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In short

New members

Ranking
Project RC5
Project Seti
Project OGR-25
Project GF

Milestone Makers
Project RC5
Project Seti
Project OGR-25
Project GF

Activities by TA - members

Organizational News

Topics RC5

Topics Seti

Topics OGR-25

Topics GF

Linux and Crackrack info

Other interesting topics

Important message to all TA-Members

As you all know, the DNet stats have been down for some time. With restoring the database, Moose and Decibel noticed some errors with the data. This caused a problem with the list of members, who joined our team.  Please, check the lists below. If your name or (first part of) email address is on them, then you should rejoin Team Anandtech (if you still want your blocks be accounted for TA).

New members

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, that are working on their own and one miniteam:
John, TeAmRC5, mattcupps, owikmark, mcbride6, lostboy76, blueweasel and participants 315,394 & 322,204.

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. Also a general assimilation thread is started by Adul and Train. Here every TA-member can report additions.

The latest reinforcements for the Seti team: (Nov/5-10)
Freeze, Redem, Maku, lhampel, Matt Kovach aka Sick_Boy, dlago, Remage, TomMartinson, Lostboy, ProZack and DefTones Of Zinj.

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.
You can send a message to the editorial team, so we can put new members in the next newsletter. Please don't forget to mention on which project they are working.

Ranking

Project RC5

Our team has been working hard in the last few months to overtake Slashdot  as quickly as possible. On Nov. 10th, all the efforts of the TA-members finally paid off. Congratulations to everyone on this big achievement. It will be a moment to be remembered for a long time.

This DPC-thread, a beautiful graphic, made by crisp, makes clear that DPC will overtake us somewhere near January, 16th, if we do not pick up the pace. In this congrats-thread the DPC's want to lessen the gap between themselves and TA from 81M to 50M before the end of the year. TA must do everything, that lies in her power to prevent that from happening. Some other news from the DPC: A lot of their miniteams are saving for a big dump before the end of the year. On page 5, an overview of all expected flushes together learns, the DPC expect to reach a total of 11 million in total.

For some figures now:

Project Seti

Overall # ranking for 11/11 in the Club Teams category.

Local group production 11/11:

12 Linux..................................(+77238)........ +1221
13 OS/2 Warp...........................(+2923).......... +982
14 Team Nippon........................(+1848)......... +1290
15 TA.................349628................................ +1736
16 Switzerland..........................(-44785).......... +575
17 Mac Observer.......................(-45484).......... +781
18 Matrox User.........................(-52571)........ +1232

For awhile it looked as if Team Matrox User was closing in, but the tide has turned. The TA-Seti team is going well with over 1700 WU's on Nov. 11th. If we can keep up with these production numbers, Team Nippon and Team OS/2 Warp should both be overtaken within a week. Then the big hunt for Team Linux is opened.

Project OGR-25

Slashdot is still 1 million GNodes ahead and widening the gap with an average of 10,000 GNodes. With a few machines more, we'll take the lead in the daily statistics.

Project GF

Team Anandtech is still in a comfortable lead with the GammaFlux project, but we could use a bit more power to be sure we'll stay No 1. Team ProcessTree is gaining on us fast with 1500 WU's more that TA, but they have to overcome more than 1 million WU's in order to catch us. Team 3DNow is contributing about 500 WU's more on average, with ~350k to go before overtaking us.

Team AnandTech breaks into the Gamma Flux Top 100... TA
First posting: Nov/6/2000 by Osmo

One of the TA-accounts is hovering around the 100th place in the overall stats on DCypher.net. This account (OPuS) is created by SYST3M and Possessed Freak. Hopefully they can find one or two computer-additions to consolidate their position in the Top 100.

Milestone Makers

This section is meant to congratulate TA-members on their special achievements.

The milestones for the different projects are:

Project RC5

2000, November 7 - November 10

The list of RC5 milestone makers is not as long as it should be. 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 Seti

It is difficult to track the milestone makers for Seti, so if someone can send them once a week, we would appreciate it.

Project OGR-25

We are working on the milestone makers for OGR-25. Until then, please be patient. In time, this section will be filled.

Project GF

It is difficult to track the milestone makers for GammaFlux, so if someone can send them once a week, we would appreciate it.

Activities by TA - members

Hi from the Central Ohio Get-together! TA
First posting: Nov/11/2000 by RaySun2Be

This is a first coverage of the Get-together, organised by RaySun2Be. It seems to be a great success, with 9 TA-members playing around on networks and other computer equipment. Also some links to photo's are provided.

