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Steve Midgley - 30 Dec 2003 05:58 GMT

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Name Steve Midgley
Results Received 12994
Total CPU Time 5.428 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 3 hr 39 min 33.3 sec
Average results received per day 17.80
Last result returned: Tue Dec 30 05:29:48 2003 UTC
Registered on: Sun Dec 30 07:52:15 2001 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.000 years

Your rank: (based on current workunits received)

Your rank out of 4810995 total users is: 10287th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 2
You have completed more work units than 99.786% of our users.

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Leigh-Anne (LA) - 30 Dec 2003 23:50 GMT

Steve

What processors are you using to get an average of 3hr 39min and 33.3sec

Thx

Leigh-Anne

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> The number of users who have this rank: 2
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Steve Midgley - 31 Dec 2003 00:32 GMT

> Steve
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> Leigh-Anne

I use all AMD processors.

My fastest machine is an overclocked 1700+ that averages about 2hrs
13minutes per work unit - this one is my personal work computer and is used
12-16 hours a day in addition to crunching.

I build computers for a living and my policy is that every computer is run
for at least 24 hours before I'll sell it and they are running SETI for all
of that time.

The number of machines I have running varies but at this moment I have three
2600+ and a 2400+ online plus the 1700+. My actual average is around 2:50
right now but it's taking a long time to average down from the slower
computers I had in the past - my average drops about a minute per week.

Steve Midgley

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Gary Heston - 31 Dec 2003 04:11 GMT

>> What processors are you using to get an average of 3hr 39min and 33.3sec

>I use all AMD processors.

>My fastest machine is an overclocked 1700+ that averages about 2hrs
>13minutes per work unit - this one is my personal work computer and is used
>12-16 hours a day in addition to crunching.

Have you done any validation of the results to be certain you're not
having FPU errors?

>I build computers for a living and my policy is that every computer is run
>for at least 24 hours before I'll sell it and they are running SETI for all
>of that time.

That's six times what we did at the last place I worked; of course, we were
producing a few thousand a day...

>The number of machines I have running varies but at this moment I have three
>2600+ and a 2400+ online plus the 1700+. My actual average is around 2:50
>right now but it's taking a long time to average down from the slower
>computers I had in the past - my average drops about a minute per week.

What motherboard, memory configuration, and cooling setup do you use,
if you don't mind saying?

Gary

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"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but
it says 'Chicken by the Sea'." Jessica Simpson, on MTV _Newlyweds_

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Steve Midgley - 31 Dec 2003 06:20 GMT

> Have you done any validation of the results to be certain you're not
> having FPU errors?

I keep a close eye on my SetiSpy logs. If I see work units ending
prematurely, I know that I've gone too far. I've had overclocks that seem to
be OK everywhere else but are putting out garbage in SETI.

> What motherboard, memory configuration, and cooling setup do you use,
> if you don't mind saying?

The hotrod 1700+ runs on an Epox 8RDA+ nForce2 motherboard at 11.5x200 with
dual-channel DDR memory (2x256mb, 1x512mb). It is cooled with a Thermalright
SLK900 heatsink and a thermostatically controlled 80mm fan. It's been
running this way for over a year and rarely gets much over 40c under load.

My bread-and-butter consumer machines have motherboards based on the VIA
KM400 chipset and just run the stock AMD HSF at stock speeds. The 2600+ will
average around 2:50, the 2400+ about 3:10. These aren't real
high-performance m-boards but they do OK.

> Gary
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> "Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but
> it says 'Chicken by the Sea'." Jessica Simpson, on MTV _Newlyweds_

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