. :(

[Jmtyra]

<grin>

[PenguinsPal]

I have had quite a few on 3 out of 4 machine with either errors or not started and aborted. Can't figure out why....

[Wayward_Son]

I can't, either, Penguin. I don't know if it's related to the lightning we had Saturday morning but suddenly both machines started failing/stalling work units.

I ran Prime95 on both of them when I left for work this morning. My main rig, my 1090T, passed 12 hours and 1 minute with zero errors. My backup 740 machine errored out on core 3 at nearly 8 hours into Prime. I've backed off the RAM speed from 1648 down to 13-something and I'm re-running Prime. Hopefully it will make a 12 hour run by the time I leave for work tomorrow.

If Both machines are 12+ Prime95 stable, then I have to conclude that my hardware is good and that I'm suddenly getting a bunch of crappy work units from Rosetta. I'm thinking about aborting the entire five-day stockpile on both machines and downloading a new set of work units.

[baditude_df]

My machine has been sitting idle for the last few days. Realtemp reports my core temperatures at 25-30degC, whereas at full load they should be reading 65-70degC at this room temperature. Rosetta says the WU's are running, but my RAC is dropping like a rock.
Not sure exactly what's causing this, but instead of resetting the project and clearing my cache, I just did a full reinstall and things seem to be back to normal. We'll see how things go when I get enough WU's downloaded to load this CPU to 100%.

[Jmtyra]

EDIT: HOLY CRAP! These modules eat RAM like crazy!

I'll switch over the SR-2 when I get home on Friday ;)
So I wasn't able to get to the rig this weekend due to...er.....heh :o so um ya.

Well if anyone wants to meet my personal challenge, now's the time. We had a severe electrical storm Saturday morning and both rigs have been stalling or failing work unit after work unit ever since. They're currently both down while I'm running Prime95 to check my hardware. I've lost 800 RAC in 48 hours. :(
:sn:

<grin>
I'm usually not one to talk smack, unless it's about SFU, but...

...ask and you shall receive. :p

:comp:

92502

[psionic98]

sick and jealous!

my main rig crahsed last night.. come downstairs and it rebooted and rosetta was no longer part of my project list in BOINC.. very odd!

back up and running now, but never seen that happen on a crash, lost ove 150ppd =(

[PolRoger]

my main rig crahsed last night.. come downstairs and it rebooted and rosetta was no longer part of my project list in BOINC.. very odd!

back up and running now, but never seen that happen on a crash, lost ove 150ppd =(

I've had that happen to me a couple of times where it wiped out the whole Rosetta listing from BOINC. Usually though if I do get a blue screen or a screen lockup/freeze then after rebooting everything will come back up fine. I also sometimes get thread errors if my o.c. isn't dialed in enough.

[drshivas]

I've found Rosetta to be more stressful than IBT. I've had to dial back OCs to make Rosetta run smoothly.

[psionic98]

I have to reseat my hsf i think.. I know its not down too tight, but ever since switching from my xig thors hammer to the d14 I've had issues keeping stable @ 4 (and its not temp related since temps went down 10 or so degrees overall including vrms)

[Jmtyra]

Wayward, what user name are you crunching with?

[psionic98]

pretty sure hes under wayward_son on there too #5 I think on the team when sorted by RAC

[bmwbaxter]

I have to reseat my hsf i think.. I know its not down too tight, but ever since switching from my xig thors hammer to the d14 I've had issues keeping stable @ 4 (and its not temp related since temps went down 10 or so degrees overall including vrms)

i had a terrible time with my d14. so i switched to a custom water cooling loop and haven't worried about temps since.

[Wayward_Son]

Wayward_Son on both OCF and Rosetta.

Man, my main rig passed 12 hours of Prime95 Blend and it's still failing/stalling work units. I'm going to start it running Small FTTs next.

My backup 740BE rig also passed 12 hours of Prime and it's also still failing/stalling work unites. It is currently running Small FTTs.

Man, this is pissing me off. I'm down over 1300 RAC since Saturday morning. I'll still award the gift certificates to the OCF user who can meet my personal challenge, but this it *NOT* how I expected it to happen. I wanted to challenge people to beat the RAC of my 1090T rig (which was at ~4350 on Saturday) and the RAC of my 740BE rig (which was at ~2900 on Saturday). I wanted them to do more science than my two computers. Now it looks like they'll win my challenge but not by doing more science, which is what my challenge was supposed to stimulate.

And today my car got keyed at work.

Looks like I'm getting some bad karma right now. Son of a....

[muddocktor]

i had a terrible time with my d14. so i switched to a custom water cooling loop and haven't worried about temps since.

Yep, know what ya mean. The loop on my 980X keeps it running in the low 50's to high 40's on the hottest cores at 4.0. :D

And I came home this morning from the rig and found 2 systems not running Rossie due to reboot issues from a power fluctuation. :( I now have both machines back online and crunching. And I'm still waiting to get a P67 board for my 2600k. I almost ordered that $175 MSI board from the egg this morning, but I would rather a board that has 2 ps2 ports so that it can play nice with my kvm switch. I'm hoping the Asus P8P67 Pro or P8P67 EVO arrives soon at the egg.

BTW W_S, it's a good thing I'm an honest person or I could get that $50 gift certificate from you. I won't post it on the open forums, but if you want, PM me and I will tell you how someone can spoof the system with BOINC on RAC and processor.

[Jmtyra]

pretty sure hes under wayward_son on there too #5 I think on the team when sorted by RAC
Wayward_Son on both OCF and Rosetta.
Cool, thanks :thup:

Looks like I'm getting some bad karma right now. Son of a....
That sucks man. Sorry to hear that. :( :( :(

[psionic98]

I cant afford custom loops atm, plus the upkeep seems to be more intricate compared to remove hsf, blow out dust, wash off, dry, reapply tim, reseat :p

the cooler in general has been great, just very odd that I get some random 124 BSOD (hardware conflict?)

Hope i didn't screw it down too tight.. guess I'll be checking pins tomorrow!

and W_S is it passing memtest for long periods? I would think that the rosetta crunching is dealing with floating point integers etc which if your ram isn't right will surely throw off an invalid point from time to time?

[bmwbaxter]

I cant afford custom loops atm, plus the upkeep seems to be more intricate compared to remove hsf, blow out dust, wash off, dry, reapply tim, reseat :p

the cooler in general has been great, just very odd that I get some random 124 BSOD (hardware conflict?)

