Supporting SETI@Home and all BOINC Distributed Computing Projects Happy Holidays The newsletter staff and leadership of Team SETI.USA want to wish each and every one of our members a very happy holiday season. We hope that each of you enjoy good health and much wealth in the coming new year. Keep yourselves and your loved ones safe!
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 ©SETI.USA 2006-2009 Newsletter
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CONTENTS: * BOINC
Milestones |
SETI.USA would like to thank ALL of
it's dedicated members and offer a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all those who achieved significant
personal BOINC milestones in the months of November - December. As
you know, we are growing exponentially. We now have: Crunch on everyone! |
SETI.USA would
like to thank ALL of it's dedicated members and offer a HUGE
CONGRATULATIONS to all those who achieved significant personal
SETI@Home milestones during November - December. As you all know, we
are growing exponentially. We now have: Crunch on everyone! | ||||
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SETI.USA has accomplished some amazing milestones as a team. We currently have nearly 3.8 Billion (3.79 Billion as of 13 November 2009). This past month, we passed 25 Million in FreeHal, Cosmology, and SIMAP. Awesome crunching, team! Additionally, we have achieved some significant milestones in many of the individual projects. We currently have: 6 projects with 100+ Million
credits Also, SETI.USA is one of the top 10
teams in 78 projects, including being the #1 team in 22 projects. We are
the #1 team in the world in both of these categories! | ||||||
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Quote of the Month: The consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before. - Carl Sagan (1934-1996) | |||||
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Winter Soltice Challenge - Prime Grid - http://www.primegrid.com/ Is hosting The Winter Solstice Challenge. The challenge will begin 18 December 2009 17:47 UTC and end 21 December 2009 17:47 UTC. We invite you to attach to Prime Grid and join the Members of Team SETI.USA for the Prime Grid Winter Solstice Challenge. Prime Grid is a well run project that is always up & always has work. PG works and plays well with other BOINC Projects, and gives good CPU credits. AP26, the project for this challenge, pays the best on most systems. Prime Grid (PG) has several sub-projects that one must select (or can select) in the User management screen (under Resource share and graphics PrimeGrid preferences). This is a short duration challenge (3 days) and is for the AP26 Project only. More information is available at the following link: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=1562&nowrap=true#19750 Only work downloaded after the start of the challenge will count toward the team totals. Therefore it is imperative that you do one of the following: 1. If you are not going to run the project before the start date, then be sure you attach after 17:47 UTC on the 18th. 2. If you are already running the project then you MUST do a reset after 17:47 UTC on the 18th. This will insure that all of your downloaded work counts for us. Another thread on PG is here: http://www.setiusa.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15169 Where you will see some of the Team Members who activly participatie in Prime Grid. The project also now supports Cuda video cards! So if you have any Cuda cards you can also put them on the challenge. For help in setting up your Cuda enabled cards (NVidia cards) please visit the thread link immediately above or check out the last article for instructions.
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Current scores and
credit can be found here: http://boincstats.com/search/all_projects.php?cpid=29ae0d1926077b6c4c5f496822684e17 The Cluster's current
BOINC standings are: Total Credit - 12,334,054 RAC - 246,669
(and climbing) Current Hosts on the
Seti.Usa Cluster are as follows: | ||||||
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Recruiting Contest -SargeD NOTE: This contest is
still running! In an attempt to increase our teams crunching
strength I am going to sponsor a recruiting contest. The contest
will run from now through December 31, 2009. The team member who
recruits the most new members to active crunching will be declared the
winner. Contest
Rules: The
Prize: The winner will get both of my computers crunching
under their account for a period of one month. The specs for the two
computers are as follows: SH-Cluster1 - C2D E5200 @ 2.5 GHz, with 2 ATI HD
4850 GPUs These two computers should add between 4 and 5
million to the winners account during the one month period (assuming that
at least one of the GPU projects is active during that time). So
lets get out there and recruit and may the best recruiter
win! | ||||||
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Setting up Cuda - 1. Make sure you have a
CUDA
capable GPU in your system with at least 256MB video RAM. CUDA works with
NVIDIA GPUs from the 8xxx series onwards, including GeForce, Quadro and
the Tesla line.
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