Posts by JLConawayII

21) Message boards : Number crunching : cncguru 1,000,000 RAC Machine (Message 46980) Posted 5 Apr 2011 by JLConawayII Post: Is the thing watercooled and overclocked?
22) Message boards : Number crunching : cncguru 1,000,000 RAC Machine (Message 46951) Posted 3 Apr 2011 by JLConawayII Post: This makes me a sad panda. Happy for you yes, but...sad sad panda. :o(
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Amd Hd 69xx hits 88 degree Celcius.. (Message 46693) Posted 24 Mar 2011 by JLConawayII Post: Wow, those things get hot. I'm not really comfortable letting my 5850 get above 70°C, even though they can handle quite a bit more.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : No idea what this error means... (Message 46642) Posted 20 Mar 2011 by JLConawayII Post: hehe...home edition ^^
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Tesla anyone? (Message 46625) Posted 18 Mar 2011 by JLConawayII Post: Tesla cards will work for this project, however they are not a cost effective solution. If you already have a Tesla workstation that you use for professional work, you can certainly run MW@home on it. However if you're thinking of buying Teslas solely for the purpose of crunching, you are going to be wasting an ungodly amount of money on an advanced feature set that BOINC projects don't use.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : admin response very bad (Message 46601) Posted 18 Mar 2011 by JLConawayII Post: I don't think you fully understand the situation. You see, after you first posted your issue concerning the stuck WU, the administrators of this project immediately held an emergency conference to formulate a plan of action in dealing with this dire situation. From what I understand, they teleconferenced with top minds from all over the world in order to generate a viable theory as to how this might be solved. After requisitioning the $20M in government funds necessary to hire the 6000 computer scientists required for the plan, they went diligently to work correcting this catastrophic failure. That's why the admins haven't responded to you, they've been working around the clock for weeks nonstop in order to fix your single stuck WU. Hope this helps.
27) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones III (Message 45956) Posted 4 Feb 2011 by JLConawayII Post: Just passed 20M total BOINC credit today.
28) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Is it posible that the universe are colapsing at this very moment? (Message 45291) Posted 25 Dec 2010 by JLConawayII Post: THAT'S what annoys me no end. If a theory is not testable, or is flawed, it is not a working theory. If the theory can be tested and does not work, it is incorrect i.e. WRONG. I think you'll find that it's just as damaging to science to totally dispose of an entire theory on account of some flaws or inconsistencies, as it is to arbitrarily invent new concepts in an attempt to fill in the holes in a flawed theory. Even though a theory is incomplete (like string theory), it can later be revealed to be a piece of an even larger puzzle as new knowledge is discovered. If you've just thrown it away as worthless, then it may have to be completely rediscovered in order to put the puzzle together correctly. This has happened quite a few times throughout the history of science and mathematics, and it unnecessarily impedes progress.
29) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones III (Message 42964) Posted 19 Oct 2010 by JLConawayII Post: 2M credits as of last night. I will have to start posting at every 10M now I think, this 5850 is flying through WUs.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU crazy slow (Message 42790) Posted 12 Oct 2010 by JLConawayII Post: Just think of your MilkyWay WUs as sticks of warm butter, and an ATI video card as a turbocharged chainsaw.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU worth it for MW@H? (Message 42649) Posted 6 Oct 2010 by JLConawayII Post: Personally I like to run GPU apps solely on the GPU and save the CPU for apps that don't run on GPU. I feel this optimizes my productivity.
32) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones III (Message 42374) Posted 26 Sep 2010 by JLConawayII Post: Slightly belated, but I recently crossed the 1M point on MilkyWay@home. This marks my first individual BOINC project to reach 1M.
33) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : 2012 (Message 39777) Posted 17 May 2010 by JLConawayII Post: The most interesting thing about 2012 is that we should be hitting solar maximum around that time. This is a period of increased activity from the sun as the magnetic field becomes twisted. It happens once every 11 years or so, and it hasn't wiped out humanity any time in the recent past. :o) I wouldn't be overly concerned at this stage.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Requirements [OLD] (Message 39771) Posted 17 May 2010 by JLConawayII Post: To all you people with ATI cards: I really hate you right now. I just built a new el cheapo boinc cruncher with an Nvidia GTX260 because there is CUDA support for the majority of the astrophysics and other boinc projects I like to participate in. But the times you guys are posting for your ATI cards are just ridiculous. I'm assuming the WU's themselves are the same quantity of data as the ones for CUDA? Or are there differences in size that would make them process so much faster?
35) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Is it posible that the universe are colapsing at this very moment? (Message 39770) Posted 17 May 2010 by JLConawayII Post: I believe our current view of how the universe is behaving is woefully inaccurate. To answer your question, in a limited way yes it is possible, just not quite the way you're describing it. That's really all I'm willing to say at this point in time, since I know how easy it is to be labeled a "lunatic" in the scientific community. I hope I can find a better answer for you sometime in the future.

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