Hope i didn't screw it down too tight.. guess I'll be checking pins tomorrow!

and W_S is it passing memtest for long periods? I would think that the rosetta crunching is dealing with floating point integers etc which if your ram isn't right will surely throw off an invalid point from time to time?
i have been failing a couple units a day recent;y, but by the sounds of it a few people have so they might have just sent out some bad units. also 1 thing i found strange is that my loop doesn't get super low temps but the higher i push my OC the less temp increase. compared to air. but on a low oc the temps weren't any better than my d14

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 163,744
Team RAC-Increase: 20,479 in 18 days
RAC Position: 4th

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 76,699,061
Team Total Points Crunched: 2,994,244 in 18 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 8-Mar-11 @ 22:59


Team, it's time to get to work!

Our Old Nemisis from the RAC Harvest has come back with a vengeance and stolen our #3 spot! We are currently just over 1Million points ahead of them and at our current rates, they will pass us in ~60 days!!!!! :O
We are in the middle of a team event folks, I know our combined power is more than enough to put them in their place!

Since the Knights who Say Ni! have welshed and completely cut back on their Rosetta production after making their initial taunt in our forums, I think we have our new victim!
Once again, we will be racing the UK BOINC Team, and just like last time we will beat them to the goal!

[psionic98]

so back stable.. though at 3.9. I have to work this out, cpu apparently doesn't like 20x200, but 20x199 is fine.. going above to 201 should be fine to.. pretty sure redlines can handle the small extra bump past 1600.. will be testing that out today or tomorrow

[bmwbaxter]

well i am hoping to raise my OC up to 4.2 for 24/7 use this weekend. so that should help.

[Jmtyra]

So for those who are Rosetta@Home "newbies" how long does it usually take for a person's RAC to balance out?

[bmwbaxter]

So for those who are Rosetta@Home "newbies" how long does it usually take for a person's RAC to balance out?

around 3 weeks.

[Jmtyra]

Ouch ... OK, perhaps my contribution won't be realized until the end of the contest. Sorry folks! :(

[bmwbaxter]

Ouch ... OK, perhaps my contribution won't be realized until the end of the contest. Sorry folks! :(

well it gets up to 50-75% in about about 10 days.

[Wayward_Son]

I found my RAC still rising, slowly, at 4-5 weeks.

Well, both rigs pass 12+ hours of Prime95 Blend. I ran the backup 740BE rig for 12+ hours of Prime Small FTTs and it passed with zero errors or warnings. I then shut it off this morning. It's the first time it's actually been turned off since I brought it up about six weeks ago.

My main rig, the 1090T, just passed 23 hours and 15 minutes of Small FTTs with zero errors or warnings.

Folks, I have to believe my hardware is just fine. I don't know what in the bloody hell is causing both rigs to stall or error out on 75%+ of their Rosetta work units. It all started at the same time on both machines, Saturday morning after a huge electrical storm. I was thinking that maybe they somehow got a does of EMP or static or something, but I just don't see how it could be hardware related when both of them have passed twelve-hour tests of both Blend and Small FTTs. The only other Prime95 Test for both machines is In-Place, and maybe MemTest. I just don't understand this. I am completely confused. I've been running them at these speeds for a long time and suddenly they can barely complete a Rosetta work unit? I'm stupified.

Would I have any luck uninstalling and reinstalling BOINC on both rigs?

Both machines just had complete Windows reinstalls, I really don't want to go through that again.

[baditude_df]

Ouch ... OK, perhaps my contribution won't be realized until the end of the contest. Sorry folks! :(

The draw for the Biostar motherboards at the end of March is a bonus event within the time line of the main event which runs until we hit 15th place. You have plenty of time for your RAC to stabilize provided you are sticking around to help us to our ultimate goal.

[Jmtyra]

Cool deal folks -- thanks for the info and helping out a Rosetta 'newbie' here. :)

[psionic98]

I've been up and running for weeks and still not stable.. course I keep messing with my systems trying to raise the oc.. I was hoping to top out around 6k, but i might not go much above 5800

[PenguinsPal]

Steady uphill climb here, but I keep tweaking and adding systems ....lol

I think I stll have a couple PIII's in a bin somewhere... LMAO...

[Evochuck]

Im still climbing, gained 400 RAC since turning on the afterburners on the system. Yet still 500 short of touching your numbers Wayward. >.>

[xsuperbgx]

I just pulled the LN2 pot and all of the insulation off of my benching rig, so my 955be is now back online.
Wayward_Son: If no one else is trying to catch you I will when my rac maxes out.....

[Bobnova]

I have no AMD quads, or I'd be giving it everything I possibly could!

There's nothing left in this celery 420, it gets woefully unstable 20mhz higher and fails POST 10mhz higher then that.
This is bleeding edge!

[psionic98]

If I had another 939 board I could oc my 3800 x2, but I can't fathom spending anymore on these old procs :p

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 167,682
Team RAC-Increase: 24,417 in 20 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 77,065,104
Team Total Points Crunched: 3,360,287 in 20 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 10-Mar-11 @ 22:069


Now we're starting to move! Nice job team!

[Dooms101]

I am completely new to BIONC and Rosetta, I don't know how to set it up too well. How do you allow it to run 100% load 24/7 regardless of computer user activity? Currently, it only runs when I don't touch the keyboard or mouse, is there a way to make it just run all out regardless if I am using my computer? I have to use her for hw a lot, but I'd still like to be folding.

[thideras]

I set my "idle time" in the Preferences to "-1" and it never goes off of 100% CPU usage.

[Dooms101]

I set my "idle time" in the Preferences to "-1" and it never goes off of 100% CPU usage.

ohhhh, I tried setting it to "0" and it just goes back to "1", so I figured it was something else I had to do. Thanks!

It wouldn't work through the Rosetta website computing preferences, but setting it in the BIONC preferences worked :D

[xsuperbgx]

Wayward, did you get your issues figured out??

[xsuperbgx]

Team points are looking up also :thup: :thup:

[PenguinsPal]

Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 172,489
Team RAC-Increase: 27,111 in 21 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 77,442,334
Team Total Points Crunched: 3,737,517 in 21 days
Points Position: 18th

[Wayward_Son]

Wayward, did you get your issues figured out??

No. I'm terribly frustrated with all of this. I can't believe this is happening in the middle of a contest.

To reiterate, both machines have passed multiple 12+ hour runs of both the Blend and the Small FTTs tests of Prime95 without errors or warnings on any core. Both machines have been turned off for 12+ hours at a time. Both have had Spybot and MSE scans run, with nothing malignant coming up on either one. On both machines I have aborted all tasks and downloaded completely new tasks, several times.

Nothing is working. Both rigs can barely pass a work unit. I don't know what to do. Today I plan on uninstalling and reinstalling BOINC on both machines to see if that gets me anywhere.

Does anyone have any advice for me? I don't know what else to do.

[xsuperbgx]

Did you try to reset to stock clocks and let them run a few units?

