We are now crunching PS3Grid:
http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID/top_teams.php

Thanks to the team members for getting things started there !!!

Doing my stuff from linux on the ps3

Hope a few of you got a ps3 from santa, easy install for boinc now, ps3 has set up a pen drive easy download to help people out!!!!!!!!!!
But if I were you I would install a full version of linux, as it makes the playstation much more usefull (you can use it as a normal desktop computer.
Team Canada is #2 on the board for ps3grid for RAC and hope a couple of you guys can jump on to help out.


Phil

Doin' GREAT over here --> http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID/top_teams.php

wfong, Philzie and tiker have us solidly in 5th place for RAC and should be no time at all that Total Credit is top 5 as well!
KEEP ON ROLLIN' BABY!:yup:

WOOHOO!! Philzie and the boys (not sure if there are any girls crunching for us there) have cracked 1 000 000 Credits!!

CONGRATULATIONS

4 Months for their 1rst million, impressive.

I dont know if its a stupid question but when you load the linux pen for ps3grid do you have to have a keyboard attached because I am getting stuck at the kboot prompt and cannot get any further

I checked out the instructions and it said you need a usb keyboard.

Yup I knew I was stupid, ok I will just have to crunch folding@home on the ps3 for now then until I buy a keyboard

I didn't use the pen drive I went with the full linux install, and I needed a keyboard and a mouse to make it work. (plus a hdmi out to dvi to use a computer monitor) to get the 1080p video out. i believe the pen drive will work with a standard tv. Hope you get your keyboard soon!!!!!!!!!! Phil

I have a hd tv and hdmi cable and i might install yellow dog linux because i have an iso, but I will crunch folding for now until I can get the keyboard and mouse sorted, I am amazed how fast the folding units crunch on the ps3 compared to the pc !

2 main cores plus 6 spe's make er go pretty quick. Just took a look and we are over 2 mil for Canada now, with your help 3 won't be very long.

I normally crunch for team Ireland so I dont think John our founder would be impressed if I crunched for the Canucks although I suppose I am crunching for Canada and US Navy too at the moment

I searched high and low today for a simple usb keyboard to setup linux on my playstation so I can crunch ps3grid for you guys, but all I could find were ps2 keyboards, guess I will have to order one on ebay

Yes its timmy again, I now have my keyboard for ps3grid, I have the live linux installed on my flash drive because this playstation is not reading discs at the moment but I get as far as the kboot and it stops, has anyone got any ideas?

The sooner I can sort this out then theres more points on PS3GRID for you guys

On my install I type "STARTX" to start the GUI (graphic user interface)


Hope that helps. Phil

Not sure if it matters in this case, but is that "startx" or "STARTX"? Remember Linux is case sensitive...

Hi guys, my brother called to see me earlier as he had a problem that he couldn't resolve. I was gobsmacked as he is the IT specialist, whereas I'm just a systems builder. Problem resolved & he spent several hours here checking out my net.

He found my boinc a/c as I had one of the rigs open on ABC. In the past he was sceptical but as he knows how security conscious I am & also how well I'm doing, I told him about PS3Grid & I directed him to their home page as he has a PS3.

To be honest, I should have kept my mouth shut as he has bitten the boinc bug. He is a senior IT Admin/Analyst & said he will ask his bosses if he could install boinc on the corporate rigs. He then wound me up by saying he would knock me off the ratings as the UK side of his work has 18,000 rigs alone.

I am going to find out if he is successful, & then try to persuade him to join Team Canada! (This is no joke guys, he is a very serious IT technican, & also spends a fair amount of time in Canada on business & holidays)

Also, if he can, I'm going to try & persuade him to call himself Sirius A (((sneakily) so I can bask in family glory)just kidding )

Bad news on 2 fronts, startx or STARTX didnt work, also my son wants his ps3 back because he is moving out to his own place so my rampant run on the folding@home project will come to a halt too, when it rains it pours

@ Sirius B

That is great news, your brother would be a welcome addition even if the company won't let him run BOINC.

Thats crunching power. Should ask him to call himself Sirius B- Anyway that would be good news if he can join us.

Yes it would be brilliant. NO NO NO, he can't call himself Sirius B, that's mine!!!! Sirius A is acceptable

He telephoned this morning to say thanks for solving the problem. It's no big deal as I've had that problem no end of times. He's building a quad & wanted the ram he lent me to build mine back, & as I replaced it with 2x 2gb sticks at the weekend, it was timely. However, he purchased a new drive but XP kept failing installation near the end. Hr tried everything but no joy. So, in case anyone else may come across this problem (especially when doing a re-install), the easiest way to get past the "ntlkrnl" problem, is to set bios to boot from floppy, use a win 98 boot up disk, delete non-dos partition, create a new primary partition which will be fat 32. On rebooting, change back to boot from cd-rom & XP installs without a problem (& on setup, convert drive to ntfs).

I jokingly wound him up regarding boinc & he stated that he wasn't joking as when he got home last night, he looked into PS3Grid & other projects that interest him (Which are similar to mine). He has access to those rigs in the UK & also in Canada, USA, Australia & Europe.

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut If he succeeds, my stats are going to look like peanuts!!!! If he does, I wonder? Will Team Canada end up the NUMBER ONE team?

I think we could possibly move up to maybe 8th place, which isn't bad for a country with 40 mil people. The thing is with numbers like that, alot of teams would contact him, maybe he doesn't want to crunch for the best team in the world.

'Yes it would be brilliant. NO NO NO, he can't call himself Sirius B, that's mine!!!! Sirius A is acceptable '

lol Sory i wonted to say SIRUS Minus -B. Like back in school. Imagine the BAM account he would have to manege.

He would have to pick stable projects with lots off work and leave it there.

Holy Crap! That's a lot of machines! lol lunarcom may be heart broken if he loses his top spot! lol Let your bro know that he is very welcome and that if we can help in any way (questions, concerns, links) he should feel free to stop by and say hello.