Well - some have suggested we change our distributed effort from SETI to something closer to home.

SETI Thread (http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2353)

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://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2)

Here's a link to the client software

Distributed Cancer Client (http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm)

Please join our effort

LNCPapa

- Post edited with the new grid.org links
Didou

Well heck LNCPapa, you could use your 13 computers and BE the 3DS team.

I already joined the SETI team...that's about as far as my generosity goes involving CPU time :rolleyes:

JOIN THE CAUSE YOU PEOPLE!!!!

LNCPapa

I joined a few days ago to...

http://eo.yifan.net/users/j/melkor/wine_ud.png

i dont quite understand what the team is supposed to do, i would join if it was something i could do, or if i even knew WHAT it was...

ok i joined the team, and downloaded the software, now its running? is that all i do?

That's it cabrone - you can disable the screensaver and it will still run in the background. You can minimize it with the button furthest right and if you right click the icon in systray after that you can close it completely. It also puts itself in startup so that it will launch on boot. Just check your CPU time if you want to make sure it's going. If you have a duallie it will only use half of your processor time (not SMP :( ).

LNCPapa

I noticed when this is running it uses 99% of cpu, is this bad if you leave it running all the time?

Not necessarily cabrone. Since you're using XP Pro you can just tune UD down to Low Priority. It will only use unused CPU cycles, so your machine's performance won't be touched :D

ok, but is it bad for the life of the cpu?

Im very interested in this, sorry for the multiple posts. So i notice i keep doing phase II over and over, when will the project ultimately be finished, or moved to a higher phase? does the team with the most points get something? Im sure this is on the FAQ of the page but id rahter here it from you guys.

About if this is good for your CPU or not:

Well, Imagine a car engine, when you drive short intervalls and lets it cool down inbetween that's when you have the most wear... What you want to do is drive as long stretches as possible to preserve the life of the car..

This complies to CPU's to, when they got hot and cool all the time they wear faster (worst case cenario is when you turn your computer off for the night!)

So if you run this program in the background it will use all unused clock cycles, meaning that if you start a program the performance will not be slowed down due to the client, it will only use the unused clock cyles then to...

This way your CPU will always keep a certain temperature, making it live longer... The same applies to the other components in your computer to like harddrives etc, but they are harder to preserve the life on... (don't turn off your comp is the best advice..)

Currently 7 Members (http://members.ud.com/stats/members/compare.htm?un1=Didou01&un2=LNCPapa&un3=DigitAlex&un4=hanzzon&un5=Mictlantecuhtli&un6=cabrone&un7=MYOB&un8=&un9=&un10=)

LNCPapa

We are now at 10 members!

Here's a link to show how we're doing

All User Stats (http://members.ud.com/stats/members/compare.htm?un1=Didou01&un2=LNCPapa&un3=DigitAlex&un4=hanzzon&un5=Mictlantecuhtli&un6=cabrone&un7=MYOB&un8=Julio+Franco+Haddad&un9=klokwork&un10=serrano+family)

LNCPapa

11 actually ;)

12

I posted this on the SETI thread first however I'm posting here too for future reference:Even though I have fully dedicated the past couple of weeks on completing SETI work units, I have now switched to the UD Cancer Research team and I would recommend most people to do so as well.

Though it's hard to put your efforts behind and start from zero on this new project, I would still recommend you to do so as we will be unifying forces once I start promoting the "Team TechSpot" on the site and it's much more likely it's going to be either UD or Folding but definitely not SETI.

And of course, you will also want to switch inmediately considering that we are a few weeks away from promoting the team officially and you won't want to run at the bottom of the charts :D

I just signed up and installed the software on a box that's often sitting there doing rather little....

Its not my best machine but it is a 1.1 GHz Duron with 256 MB so its not the end of the world.

I also joined the team, so now there should be 13.

:) :) :)

One thing that bothers me with UD is the inexistence of 3rd party tools.

With SETI, you could use applications like SETI Driver which gave you many options such as :

- Running two processes ( for Dual CPU rigs because SETI isn't multi-threaded )

- Logging results & analysis stats in an Exell file

- Caching work-units ( downloading more then one unit at a time allowing to crunch for the next five days without connecting for example )

If the UD server happens to be down for maintenance or anything of the such, you can't upload your results or download any new units. It doesn't happen very often but often enough to have a caching possibility.

The UD page is currently down that has the Techspot logon info. Anyone have these settings so I can sign up?

Originally posted by svtcobra
The UD page is currently down that has the Techspot logon info. Anyone have these settings so I can sign up?

Forget it.. Im in. I just did a search for the Techspot team from UD's homepage. We should be at 14 now.

We're at 14 baby! So many that we have to have two links to compare all stats across the board now.

First 10 Members (http://members.ud.com/stats/members/compare.htm?un1=LNCPapa&un2=Mictlantecuhtli&un3=MYOB&un4=DigitAlex&un5=klokwork&un6=Didou01&un7=Julio+Franco+Haddad&un8=hanzzon&un9=serrano+family&un10=cabrone)

Second 10 Members (http://members.ud.com/stats/members/compare.htm?un1=TechSpot_Arris&un2=sngx1275&un3=phantazmm&un4=svtcobra&un5=&un6=&un7=&un8=&un9=&un10=)

LNCPapa

Or this Link (http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team_members.htm?id=62F87CFC-78BD-4E37-9F2A-B56107D642E2&ord=NAME) which shows all 15 members contributions even though my 8 hours hasn't been logged with the UD server yet :(

Originally posted by Didou
One thing that bothers me with UD is the inexistence of 3rd party tools.