Try a boinc reinstall if that doesn't work then I would try a windows reinstall. Kind of a lot of work but it would hopefully get you going...

[Wayward_Son]

First on my list is a BOINC reinstall. If that doesn't work I'll try stock clocks.

I REALLY hate doing Windows reinstalls, Furthermore, I shouldn't have to. The backup 740BE rig just came online less than two months ago and of course got a new copy of Win7 Pro x64. That install is less than two months old, and it NOTHING installed on it except for Spybot, MSE, Firefox and BOINC. That's it. Four programs. My main 1090T rig got upgraded around the same time with an OCZ Vertex II SSD, and the rig got a complete format/reinstall at that time with Win7 Pro x64 on the SSD. The old 320gb WD Caviar got formatted and installed as a backup drive. On both machines, the Windows installs are less than two months old.

I just don't get it. We need a smiley of a little face pulling his hair out in frustration. :(

[psionic98]

Could always install Mint and get boinc manager for the time being.. and reinstall windows after the contest!

[baditude_df]

I'm having big issues too. I'm at stock clocks, I've reset, detached and reloaded BOINC. Rosetta will run overnight at 100% load on my CPU and then when I wake up in the morning, I'll be at 5-10% load and RealTemp Recording temperatures of ~25degC.
Max temp recorded through the night was 68degC, which doesn't seem to be enough to kick the processor into a low power state or initiate thermal shutdown.
Regardless, I can't help but think that these symptoms are caused by heat, and this IS the first time I've tried to crunch on a quad with a stock cooler.
I'll see what happens when my new cooler arrives.

[blamauci]

I'm having big issues too. I'm at stock clocks, I've reset, detached and reloaded BOINC. Rosetta will run overnight at 100% load on my CPU and then when I wake up in the morning, I'll be at 5-10% load and RealTemp Recording temperatures of ~25degC.
Max temp recorded through the night was 68degC, which doesn't seem to be enough to kick the processor into a low power state or initiate thermal shutdown.
Regardless, I can't help but think that these symptoms are caused by heat, and this IS the first time I've tried to crunch on a quad with a stock cooler.
I'll see what happens when my new cooler arrives.

well you're not the only one my rosetta crunching suck too im only at 50% load so two WU's arent working just happened today after i got home from the hospital where my girlfriends dad is in
it was working for 4 days straight no probs now it is f*cked up

[Wayward_Son]

Perhaps I'm not the only one?

[Evochuck]

No. I'm terribly frustrated with all of this. I can't believe this is happening in the middle of a contest.

To reiterate, both machines have passed multiple 12+ hour runs of both the Blend and the Small FTTs tests of Prime95 without errors or warnings on any core. Both machines have been turned off for 12+ hours at a time. Both have had Spybot and MSE scans run, with nothing malignant coming up on either one. On both machines I have aborted all tasks and downloaded completely new tasks, several times.

Nothing is working. Both rigs can barely pass a work unit. I don't know what to do. Today I plan on uninstalling and reinstalling BOINC on both machines to see if that gets me anywhere.

Does anyone have any advice for me? I don't know what else to do.

It does suck :S
I mean i just passed you but i mean you went down 700 ish in rac :S
Meaby it has to do with your computer idle settings?

[blamauci]

Perhaps I'm not the only one?

It does suck :S
I mean i just passed you but i mean you went down 700 ish in rac :S
Meaby it has to do with your computer idle settings?

I'm having big issues too. I'm at stock clocks, I've reset, detached and reloaded BOINC. Rosetta will run overnight at 100% load on my CPU and then when I wake up in the morning, I'll be at 5-10% load and RealTemp Recording temperatures of ~25degC.
Max temp recorded through the night was 68degC, which doesn't seem to be enough to kick the processor into a low power state or initiate thermal shutdown.
Regardless, I can't help but think that these symptoms are caused by heat, and this IS the first time I've tried to crunch on a quad with a stock cooler.
I'll see what happens when my new cooler arrives.

hey guys mine just started working 3 WU's at a time again
maybe by tommorow it will be four again dont know what the hell was wrong though:grouphug::bang head:bang head

[killerkid]

Just wanted to drop in and say hi. I just registered and started up boinc for the first time today. I am using the laptop in my sig currently but I have a sandy bridge build coming up soon that will be crunching 24/7 =D as long as my electric bill doesn't go up to much haha.

Edit: Also should note my user name for boinc is igNite and I joined the overclockers team :)

[Dooms101]

I was running 0 WU's for a few hours even though there was like 10 tasks lined up. I messed with tons of settings, eventually I just reset rosetta and I've been running 6 WU's at a time with 100% cpu load for a few hours.

[baditude_df]

So is anyone else having issues? Or just us select lucky few?
This the first time I've ever had a problem with Rosetta and it's really pissing me off.

[PenguinsPal]

Looks like I will be reinstalling XP on my Pent. D 915... Can't get it to recieve any new WU's.... Quota is still set @ 2 per day, and it won't change....

[neonblingbling]

Does anyone have any advice for me? I don't know what else to do.

If you don't want to reinstall Windows but suspect it is the cuplrit, maybe try running Live Ubuntu temporarily? (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=660426)

[PenguinsPal]

If you don't want to reinstall Windows but suspect it is the cuplrit, maybe try running Live Ubuntu temporarily? (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=660426)

Would love to do that, but how do you inject the B42 wireless drivers into the image?:bang head

[killerkid]

Just added my girlfriends laptop, I believe its a 2.0ish dual core processor. I will have another laptop up and running shortly, its a 2.4ghz pentium lol old school I know.

So that will be 3 laptops that I should have folding most of the time and then my desktop rig will be up 100% of the time =D.

Anyone have any idea what kinda numbers I will be seeing with a stock sandy bridge 2600k system?

[4GHZ_or_bust]

So is anyone else having issues? Or just us select lucky few?
This the first time I've ever had a problem with Rosetta and it's really pissing me off.

getting regular 83% busy CPU (set to use 5 cores so I could use my computer!:D) and I haven't sen any error.

Windows 7 64 bits, my BOINC contained Lunatac's optimized files for seti but using stock rosetta files.

[psionic98]

Would love to do that, but how do you inject the B42 wireless drivers into the image?:bang head

Lots of the newer live cds have older wireless drivers. I found that Mint had preloaded a set for my old linksys card.. it may have even been B42... anyways, even though its livecd you can still sudo apt-get and use binding etc to use windows drivers if you can get them on a flash drive.

