Hello Teammates!

[finalfugue]

Hi team SETI.USA!

I remember being really into SETI and crunching back in college around 15 years ago, when my roommate and I raced each other to scrape together enough money to be the first with a 1 GHz desktop processor. My how times have changed. Like many people I had largely transitioned to cheap laptops/portables, which don't crunch all that well, until recently when I learned of the BOINC Android app.

Glad to be back with a better-than-ever desktop and crunching on any spare device I can get my hands on and (legally) throw to the cause. Greetings from the great Northwest (Go 'Hawks).

[Fire$torm]

Aloha and welcome back to the Horde.

[finalfugue]

Thanks. I've been eagerly reading through some of the tech threads you've commented in. I've still kept computers as a hobby for sheesh, what, 25 years now? My boss gave me carte blanche to store "*A* server" in the lab. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most bang for my buck off eBay without creating a monstrosity he considers "beyond reasonable". Studying reams on Xeon processors and Precision towers. The Muses patience, knowledge, and luck be with me. And advice from teammates.

Also have some questions about how efficient it is to juggle/balance projects (I didn't know they went down/suffered outages until one did), SP/DP work with the hardware I have, and how to spread the TDP and kWh I'm footing for most effectively. I'm not chasing points just for score, but would the tech forum mind if I posted my hardware and the projects I care about and gave me some advice about how I might best allocate resources or do advanced functions like configuring affinity/config files to make more of uptime? Next week's project is getting another machine I picked up cheap cranking. Good times, warm house.

[shiva]

Hi finalfugue,
Good to see you back to crunching. It sure has changed a lot, today our RAM is larger than our HD's were back then. :))

[Duke of Buckingham]

HELLO finalfugue.
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[c303a]

Welcome to the boards. Enjoy and don't be a stranger.

[Justgeo1]

I started my life with computers on a 6502 processor running at 1.4 MHz...With all of 48K of RAM... and a tape drive!

Welcome to the 21st Century! Now we talk of GHz and terabytes... Woof!

Happy Crunching!

:)

[Z-TAC]

Hi finalfugue,

Welcome to the forum. I have a standing offer for new forum members to do 4 days of crunching with the credits going to you. For complete details, see http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php?6436-Zorro-The-Anonymous-Cruncher&p=72385&viewfull=1#post72385

BUT, I have 2 specials running right now for up to 7 days free crunching. See the link for details.

I hope you'll learn a lot and have fun in the team. :)

Zorro - The Anonymous Cruncher

[Slicker]

I started my life with computers on a 6502 processor running at 1.4 MHz...With all of 48K of RAM... and a tape drive!

Welcome to the 21st Century! Now we talk of GHz and terabytes... Woof!

Happy Crunching!

:)

Tape? You had it good. Remember punch cards?

[Slicker]

Hi finalfugue,

Welcome to the forum. I have a standing offer for new forum members to do 4 days of crunching with the credits going to you. For complete details, see http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php?6436-Zorro-The-Anonymous-Cruncher&p=72385&viewfull=1#post72385

BUT, I have 2 specials running right now for up to 7 days free crunching. See the link for details.

I hope you'll learn a lot and have fun in the team. :)

Zorro - The Anonymous Cruncher


You know... if we, as a team, did that for even a single day for each new team member, we could get them satarted with a couple million credits each!

[zombie67]

Tape? You had it good. Remember punch cards?

My mom was a programmer for the Navy when I was a small kid. She brought home punch cards for me to draw on. Very cool.

[myshortpencil]

Hi finalfugue,

Welcome, and be sure to ask your friends to join. ;)

[wpmuller]

Hello All, I am so excited to be a part of SETI.USA.

[shiva]

Hi finalfugue,

Welcome, and be sure to ask your friends to join. ;)well geeezz MSP where did you get a pic of my wife. :))

[Justgeo1]

Tape? You had it good. Remember punch cards?

Actually I'd rather not... :)

[finalfugue]

Thanks all for the warm welcome. I'm trying not to be a stranger but 1. As a forum n00b all my comments are subject to moderator screening and 2. I'm too busy much of the time to use anything but tapatalk on my phone. Hence why crunching is a great hobby- set it. Forget it. Pay the electric bill. But at the moment I don't know if the app is interfering with my comments entering the mod queue.

Z-TAC thanks for the offer. Of course this week I'd want you crunching on skynet POGS with the challenge, but I'm having trouble with that project lately. I can log in on the main Skynet site but can't access the POGS project through any of my client installs. And of course it says my email is in use. And of course the "forgot password" reset link never comes. I emailed them to try and sort it out but haven't heard back. Maybe next challenge.

By next challenge I hope to also have my Dell Precision T5500 with twin Xeon 5650s online. I'm excited, but I'll save the under-the-hood chatter for the folks in the Tech forum.

Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk

[Duke of Buckingham]

Nice post finalfugue, really nice.

[cineon_lut]

Thanks all for the warm welcome. I'm trying not to be a stranger but 1. As a forum n00b all my comments are subject to moderator screening and 2. I'm too busy much of the time to use anything but tapatalk on my phone. Hence why crunching is a great hobby- set it. Forget it. Pay the electric bill. But at the moment I don't know if the app is interfering with my comments entering the mod queue.

Z-TAC thanks for the offer. Of course this week I'd want you crunching on skynet POGS with the challenge, but I'm having trouble with that project lately. I can log in on the main Skynet site but can't access the POGS project through any of my client installs. And of course it says my email is in use. And of course the "forgot password" reset link never comes. I emailed them to try and sort it out but haven't heard back. Maybe next challenge.

By next challenge I hope to also have my Dell Precision T5500 with twin Xeon 5650s online. I'm excited, but I'll save the under-the-hood chatter for the folks in the Tech forum.

Sent from my HTC6500LVW using Tapatalk

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