Top 100 in Australia

Another milestone (of sorts!) for me, finally in the top 100 crunchers (combined projects) in Australia as of this morning. Actually in position #99!

1 Million in Milkyway

Ok, I know its not a huge milestone but I was impressed to see the 1,000,000 mark with Milkyway. This was achieved using the 32-bit optimized client of the old "zslip.com" website. It still still seems to be at least 30% quicker than the standard 64-bit Linux client.

5 Million!

Sunday afternoon and I see I have just passed the 5,000,000 mark! A couple of Fokker-Planck work-units from AQUA did speed things up as I was earning over 300 Cobblestones for around 50 minutes work on most my CPUs. These were "multi-thread" work units, meaning that they use all the available cores for just one work-unit ... still over 330 Cobblestones/hour was very generous for ageing X2 dual core AMDs. They have now released an updated application that delivers notably less credit.

The 9400GT does appear to have given up, the BIOS doesn't even recognise it as a device. As I was about to bin it (have no plan to argue about warranty after the 9800GT saga), it did occur to me that the motherboard's PCI-E slot may have died. At some stage I will try the card in a different machine.

Another GPU bites the dust!

There was a heat-pipe cooled Leadtek Nvidia 9400GT in my home computer, this machine is on about 5 hours per day mainly in the evenings. I started getting "[error] Missing a CUDA coprocessor" messages yesterday. It seems that the card has died. There goes my theory that a GPU that doesn't rely on a cooling fan will last longer...