New Federation web page...Thanks Crow TA
First posting: Nov/7/2000 by Engineer

Admiral Engineer is thanking Cpt. Crow for the nice job he has done with restyling the website of The Federation. A lot of items are in place, such as the 'babes page' and the list of computers each member uses to crunch for this mini-team. A little bit of discussion started about the naked-girls on the site, but all seems to be settled for now.
SYST3M is also announcing the website of TWTA has been revamped.
Nice job and congratulations to both of you with the birth of such professional looking websites.

Newsletter open for subscriptions!!! TA
First posting: Nov/6/2000 by PeterN

Everything is in place for the taking of subscriptions to the TA-newsletter. A little sooner than expected, but it worked out in the end. On the first day over 130 people have subscribed to the newsletter, so with some modesty, it can be said it is a succes on that account. More future plans for the newsletter can be found in this thread also.

What to do? TA
First posting: Nov/7/2000 by Train

IRC Is Moving TA
First posting: Nov/5/2000 by Virge

"Well, due to #teamanandtech being the #1 channel on WorldIRC, we've been attracting more than our fair share of "lamers", who walk in to the room because we're the biggest. Rather than putting a bot or bunch of OPs in to patrol, it's been decided that we're going to move the room to our own IRC server. From now on, we'll be using irc.teamanandtech.com to link to our IRC server, starting now."

This message was placed by Virge. It is an important one for all those subscribers that wants to have a live chat with TA-members.

Organizational News

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.

Topics RC5

rc5 client causing a >50% drop in rendering performance TA
First posting: Nov/5/2000 by Dennilfloss

This is an important thread to all members, who have computers assimilated, that are mostly used for rendering graphics. It appears that the client is not very friendly to some rendering software. It does not release the resources on its own for the process. The priority of the rendering software has to altered manually.

WTF?? I lost 1800 blocks on teamanandtech.com??? TA
First posting: Nov/7/2000 by marketsons1985

A little confusion sets in with marketsons1985 about his submitted blocks to the teams' proxy server. He thought he lost around 1800 bocks, but as Jator explained he looked at the stats in the wrong way.

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."

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.

Topics Seti

Question about SETISpy and Command Line Client TA
First posting: Nov/6/2000 by Fardringle

Fardringle is having some connection problems with the combination of SetiSpy and the CLI-version of the Seti-client. It appears, there's some other application using the modem. Because of this, Setispy can not dial out. A number of possible solutions is mentioned, but the one most likely to work is the suggestion of using SetiQ instead of SetiSpy.

Weird 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

OGR-25 Stats for 11 Nov 2000..That's right, We're on top!!! TA
First posting: Nov/12/2000 by NT4Mike

NT4Mike reports TA being first in the daily counts for the OGR competition. More important he's pointing out, several members might need to resign to TA. Otherwise their work won't be counted for the team. This happened because of the errors in the database of DNet.

Topics GF

+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.

Linux and Crackrack info

Klinux site moved TA
First posting: Nov/7/2000 by KiloWatt

KiloWatt announces the move of his website to a part of Dales' server. On the new address one can find the KLinux boot disks. With these disks, you can run the DNet-client with a minimal configuration. The next version (v.3.0) of KLinux will be coming soon.

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.

Other interesting topics

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

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.

Folding@home TA
First posting: Nov/6/2000 by Mong0

Are there team members working on the Folding@home distributed computing project? To this question a few members respond positive. There is a team for TA created and currently ranked in 90th position.

Does anybody here run Prime95 ??? TA
First posting: Nov/6/20000 by thEnEuRoMancER

A short and valid question of thEnEuRoMancER: Are there TA-members running the distributed project Prime95? A few did, but according to them, it took to long (over a year on an average computer) before results are being calculated.
The distributed project Proth is also mentioned by one of the members.

In short

A historic moment for Team Anandtech was Nov. 10th. This was the day, we overtook Slashdots' first place in the RC5-64 competition. It was uncertain if we could pinpoint this memorable day exactly, since DNet had problems with their statistics server. For several days, there were no stats at all.

A number of news clippings from the previous issue are reappearing in this newsletter. They might be of interest to all the new subscribers.

The number of subscriptions is going in the right direction. Right now, more than 100 people have confirmed their subscription and over 50 took an option for receiving this newsletter. If this continues, an estimate for 250 subscriptions before the end of the year is not exaggerated. 

In this newsletter, we have mentioned all the topics we could think of. Yet, not all of them are filled yet. In time, all topics will be covered. If any remark, idea or suggestion might arise, please don't hesitate to send them to the editorial team.

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