December 2007 (WCG)

xahmol · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:18 pm

Buffalo Bill wrote:

OK everyone,

If you can set your work cache to 4 days or more of work units it's a good idea.

Good tip Buffalo, will do so ;-)

(evil grin)

Rintaran · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:28 pm

xahmol wrote:

Ha, just checking the enemy here and to say hello!

Do not cheer to early, the challenge is not over yet. Making cows angry is never a good idea.

Oh, and if we loose:
BLAME CANADA!

Seriously though: you give a good challenge, making the race so much more fun. Thanks for that.

Well, I do know that Mad Cow is a bad thing, that's why we kill them. hehe

It's good to hear from you, I love a nice tight challenge. Good for everyone involved because we all try to get more recruits to work on these great projects. Keep crunching xahmol, you know we will!

Pawly · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:13 pm

Welcome xahmol!!

It is an excellent race this time around!! Very close and who ever wins, there will be no shame.

Nieuwsgierig waarom uw team valt in de posities? Hier is het antwoord!! ---> http://www.cowabduction.com/

For the rest of you : http://www.freetranslation.com/

RedMenace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:53 pm

Pawly wrote:

Welcome xahmol!!

It is an excellent race this time around!! Very close and who ever wins, there will be no shame.

Nieuwsgierig waarom uw team valt in de posities? Hier is het antwoord!! ---> http://www.cowabduction.com/

For the rest of you : http://www.freetranslation.com/

You might have something there¿

Grizz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:32 pm

And don't forget the old art of cow tipping!

RedMenace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:15 pm

I am going to make sure I have some Dengue Drug wu's to do in the last hours as they are much shorter. BTW, when exactly are the last hours in EST?

Grizz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:27 pm

RedMenace wrote:

I am going to make sure I have some Dengue Drug wu's to do in the last hours as they are much shorter. BTW, when exactly are the last hours in EST?

I think it would be around 8:00PM your time, or midnight UTC time.

RedMenace · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:51 pm

Grizz wrote:

RedMenace wrote:

I am going to make sure I have some Dengue Drug wu's to do in the last hours as they are much shorter. BTW, when exactly are the last hours in EST?

I think it would be around 8:00PM your time, or midnight UTC time.

What's the best way to ensure my results are all submitted given I will likely be out of the house at that time.

Grizz · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:35 am

@ RedMenace
Use the update feature before you leave, that is about all you can do.

Buffalo Bill · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:38 am

xahmol wrote:

Buffalo Bill wrote:

OK everyone,

If you can set your work cache to 4 days or more of work units it's a good idea.

Good tip Buffalo, will do so ;-)

(evil grin)

Why the evil grin? I stole the idea from a DPC post on your forum! (BIG evil grin) :twisted:

Quote:

10 miljoen punten voor Dee Pee Cee in de Kerstwedstrijd, maar we verliezen terrein op de Canadezen.... dat kan in een onbewaakte nach weg zijn.

We need your help! En, vooral die 'Additional Buffer Days op 4 dagen of hoger zetten (local prefs in BOINC 5.10). Op die manier wordt het werk bijna altijd onmiddellijk gevalideerd na inlevering.

BB

Ripcat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:13 am

You folks are really hard core! Keep it going!! :-D

Rintaran · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:14 am

Anyone else starting to see "No Work is Available for ... (work was available but is committed to other platforms)" ? I seem to be seeing it creep up on WCG now.

Grizz · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:25 am

Our lead has dropped to 23632 points, it looks like the race will be down to the wire!!

@ Rintaran
I haven't seen that yet on this project, I'm sure they'll have work soon, it just means they ran out temporarily on the platform you are using.

Rintaran · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:30 am

That'd be my vista machine. My XP boxes are both still pulling it clean.

Buffalo Bill · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:46 am

Ripcat wrote:

You folks are really hard core! Keep it going!!

