Posts by cncguru

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available (Message 51511) Posted 25 Oct 2011 by cncguru Post: A Big Thanks Travis! All my hungry crunchers are happy again!!
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available (Message 51502) Posted 25 Oct 2011 by cncguru Post: beem getting stuttering batches with two of my guys sitting idle now for last half hr Looks like something weird is going on with the server. There are about 18000 workunits ready to be sent out (which is quite a lot). --Travis What happened to all those???
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available (Message 51498) Posted 25 Oct 2011 by cncguru Post: Tasks ready to send 2,970 Funny how the server status page says that but the server itself says no work available
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Triple Crossfire supported? (Message 51369) Posted 11 Oct 2011 by cncguru Post: I've been using 2/3/4 way crossfire since day one crunching here and of course it's supported but you have to get your drivers sorted out! Your computer is showing in your profile as having 2 5870's so you need to get your drivers installed all the way then Catalyst Control Center will see 3way as an option and ask you to enable it, and so 3 cards will also show in BOINC manager. As for heat issues, well that's always a problem when you start putting multiple cards together. The motherboard you chose doesn't allow for any extra spacing between them so you will have to make sure you have optimum airflow. I just found a case tha I am currently running a 3way crossfire with one 5970 and 5870. it's an Xclio windtunnel, it has two BIG 250mm fans on the side blowing right on the cards and mobo! It's the only one of my systems that is in a box at all BUT IT WORKS. My temps are staying right at 80C with all three cores running full load And it's not very expensive either, but built well enough.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Hardware proposal for new Milkyway@Home server (Message 51360) Posted 10 Oct 2011 by cncguru Post: I hear you. That's why I'm not interested in donating cash that will go to more pizza and staplers, but rather actual hardware. The purse strings are probably held by some administrator far removed from the technical concerns of us crunching clients/donors. I think that the administration of all the hardware is controlled by RPI labstaff and no one as of yet has pushed thru any significant upgrades. I can't believe it's a money issue either. They just got a nice 3 yr influx. All in all this issue has been beat to death over the time I have been crunching here and this project remains my favorite but I have fallen off lately because of all the never ending simple issues that have never been handled. I think they should make big sticky threads for all the new people to read so you don't have to go thru thousands of postings to find that we have been down this road before! I commend you for your interest and efforts,I've been there before too! And it probably wouldn't have happened anyway if Travis hadn't opened up the finished wu cache to 12hrs worth, LOL!
6) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : TLPTPW #7-Labor Day Special (Message 51181) Posted 23 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: soon I will be the all time no.1 contributor to the Milkyway project
7) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51169) Posted 21 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: the future
8) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51159) Posted 21 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: dreams
9) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51148) Posted 21 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: bit coins
10) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51128) Posted 19 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: digger
11) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51121) Posted 19 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: fish
12) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51092) Posted 17 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: tiger
13) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 51038) Posted 13 Sep 2011 by cncguru Post: saber
14) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones III (Message 50774) Posted 21 Aug 2011 by cncguru Post: Congrats Blurf I see your 10,000,000 and will raise you MilkyWay@Home Sunday, 21 August 2011 1,000,000,000 No disrepect!!!!
15) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 50632) Posted 10 Aug 2011 by cncguru Post: diligence
16) Message boards : Number crunching : HD5870 dead - help with replacement! (Message 50499) Posted 2 Aug 2011 by cncguru Post: I don't think you can blame XFX for AMD's inability to meet market demand. I have a bunch of their cards and when I rma'd my second 5870 for fan failure they gave me 5 extra fan assy's so I won't have any waiting at all for a long time on fans for my 5870's!!! PLUS, I had a fan failure on a 5970 and they sent me new card because they didn't have a replacement vapor chamber in stock. AND NOW I just received a brand new 6990 because they didn't have any more 5970's !!!(yes, I had to wait a couple weeks for a free 6990, that's something to complain about???) I didn't even have to "talk nice to them" LOL My experience with XFX support totally lays waste to all the others) and yep I have dealt with just about all of them) EVGA was excellant also. This is just MY experience AND if I sold you any of my cards YOU GET LIFETIME WARRANTY ALSO!! ( I did not receive anything for this posting either , LOL)
17) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Here is what I am doing on my 2 day absence! (Message 50470) Posted 31 Jul 2011 by cncguru Post: WOW, Way cool!!!
18) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 50396) Posted 26 Jul 2011 by cncguru Post: teeth
19) Message boards : Number crunching : What is the meaning of "Consecutive valid tasks" statistic? (Message 50005) Posted 8 Jul 2011 by cncguru Post: MilkyWay@Home (anonymous platform, ATI GPU) Number of tasks completed 159240 Max tasks per day 21193 Number of tasks today 1881 Consecutive valid tasks 2567 Average processing rate 285.44982941387 Average turnaround time 0.01 days
20) Message boards : Number crunching : What is the meaning of "Consecutive valid tasks" statistic? (Message 49991) Posted 7 Jul 2011 by cncguru Post: MilkyWay@Home (anonymous platform, ATI GPU) Number of tasks completed 156484 Max tasks per day 18393 Number of tasks today 3150 Consecutive valid tasks 1920 Average processing rate 291.13470624673 Average turnaround time 0.01 days This stat is meaningless unless someone can show me a setting to tweak that will actually directly effect it. I can't say, "Hey, can someone match this?" because I sure didn't change anything to try to get this to happen, it's just an anomaly.

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