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Updates and Little Green Men
05/06/2006 12:45 PM Categories:
Distributed
Computing
Sorry, I know it's been awhile since
I've updated the site (a month actually). Things have been really
hectic at work with some major projects coming to fruition. I'm
finally able to merge some of my Multimedia, Flash, Video,
Broadcast and Broadband tech skills and knowledge at my job, but it
has taken a large portion of my free-time these days. Of course I'd
rather have a lot of work to do than no work.
Seti@Home Enhanced
In the meantime I've been following the release of SetiEnhanced lately and reading the message boards. Crunch3r's new Enhanced Optimized clients are out as of yesterday and I've tried them on two of my main crunchers. I've had to actually remove the app_info.xml file because that threw up some problems (no new app file was included in Crunch3r's package this time). Oddly enough, the existing Crunch3r Optimized version of the old boinc seti client still worked ( I'd expect it to download the non-optimized client like it used to, but that didn't happen this time). We'll see how this shakes out in the transition from Boinc Seti I to Boinc Seti Enhanced. BTW- I'm using the Truxoft Boinc Calibrating client 5.3.12.tx37 on most of my crunchers. The Seti Enhanced work units should ignore any of the calibration settings due to the credit algorithm change, so no need to change my current Boinc settings. Right now I'm riding high as #6 on my team (TeamMacNN) and one of my boxes is #2 in the Top Computers list at SETI@Home's site.
And for those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking about.... explanation here.
Work Related:
For now, I've gotta get some sleep... I just came off an over 27 work hour shift trying to get our latest project ready for Monday's internal beta launch... *YaWN*.... my developer and qa colleagues were very VERY tired when I left, and our primary developer looked ready to collapse, but she kept on coding away, not wanting to see this project fail. I work with some pretty dedicated people... I just hope we're all rewarded for the time/blood/sweat spent.
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Seti@Home Enhanced
In the meantime I've been following the release of SetiEnhanced lately and reading the message boards. Crunch3r's new Enhanced Optimized clients are out as of yesterday and I've tried them on two of my main crunchers. I've had to actually remove the app_info.xml file because that threw up some problems (no new app file was included in Crunch3r's package this time). Oddly enough, the existing Crunch3r Optimized version of the old boinc seti client still worked ( I'd expect it to download the non-optimized client like it used to, but that didn't happen this time). We'll see how this shakes out in the transition from Boinc Seti I to Boinc Seti Enhanced. BTW- I'm using the Truxoft Boinc Calibrating client 5.3.12.tx37 on most of my crunchers. The Seti Enhanced work units should ignore any of the calibration settings due to the credit algorithm change, so no need to change my current Boinc settings. Right now I'm riding high as #6 on my team (TeamMacNN) and one of my boxes is #2 in the Top Computers list at SETI@Home's site.
And for those of you who don't know what the hell I'm talking about.... explanation here.
Work Related:
For now, I've gotta get some sleep... I just came off an over 27 work hour shift trying to get our latest project ready for Monday's internal beta launch... *YaWN*.... my developer and qa colleagues were very VERY tired when I left, and our primary developer looked ready to collapse, but she kept on coding away, not wanting to see this project fail. I work with some pretty dedicated people... I just hope we're all rewarded for the time/blood/sweat spent.
Read More...
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