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Whit4you

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 11:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
um before anyone gets me wrong - as I stated way back it's about helping find a cure in our own tiny grain of sand way...not about #'s and stats and rankings and so on but .. it's fun to watch that stuff ya know? Watching the molacule really isnt that exciting lol.

It takes like 12 hours for the system to catch up with any data - dont know why your name showed up so fast Bob :)

Bob2112

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 11:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry, I just get a little excited with numbers.

Whit4you

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 01:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob me too - thats why they have the stats and keep track of your hits and stuff to make it fun for us lol. I just didnt want anyone to misunderstand ya know? :)

Still perplexed who our mystery member is lol.

FYI I didnt use my last name - I dont anwhere on the net - ya know? Just not a great idea for a gal with a uncommon last name to use it online (probably not for a guy with a uncommon last name either)

I mean if your Jim Anderson in Dallas - it's not so bad but if your Truman Ozzeland in a smaller city .. ya know what I mean? :)


I've always just put my middle name for the last name it works fine all over.

My current WU (work unit) must be a really complex one 14 hours and only 32% done... no hits. Got any hits yet Bob? :)

Oh and regarding the security / safety issues of this there is a totally beyond detailed section at the ud.com site explaining the security and so forth - gave me a headache lol. :)

Bob2112

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 08:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have to admit that 2112 is not my real last name! (I'm also not the mole)

My first WU is 67% complete after 13 hours, so it looks like it should complete later in the afternoon. Assuming my computer has not been taken over and destroyed before then.

trojan

Bob2112

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 08:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The names are now appearing and there seems to be a weinermr as the mysterious 4th.

But I don't think mr is his real last name.

Weinermr

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 09:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Mssilhouette

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 10:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well it's only been an hour and only 1% of my task is done. At this rate I might as well leave the comp on all day long LOL

Seamonkey

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 10:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK guys.. I know with Seti@home the program runs much faster if you keep it minimized; don't have the display up (but of course it is fun to watch it sometimes). Maybe there are ways to tweak the MS program as well. Of course since the programs tend to use idle processor time it REALLY does show the differences. For Seti, MACS are really fast. I have three computers going and the differences in time are amazing.. The oldest is an Athlon processor 650mh, 256 meg of ram, and is slowest. The old notebook with 384 megs of ram and a Pentium I processor that is a bit faster than the athlon, and newer, is faster in processing, tho for certain work units this varies. But the PIII notebook running at over a gigahertz, but with only128meg of ram (ram isn't an issue over a certain amount) is running units at up to 4 times faster than the others..

The beauty is it doesn't matter.. of course we get involved in the competition but the main theme is to work together to crunch data and just the whole idea, which is awesome.

I do leave all my computers on all day and night :)

Whoami

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 10:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That's a very generous offer on the memory Whit.

I'll leave info in your folder (so I don't bore everyone else here!).

Whit4you

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 03:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Leave you guys alone for a minute and we gotta new team member hehe.

Members: 5
Ranked: 5297

Will be fun to see the results start rolling in in the next few days - :)

Whaomi - ok I'll read and respond to your post tonight (just got home gonna take a nice cool bath :)

Oh and get this guys the new member's last name is TVCH!!!! What an amazing coincidence. Good to see you aboard Willie :)

Seamonkey

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 05:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I read on their site that it is best to not run it as the screensaver (or atleast have the screensaver go to blank screen pretty quickly) and then the program will processs much faster..

Mssilhouette

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I turned off my screen saver..it's easier just to shut off the monitor and let the program do its thing....But I'm still kinda slow or this is one big task it's doing. So far I'm at 7%. LOL

Bob2112

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 08:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just set my screen saver to a blank screen and then the monitor goes into hibernation mode after 1 hour. Of course, the kids seem to change it every other day, so it seems like a constant battle.

What is the overall performance rating of your device (bottom right corner of the interface)? Mine is 77 and it finished the first WU in a little over 19 hours. My task may have been simpler than yours. The current WU is at 32% in 6.5 hours, so it is on pace for 19.5 to 20 hours. Processor speed is probably the driving factor, since the computations are most likely CPU intensive. I'm running on a 700MHz PIII with 256MB Ram.

My first result has been updated on the main server, so Whit is no longer alone.

Mssilhouette

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 11:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Figuers I'd get the longer task...Mine is at 77 as well for performance. In 13 hours it's only at 11%. My processor is much slower than yours though only about AMD 360+ but my ram is 376MB.

Whit4you

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ya MissS - different WU's take alot longer to finish up - seeing the first one finish was exciting for me lol :) I'm now on my 5th WU - it's way faster then any of the other 4 were. At 42% in 14 hours :)

On the UD message forum I noticed alot of questions in the newbie area about WU's that appeared stuck like stayed at 13% for hours - apparently it's normal for that to happen.