[Yomama]

baltitude and wayward_son - I am wondering if your issues could be related to a rise in ambient temps. As spring is approaching, temps are obviously slowly rising. I have one of my machines in the garage (typically less than 50F), and one in my unheated study - typically less than 70F. During a recent spike in outside temps these temps went up to 68 and 82 and both machines had errors, though they did not crash, I throttled them back to maintain mobo and core temps that were similar to what they were when the ambient temps were lower, and they ran slower but without errors - just my $0.02

[HankB]

So is anyone else having issues? Or just us select lucky few?
This the first time I've ever had a problem with Rosetta and it's really pissing me off.

<touching wood>

No problem here at the moment. Got my old Athlon X2 3800+ overclocked about 20% and it's just running along w/out difficulty.

I've added an older Thinkpad and netbook. If there's a prize for least credits for most processors I should be a contender. :rolleyes: I've also snuck into wife's laptop and have it crunching at about 80% All machines are getting work and happily crunching away.

[killerkid]

HankB - I would compete against you in the most processors but lowest credit competition haha. Right now I have my 1.66ghz dual core, my gf's 2.0ghz dual core both laptops, I guess I will toss up my netbook right now. Soon I will be adding another 2.4ghz pentium 4 single core laptop, an 800mhz slot a athlon and my neighbors 2.4ghz p4 too.

My goal is to hit 1k points today!

I can't wait until my sandy bridge rig is here and I can pump close to 5ghz + on all cores 24/7 =D.

[PenguinsPal]

Via 1.5Ghz Mini-itx
Acer netbook
PIII 1133 Laptop
PIV 2.4@2.53
:-)

I'd get my TI Scientific calc running BOINC if they had a client for it ... LMAO

[killerkid]

<---- Just hit 1k total points!! Didn't take to long for my 2 lil laptops to get up there =D.

Man my sandy bridge will be able to do so much more then these 2 lappys put together can do lol. 8 Threads total ftw!

[baditude_df]

I wish the issue were that simple, but unfortunately no. Although spring is coming, and temperatures are rising, there hasn't been a large enough jump yet. I've tried a variety of things including leaving the window open overnight which brought my ambient room temperture down to ~17degC. The same issue still occurred, regardless.
Touch wood, I've been crunching steady for two days and my RAC has come up ~100Pts. Here's hoping it stays that way.


baltitude and wayward_son - I am wondering if your issues could be related to a rise in ambient temps. As spring is approaching, temps are obviously slowly rising. I have one of my machines in the garage (typically less than 50F), and one in my unheated study - typically less than 70F. During a recent spike in outside temps these temps went up to 68 and 82 and both machines had errors, though they did not crash, I throttled them back to maintain mobo and core temps that were similar to what they were when the ambient temps were lower, and they ran slower but without errors - just my $0.02

[baditude_df]

I'm happy to announce that the winner of the second biweekly draw of the March Event is:
OnDborder

Check your PM's to claim your $50 Gift Certificate!

Eligibility for biweekly prize draws is based on RAC and whether or not you have already won.
Currently there are 28 eligible entrants out of a total 36 who have signed up. All eligible contestants were entered into the draw.
The results were randomized at Random.org (http://www.random.org/), and the draw is entrant accessible (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5385) so that you can verify that your name was entered and whether or not you were the winner.

I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank drshivas, Jmtyra, molnarc and Pete Church for their generous prize donations. :)

The next draw will be made on March 30th!

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 177,777
Team RAC-Increase: 34,512 in 24 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 77,848,383
Team Total Points Crunched: 4,143,566 in 24 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 14-Mar-11 @ 22:02


Keep it up Team, this is the Rate of Increase I was looking for.
Reminds me of what we did back in November!
I'd really like to unlock all of the $100 prizes, so PUSH!!!!

[baditude_df]

For any of you who are interested in what you've managed to accomplish so far!

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6563/teamstatusupdatemar14.png

[cyanstorm]

Those 5 guys ahead of me are just MONSTERS, especially the top 3 ********! :D there is no way in hell I will catch any of 'em so I will be happy to remain at #6 or at least in the top 10 for the foreseeable future. My next major upgrade will come in mid/late 12 with Ivy bridge. I am thinking I will top out at 6.5k RAC if I am lucky, maybe a bit more.

Now if my oldest PC' was to break down (ahem old P4 at work) :cool:) I'd be forced to get an i5, maybe an i7, so I am carefully monitoring my old workhorse for any senile signs and I'll finally put him outta its misery...

[cyanstorm]

HankB - I would compete against you in the most processors but lowest credit competition haha. Right now I have my 1.66ghz dual core, my gf's 2.0ghz dual core both laptops, I guess I will toss up my netbook right now. Soon I will be adding another 2.4ghz pentium 4 single core laptop, an 800mhz slot a athlon and my neighbors 2.4ghz p4 too.

My goal is to hit 1k points today!

I can't wait until my sandy bridge rig is here and I can pump close to 5ghz + on all cores 24/7 =D.


I will have to keep a weary eye on ye, that bad boy your bringing
into the ring might just knock a few of us out cold

[Dooms101]

Rosetta has finally started working for me again, RAC is climbing 150 or so a day just like before, hopefully I'll be topping out at about 4K. And, I'll be hitting the 50,000 mark in a matter of days. :D

[PolRoger]

Congratulations "OnDborder"!

[psionic98]

Grads OnD..

[OnDborder]

Thank you baditude and drshivas..

[muddocktor]

Congrats on winning week 2, OnD!:thup:

[PenguinsPal]

Congrats OnDborder!! WTG!!

[Bobnova]

Congrats OnDb!


My poor, poor RAC :(
I've got a 2600K coming tomorrow though!
On my dad's PhII 955 system if I set it to fold all cores it crashes after a few hours and gives a ton of graphical artifacts.
If I set it to use 3 cores, it runs forever just fine.

[psionic98]

Then be like Ron Popeil (spelling?) and "Set it and Forget it!"

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 183,196
Team RAC-Increase: 39,931 in 26 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 78,233,276
Team Total Points Crunched: 4,528,459 in 26 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 16-Mar-11 @ 17:56


Anyone looked at the stats lately? We're about 800pts away from 2nd Place in the World RAC Standings!!!!
At our current rate it will take ~32 days to pass Xtreme Systems for 17th Place in total points, and ~42 days to pass Team 2ch for 16th place.
Keep it coming team! We're really flying now!

[Wayward_Son]

Well I think I may have gotten my situation licked. It looks like it was as simple as detaching from the project and reattaching to it. I had already tried aborting all my work units and downloading new ones, twice, and that didn't work, but I tried this latest fix yesterday and so far it looks like it might have worked. I'd hate to say everything is fixed before a few more days pass. On my main rig, when I woke up this morning there was only one stalled work unit. I aborted it and refreshed, and when I got home just now (about 14 hours later) there were zero stalled units and all cores were crunching at 100%. On the backup rig I tried the same thing first thing this morning and when I got home it also had zero stalled units and all four cores were crunching at 100%.

