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Not really a new member, but ModemMix has announced here he will reinstall the DNet client and join the team to help out in our cause of becoming and of course staying No. 1 in the RC5 contest. Furthermore we have 8 new RC5 members: Dennilfloss and Adul are still adding to the ranks of TA. Take a look at this thread for Dennilfloss' achievements. Aduls' achievements be followed here. The latest reinforcements for the Seti team: They are all welcomed into Team Anandtech. We hope all the new members will be part of the largest distributed computing family for a very long time. If we have forgotten anybody, please don't
feel passed. It's difficult to keep track of every new member.
Project RC5In this DPC-thread, a beautiful graphic, made by crisp, shows that TA will overtake Slash dot on November, 7th but if we do not pick up the pace DPC will overtake us somewhere near January, 16th. Unfortunately, DNet is down for quite some
time now. When rankings for this newsletter were supposed to be made,
there weren't any statistics from DNet. Hopefully they will be up very
soon.
Project SetiOverall
# ranking for 11/05 in the Club Teams category. Project OGR-25Project GF
Project RC52000, October 29- November 4
The list of RC5 milestone makers is not as long as the last one. This is mainly because most of the DNet stats couldn't be checked. There would be many more. Hopefully this list will be much longer next week. However, all of the milestone makers deserve a big congratulations on their achievements, including the ones we can not mention here. Keep up the good work. Project SetiKilowatt crossed the 1000 WU mark! Project OGR-25Project GF
IRC Is Moving
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Organizational News |
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DNET
This week the statistics server Tally of DNet has been down for a few days. In the DNet-plans Decibel wrote on Nov. 2nd, he's going to work on the problem. It's not likely the stats will be up within the next days.
Popular Power
An email from the crew of Popular Power has been received, in which was written:
Popular Power v. 0.3.1 is now available for download
at the Popular Power Web site.
The most important changes are:
- PopPow is now capable of working in the background;
- PopPow is now multi-processor capable;
- The Linux version has some extended features;
- Version 0.3.1 is also available as Apple Macintosh client.
To date more than four million tests has been calculated by PopPow
members. The tests use a computer model of the immune system, which is
"injected" with different vaccine and virus combinations in
order to better understand and improve vaccines. Because the flu virus
changes every year, these studies are attempting to create an overall
strategy that will help scientists when they choose each year's flu
vaccine.
While the project is ongoing, preliminary results based on the findings
of tests completed on member machines were presented on Sept. 24 in
Crete, Greece, at the Options for the Control of Influenza Conference.
More about the influenza-project can be found here.
The PopPow crew wrote, they are planning to start with some commercial projects this fall. They are negotiating with interested partners. Revenues earned can be paid either to the member or to a charity of his choice.
The website- and statistics programmers are working hard to enable online rankings and a team-feature.
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Hoe moet dat straks bij dnet? 
DPC
First posting: Nov/5/2000 by Grote_Smurf
Here some genuine concerns have arisen with Grote_Smurf. He's asking how much blocks will be flushed, once the DNet stats-server is working properly again. In a number of threads on the DPC-forum, a lot of people stated they were saving blocks until everything worked again. It is a good assumption, more teams than DPC are saving blocks until then. This might give another problem with the DNet keyservers.
On behalf of the DNet organization, we ask all TA-members not to save blocks. If one does feel the urge for it, then please wait a number of days after the servers are working again, before flushing the buffers. Otherwise we might have another outage of stats.
Blocks and Packets...I'm
confused....
TA
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by Krish
A little (understandable) confusion has set in with Krish about all the talk of blocks, packets and work units. Russ' very simple answer explains all: "A WU and a block are the same thing. A packet contains anywhere from 1 to 32 blocks."
New additions to my small herd munching
for TA!
TA
First posting: Oct/31/2000 by GeoffS
GeoffS keeps us updated on the additions to his herd. Right now, he has 5* P3-733, P3-650, 2* P3-450, 1* P3-500 and 1* C2-566. Also, he has plans of adding about a dozen P3-800's. Let's keep it going.
TAcube vs Cubekiller
DPC
First posting: Oct/30/2000 by Procyon
Here procyon is trying to get some miniteams to work together under one account. The purpose is submitting more blocks than Russ' TA-cube does and thus starting some psychological warfare. The DPC-reactions are not very positive, they don't see the need for it. In this thread on TA-forum, our members are made aware of this attempt and react to it.
Zijn er nog teams die flushplannen hebben ???? DPC
First posting: Oct/27/2000 by Proxy 71
This is still a hot topic on the DPC-forum
with almost 3 pages of messages.
Proxy 71asks the DPC-crew if anyone has
plans for a team- or individual megaflush. A number of DPC-members are
responding to it and numbers of 50k-1m are mentioned. The largest number
mentioned by Proxy 71, lies between 700k-800k. Burat is talking about
200k and several others have 100k ready to be flushed. Aginor wants to
pass not only Slashdot (/.) on December, 31th, but take TA down in the
process.
If this will happen mainly depends on our reaction. Can we counter the
attack? Yes, we can. The answer to the problem is recruiting more members
and assimilating more computers.
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Wierd SETI problem.. :(
TA
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by Fardringle
When encountered a strange problem with the Seti client, Fardringle tries to get some answers from TA-members. His new computer (a K6-3 running at 600MHz) runs perfectly stable with various heavy-duty programs (3dMark, UT, and many other things), but the machine hangs after 30 minutes when running the Seti client v.3.0 (DOS and GUI).
