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August Weekend?
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:44 am
by Darren
Is there to be no August Crunch?
There is a Bank Holdiday so it could be a three day one?
I vote for Seti or Simap
Re: August Weekend?
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:21 am
by UBT - Timbo
Dazza wrote:Is there to be no August Crunch?
There is a Bank Holdiday so it could be a three day one?
I vote for Seti or Simap
Hi Darren,
Sounds fair to me.
Think some of the members might be against doing another SETI crunch (as we've already done 2 this year). So maybe SIMAP's turn again
EDIT: Next part removed as it was the right facts but for the wrong project :oops:
regards,
Tim
Re: August Weekend?
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:01 pm
by UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke
UBT - Timbo wrote:EDIT: The following info is INCORRECT - "excepting that you need a fast PC and 1Gb of memory" - in fact this relates to SAP, not SIMAP
That's a shame. Time was it would run on the old 266 P2s I had lurking about when nothing else would return results from them in a decent time.
Anyway, happy to join in.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:15 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
System requirements for participating in the BOINC SIMAP project
Medium bandwidth internet access, due to typical workunit and result sizes (estimated for approx. 1 hour of calculation time):
Workunit 2 MB
Result 0.5..1.5 MB
64 MB RAM for the SIMAP client
64 MB RAM free space on your harddisc for the SIMAP client
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:20 pm
by UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke
That's all very well but I've just tried it on the K6 550 and it's giving computation errors.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:47 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Well at least you now know that it won't work with SIMAP
Re: August Weekend?
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:56 pm
by Darren
UBT - Timbo wrote:Think some of the members might be against doing another SETI crunch (as we've already done 2 this year). So maybe SIMAP's turn again
regards,
Tim
SETI did come 2nd in the last poll that was run!
But I don't mind which project we run it for
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:27 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Poll time again :lol:
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:51 pm
by UBT-Shaman
I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!
And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!
Robin
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:58 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
UBT-Shaman wrote:I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!
And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!
Robin
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thats the point of an "S" club crunch theres more than 1 project out there with an S on the front of it so everyone can participate. Even if there was a crunch with a not suitable project for all, then you could crunch something alternative for the duration of the crunch as everything else
Edit: PS, looking forward to number 1 at SETI
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:36 am
by UBT - Timbo
UBT-Shaman wrote:I personally would avoid SIMAP if it has such a high spec requirement. Seems a bit daft to do a Crunch that restricts a lot of the members to being unable to participate!
And a SETI crunch would take us that bit closer to UK #1 Slot!
Robin
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Hi Robin
SIMAP doesn't have such a high requirement - I got it wrong :oops: - it was SAP that requires 1Gb memory.
regards
Tim
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:38 am
by UBT-Shaman
Ah that's ok then! If it is that way I'm all for SIMAP
R
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:43 am
by Temujin
UBT - Timbo wrote:it was SAP that requires 1Gb memory.
1GB is only a suggestion, I've got SAP running on several 512Mb machines, also a bunch 1GB dual CPU machines
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:29 pm
by Swissnic
Same here - Running SAP on a 1 gig machine (like the laptop i'm using now) means the machine is totally usable whilst crunching.
If you run it on a 512 machine, it become very sluggish. So what I do is schedule SAP to run from 6pm to 9am on the 512mb machine at work - i.e. while noone is using them, and run 24/7 on my 1/2/4Gb machines...
If you have a dual-core / hyperthreaded processor, 1gb is just enough to run two wu's together.
On my quad core with 4 gb ram, 4 wu's running together with OS use about 2.2gb ram max, so the more proc's you have, the lower the requirement becomes... :lol:
Hope this helps a few more people join us... As Synergy are posting about 20k-25k credits today - about 5k-10k more than us! If we don't really pull out the stops now, there is a chance we won't catch them up and therefore won't make the #1 spot... :(
But that is highly unlikely knowing this team!!!
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