But I know how you feel wanting that first one to finish, I wanted to find out if it would really send the data back to UD or not - since I often hve a problem with 'communications' stuff - figured it would say "not connected to the net" or something lol.

Did you get any 'hits' yet? They show up on the tab that shows the molucle your working on to the left of the right of the word "Current Molucle XXXXXXXXX" My first WU had alot of hits, havent had one since.

Mssilhouette

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 05:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well I think I finished one it connected to the serve but when I checked after leaving it on all night and turing off any extra programs it was finally at a whoping 26%. Then I guess the serves updated and it got my schedule so it's idle right now I went in to change it again but it probably won't get the update until later on. What's bad is that any changes you make to your device settings don't get updated instantly..it takes a while.

As at look at the home screen it says:
Total Points: 331

I guess I did something..LOL

Right now since it idle the Current Molcule says "structure not ready for display" So until tomorrow or so I won't be working on anything. :(

Bob2112

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My current molecule has 4 hits. I didn't notice if the other 2 got any hits.
The communication does seem to happen infrequently. My statistics were updated 8 hours ago, but my current molecule has been running for 5 1/2 hours. So, there seems to be different servers (or transfer schedules) for distributing WU vs. gathering statistics and managing account settings.

I'm going to try to get some other computers connected, so I'll see how linking them to the same account works. I owe one for the WebTV people. After that, if I get it up and running on my laptop, I'll dedicate some processing for you. Then I will just forget about it, let things run over the weekend and then see what got accomplished on Monday.

Have a good weekend everybody. bob

Whit4you

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Total points 311 - ya that's saying you finished a molucule and those are the points for it. It'll update on our team page within 12 hours of it finishing.

Dont know what the'structure not ready for display' thing means - new to me. They have a great help forum at ud.com though - if it dont start working again you could ask there.

Glad to hear you got a few hits Bob - I like getting those lol. I picture them like grains of sand going from the ocean to a big sand box.

Here's a link again to the TVCH'ers team

members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=239D974B-2B9D-4561-BB04-F5B085814350

hmm cant get it to show as a link - gail? anyone? Help LOL :)

Seamonkey

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=239D974B-2B9D-4561-BB04-F5B085814350

Bob2112

Sunday, June 16, 2002 - 11:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whitney, now look at what you've done!!!


Actually, quite a lot. ClappingSmiley
With your simple post, you have turned what currently would have been only your 6 results into a team with 15 results!
I did get another 24/7 computer running, so the WebTV people have contributed their first result, also!
My laptop is the fastest, but it's only connected evenings and weekends.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for getting me to put my computers to some good use. I also wanted to bump this back near the top so it may been seen by all the people beginning to trickle back in anticipation of BigBrother3.

bob

Whit4you

Sunday, June 16, 2002 - 11:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ya I saw that - sweet :) Alot more fun to watch it now that it's moving more then one result a day lol. My current WU is a long one - about to finish - no hits on this one though :) Should show up in the update by morn.

Whit4you

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As a group we've now done 35 work unites - awesome :)

Bob I think it's really sweet that you set up a computer to represent our web tv'ers - would be nice if you could keep track of the hit's it finds over time.

My current WU - has 2 hits - hoping it finds more it's at 59% so you never know :)

Anyhow group we are doing great only 5 of us and 35 work unites completed so far! :)

Whit

Bob2112

Thursday, June 20, 2002 - 11:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whit, Does it save the hit total anywhere or is it just on the application screen while it is running? I let them run in the background and don't even have the display turned on for the other 2 computers, so I don't always notice the hits.

I short changed the WebTV'rs with the slower of the 3 computers (my son's) and I also forgot to tell my son not to turn it off. He never turns anything off (lights, TV, radio, ...) but somehow he felt the need to turn off the computer. He now knows what's running on there and he keeps an eye on it. So to make up for it, the WebTV'rs will also get credit for the laptop (which is the fastest of the 3 but not always on). :)

So of the current 17 WUs, the WEBtv'rs have provide 8 of them. I think it must be Theowl's new WebTV plus. She said it was running slower, but I think it was somehow crunching numbers on a molecule. :)

Thanks for starting this Whit!

Theowl

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you so much for doing this Bob!! And thanks for slowing down my new Plus!!! j/k!! I realize it's my fault for watching TV at the same time. And Whit, this all sounds SO interesting, but, being a WebTVer, I'm really ignorant and have NO idea what the Spain you're talking about, but it is good, I can tell!!

Whit4you

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 08:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
TheOwl - I took a screen shot of the program in action (complete with my 2 hits on this WU)

Email me at WhitInWa@aol.com and I will send you it to view if you can view .jpgs

Bob - if you know how maybe you could toss a screenshot onto a website for the webtv'ers to view? Sunday is my day off so if you dont know how I can do it then.

Honestly I dont know if it stores a count of your hits or not - maybe we could ask on the 'newbie' board at ud.com :)