I'm cautiously optimistic at this point, and if anyone else is having problems similar to what I've experienced I would advise detaching from the project and reattaching to it to try and fix it.

With that being said, if we're only 800 points away from 2nd place in RAC, then with both my rigs running at full potential we should be there in no time.

:comp:

[Jmtyra]

Good job team!

[Bobnova]

800 points down is damn good!

My poor RAC is in the toilet, but by the end of tomorrow I'll be running on a 2600k at 4ghz or so if all goes halfway decently!
That'll be worth a fair RAC upgrade over a single core conroe-L celeron at 3.2ghz...

[PenguinsPal]

800 points down is damn good!

My poor RAC is in the toilet, but by the end of tomorrow I'll be running on a 2600k at 4ghz or so if all goes halfway decently!
That'll be worth a fair RAC upgrade over a single core conroe-L celeron at 3.2ghz...

Well looks like you will be flying right on by me again ...lol

[Nvidia Kid]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 183,196
Team RAC-Increase: 39,931 in 26 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 78,233,276
Team Total Points Crunched: 4,528,459 in 26 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 16-Mar-11 @ 17:56


Anyone looked at the stats lately? We're about 800pts away from 2nd Place in the World RAC Standings!!!!
At our current rate it will take ~32 days to pass Xtreme Systems for 17th Place in total points, and ~42 days to pass Team 2ch for 16th place.
Keep it coming team! We're really flying now!


:clap: We did it 2ND PLACE IN RAC ,Great Job Team :clap:

[psionic98]

Nice.. and by a good margin of 2k and increasing!

[Wayward_Son]

Now over 24 hours without a stalled work unit. Things are looking up. It'll take me several weeks to get back to where I was! Gorram computers.

[Bobnova]

Up and running with a 4ghz 2600k!

[Wayward_Son]

Bring it, Bob.

[muddocktor]

Been busy playing with my new 2600k rig I just got running today. Easiest system I have ever had to overclock. Right now, I am looking to see what kind of bclock headroom this Asrock Extreme6 has. Right now I'm priming at a 105 bclock. I know you don't have to overclock the 2600k by bclock and you supposedly don't have too much wiggle room on P67 boards, but I'm curious.:D

[PenguinsPal]

Been busy playing with my new 2600k rig I just got running today. Easiest system I have ever had to overclock. Right now, I am looking to see what kind of bclock headroom this Asrock Extreme6 has. Right now I'm priming at a 105 bclock. I know you don't have to overclock the 2600k by bclock and you supposedly don't have too much wiggle room on P67 boards, but I'm curious.:D

Sounds like fun.. I was thrilled when I got my i3-550 to 4.6 I can just imagine what its like to get that 2600K up over 5.....:burn:

[muddocktor]

Oh, I doubt that I will push it that far. I look more for 24/7 overclocks than max overclocks. I might push it for benching only, but I really want to see what I can do for normal tasks too. With that said, 4.6 is going to be a no-brainer for a 24/7 overclock.

Right now I have the bclock up to 106 and no problems so far. This bodes well for people who don't want to shell out the extra bucks for an unlocked proc to get a bit more out of their system.

[PenguinsPal]

Oh, I doubt that I will push it that far. I look more for 24/7 overclocks than max overclocks. I might push it for benching only, but I really want to see what I can do for normal tasks too. With that said, 4.6 is going to be a no-brainer for a 24/7 overclock.

Right now I have the bclock up to 106 and no problems so far. This bodes well for people who don't want to shell out the extra bucks for an unlocked proc to get a bit more out of their system.

But don't the non K SBs have a locked Bclock?? :shrug::cry:

[Evochuck]

Just saying, Im at nearly 2300 RAC on my 4 core phenom 2, nearly at the 2500 goal you set Wayward!

[Wayward_Son]

Just saying, Im at nearly 2300 RAC on my 4 core phenom 2, nearly at the 2500 goal you set Wayward!

My quad was at approximately 2900 when all hell broke loose.

[Bobnova]

All SB has a more or less locked bclk.
Never seen one over 109, and that's mighty rare.
Mine caps out at 105 or so.

[muddocktor]

Yeah, I know that Bob. I was just playing with it to see how far mine would go. I got unstable at 108.0 bclk, but 107.9 would P95 for hours.:screwy: I just got her crunching this afternoon at a very very conservative 4.5.

[Bobnova]

Bclk part was for PenguinsPal, should have quote him I guess.

Mine isn't real great volts/clock wise, 1.35 gets me 4242, haven't gone more for daily cause that's just fine.
3d06 CPU test I've done at 5ish with 1.53 volts.

[Jmtyra]

My RAC is currently suffering due to hardware maintenance being performed on the folding farm. Bad timing on my part, sorry folks.

[Bobnova]

Mine's headed back up.
SB@4.2 is hardcore!

[psionic98]

I've seem to stalled out at 5800 rac.. i guess i cant complain considering my sissy farm!

[baditude_df]

Sorry guys, I've been outta comish for a few days. Doing Reno's in my unit, and everything's disconnected and constantly being moved while we paint and put down new floors. Should be back up and running by Wednesday.

[PenguinsPal]

Well I have a 1090T on the way, should give me a nice little boost....

[DJCorpse]

I've seem to stalled out at 5800 rac.. i guess i cant complain considering my sissy farm!

I know the feeling! It seems like you and I are stuck in the ~5800-5900 range and trading the #7 and #8 spots every few days.

And glad to see the contest is going well, keep it up everyone!

[Wayward_Son]

Well I have a 1090T on the way, should give me a nice little boost....

You can't go wrong with that choice. They are mini-Crays. I am floored that the average Jane or Joe can go out and buy a ~$200 processor for a home computer that has this much raw computing power. It's insane.

[PenguinsPal]

I am glad of my choice, the others have had to be shut down.
Since then the temp in my house has dropped 5 degrees .....:rofl:

[Dooms101]

I am glad of my choice, the others have had to be shut down.
Since then the temp in my house has dropped 5 degrees .....:rofl:

Haha, I know exactly what you mean. I have a 1000watt stereo and my computer in my smallish room, when they're both off for a few hours I get the chills xD

[psionic98]

My pc top vent is on the other side of the wall where my house thermostat is.. and theres an open archway there so the air freely wafts in that direction.. needless to say the heat failed to come on a few times over the winter cause of the extra few degrees it was pushing around!

[Bobnova]

My box used to do that. Drove me absolutely nuts, I'd be freezing items that aren't allowed to mention around here while the thermostat said "What dude? It's 75*f in here bro!".

