seti rack of bp6's

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:22 am

has anyone ever thought about making a rack like those guys you see on seti?

you know the ones who get a crapload of the same mobo and just crunsh wu's with em?

i wonder what a bp6 rack would do?

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:05 am

Well at this point tryin tot get that many bp6's would be the hard part. At my old job I had lots of celeron 400 and 433's running on abit ZM6's. You can spend a lot of money on one fast system or a little on a crapload of older slower systems.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:31 am

i got 2 atm

any donations would be great

Post by **Derek** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:40 am

kuun wrote:i got 2 atm

any donations would be great

I remember a while back when (I think it was both LittleWhiteDog and Overclockers.Co.Uk) were on the board bragging about how they were going to pass our team in yadda, yadda. Well, they were doing things right

They collected donations (both money and hardware) from their community and built a monster SETI crunching machine and kept adding to it.

Just a thought.

alnielsen · Post by **alnielsen** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:21 pm

Yes the cost for such a machine would be lower initially, but how much would you spend on electricity in the long run. Not just to run the machine, also to cool the house in the summer. In the winter you could just leave the windows open.

Allen

Post by **Derek** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:24 pm

alnielsen wrote:Yes the cost for such a machine would be lower initially, but how much would you spend on electricity in the long run. Not just to run the machine, also to cool the house in the summer. In the winter you could just leave the windows open.

Allen

Electricity is cheap here, but you're right about the A/C in the summer.

I'm setup pretty good down here; I have my own little "DC" for the computers and servers

It has A/C and the works!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:09 am

ehehehehe

im not worried about electricity

it's one of the only bills i have to pay (beauty of apartments)

so if you guys want.. i could start the bp6 cruncher

i'd definately love to

Kuun

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:11 pm

Derek wrote: They collected donations (both money and hardware) from their community and built a monster SETI crunching machine and kept adding to it.

Just a thought.

I thought we tried to do this a few times but could never could enough people interested in it.

Looks like I will be moving to NJ with my sister soon and the good thing I have found is about half of the places we are looking at include electric in the rent.

So I should be able to get back to doing at least 80 or so a day then

Then I just have to get a job and then I can do some upgrades around here.

Post by **Derek** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:04 pm

HAL6000 wrote:
Derek wrote: They collected donations (both money and hardware) from their community and built a monster SETI crunching machine and kept adding to it.

Just a thought.
I thought we tried to do this a few times but could never could enough people interested in it.

Looks like I will be moving to NJ with my sister soon and the good thing I have found is about half of the places we are looking at include electric in the rent. So I should be able to get back to doing at least 80 or so a day then

Then I just have to get a job and then I can do some upgrades around here.

We never attempted the BP6.Com SETI crunching machine idea. I'm not sure how it would work out...

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:00 pm

dunno but i volunteer to be the guinea pig

i really wanna do a rack but can't really afford a bunch of boards

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:59 am

kuun wrote:dunno but i volunteer to be the guinea pig

i really wanna do a rack but can't really afford a bunch of boards

You should see all of the stuff I listed for sale in the class section.

http://www.bp6.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1561

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:41 pm

dude...

omfg donate!

uallas5 · Post by **uallas5** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:18 am

It's not much but I have a little bit to donate. I've got 5 Celeron 366MHz Socket 370 Chips that are just sittin' in my spare parts cabinet. I sorry but there's no mobo's or hsf's for them.
A few yrs ago the company bought a bunch of s****y micro-atx systems and these chips are all that remain. I don't use them in my BP6 cause I couldn't get them stable at a 100MHz and my 300's are rock solid. I ran them for a while at 75 with no prob's and maybe you'll have better luck.
They're yours if your willing to set up a Seti rack. I would volunteer myself but until I move, I can barely fit in the 2 systems I got running now.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:27 am

sweet...

that means all i have to do is find a few more bp6 boards

uallas5 · Post by **uallas5** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:35 pm

Here's some, and 2 come with CPU's.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=44941

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=44941

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=42005

Just let me know if you need any of the 366's.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:52 pm

GORBS!!!!

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:44 am

i think i'm gonna replace my systems.....
my 400 does 14h 50m
my 500 does 11h 50m
my 533 dual running one at once was at 14hours
and doing dual they run 17hours
except for the electricity, they'd be better of as singles, doing about 11hours instead of 17, sigh.......

so, I think 2.4ghz is the current cheap processor, i see P4's aren't any more at 2.4, they just went to celeron, so just missed cheap ones of them.....

working in a computer shop, seeing the dual xeon 2.6ghz machines going out, I want I want....... (wipe slobber from chin)
dual xeon board, $500 au ex-tax
quad xeon, mega drool, $3,500, say what......
rather have 7 duals...

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:25 am

Dave Rave wrote:except for the electricity, they'd be better of as singles, doing about 11hours instead of 17, sigh.......

This is debatable, as in 11 hours on a single you get 1 unit. Yet in 17 hours on a dual you would get 2 units. So theoretically you can say that on the dual it takes 17/2 Hours to do a unit (8.5 hours).

So when you look at it this way they are better off as duals.

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Although thinking about it I might have the wrong end of the stick here.
I suddenly realized you might mean they would be better off using the same number of CPUs in single boards, when I first thought you meant take a CPU out of each and run it as a single.
If so then yes they would be better as singles.
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