Supporting SETI@Home and all BOINC Distributed Computing Projects
August 2007

©SETI.USA 2006-2007

CONTENTS:

* Latest News
* SETI News
* Member of the Month Interview
An Interview with SETI.USA's Jghilino
* Project of the Month
August/September
* BOINC News/Standings
* Trivia Winners for July
* Computer of the Month
* Quote of the Month
* Personal Milestones
* User of The Day

NVIDIA 680i SLI: Official 1333MHz FSB CPU Support Arrives

Date: July 20th, 2007
By Gary Key

Intel's P35 chipset was recently introduced amid gala fanfare with "official" support for the upcoming 45nm based Penryn products and the newly arrived 1333MHz FSB based processors . While the spotlight has been on Intel's latest chipset for the past few weeks, we kept hearing whispers from the guys in green wondering what all the fuss was about. After all, they told us bluntly, we have a chipset that has been in the market for almost nine months now that fully supports the same features that everyone got excited about when the blue team rolled into Computex 2007 with sirens blazing.

SETI NEWS:

8 Aug 2007 22:37:26 UTC

Yesterday afternoon we were visited by many students who work with Dan Werthimer on the CASPER project. We made them analyze all the dozens of random server pieces (cases, motherboards, memory, disks, CPUs, power supplies...) that have been recently donated and try to assemble them into useful machines. They ultimately were able to only get one fully working system, and even that had only half a case. We'll probably use that system as a CASPER dedicated web server. Among these students was Daniel who is off to grad school soon so we're finally revisiting the work he did with us on web-based skymaps. We don't want that effort to go to waste (this side project languished as all parties got too busy with other things).

The database eventually recovered after we tweaked the right parameter. We were back in business by the end of the day, except one of the assimilators is still failing on a particular record in the database (one we'll probably end up needing to delete) and we still haven't been able to build up a results-to-send queue.

Jeff returned today and we all tackled getting the new multibeam client out. So the Windows version has been released, in case you haven't noticed. A Linux version, and a working Mac version (should be recompiled eventually) are also available. This client will chew on classic work until multibeam data becomes available. Speaking of that, Jeff and I are working on the splitter now. We actually fired one up, and a few hundred multibeam workunits went out to the public, but we're still doing work on the automation backend and otherwise, so don't expect a flood of new work just yet. Besides, we really should get the formal press release in order before we dive all the way into the new data. In any event: Woo-hoo!!

- Matt

Member of the Month Interview: -Beerdrinker

Another month has passed, and it´s time to meet another of your fellow teammates. This time we hooked up with quite a guy. So please welcome.....

Jghilino!

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Project of the Month: -DrBob

SETI.USA encourages its members to participate in the project of their choice. Now that we have accomplished the team's original goal of being #1 in SETI@home credit in ALL BOINC projects is valuable to the team's future success.

Some members have asked for direction as to which projects they should allocate their resources to. Therefore we have decided to designate a “Team Project of the Month”. The chosen project typically will be one in which our team currently has a poor showing in that projects standings.

Rosetta@home has been chosen for the Team Project of the Month for August/September.

Our team is currently ranked 8th in BOINC standings on the project and we are hoping enough members will participate in this project to improve our position there by September 19th.

Project URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta
Create an Account: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/create_account_form.php
Join Our Team: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=6

BOINC News

July 25, 2007

BOINC finally has a new logo! Many thanks Michal Krakowiak, the graphic designer who created it. The logo (and icons based on it) will soon appear on the BOINC client software as well as the web site.

BOINC Standings

Here is an overview of our current standings in BOINC:

#1 in 5 projects
#2 in 5 projects
#3 in 5 projects
#4 in 3 projects
#5 in 3 projects
#6 in 3 projects
#7 in 2 projects
#8 in 3 projects
#9 in 2 projects

That means we are in the top 10 in 31 different projects.

July Trivia Winners -SargeD

Week 1

Subject: Authors A-O
Level: Average
Questions: 15
Winner: Possum

Week 2

Subject: Classic Horror
Level: Easy-Average
Questions: 10
Winner: Zedd2000

Week 3

Subject: Daylight Savings Time
Level: Average-Tough
Questions: 10
Winner: NGCamacho

Week 4

Subject: Las Vegas
Level: Tough
Questions: 10
Winner: John R. Bailey

Computer of the Month:

This month's computer of the month belongs to Gregk.

STATS:
p4 3.4 ghz with hyperthreading
1g ofpc-3200 ram
200g hd
1 fan on the top,1 hd fan
1 fan in the front
big fan in rear lighted
big typhoon cpu cooler w/arctic silver5 thermal compound
digital display
2 cold cathode kits

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Quote of the Month:

This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God....

-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Personal Milestones: -Orion

SETI.USA would like to thank ALL of it's dedicated members and offer CONGRATULATIONS to all those who achieved significant personal milestones in the month of July. As you all know, we are growing exponentially. We now have:

SETI:
74 members with 1,000,000+ SETI credits
118 members with 500,000+
453 members with 100,000+

Combined:
89 members with 1,000,000+ COMBINED credits
148 members with 500,000+
614 members with 100,000+

View SETI Milestones
View Combined Milestones

User of The Day -SargeD

The month of July We finally took over the number 9 spot from Belgium. We had a total of 27 awarded which is six less than we got in June. SargeD lead the team with a total of 4 UoTDs for the month. We are currently 41 away from taking the #8 spot.

View July UoTDs

NVIDIA 680i SLI: Official 1333MHz FSB CPU Support Arrives

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July 25, 2007

BOINC finally has a new logo! Many thanks Michal Krakowiak, the graphic designer who created it. The logo (and icons based on it) will soon appear on the BOINC client software as well as the web site.