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  • Started 7 months ago by Budohorseman
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Budohorseman
Budohorseman
Posts: 687

So my fellow geeks, tell us all the BOINIC projects you are currently sharing your spare CPU cycles with, as for me, I am running:

SETI@home--Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
microFluids@home—(no Greek letters, so sad) Caculates the behaviors of fluids at zero g’s.
LHC@home--To help calculate predictions for the Large Hadron Collider (who doesn’t want to help predict the formation of microsingularities?).

I did miss that one, thanks Lighthouse!

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Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

microsingularities
Very Dangerous
And why is SETI spending millions of $ looking, when they are here?

Now you edit. Then I edit. And no one is the wiser :)

Posted 7 months ago #
 
sparky7415
sparky7415
Posts: 387

I think the Geek needs a bionic server,"The Planet" his server I think, needs to come back to this planet and fix their crap.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

Sparky, there is some truth in what you say. It's no fun any more. I liked the analogy with "watching the paint dry".

Posted 7 months ago #
 
thegeek
The Geek
Posts: 1611

Are you guys having that big of a slowness problem? Is it happening across the board, or just sometimes?

For me, the server is blazing fast... other than yesterday afternoon and monday I've not been able to personally see any problems.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
sparky7415
sparky7415
Posts: 387

I meant to add "ing" after watch on the earlier post,was getting frustrated.@whs,glad to hear you liked the quote,seemed appropriate.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
sparky7415
sparky7415
Posts: 387

Hi Geek,things appear normal again,I tried both my machines at various web sites during those times,and had no problems.You did post earlier about the server being flaky,who knows.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

Talk about Off Off Topic :)

Posted 7 months ago #
 
thegeek
The Geek
Posts: 1611

@Lighthouse: sorry for hijacking your thread... sparky and whs seemed very upset, and I am trying to figure out what is going on.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

No need to apologize. I can see we are all having problems at different times. Bon chance et bon courage
ps. It's not mine!

Posted 7 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

Geek, I am never upset - just trying to provide input. The worst problems are the intermittent ones.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
thegeek
The Geek
Posts: 1611

I'm glad you aren't upset... I am though :)

I can't stand slow servers, drives me crazy. The whole point of switching to a new server is so we can handle the load better... especially as I roll out new features in the next week or two.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

I am sending positive vibes down the wires as I type. Total confidence

Posted 7 months ago #
 
sparky7415
sparky7415
Posts: 387

I wasn't really upset either,I was switching back and forth on my machines,as they sit side by side.And couldn't figure why a top rated server would take so long to correct a problem.Everything is good now

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Budohorseman
Budohorseman
Posts: 687

So I guess what you all are telling me is that this was a pretty lame topic....humm, I'll have to post a new one that is even lamer before I head off to my poker game tonight. Should be interesting to see where that one leads when I get back on tomorrow afternoon...

;p

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

No, No not at all. Continue. I'm interested.
It got a bit waylayed, is all.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Budohorseman
Budohorseman
Posts: 687

Well then sir (at least I assume sir), download BOINIC and join a project or four so you don't get left out! I've been considering adding folding@home as well, and I would in a heartbeat if I had a quad core processor.

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

give us a link please
And, you didn't edit

Posted 7 months ago #
 
sparky7415
sparky7415
Posts: 387

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php Will this work? Or, http://www.boinc-wiki.info/Cat.....d_Projects

Posted 7 months ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Posts: 5574

I had a poke around, and didn't find a lot of projects involved (I find that unusual). Maybe I'm not looking in the right places?

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