With SETI, you could use applications like SETI Driver which gave you many options such as :

- Running two processes ( for Dual CPU rigs because SETI isn't multi-threaded )

- Logging results & analysis stats in an Exell file

- Caching work-units ( downloading more then one unit at a time allowing to crunch for the next five days without connecting for example )

If the UD server happens to be down for maintenance or anything of the such, you can't upload your results or download any new units. It doesn't happen very often but often enough to have a caching possibility.

Why don't you contact them via e-mail expressing these concerns and perhaps they will be addressed? Stranger things have happened....

Bah my first 0:000:07:29:32 of time is registered just to me and not the team... Oh well :(

Arris - that's why I post the links the way I do for our stats - it's more accurate.

LNCPapa

I'm number 16.

Originally posted by LNCPapa
Arris - that's why I post the links the way I do for our stats - it's more accurate.

LNCPapa

Ah.. I see. But then its not stats for the Techspot Team as such :)
Although since I am running this on the PC I am working on the reported figures will demonstrate how little work I actually do :D

you know, nevermind about that "UD WUs take too long", I've finished 3 in 11 hours :rolleyes:

Arris - you are right. It didn't hit me until I thought about your post for a couple of days, but the stats that I keep linking everyone to represents all the work they've ever done for the project - not the work they've done since they've been on the Techspot Team. Since your team generated points don't travel with you when you change teams the links I was posting are inaccurate. The link you posted would be the most accurate for our team.

LNCPapa

Hey Julio, how about something like this on the front page? A news post? I think that may attract some of the people to both the forums and the team.

Originally posted by LNCPapa
Arris - you are right. It didn't hit me until I thought about your post for a couple of days, but the stats that I keep linking everyone to represents all the work they've ever done for the project - not the work they've done since they've been on the Techspot Team. Since your team generated points don't travel with you when you change teams the links I was posting are inaccurate. The link you posted would be the most accurate for our team.

LNCPapa

You mean I got something right???
Wow... :rolleyes: ;)

Well guys, we have broken past 10,000th place on all stats for UD Ligandfit (Cancer). We are also about to break a year of total CPU time. 19 current members - things are looking good. We're producing almost 50 units/day now as well. We're movin' on up - to the east side.

LNCPapa

I've just been leaving it running on one of my machines full time. Its not my most killer rig (in fact, its a Duron) but its better than nothing and its been churning away CPU cycles for a bit now....

That's what I do with my laptop, when I don't have it in class. It just chugs away.

And I agree that it is for a good cause.:)

im running it on my laptop whenever its possible. Nighttime especially.

Hehehe. Duron rig...what's it rated @ phant?

My good old 2100+ is rated 173/100 over the P4 1.5GHz :cool:

Heh, looks like I'm number 23 - and I'm catchin some of you up quickly :D .

Eat my dust Serrano Family, DigitAlex, Mictlantecuhtli, MYOB, Vassil3427, Juan Sep & Morel142!! :evil:

Originally posted by Spliffmeister
Eat my dust Serrano Family, DigitAlex, Mictlantecuhtli, MYOB, Vassil3427, Juan Sep & Morel142!! :evil:

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

Sort by points generated. Different story then.

Bah. UD doesn't like my "meager" 256MB of RAM :rolleyes: and my 28k :dead:

Other than that...

I don't think it's points that really matter. Results are more important.

Where do you find this at. I looked around the site the other day but didnt' find anything.

I think I am just too lazy to look hard, so if you could please point me in the right direction I would appreciate it :)

Try clicking the "eat my dust spliffmeister" link. If that's what you mean. You can sort them by names, or points, or whatever.

Does anyone know if UD will work with linux? I haven't looked on site yet, just curiuos

I think there is no Unix client for UD, or am I wrong?

In another subject, I seem to be doing quite well, at least sorting by results. I installed a new CPU/mobo to my machine a couple of weeks ago, now 2.53GHz P4 which seems to be helping a bit (vs. XP 1600+), getting results much faster than before however the detected Realtek LAN card is rated 35 by the UD client (I'm on a somewhat crappy, dial-up alike, 64k cable connection), so I'm getting kinda short of points... getting results fast but with a low rated machine (121 overall) - if you look how points are being calculated then you know that's a bad thing, heh... :blackeye:

I'm leaving my machine turned on 24/7 ever since I joined UD, are you guys doing the same?

Originally posted by TS | Julio
I'm leaving my machine turned on 24/7 ever since I joined UD, are you guys doing the same?
My machine is on 24/7 but not running UD that much, processor runs too hot to keep it on during the day. Although now the weather is much colder and today I've been able to run UD and still have my processor temp lower than its normal idle temp, too bad I have to wear a sweatshirt and a jacket in my house :). Anyway I expect to be running it more now that its cold here.

Originally posted by poertner_1274
Does anyone know if UD will work with linux? I haven't looked on site yet, just curiuos
It works with Windows emulator, Wine (http://www.winehq.com).

Just joined the UD team, under 3DS_GeForce. Hopefully my Celery 700 should be more than reasonable enough for helping out. :grinthumb