A milestone for Mxy!

[MrMxyzptlk]

Why SETI rather than F@H?

I was involved with SETI before SETI@home....

(And am an original SETI@home tester!)

And I just stuck with what I knew best.  (Not that I haven't thought about "sharing out" some of my cycle elsewhere, tho....  )

[xsix]

Check it out Mxy, its the latest invention, a BIKE!!!! Try ridin' it, out side!


I kid, I kid. Don't hurt me >.<

anywhos Wow, bug big number

[BFM_saes]

The ironic thing, xsix, is that the longer he's away from the computer, the faster the number increases.

[xsix]

Yeah, I kinda figured that after a while and was like HAXX!!!!!

[MrMxyzptlk]

...That and the fact I happen to ride a MUCH nicer bike than the >cough -LAME!- cough!< one you have pictured!

 

[Knuke]

Just curious, what kind of bike do you ride, Mxy?

[MrMxyzptlk]

Just curious, what kind of bike do you ride, Mxy?

A Trek Navigator as of late....


Oh, and an update folks: I'm over 203,000 now!   

[BFM_DarkFyr]

Thats heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps 

[MrMxyzptlk]

UPDATE!: (Yeah, JUST what you wanted to hear!     )


Well, BOINC's been crunchin' away and I've watched it now from time-to-time to see the difference between a BOINC Work Unit (WU) being processed by my Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in my Nvidia graphics card(s) versus one of the four Central Processing Unit (CPU) "cores" on my Intel Quadcore processor.

The verdict is in: An average WU takes about six hours to run on a CPU core. A similar average WU takes under 10 minutes to run on a GPU.

That's 36:1.

Impressive, but not the 60x that had been stated earlier.

Hint: It's all about "floating point" math versus integer math....


P.S. I'm now over 227,000 CPU-hours of work completed....

[TrūnkMonke„]

Check it out Mxy, its the latest invention, a BIKE!!!! Try ridin' it, out side!


A SCHWINN?


I kid, I kid. Don't hurt me >.<

anywhos Wow, bug big number

[TrūnkMonke„]

And we STILL haven't made contact with aliens?! Why bother?

We're still looking for intelligent life on THIS planet. (Except for MrMxyzptlk of course)
                                                               

[MrMxyzptlk]

And we STILL haven't made contact with aliens?! Why bother?

We're still looking for intelligent life on THIS planet. (Except for MrMxyzptlk of course)
                                                               

PUH-LEEZE!

Please recall that I'm from the fifth dimension??

The thought of being stuck on this measly planet of yours! PSSSH!

[Soz 0wned U]

And we STILL haven't made contact with aliens?! Why bother?

Shh!, Mxy is the Alien!

[MrMxyzptlk]

WAKE-UP-POST!

Well, a couple of interesting developments since I started this thread (which was mostly due to the fact that BOINC had added GPU=based number-crunching capability to its support.)

First, the GPU-based computation is SO FAST it's CRAZY!

Second, Due to the above, SETI@home has RUN OUT OF DATA FOR ITS USERS TO PROCESS on several occasions!    (I.e. It is now being computed faster than they can get it from the radio-telescopes and process it for SETI@home distribution!)

Sooo, Third, I went looking for other BOINC projects to keep my lonely CPUs/GPUs busy when SET@home data was unavailable, and went looking to join the Folding@Home BOINC group.  The problem: There IS NO F@H BOINC GROUP! The Folding@Home people are at Stanford, so they wrote their own BOINC-like software so they wouldn't have to use their cross-town rival's BOINC software!

UGH!

That means I'd have to run two DIFFERENT, UNCOORDINATED sets of analysis software to run them both at once.

No Can Do!

So I guess Folding@Home is out of the picture for me now.  (Since with BOINC I have dozens of choices of analysis software to run versus F@H which is only one, Folding@Home...)

So I can't make up my mind, and I've decided to let y'all choose for me:

Which one of these projects should I join?

P.S. I've now "donated" over 380,000 CPU-hours to SETI@home! Wow!

[BFM_Kiwi]

I'd say climate prediction.  Very computation intensive and closer to home.  Help save our planet first before looking for aliens on other planets, rah rah rah.