Posts by Bill592

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Terminology (Message 29381) Posted 15 Aug 2009 by Bill592 Post: Dave anderson is the DA that all BOINCers complain about. Wow __ are you certain it is Legal or even allowed to post photos of ‘Boincifex Maximus’ ?__ (DA). Isn’t that ‘Tom Cruise’ just to his Right? They are even being endorsed by big celebrities ! Amazing ! Bill
22) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Is Pluto a planet after all? (Message 29290) Posted 13 Aug 2009 by Bill592 Post: BTW : I hereby declare that ‘Jupiter’ is not a planet. My proclamation of course carries about as much weight as these 4 percent idiots from the IAU regarding Pluto. Bill
23) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Is Pluto a planet after all? (Message 29288) Posted 13 Aug 2009 by Bill592 Post: Actually the problem is Apollo systems are old 60's technology ...... Thanks for that Space.com link. Very interesting ! I still say that, if they can produce the microfilm and, we get the German’s to create a clone of Wernher von Braun. Remember ‘The Boy’s from Brazil ? We will be able to recreate the mighty Saturn V ! Regards, Bill
24) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Is Pluto a planet after all? (Message 29284) Posted 13 Aug 2009 by Bill592 Post: Maybe You could catch It with a Saturn V ........ I read somewhere that they could not even build a Saturn V today. Something about the blueprints for it being locked away in an ancient computer format that they can no longer access. Regards, Bill
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Conflict MW (ATI) & Aqua CPU (Message 29283) Posted 13 Aug 2009 by Bill592 Post: I dont know what exactly NVIDIA did, to get into boinc before facebook ....... It’s quite simple. They placed rather large amounts of cash into certain people’s pockets. This is a tried and true method to ‘win friends’ and influence things into the direction you would like them to go. Just ask any member of the United States ( Bought and paid for ) congress. They will attest to the fact that this method works ! IE: Rep. Jefferson with 10K in his freezer. Therefore here is what I plan on trying: 1st: I'll modify boinc client, to allow more instances running, and compile it. 2nd: I'll divide projects by resources Suggestions, comments? BR, I’d say, go for it. We’ll see if it works. I thought Crunch3R was working on it. Bill
26) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : The other 40th Anniversary (Message 28284) Posted 23 Jul 2009 by Bill592 Post: .......and I'm sure there's one place on Earth that doesn't like them very much. Like where ? Argentina perhaps :-) Bill
27) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU is running Cooler than normal__Strange. (Message 28265) Posted 23 Jul 2009 by Bill592 Post: Never mind__ I think I found out why. __Normally I have a Weather Radar program running called Storm Predator. __When I loaded it back up__ it climbed back up 5 degrees. I didn’t realize that weather radar program needed that much of the GPU.__ I think I’ll leave it off. Bill
28) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU is running Cooler than normal__Strange. (Message 28262) Posted 23 Jul 2009 by Bill592 Post: Howdy all, Something odd here __ with this latest batch of work units, my 4850 GPU is running about 5 degrees Celsius “ Cooler “ than normal. Also, CPU usage seems to be lower. Are these work units less computationally intensive ? Anyone else notice this ? __ or, do I have something going haywire with my system? Regards__ Bill In Minnesota, US
29) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : found a small memory error in the code (Message 27181) Posted 6 Jul 2009 by Bill592 Post: Using a CPU is largely energy waste compared to a GPU so I stopped looking to the CPU application. Hi CP, That is something I have been wondering about. I wonder if that energy waste is occurring (or reversed) on other projects plus Milky Way when running Cuda. Over on Einstein @ Home they have only managed to attain a 1.5 x ( geforce ) to 3.5 x ( Tesla ) speedup compared to the CPU app. when testing their beta Cuda app. Some Nvidia cards burn up a lot of power so, for that minor speed advantage, you may end up wasting power running Cuda. Best Regards, Bill
30) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24305) Posted 5 Jun 2009 by Bill592 Post: Gipsel got it fixed with version 0.19f I will make a link out of it. Version 0.19f of the ATI GPU application is ready for download. Besides the fix for the three stream WUs it reports now the GPU time as WU time. It was a really absurd bug, a missing line break in the GPU assembly. THANK YOU ! Cluster Physik, you are doing a Great job with the ATI Apps ! I wish my other projects like Einstein would implement ATI instead of this focus on Cuda only nonsense. Bill

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