Topics OGR |
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Topics GF |
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+14,000 Mhz
TA
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by Qythyx
Qythyx announces the use of 4 Quad Xeons (at 700Mhz each) for about 3 weeks to add to the OGR efforts of TA. This will help closing the gap with Slashdot for awhile. He added a P3-933 on a permanent basis to the project as well.
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Anyone with access to a Beowulf Cluster?
TA
First Posting: Nov/1/2000 by RaySun2Be
Ray found a message from DNet about using their client on a Beowulf cluster. It was not cluster-aware but by adding some additional software (MOSIX) in the Linux kernel it will run 'cluster support' out-of-the box.
Patting me on the back... I just OC'd my first
processor!
TA
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by DanC
Not really a Linux or Crackrack topic but worth mentioning in this chapter: DanC is in a euphoric state, since he overclocked a 300 MHz machine to 350 MHz. As he says: "Sure it ain't much to most, but I've discovered OC!". Later on in the thread, he proves he's hooked on the feeling: "I actually have 2 Duron 600's they do 900 and 950 respectively". Hopefully, he can overclock a lot of his herd.
How to run 3 crackrack boards on one
power supply
TA
First posting: Oct/31/2000 by DanC
DanC asks the TA-members if someone knows how to connect more than one motherboard to a power supply. Lord Demios answers with a very elaborate story on how to go ahead.
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POLL: What was your first distributed computing project?
TA
First posting: Nov/4/2000 by Jani
This is an interesting thread, because it shows which projects were important to get the TA-members hooked to the phenomenon of distributed computing. The results of the poll can be seen here.
Forum Announcement - Everyone with an @home.com
address - WE NEED YOUR HELP!
TA
First posting: Nov/2/2000 by TA Administrator
We have a major problem with ALL of
your email addresses. For some reason, all of our email to @home.com
addresses is being returned with the error message:Reason: <user-name@home.com>... Relaying denied
This message was received from the TA-administrators. They are trying to resolve the problem, but urgently ask every subscriber, that uses an @home email address, to cancel the subscriptions to the forums. The mail servers of Anandtech are flooded with return messages.
SCSI Terminator
TA - General Hardware
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by Viztech
Viztech is going to add a SCSI cd-rom device to his computer and wants to know if the termination of the SCSI-chain is optional or required. Our Lord Demios answers in an excellent manner, as does Radboy. In this thread Viztech asks for more assistance, but later on the forum he can tell the problem is solved. Viztech used Windows2000 instead of the Windows 98 version and that seemed to be the trick. You can read all about it here.
is het weer zover?
DPC
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by mafmeisje
In this posting, mafmeisje (like the name, means something like crazygirl) is reacting to this thread on TA in which a lot of TA-reactions are given to the fact that some DPC-members are not only visiting the TA-forums, but also from time to time make some offensive remarks. mafmeisje is asking in the thread-title: Is it happening again?, referring to the above mentioned behavior. If this continues, she might consider joining TA, mainly because of "the immaturity of DPC-members". Some DPC-members are reaction in a very rude manner to her, like Mr. Atheist (Don't get fat, woman) or Frenzy (Shut the fuck up!). Happy is saying the only sensible thing in this thread: "Let's keep in mind each others feelings. We have a different kind of humor than TA'ers. If you visit someone, you're in their house and you have to adjust." Eventually everything got all right: "They laughed and kissed up".
New Version of Popular Power!
TA
First posting: Nov/1/2000 by brian_riendeau
A new client of Popular
Power has been released. The most important change is that now the
client no longer runs as a screensaver-driven application only, but runs
as a background process also.
Popular Power is working on a
non-profit project that uses the computer time you donate to research
ways to optimize flu vaccines, or the Influenza-virus project.
Some TA-members are interested in the DC-project and want to start a
TA-team as soon as PopPow is offering that possibility.
TO ALL PROOF READERS
With the announcement of the website being up and running, I also got about 65 subscriptions for the newsletter. No harm done, but Mika already implemented the script, in which website-subscriptions were automatically send to my address. I can not separate these addresses from the initial list of proof readers. This means two things:
- This will be the last of the proofreading newsletters. If any comments arise, please notify me.
- Everything is going a wee bit quicker than I expected. I didn't have the HTML-code cleaned up, but will do so with the next issues. There might be some bugs here and there. If found please let me know.
Thank you for all the support you've shown and I hope I can count on you in the future for any remarks, ideas or improvements or work that has to be done.
In short
The most important event of this week, was the outage of DNets' statistics server. This has caused some members complaining about symptoms, that indicate they are addicted to these numbers.
Finally the website is up and running. This will be the most important event for a lot of people, especially to Mika, JHutch, Virge and BPhantom. They worked hard to get everything in place.
Another great achievement is raising the money for the banner campaign. Led by DanC, it was a great success sofar. The campaign can begin, when a website has been found, that will more or less guarantee a big success.
To make this newsletter appealing to a broader audience, information about Popular Power is added. This interesting project will be monitored by brian_riendeau and he will report any news, that might be of interest to TA-members.
The last, but not least important, item to mention is the newsletter
itself. Some minor bugs are fixed, thanks to RaySun2BEs' careful
examination. Also some spelling errors have disappeared. There are now
also buttons added, next to the main categories. These enable our
readers to jump to the top quickly.
Some items have been added or relocated under the Editorial section.
The rest you should see for yourself.
In this newsletter, we have mentioned all the topics we could think of. Yet, not all of them are filled yet. This newsletter is meant to give the first group of readers an idea of what can be expected in the future. If any remark, idea or suggestion might arise, please don't hesitate to send them to the editorial team.
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