[Outback_Jon]

I'd be freezing items that aren't allowed to mention around here

You have non-overclocked PCs in your house???? :shock:

[Dooms101]

I'd be freezing items that aren't allowed to mention around here

;) we all know what you do in your spare time. I know how you feel, my pc keeps my room 5C hotter than the rest of the house.

[Bobnova]

You have non-overclocked PCs in your house???? :shock:

Two, neither has any OCing abilities at all, a dell mini9 and an old Sharp AMD64 laptop (that thing is incredible, best build quality ever). I benched both though and got some cups with the AMD box :D

[psionic98]

I have 2 as well.. an old 939 gateway (wife just HAD to suprise me with junk from bestbuy for christmas one year) and an old toshiba m200 tablet.. both crunching rosetta btw!

[psionic98]

Ok so I got this months electric bill in and it looks like my main rig might need to take a break.. meaning I'll be dropping off the charts down to the 1k area.. it's been fun, but it's either give this up or give up some traveling with the kids for vacation.. kids win this round :cry:

Apparently it's not good when your winter bill is nearly the same as your summer when you have the AC's on a lot.

[HankB]

Ok so I got this months electric bill in and it looks like my main rig might need to take a break....That's too bad. At the moment we're only 1650 RAC behind the Czech national team. But the kids vacation is more important. You can never make that up.

[psionic98]

Oh no doubt.. I would have rather taken my 939s off it, but I know this system is pulling a lot more juice than they are.

[Bobnova]

That's debatable, a couple 939s would match a mid range overclock on a 920 for power draw and not produce nearly as much RAC.

[HankB]

That's debatable, a couple 939s would match a mid range overclock on a 920 for power draw and not produce nearly as much RAC.
I have an s939 (Athlon 64 x2 3800+) and an AM3 (Phenom II x4 820.) Both are overclocked and both draw similar power - about 150 Watts IIRC - and the Phenom turns out about 4x the RAC.

Edit: The Phenom system uses the on board video. A honkin' video card would probably make a big difference in power usage.

[PenguinsPal]

Well, I have the 1090 up and running now. I think I will just let it get a running start before I really start OCing it.
So that's:
1090T Stock
i3-550 @ 3.84
E6400 @ Stock
Pent. D 915 @ 3.7
Athlon 64 x2 3800+ @ 2.4

Those will be running 24/7 till the wifey says the light bill is to high....lol

[psionic98]

That's debatable, a couple 939s would match a mid range overclock on a 920 for power draw and not produce nearly as much RAC.

I agree that if I had both systems oc'd upwards of 2.7 I'd be pulling some wattage, but 1 is oc'd and the other is pure stock. Likely my i7 @ 4 is pulling more.

[baditude_df]

Update Area!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 196,015
Team RAC-Increase: 52,750 in 35 days
RAC Position: 3rd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 80,088,847
Team Total Points Crunched: 6,384,030 in 35 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 25-Mar-11 @ 19:09


So! Quite a bit has happened since the last update.
For starters, our second place ranking was quickly stolen back by Czech National Team who made a quick surge on the 21st. However, we've handily closed the gap again, and now are back within 450 points of that rank.
Also, much like Splat hit up our friends at Biostar, our fearless leader I.M.O.G. has managed to secure some swag from Newegg.com and we will now be making a weekly draw for a newegg.com prize pack, along with our biweekly draws for newegg gift certificates! Let's hear it for I.M.O.G.! The first draw will be made tonight!

As you can see by the numbers above, we are making very good progress! We are about to top 200K team RAC, and we just passed the 80 Million Point mark!

At our current rate we will need 20.75 days to pass XtremeSystems for 17th place, and 24.47 days to pass Team 2ch.

Keep it up Team!

[Evochuck]

yay for imog! :)

[baditude_df]

The winner of our first weekly newegg.com prize draw is:
Molnarc !
Congratulations! You will be contacted via PM.
There were 33 eligible participants entered into tonight's draw.
As always, the draw is entrant accessible (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5524) so that you can verify your name was entered and whether or not you won.
Stay Tuned for more prize giveaways!

[PenguinsPal]

Congrats Molnarc!!!!!

[drshivas]

Wow, nice! What a contest! Thanks I.M.O.G., Splat and baditude_df, and everyone contributing their rigs to the cause and OCF Rosetta :thup:

And congrats, Molnarc!

[OnDborder]

Molnarc, Congrats to yoooo:clap::bday:

[Dooms101]

Thanks IMOG, Splat, and baditude_df! And congrats Molnarc!

[TsunamiJuan]

I just setup my half rack of xeons to alot unused cycles to this, lets go #1 :)

[psionic98]

Yay.. that takes over my 5800 I have to give up =(

[mikealaska]

is there any way my son and i can help, what can we offer ?
i think all we need is a leader to get us going .

we should download the client , and get registered , and sign-up ?
i do not want to be in the way or slow the team down , if you feel it is not in the best interest of the Rosetta Team , we understand .

thank you ,, Daniel , dad michael

[Dooms101]

is there any way my son and i can help, what can we offer ?
i think all we need is a leader to get us going .

we should download the client , and get registered , and sign-up ?
i do not want to be in the way or slow the team down , if you feel it is not in the best interest of the Rosetta Team , we understand .

thank you ,, Daniel , dad michael

No one gets in the way :) every CPU cycle used helps. You can only contribute to the team, you can't hurt it by joining, so set up your rigs and get crunching!

[baditude_df]

is there any way my son and i can help, what can we offer ?
i think all we need is a leader to get us going .

we should download the client , and get registered , and sign-up ?
i do not want to be in the way or slow the team down , if you feel it is not in the best interest of the Rosetta Team , we understand .

thank you ,, Daniel , dad michael

What the last guy said. We'd be happy to have you.
Just head over to the Sign Up Thread HERE (http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669587). It will have the link to Download BOINC Manager. Install, choose Rosetta@home as your project, choose a BOINC Username and use overclockers.com as your team. Once you're up and running, come back to the signup thread and register with any users that just created an account and are actively crunching for the team.

Welcome! :welcome:

[HankB]

we should download the client , and get registered , and sign-up ?

Yes! :clap:

i do not want to be in the way or slow the team down , if you feel it is not in the best interest of the Rosetta Team , we understand .

thank you ,, Daniel , dad michael

No worries about slowing the team down. Any results you complete will contribute to the team. (And will help keep your home warm on those cold Alaska nights. :thup:)

In addition, the various DC projects are vary compute intensive and will provide additional stress testing for your OC. For the two systems I have recently overclocked, one could not run optimized SETI tasks and the other could not run Rosetta even though they were both Prime95 stable. (Both took some additional tweaking to be stable with those.) IMO it's good to try several DC projects to provide extended stress testing. But start with Rosetta please until the end of the contest. :D

[mikealaska]

OK I'm stuck on the,, Find a Team , on the Rosetta @home page.
something just does not look right, sorry to inconvence anyone.