Hi Ripcat,

The DPC are hard core competitors. They've been in some tough races in the past. Most of us are new at this so I'm not above pinching a good strategy they posted for all to read and using it to our advantage. :lol:

BB

xahmol · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:56 am

Buffalo Bill wrote:

Why the evil grin? I stole the idea from a DPC post on your forum! (BIG evil grin) :twisted:

Well I know it was posted at our forums before, but I didn't know you knew (help, the enemy decoded our secret code! Thought nobody could read Dutch, too many Dutch immigrants in Canada I am afraid). Just forgot to actually reapply this setting after reformatting my PC recently, so you reminded me to check.

And @Ripcat and that to victory picture: you DO know that an orange lion is the national symbol of the kingdom of the Netherlands? So glad that you acknowledge that we fight this battle against cancer, dengue, aids etc together but that you also acknowledge the biggest warrior is us :wink:

At least in today's score we again managed to have a higher daily than you, so we are closing the gap again. Our cry for mobilisation did result in some dual and quad cores joining, so hopefully validation does not cause a too big lag for them to have effect.

Oh and that cowabduction thing: well, who do you think is abducting them? I did call for mobolisation of ALL cows, did I ? :twisted:

It is going to be a very very close race!

Pawly · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:29 pm

xahmol wrote:

Buffalo Bill wrote:

Why the evil grin? I stole the idea from a DPC post on your forum! (BIG evil grin) :twisted:

Well I know it was posted at our forums before, but I didn't know you knew (help, the enemy decoded our secret code! Thought nobody could read Dutch, too many Dutch immigrants in Canada I am afraid). Just forgot to actually reapply this setting after reformatting my PC recently, so you reminded me to check.

Reminded me too! Thanks DEEPEECEE and BEEBEE!! :-D

Xahmol, I tried to register to post at that forum (wanted to say hello like you did here :yup:

) but accounts using gmail are not allowed. Please extend our warm wishes for the Holiday Season and our thanks for an excellent Christmas Race! It's not over and looks like it will come down to the very last minute!!

Quote:

And @Ripcat and that to victory picture: you DO know that an orange lion is the national symbol of the kingdom of the Netherlands? So glad that you acknowledge that we fight this battle against cancer, dengue, aids etc together but that you also acknowledge the biggest warrior is us :wink:

I was under the impression that the lion symbolized England? Although given the History between Canada and the Netherlands during WWII, the picture makes sense.

Quote:

At least in today's score we again managed to have a higher daily than you, so we are closing the gap again. Our cry for mobilisation did result in some dual and quad cores joining, so hopefully validation does not cause a too big lag for them to have effect. Oh and that cowabduction thing: well, who do you think is abducting them? I did call for mobolisation of ALL cows, did I ? :twisted:

Judging by some of the results we have been posting, I think some COW-nucks have joined Canada! :lol:

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It is going to be a very very close race!

DEFINITELY!!!

Grizz · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:11 am

We're up by 41639 points, what an exciting race!!!

Buffalo Bill · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:28 am

So that moves us up 18,007 since your last post Grizz. Excellent!!!

Keep crunchin' everyone. How I wish I could use a couple machines at work. (Not a chance :cry:

)

BB

xahmol · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:46 am

Buffalo Bill wrote:

Keep crunchin' everyone. How I wish I could use a couple machines at work. (Not a chance :cry:

)

Would love that as well, alas all machines are completely locked to any kind of install and don't have admin rights (besides breaking more corporate policies than I would like).

BTW: said high on behalf of you on the DPC forums. Glad to here our anti-Canada IP block at least prevents the enemy to join our ranks after failing to prevent to read it :wink:

RedMenace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:44 pm

Buffalo Bill wrote:

How I wish I could use a couple machines at work. (Not a chance :cry:

)

*sigh*

tiker · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:01 pm

I am using a couple systems at work.. I wish I could use some of my servers though.. 16 cores with 32 gigs of ram..

RedMenace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:17 pm

I don't suppose this stuff runs on AS400's. We have one of those too.

RedMenace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:49 pm

Kudos to a new cruncher WhitehillsAnimalHospital
http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_ ... id=1356379

BOINC Stats start Dec 9 and has 32,328 BOINC credits already, all for WCG. What's that, 175,000 or so WCG points? I don't know how or if they are converted.

Buffalo Bill · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:18 am

xahmol wrote:

BTW: said high on behalf of you on the DPC forums.....

Thanks for that xahmol.

BB

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