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Greetings from the abyss
Hey all,
First let me begin by identifying myself, I am that guy sitting in 8th place on the MURC Genome team who has never once posted on this board. My moniker is LittleGreenMartians and I've been a complete lurker at these boards (and many others, except [H]ard|OCP) for over two years. I've been part of the MURC seti team for a significant amount of time now but have jumped ship with all of my resources onto Genome. After 8000+ CPU hours with my single machine on Seti it was getting boring and my stats seemed so insignificant that the small and new community of Genome presented something I could stand a little more out in. To top it off, I see more relevance in researching elements of the human genome than spending more time crunching Seti units as one drop in an ocean. Hence I am here and I figured I should drop a friendly hello.
You might also notice that my Genome production is ramping!!!
I started Genome approximately when MURC began the team on my Duron 600@947 (and my G400 SH btw
and after a month of going it alone I saw that my overall user position was in the top 200 and my team position was in the top ten. I can remember thinking, "No way, I'm actually up there", but then I saw how Pace and now Manex and Winwiz were catching up to me. I was bitten by the competition bug and I liked it. So I started enrolling the services of my friend's computers on my campus at university. I've got them in under my name and introduced them to the world of distributed computing. Now we are a growing army of computers which are left on nearly 24/7 (mine is always 24/7). We just recently made more additions and are now running:
my Duron 947
TBird 800
P3 750e
P3 733
P3 650e
K6-2 560
I expect to get a few more computers underway; I want to get in the top 100 of overall users afterall.
But now onto more serious business. As a member of the MURC G@H team I say congrats to everyone for helping overtake OcUK but now we've got to worry about Overclockers-Network, they are most definately inching up on us. To be honest I never thought MURC would do so well in Genome as we've done in Seti but I'm mistaken, we are actually kickin' ass. It looks like even DSL and PandeGroup could be overtaken but Overclockers and others are sure to threaten us from behind. We need more power.
I know there are still a lot of Seti users on this board who have worked way, way harder on their Seti WUs than me but there does become a point where some things are actually over-done.
Seti has way more work units then they can deal with. The following is pure speculation, but keeping in mind all of the versions of the client which have been released I wouldn't be surprised if they've gone about discarding some or all of their early data from version 2.x or less so that they can devote the next phase of analysis (on their computers) to their 3.x data. This to me makes sense since I believe they have only recently begun this second phase and they have also recently said that they would extend the project for another year. The point here that I cannot make in an articulate manner is simply that Seti is huge and Seti@MURC is huge also but isn't there something more worthwhile to invest in?
I think genome@home and folding@home are both much more worth our CPU time. First, we are battling cancer and other genetic disorders. Second, they need our CPU time much more than Seti which probably has so much it wouldn't even notice. Third, instead of claiming 30th spot in a search for aliens, which, even with their discovery would make little difference since any radio signal sent would take 100's of years to reach them to say hello, we can claim one of the top 5 or even the first spot in a research program whose data could be essential in medical treatments administered TEN years from now.
I for one have a personal stake in genetics research. I have several family members who suffer from diseases caused by genetic disorder, so for me it is a wonderful feeling to think that in some way I'm helping in doing something for them.
And besides,... it was a little tough for me to quit Seti at first but after a week I didn't care; I had a whole new ladder to climb, one which is fresh and new and ultimately a relief from the claustrophobia I felt from the last one
Holy cow this rant is way longer than expected, I sat down initially to say hello to fellow Genome members since I figured some of you may have wondered who this LGM is. Heh, well now you know, I'm a Genome recruiter it seems.
One other little thing you might like to know:
I'm a comp. sci student 1st year at the University of Waterloo in Ont. Canada. I'm finishing my second term and am starting my first co-op work term in May. I will be working for ATI (I'm not kidding) as part of their driver developement team under Win9x and NT for their Radeon and probably Radeon II cards (this is a job sent from heaven for me). Thus for any Radeon owners who are experiencing instability with their Radeon drivers, you can partially point your finger at me for that. Furthermore, should their drivers get much better starting in May, you can thank me for that one.
I won't be breaking any NDA's or whatever, but I look forward to having a much better perspective on this whole world of videocards which interests me so much and dropping whatever information I can.
Hmm, should have perhaps devided this into two posts and put the hello stuff in General, ahh well.
