Supporting SETI@Home and all BOINC Distributed Computing Projects 2010 The newsletter staff and leadership of Team SETI.USA want to thank all of our members for their efforts in 2009. We are now moving into a new year and we hope to see 2010 as another year of fantastic milestones. We want to continue to climb the charts in some projects while holding our number 1s where we can. By moving to the top of the ranks, we now have a bulls eye on our backs and other teams are pushing to bring us down. Lets pull together as a team and show them that we have what it takes to stay at the top.
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 ©SETI.USA 2006-2010 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 milestones in the past month. 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 this
past month. 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 4.6 Billion (4.56 Billion as of 10 January 2010). This past month, we passed 100 million in GPUGrid. Awesome crunching, team! Additionally, we have achieved some significant milestones in many of the individual projects. We currently have: 7 projects with 100+ Million
credits Also, SETI.USA is one of the top 10 teams in 78 projects, including being the #1 team in 21 projects. We are the #1 team in the world in both of these categories! To see how we are doing in individual projects, please see the attached spreadsheet. Keep on crunching! Go SETI.USA!!!
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Quote of the Month: Be at war with
your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you
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Project News - dcushing Project: Primegrid 2009 was a successful year for the team with 4
users finding primes in the Prime search. Greenfish: Ap25
(Apr)
All primes will be listed in Jens Kruse Andersen's Primes in Arithmetic Progression Records page under the section of All known AP24 and AP25 with your name as the finder of the prime. Great going team! Crunch on!
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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 - 20,478,719 (Increase of 8,144,665 over last month) RAC -
252,511 (Increase of 5,842 over last
month) Current Hosts on the
Seti.Usa Cluster are as follows:
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Video Card Update (Tom's Hardware Jan. 11, 2010) -SargeD December Review and January Updates: To read entire article visit http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2521.htmlWith no new cards introduced in December, the biggest news was the increased availability of the new Radeon HD 5800-series in the second half of the month. Sourcing one of these cards seems to be fairly easy now, and we're glad to see that the 5850 and 5870 cards haven't strayed into vaporware territory (unfortunately, both models are still priced well above where ATI launched them in 2009). Hopefully this means that TSMC has had some good luck ironing out its difficulties with the 40nm process. On another positive note for ATI, Radeon HD 4850 cards seem to have resurfaced at the sub-$110 price point, bringing back some competition for the GeForce GTS 250. On the flip side, availability of other models remains scant, and the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 remains difficult to find at retail. Some GeForce cards, such as the GTX 275 and GTX 295 are also hard to find, even though they are still officially in production (and we'd argue that, overall, they're more available now than they were a month ago). Prices have fluctuated a bit, and the new Radeon HD 5700-series cards are about $5 more affordable. Meanwhile, the GeForce GTX 260 seems to have been bumped up a few dollars. As a result the Radeon HD 5770 stands alone in the ~$155 space that used to be a battleground between the Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 260. In addition, the majority of GeForce GTX 285 models seem to have suffered a significant price increase that puts them too close to the superior Radeon HD 5850. What surprises does the start of 2010 hold for us? Well, according to the roadmaps that AMD has supplied us with for the 5800- and 5700-series launches, we should be expecting their low-end GPUs in the near future, the 'Redwood' and 'Cedar' models. It will be interesting to see how they will improve on the Radeon 4600- and 4770-series cards. | ||||||
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This article will remain in the newsletter as a reminder to our members. If you need help setting up your Nvidia or ATI video cards for crunching, please visit our forums at http://setiusa.net/forums. 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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