[thideras]

You really shouldn't be giving out personal information like that. :-/

[Wayward_Son]

Mikealaska: I thought about calling that number and thought better of it.

If you need help, we can walk you through it. Don't post actual phone numbers on forums, dude. Please edit your post and remove that number.

Can you explain your problem with more detail and fewer phone numbers?

[mikealaska]

yes i did pull my number, i have less to fear than most living here 29 years , it is a 2day drive to my house from seattle,wa. ,,
i can understand being cautious thank you for your concern . nobody called by the time i got back , i figure its not so important .

[bmwbaxter]

Well I just lost my core 2 quad. Gonna have to reinstall and get it going again.

[mikealaska]

can you think how many years i been telling strangers my phone number , i run a business !!
do you think the boogie man will visit my house ,, we have anti stupid hardware its called Remington , very effective !!
all my of family hunt moose, bear, we fish , and shoot straight.
we get to carry, and have silencers , which by the way are great for hunting birds.
i do value your concern Wayward-son , thank you .

we have all the files running , i believe all is downloaded.
project, rosetta@home
account, Daniel Star
team, is blank
i have joined on the rosetta team in Washington.

yea it is all done whew !

Whats next ?

[Dooms101]

can you think how many years i been telling strangers my phone number , i run a business !!
do you think the boogie man will visit my house ,, we have anti stupid hardware its called Remington , very effective !!
all my of family hunt moose, bear, we fish , and shoot straight.
we get to carry, and have silencers , which by the way are great for hunting birds.
i do value your concern Wayward-son , thank you .

we have all the files running , i believe all is downloaded.
project, rosetta@home
account, Danie Star
team, is blank
i have joined on the rosetta team in Washington.

yea it is all done whew !

Whats next ?

Well if you'd like to contribute to our team, then you'll have to join the team "Overclockers.com".

To join the team follow these steps:

Go to the Rosetta@Home project site and login here (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/login_form.php)
Once logged in, your browser should be directed to the "Your Account" page
Scroll down to the "Community" section and click the link that says "Find Team"
Type in "Overclocker.com" in the search and it should turn up
Now join the team


Not sure if those are exact as I am already joined, but I am pretty sure thats what it is. As far as putting out your number like that, people can use it to register accounts using your number (happened to my friend), not a huge deal but really annoying if they start calling your number 5 times a day trying to sell you something. It can also be used to find where you live, but I am sure you could handle any potential intruders :D

[baditude_df]

can you think how many years i been telling strangers my phone number , i run a business !!
do you think the boogie man will visit my house ,, we have anti stupid hardware its called Remington , very effective !!
all my of family hunt moose, bear, we fish , and shoot straight.
we get to carry, and have silencers , which by the way are great for hunting birds.
i do value your concern Wayward-son , thank you .

we have all the files running , i believe all is downloaded.
project, rosetta@home
account, Daniel Star
team, is blank
i have joined on the rosetta team in Washington.

yea it is all done whew !

Whats next ?

Go to the signup thread like I said in my PM and register for the contest.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669587

[baditude_df]

Also, anyone who has joined the team recently, please go to the contest Sign Up thread so that you are eligible for the weekly and bi-weekly prize draws. Or don't, up to you.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669587

[Evochuck]

ugh i got a huge virus today, didnt fold for like 3 hours :(

[HankB]

I hit tenth place in RAC on our team last night. But I'm back to 11th this morning. I see that there are four members between 4553.27 and 4585.76. I suppose we could be trading places just depending on who has updated recently unless one of us is climbing faster (or slower.)

I laugh about the RAC I get from my two Atom systems, one of which is only in the double digits. Without them I'd be ... in the same place. :p Without them I wouldn't be on the edge of passing three other members.

OTOH, if each of the 106 active members could muster an additional 132 RAC we would catch the Russian team.

[xsuperbgx]

My lowest rac box is having some stability issues. I shut it down until I can get in there and clean out the cobwebs.....
I also might be doing some LN2 benching this weekend, so rac may drop due to that.
Almost maxed out my 955 on rac now. Will take a hit for the weekend.

[psionic98]

I haven't checked, but if I'm still in top 10 my rac is bleeding off as I am currently putting out 0. So I should drop off within a week.

[PenguinsPal]

I am pushing as hard as I can. I had to take some of my lower spec PC's offline. I just couldn't justify wasting electricity on PCs pulling such little amounts of points.

[HankB]

I haven't checked, but if I'm still in top 10 my rac is bleeding off as I am currently putting out 0. So I should drop off within a week.Not at the moment and that's one of the reasons I am. But it's a Pyrrhic gain for me. :( I'd much prefer to to see the team gain.

As long as I can stay on the first page. :D

[baditude_df]

Two big draws tonight people!
We'll be having the regular biweekly draw, and we'll also be drawing for the two Biostar Motherboards, so stay tuned!

It will take me a while after work to compile the entries, as we now have 47 eligable contestants for the Big draw which is quite a bit more than our previous contests.

Speaking of which, why the hell are we having such a hard time breaking 200K??? It's like we just hit a wall.

[clash]

I like prizes!

More so though, i have a personal interest in finding a cure... Would like to thank everyone that is participating on the Rosetta team.

[Outback_Jon]

Speaking of which, why the hell are we having such a hard time breaking 200K??? It's like we just hit a wall.

Well, I think if my rig would just keep active, I'd be contributing a lot more. But it seems to idle itself for no reason. :sly:

[HankB]

Speaking of which, why the hell are we having such a hard time breaking 200K??? It's like we just hit a wall.

Workin' on it boss!

My netbook cracked three digits in RAC today. :clap: :attn:

And my wife has not asked why her laptop is running so warm. (shhhhh!)

[Tbrooks]

I'm trying. I went from zero to 3700 RAC in about 2 weeks.

[Wayward_Son]

We're all pink?

[Wayward_Son]

Is it my eyes, or are we all pink?

[HankB]

Is it my eyes, or are we all pink?

My eyes too apparently.

[baditude_df]

Yes, we're all pink.
Happy April!

PS: I'll get the draws done tonight. Installed a new CPU heatsink in my mITX box last night and it took a bit longer than expected. We'll do all three draws (biweekly, weekly and Monthly).

[baditude_df]

Alrighty, we have our winners!

***Biostar Motherboard Draw***

TP67B+: muddocktor
TA870U3+: Yomama

There were a total of 706 entries into this draw from 44 eligible entrants with 2 winners drawn.
The Record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5605).



***Biweekly $50 Newegg Gift Certificate Draw***

Nvidia Kid

The record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5607).



