tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31509196235424254092024-09-04T08:10:58.068-04:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-13689665804146791832013-12-28T21:26:00.001-05:002013-12-28T21:26:25.345-05:00

Let me preface this with, for the most part I am happy with BOINC for android devices, having used on my nexus 7 ( old not the new one released in 2013) for half a year or so now.  Doing this really makes me happy I abandoned my BOINC on raspberry pi quest, as on the nexus with just as powerful if not more so processor as the raspberry pi.  So to explain that last comment a brief

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This is both a post to raise awareness, and a question that I am not sure I know the answer.  Long story short, I realized how lopsided mine, and the Atlantic teams credits were recently, and I wondered if there was anything I could do to throw a little spice into the mix by adding another project. That is where the issue came in, besides WCG and GPUgrid, there seem to be few to no projects

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... sometimes it is basically impossible. Especially if you have a GPU set to crunch GPUgrid tasks. Basically nearly every single GPUgrid result returned is worth insanely more credits than the amount that 3 cores of my CPU and minimal credits from my Nexus 7 contribute.   Take is as you like, but you must definitely get used to seeing credit distribution pie charts like: But in the

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I will admit, I have stopped following my stats on boinc very closely, and I am incredibly sure I have fallen a great deal recently.  Especially as I am not sure how many/ if any days in August my main machine has run.  Honestly 2 of my machines were taken off line from crunching, to be replaced by an android tablet when ever it happens to be plugged in ( which is less than I would like

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-50482214264527525172013-07-22T21:17:00.000-04:002013-07-22T21:17:47.633-04:00

I will admit after the Raspberry Pi frustrations I was skeptical about feasibly running any projects on any non x86 processor.  Though through all the endless searching for how to get things working properly on the Raspberry Pi I did come across a few groups working hard and getting decent results getting certain BOINC Projects to run on Android Devices.  I did not give it much thought

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While I don't even closely watch my Statistics any more, if anyone happens to keep a close eye on my statistics, they will likely see that for the last week and a half they have been rather dire.  By that I mean I am not sure if I have completed a single task in the last week and a half.   The honest truth is I shut everything down to go on a short holiday for July 4th, and never

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I am thinking of implementing a somewhat regular set of updates just to make sure I have some regular posts to make on this blog.  I am trying to echo the Atlantic Team blogs lead on this by hopefully making them short and sweet but sharing interesting tid bits about what has happened with my mini farm in the past month. I am not sure if this happened in May, but I think it happened in May.

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It has been over a month since I last posted, and let me just say life has happened.  While crunching has more or less continued besides for a week of down time last week.   My graduate studies in mathematics have come to a halt, and I am now gainfully employed working as a developer on the database side of things.   What does this mean in the long run?  I really do

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I have lately taken up a concerted effort to remind myself how to program.  While I am not foreign to the task of programming, once I completed my minor in computer science, I more or less hung up my keyboard ( figuratively) in an effort to focus on mathematics.  I rather regret that, as I really enjoyed programming when I cared about what I was actually programming. For those of you

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I by no means am telling anyone what they should or should not crunch, but the more and more I have been looking into various projects the more I am wondering why some projects have such massive appeal.  So I am a mathematician by training, so you would imagine I would be all over prime grid and a number of other mathematical based projects.  In fact the state of things as they

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There seems to be several different types of people in this world, those that always want the newest of everything, and those that like to see what kinks each product has and wait for them to be either worked out or written off as design flaws.  Maybe its because I was one of the early adopters to a particular smart phone, way back several years ago, lets just say anyone that ever had one,

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-58544180607693958952013-03-19T21:26:00.000-04:002013-03-19T21:26:08.694-04:00

I am happy to announce that I have gotten my systems up to the point that they are running almost entirely on autopilot.  Part of it came with a little training of myself as well, mostly to not mess too often with the computers.  Due to power concerns I am running my least efficient machine only on weekends, and my highest powered machine, which is incredibly quiet runs most of the time

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-84298948408956178882013-03-09T23:36:00.000-05:002013-03-09T23:36:19.298-05:00

I dedicate all of my GPU crunching time to the project GPU Grid, because I honestly believe in the work that they are doing.  But I hate to say this my loyalty was really tested this past week, possibly made even worse because I was stressed out for another reason and the last thing I needed was to be worrying about how my machine is working on things. Lets just say a large amount of GPU