Thanx for reading this far,
Eric
First let me begin by identifying myself, I am that guy sitting in 8th place on the MURC Genome team who has never once posted on this board. My moniker is LittleGreenMartians and I've been a complete lurker at these boards (and many others, except [H]ard|OCP) for over two years. I've been part of the MURC seti team for a significant amount of time now but have jumped ship with all of my resources onto Genome. After 8000+ CPU hours with my single machine on Seti it was getting boring and my stats seemed so insignificant that the small and new community of Genome presented something I could stand a little more out in. To top it off, I see more relevance in researching elements of the human genome than spending more time crunching Seti units as one drop in an ocean. Hence I am here and I figured I should drop a friendly hello.
You might also notice that my Genome production is ramping!!!
I started Genome approximately when MURC began the team on my Duron 600@947 (and my G400 SH btw
and after a month of going it alone I saw that my overall user position was in the top 200 and my team position was in the top ten. I can remember thinking, "No way, I'm actually up there", but then I saw how Pace and now Manex and Winwiz were catching up to me. I was bitten by the competition bug and I liked it. So I started enrolling the services of my friend's computers on my campus at university. I've got them in under my name and introduced them to the world of distributed computing. Now we are a growing army of computers which are left on nearly 24/7 (mine is always 24/7). We just recently made more additions and are now running:my Duron 947
TBird 800
P3 750e
P3 733
P3 650e
K6-2 560
I expect to get a few more computers underway; I want to get in the top 100 of overall users afterall.
But now onto more serious business. As a member of the MURC G@H team I say congrats to everyone for helping overtake OcUK but now we've got to worry about Overclockers-Network, they are most definately inching up on us. To be honest I never thought MURC would do so well in Genome as we've done in Seti but I'm mistaken, we are actually kickin' ass. It looks like even DSL and PandeGroup could be overtaken but Overclockers and others are sure to threaten us from behind. We need more power.
I know there are still a lot of Seti users on this board who have worked way, way harder on their Seti WUs than me but there does become a point where some things are actually over-done.
Seti has way more work units then they can deal with. The following is pure speculation, but keeping in mind all of the versions of the client which have been released I wouldn't be surprised if they've gone about discarding some or all of their early data from version 2.x or less so that they can devote the next phase of analysis (on their computers) to their 3.x data. This to me makes sense since I believe they have only recently begun this second phase and they have also recently said that they would extend the project for another year. The point here that I cannot make in an articulate manner is simply that Seti is huge and Seti@MURC is huge also but isn't there something more worthwhile to invest in?
I think genome@home and folding@home are both much more worth our CPU time. First, we are battling cancer and other genetic disorders. Second, they need our CPU time much more than Seti which probably has so much it wouldn't even notice. Third, instead of claiming 30th spot in a search for aliens, which, even with their discovery would make little difference since any radio signal sent would take 100's of years to reach them to say hello, we can claim one of the top 5 or even the first spot in a research program whose data could be essential in medical treatments administered TEN years from now.
I for one have a personal stake in genetics research. I have several family members who suffer from diseases caused by genetic disorder, so for me it is a wonderful feeling to think that in some way I'm helping in doing something for them.
And besides,... it was a little tough for me to quit Seti at first but after a week I didn't care; I had a whole new ladder to climb, one which is fresh and new and ultimately a relief from the claustrophobia I felt from the last one
Holy cow this rant is way longer than expected, I sat down initially to say hello to fellow Genome members since I figured some of you may have wondered who this LGM is. Heh, well now you know, I'm a Genome recruiter it seems.
One other little thing you might like to know:
I'm a comp. sci student 1st year at the University of Waterloo in Ont. Canada. I'm finishing my second term and am starting my first co-op work term in May. I will be working for ATI (I'm not kidding) as part of their driver developement team under Win9x and NT for their Radeon and probably Radeon II cards (this is a job sent from heaven for me). Thus for any Radeon owners who are experiencing instability with their Radeon drivers, you can partially point your finger at me for that
. Furthermore, should their drivers get much better starting in May, you can thank me for that one. I won't be breaking any NDA's or whatever, but I look forward to having a much better perspective on this whole world of videocards which interests me so much and dropping whatever information I can.
Hmm, should have perhaps devided this into two posts and put the hello stuff in General, ahh well.
Thanx for reading this far,
Eric
Any special recruiting techniques? 
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