***Weekly Newegg Prize Pack***

funzie

The record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5608).



As always, our draws are entrant accessible so that you can click on the link to the draw and confirm that you were entered in to the draw and in the case of our multiple entry draws, how many times you were entered.

Big congratulations to our winners! Keep an eye on your inbox for PM's.

[muddocktor]

Wooooot!!! A nice new P67 board for me!!!!!

I almost ordered this board back around 3 weeks or so ago at Newegg, but by the time I decided to buy it they were out of stock.

And a big congrats to the rest of the winners too!:rock:

And a hearty thank you to Bad and the guys that got all the prizes and swag together for the contest! You guys rock the house!!:thup:

[PolRoger]

Congrulations muddoctor on the new P67 board.... RAC going up!:thup:

Congrats to the other winners too!

[PenguinsPal]

Congrats everybody .....

[baditude_df]

Here's a quick view of everyone's numbers so far, in case any of you were interested.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6364/teamstatusupdateapr1.png (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/teamstatusupdateapr1.png/)

These are the numbers used for today's draws and represent everyone's progress up to the cutoff on March 31st.

Currently there are 48 contestants in the March event who account for 87.39% of our team's current total RAC of 194,921. Impressive! :thup:

The contestants in green are those with RAC sufficient enough (>500) to be eligible for our weekly and biweekly prize draws. Those contestants in light yellow are those who have already won a prize and are no longer eligable for the weekly and bi-weekly draws, but were entered into the draw for the motherboards. Those in light orange still do not have sufficient enough RAC to be entered into the weekly and biweekly draws. I would really like to see the number of orange contestants decrease dramatically and get everyone into the drawing pool, so give it all you've got. Maintaining a RAC of 500 is quite easy, and should be possible on all but the very oldest of systems.

[muddocktor]

Congrulations muddoctor on the new P67 board.... RAC going up!:thup:

Congrats to the other winners too!

Actually, it will be a while before my rac goes up. I had one side of a duplex receptacle do a Chernobyl while I was out at work so my daughter had to take down 1 system to run the AC in the computer room. Running 2 1366 systems, 1 1156 system, 1 1155 system and a Core 2 Quad really outputs some serious heat and amperage draw, hence the room AC. When I get in I have to buy another duplex receptacle and change out the bad one. I think I will go with an industrial quality one this time (and a 20 amp rated one), since that circuit is loaded all the time.

[baditude_df]

Status Update!


Team RAC-18-Feb-11: 143,265
Team RAC-Contest Start: 145,378
Team RAC-Current: 195,012
Team RAC-Increase: 51,747 in 41 days
RAC Position: 2nd

Team Total Points-18-Feb-11: 73,704,817
Team Total Points-Contest Start: 74,115,400
Team Total Points-Current: 81,448,983
Team Total Points Crunched: 7,744,166 in 41 days
Points Position: 18th

Updated: 1-Apr-11 @ 19:15


Well, we've had our big draw and the winners have been announced! I'd like once more to thank our friends at Biostar (http://www.biostar.com.tw/) for their generous donation of two of their latest series motherboards. I'd also like to thank splat for getting in touch with Biostar and securing those for us!
We've also held the latest biweekly draw and announced the winner!
I'd like to once again thank our generous member sponsors drshivas, Jmtyra, molnarc and Pete Church for helping to fund those draws and facilitating the prize delivery.
Last but certainly not least, I'd like to thank our friends at Newegg.com (http://www.newegg.com/) for providing us with some kickass swag, and to fearless leader I.M.O.G for securing said swag. Pretty awesome! The latest weekly draw for a newegg prize pack was also made today and the winner announced with the rest.

As for our progress as a team, we are still hovering just below 200K in team RAC which has managed to keep us in 2nd place overall for the last week or so. I'm very happy with this, but 1st place is very close and I know from experience that we have the potential to go much higher!

Our total points are now past 81 million and about to pass the 82 million point mark.

At our current rate we will need 14.01 days to pass XtremeSystems for 17th place, and 17.71 days to pass Team 2ch for 16th place. 15th place is still a ways away at 118.67 days, but that gap will close quick as our team RAC increases so get at it!!!

Great job so far Team!

[drshivas]

Congrats, Mudd! (But ugh, you and PolRoger are killing me!)

And congrats to the other winners. Way to go! :clap:

[baditude_df]

PS: If anyone is in the market for a new cooler (especially those with height restrictions), try one of these AXP 140 RT's from Thermalright. They're in stock at performancePCs.com.

Before (Stock cooler with a not so good application of MX3).
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1831/beforestock.png

After (AXP140 with a good application of ICD7)
http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/8520/aftertr140.png

Wow, what a difference! Needed a shoe horn to get it in to my mITX case though.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8546/photoft.th.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/i/photoft.jpg/)http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8880/photo2db.th.jpg (http://img20.imageshack.us/i/photo2db.jpg/)

[drshivas]

^^^ holy smokes! What a delta!

[PenguinsPal]

Wow, that looks like it could Julienne and fry at the same time .......lol

[HankB]

Here's a quick view of everyone's numbers so far, in case any of you were interested.

Yes, I'm interested. Many thanks for publishing the results and many more thanks for putting in the effort to make the contest happen. :thup: :salute:

Congrats to the winners and thanks to the various folks who provided the prizes.

[Nvidia Kid]

Alrighty, we have our winners!

***Biostar Motherboard Draw***

TP67B+: muddocktor
TA870U3+: Yomama

There were a total of 706 entries into this draw from 44 eligible entrants with 2 winners drawn.
The Record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5605).


***Biweekly $50 Newegg Gift Certificate Draw***

Nvidia Kid

The record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5607).



***Weekly Newegg Prize Pack***

funzie

The record of this draw can be found HERE (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=5608).



As always, our draws are entrant accessible so that you can click on the link to the draw and confirm that you were entered in to the draw and in the case of our multiple entry draws, how many times you were entered.

Big congratulations to our winners! Keep an eye on your inbox for PM's. Thanks to all who put this event together :clap: :thup::thup: THIS TEAM ROCKS !

[benbaked]

Good work rosey team.

[PenguinsPal]

Actually, it will be a while before my rac goes up. I had one side of a duplex receptacle do a Chernobyl while I was out at work so my daughter had to take down 1 system to run the AC in the computer room. Running 2 1366 systems, 1 1156 system, 1 1155 system and a Core 2 Quad really outputs some serious heat and amperage draw, hence the room AC. When I get in I have to buy another duplex receptacle and change out the bad one. I think I will go with an industrial quality one this time (and a 20 amp rated one), since that circuit is loaded all the time.

Now if I could just convince you to let me borrow that 940BE and Motherboard, my RAC would go up :santa: