Good to hear.

BTW I keep mine on 24/7 I might even add it to another computer.

I've been working on my machine that does that just recently but there will be a full resumption of service soon. :)

Well, at one point I had 11 machines ( 8 were 500 Mhz Celerons) But as of now only 4 are active, I had to take it off a few machines as it would prevent mapping to any shares on that machine.
I wish they'd refine their client a bit more.

I let it run on the machine I have in school whenever I can, though I sometimes takes it's HDD home which Win2K is installed on and then it's only got Win98 which doesn't seem to be able to run over a weekend without crashing (tried three times...) (P3 450mhz)

I run it on my primary machine when it's on, though I turn it off foer the night... And right now I'm not watercooling and then I don't like to run UD, CPU gets too hot... (XP 1,46ghz)

I also run it on my brothers computer which has it's internet connection through mine (ICS) but right now I've given away the CAT5 LAN cable so that one is not doing to much, it also gets turned off for the night... (TB 1,4ghz)

If I had not had dial-up I could leave the comps on for the night but right now it's not too easy to time it properly so they count all night and then when I get up they are done...

Being able to download more data from the servers would be nice...

Ok, got the clients installed on two servers now, one is a 800mhz fileserver I've set up here in school.

The other is a 450mhz printer server, both will be online 24/7 with full time internet access...

The default max harddrive space is set to 1GB per device. You can increase this to a max of 10GB by logging into http://members.ud.com/ and clicking on "My Device Manager" click on the default profile and change "Hard drive space to allocate". It doesn't seem to me the UD uses any more space when this is set higher. Mine appears to be taking about 14MB total. Note: You must have 10GB free to get the total points credit for this setting.

Thanks for that tip Elcarion.
Was wondering why it only grabbed 1Gb..

Sounds like we need a little bump on this thread since we have so many new members!

Originally posted by LNCPapa
So our friend DigitAlex has created a team for us to work on Cancer research instead! Only downside is that I can't find any clients except Win32 ones. {Time to break out your WINE linux guys}

Here's the link to the team

Techspot Team (http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2)

Here's a link to the client software

Distributed Cancer Client (http://members.ud.com/download/gold/)

Please join our effort

LNCPapa
LNCPapa/2

Has anyone how the number of returned results has really dropped lately ( since November 20th to be exact ).

http://www.ping.be/~pin12042/images/ud/team_stats_history_results.jpg

Well I did remove my main machine from crunching UD units - but it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. I think we are getting lots of slackers in here! We have more people and get less work done for this project.

LNCPapa

I was thinking, perhaps what has changed is the complexity of the packets downloaded from UD, that's be a good explanation on why our time and points haven't seen the same drop.

I took it off my laptop beacus I sold it, but I am putting it on my longhorn comp now, since I installed that over Linux (and there was no Nix client). My numbers will go up soon.

Gonna post a small update on how many comps I now have working for UD...

It's my main machine, a Athlon XP @ ca 1466mhz (depends on how OC:ing happy I'm feeling)

My Brothers Athlon TB @ ca 1400mhz

Both these share a 56k dial up connection so therefore I cannot let them run 24/7...

In school however there is a 24/7 broadband connection so there I have one P3 fileserver @ 800mhz, one printserver @ 450mhz and my work machine, also a P3 450...

The first two run 24/7, my work machine almost 24/7 (we frequently reinstall and play around though so not quite 24/7...)

I also have a friend who is crunching for me, he has a Athlon XP 1,7ghz machine that will from now on be online 24/7...

He also has a 700mhz P3 machine, I don't know if that will be on 24/7 though...

Though there is something I'd like you guys helping me out with; I could let my two 1,4ghz comps dial up when they need to return their results...

Though I'd have to be sure that they disconnect after they are done... So if anyone knows a way to make this so I'd like to hear ya out ;)

You can set Windows to disconnect the connection after a set amount of idle time. Something like "Hang up when connection not needed" or something like that in your connection properties. I don't know your version so I can't get the exact instructions, but it should be pretty easy.

Well, thing is that if I did that I would either need a separate connection when I actually am surfing (to prevent it from disconnecting when I'm doing stuff) or change the setting every time I go online...

If I had two connections it would also be impossible to double click an URL link or whatever that would require a conenction; because then it would choose the conenction with the time limit...

And also I wouldn't dare to trust that MS has managed to do this properly; real fun to find out that it didn't disconnect for whatever reason... (read bug...)

When I get a stable computer and broadband I will be hooking up this research software.

I have UD running on my pc whenever I'm not at it, but I have numerous pcs in the basement of my house, just sitting there, doing nothing, How do you think a pentium 200mhz. would run UD? :rolleyes:

Well I just ran it for almost 6 days continous on my 1050Mhz T-Bird, turned the heat down in my house and left town for 5 days. That should help us some....not much but some. I can't see what I did now though because the page seems to be down showing our rankings... error 500

Originally posted by Vehementi
Eat MY dust Spliffmeister! (http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team_members.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2&ord=RESULTS)

U must like dust Veh!! Bwahahaha!!!

i'll get UD to run in my Duron 800MHz since i have broadband now as it is more convenient. Sorry for being idle for the past two months, my ISP back in Brunei had many connection problems, the downloading time for the files was dissapointing....i lost the patience. Hopefully by tommorow will i get things started.

Originally posted by Spliffmeister
U must like dust Veh!! Bwahahaha!!!

Yeah yeah, my main machine has been down for a while. It's back up in full stride now.

Anyway, I have 2 machines running it now that both are alot faster than your 1.

New URL for Techspot Team since UD.org have become GRID.org

TechSpot Team (http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team_members.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2)
Client Download (http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm)

Stats are currently not updating properly. We are aware of the problem and working to fix it. There is no ETA at this time as to when they will be fixed.

Thank You
paul



http://forum.ud.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000184

Cool, just now saw this. Signed up to the team. I've got two PC's currently running it here at the office and will have a third at home later tonight.

Welcome aoj145...
To the forum and the team.
Unfortunately my laptop's fans are sounding very unhealthy so I haven't been running UD/Grid client for a while now :(

i've got inet back at home only in march and as it was a new install i forgot about the UD client

downloading it again now

kinda silly because my comps are up all the time :mad:

here i come guys :D

Does anyone know if there is likely to be a Linux CLI Client for the cancer research? Reason being - I've got a couple of machines sitting at home doing nothing, and I'd like to give something of some use back...

Nope. Here's the official answer from the website.....

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Will you support versions for UNIX, Linux, or the Macintosh OS?

Plans for a release on other operating systems have been postponed to concentrate on our Windows release. This will be revisited based on customer and member demand.
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Just joined the team ;) . I don't really like this clients interface very much, I much prefer SETI. That is why I have set up a little schedule, on weekends I will be running UD Cancer Research and the rest of the week will be purely SETI :) .

Hmmm....help cure cancer or help find intelligent life....? :)

Originally posted by aoj145
Hmmm....help cure cancer or help find intelligent life....? :)

Well you never know, the intelligent life found might have a cure for cancer ;)

Or they could all have cancer and be looking for a cure also - hoping to reach us for a solution to their life-shortening condition :(

What we should be looking for a cure for is old age. :)

hmmmm don't think so papa, there are already way too much old people on earth and even simply too much people . if a cure to old age would mean people would stay young, then maybe, but if it would stop them from dying but not from becoming old, then it's kinda useless to me at least ...

could find a cure for old age and then remove all the stupid warning lables we find on things, that way some natural selection would take place.

Someone please give me some action in this thread - we've been demoted!

grind the tumors down allowing for t-cell intrusion as an eradicator of the cancerous cells.............i have the link somewhere in my archives........the jist of the article was this actual reversal of fortune in cancer research

We should get a boost soon as I prepare the TS Extra section (you know, that non-link item in the menu), with UD Team information, IRC and other promotions like that one of free mag subscriptions.

Oh nice, that would be cool. I'll look forward to seeing it.

OK, I've got two computers running it 24/7. One is a Cely 333 which is very slow, about 60 hours per set. The other is my main computer @ about 8 hours a set. I'm sure my wife will be complaining the next time she sees the electricty bill, but the slow system will still stay running 24/7 but I may only be able to run it on this system when I'm on it.

Great to have your cycles working for us Tarkus - In the next couple of weeks I may bring a couple more machines online to assist with this project. Neither my P4 3.0C nor my Dual 2.8 Xeon are doing anything at the moment.

Sorry for off topic guys... but... I don't really understand all this? What's it about? What can I do?

My dad died when I was 6 because of cancer, I'd like to help.

You just need to download the UD agent ( LINK (http://download.ud.com/gold/win32/ud_agent_setup.exe) ), create an account then log on to the site ( LINK (https://www.grid.org/services/home.htm) ) & join the TS team ( LINK (http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team_members.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2)).

& remember, unused CPU cycles are lost cycles. Please do not waste your CPUs.:D

I wonder how work would feel if I put UD on my work PC? I'll have to give that some serious thought.

Hey guys, I wanna join the team and run this on my PC which is running Win2k pro. Is there a way for me to run it in the background only using unused CPU cycles like in XP?

If I remember correctly, when you have it running go to the task manager - look at the processes tab and right click on the UD process - you can then reduce the priority of it on your PC....

But as far as I know when you install it, it is set to the lowest priority by default.

I hope this is what you are looking for?

I'm all joined up. Except, I've got a question. Will this trash my performance in games or what?

I've never had it interfere with game performance so I would say probably not. I have it installed on several machines and have yet to experience it slowing anything down. I can't say for sure - but probably not gonna hurt your performance

Im In... go team TechSpot!

Originally posted by lalaji
Im In... go team TechSpot!

43 members now.... I hadn't checked for a while, plus I haven't been running the UD client as the fan on my laptop started sounding a little dodgy. Running it again though :D

heh... we rollin 43 deep... not bad.