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I am borrowing the turn of phrase from a poster in the GPU grid forum, because it seems aptly appropriate about what I want to talk about today.  I am amazed at how many people on project forums like to complain about everything that is going wrong at these various projects. Now for one I am known to be a rather laid back person ( passionate yes, but laid back more or less), as such I do not

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-33667402578078116492013-03-01T22:34:00.003-05:002013-03-01T22:34:45.208-05:00

I have my newest computer crunching 24/7 lately, only rarely being restarted for updates, or shut down occasionally for a few hours.  That means it runs when I am at work, sleeping or doing most anything else.  I was more concerned about doing this right after it was assembled feeling it wasn't quite battle tested yet. Now that its run for many many hours staying incredibly cool, and

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-43766099657867513212013-02-24T00:06:00.000-05:002013-02-24T00:06:24.338-05:00

Today I received my monthly email from my Electric and Gas company letting me know what my bill was for the past month.  Well I didn't completely do the math when the January notice came, ( as I am on a 21st to 21st schedule), but because I was home for the holiday break, my one machine was offline until the 6th of January, missing about 2 weeks of the billing cycle, and I didn't assemble my

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-15417337505082185682013-02-17T20:14:00.002-05:002013-02-17T20:14:29.913-05:00

I have really been going back and forth on the question of "should I allow beta tests on my machines?"  When I first set up machines specifically for boinc crunching, my initial thought was these I really wouldn't mind allowing Beta tests to run on them. Though the more I read beta test support forums there are quite a few things that give me pause.  So lets start with a Pro and Con

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-73654036415958799092013-02-15T19:09:00.002-05:002013-02-15T19:09:56.316-05:00

For those of you that have a decent sized place to live, and your computers are no where close to your bed, this post will not apply to you.  But I live in a small studio apartment.  So basically everything I own is on one large room, and the only other rooms are a closet and a bathroom in my place.  What that means is all the computers I have on my "farm" are located in the same

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I jut came off of a very frustrating nearly 24 hours. As it turns out a software update buggered my Wireless drivers, as such caused some rather odd behavior in which it could find and locate networks, but not connect even with the proper credentials.  But to be fair I slept and did other things through 16 hours of those 24 hours.  But in the trouble shooting those other 8 hours where

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I do not know what it is about this apartment, but dust is pervasive, and almost sadistic in this place.   Those of you that know my other interests, know I am rather into Tea and Teaware, and I thought it was bad just to consistently clean my teaware display, which seems to always be getting coated in dust. Well that build up on the teaware should just be a hint at what is getting

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-81267534680763398452013-01-28T20:30:00.001-05:002013-01-28T20:30:48.214-05:00

Last night into today, large portions of the Midwestern United States into the North Eastern portion had bad ice storms.  While lately I have been taking to turning of all but my most silent system during the night, last night I left my computers off for quite some time to protect them from the storm. While I have not directly attributed any technologies faults to power surges, I am now

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-69974617780255683072013-01-20T19:53:00.001-05:002013-01-20T19:53:59.903-05:00

I am not sure what to believe any more, the more you watch videos on building a computer the more and more the emphasize what goes wrong. ( New Egg has a nice 3 part series, part 2 features the actual building. ) These issues, seem like they can be so accidental, and not actually something you consciously do.  Static electricity being the biggest one.  Keeping this in mind probably

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-45364985768450676762013-01-18T19:03:00.002-05:002013-01-18T19:03:54.960-05:00

In the past week, I sourced the parts for a new Crunching machine, had the parts arrive, assembled them and set up the entire computer.  This is going to be a post detailing my thought processes behind finding the parts. Step 1: Find your favorite computer parts supplier. I went with new egg because they have worked wonderfully for me in the past, and I figured "if it ain't broke don't fix

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The page about Boinc on the Raspberry Pi has been updated.  The good news Asteroids@ home announced support for the Raspberry Pi, and it appears to attach, and recognize its ability to run as easily as setting it up on any typical PC. The bad news, it appears I was far to early to the game in getting my Raspberry Pi.  I got my pi before they doubled the memory on the Model B boards.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939074707659681899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150919623542425409.post-57489058989917659972013-01-11T21:58:00.002-05:002013-01-11T21:58:31.208-05:00

Well this week has been disappointing into receiving shipments, but I won't completely go into that.  The one that matters on this blog is not that major, but I caved an decided to upgrade the GPU in my Tower, also known as the Frankenstein computer, or the Workhorse computer.  This worries me slightly as while I hear from my friend that the GPU works fine with the PSU in the system,&

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