Bob seeks cure for Overclocker's Disorder

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My PC, an ancient piece-o-crap HP that runs (?) WindowsME, is moments away from sudden irretrievable death, and the keyboard stencils are so worn I can barely read the letters and numbers to type accurately anymore.

So I'm about to make up a completely fantastic, ridiculous pack of lies and teknogibberish and convince the Comptroller of Domestic Disbursements that I need a new box in the range of U$2k .

Distilling all the various rumors and pieces of advice and warnings and web buzz, I think I'm about to leap on this P.T. Barnum Sucker Machine:

Dell XPS 720 Extreme Gamer

details:
www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsdt_720?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

Windows XP
Intel Core 2 Duo

I don't game much, but with this monster, I'd be tempted to try to write some games of my own. Besides the boring stuff I do professionally, my obsessions are brute-force math programming, and, as I have oft sung about, Distributed Computing / Cooperative Computing.

I want to join a team, apparently the most powerful, accomplished DP team on Earth, called The Dutch Power Cows. And I want STATS! STATS! and Props! I want to be an OVERCLOCKER! I want to fold proteins and crack cryptography challenges! I want to decode the first intelligent radio message from Outer Space!

SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY

Please feel free to Leave A Comment and add your advice about what new machine/system I should burn a pile of money on. What can't I live without? What MUST my new machine have? What should I avoid at all costs? Are there any new hardware gizzies every 12-year-old boy or deranged geezer MUST have for Christmas?

I'll probably Commit to this hare-brained purchase in about a week.

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Meanwhile, here are some News tidbits from & about the Dutch Power Cows

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Toekomst server
Gepost door Grandmasg - 09-09-2007 19:45

Het is alweer een tijdje geleden dat de server Audhumla is aangeschaft en aan het werk is gezet.
Dit was in januari 2004 (ongeveer 3,5 jaar geleden). Opzich is Audhumla nog niet aan vervanging toe. Maar om nou te wachten tot het dan eindelijks te laat is, is ook weer niet de bedoeling.

Wat gaan we er aan doen, lees het hier!

It is again a time ago that the serve Audhumla has been bought and at the work is gezet. This was in January 2004 (approximately 3.5 year ago). Opzich is Audhumla not yet at replacement to. Only now to wait till it then finally too late is, is also again not the intention.

What we will do to it, read it here!

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Donatie Sophia groot succes
Sophia donation a big success
Gepost door NightBird - 18-08-2007 23:18

Afgelopen maandag hebben Megaflix en Bio1ogics namens DPC een enorme lading koeien overhandigd aan de stichting 'Vrienden van het Sophia.'

Past Monday Megaflix and Bio1ogics handed over on behalf of DPC an enormous cargo koeien at the foundation Friends of the Sophia.

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Shop en Wiki nu ook in header
Gepost door NightBird - 20-06-2007 12:56

Vanaf vanmorgen heeft de WDO-header (zie hierboven) een updateje gekregen. We hebben een tabje aangemaakt voor de wiki en de shop, zodat die direct aanklikbaar zijn en daardoor beter vindbaar voor bezoekers. Ook hopen we dat er (nog) meer gebruik van gemaakt gaat worden.

From this morning has the WDO-header (see up here) an updateje gotten. We made a tabje for the wiki and the shop, so that that direct aanklikbaar its and therefore better vindbaar for visitors. Also hope we that it (yet) more use of made will become.

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DPC Wiki online
Gepost door iisschots - 16-12-2006 00:40

Sinds begin deze week is de DPC wiki online. Hier komen alle FAQ's, informatie over DPC en andere leuke zaken.

De wiki is te vinden op wiki.dutchpowercows.org

Since this week begin is the DPC wiki online. Here all FAQ, information over DPC and other amusing affairs come.

The wiki is to be found on wiki. dutchpowercows. org

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Assorted old news and gossip from the Ars Technica distributed computing community. I filched this stuff because they talk about the Dutch Power Cows, and projects on which they're competing against the DPC, but they chatter in English/Engels.

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Yet Another Distributed Computing project?

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Posted September 05, 2001 17:55
Anyone heard much about this ECCp-109 project? The webpage is at http://www.nd.edu/~cmonico/eccp109/

Appears to be some sort of mathmatical challenge to find logarithms for cryptography purposes. $1000 prize to be awarded. Any math majors want to try to explain in layman terms what this is about since I got lost partway through explanation smile
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Posted September 05, 2001 18:05
Hmmm...interesting. The scale of the project looks rather small, as there are ~1000 compared to the ~11 000 in g@h. If Ars contributed to that, half the people in the project could be from the Ars team!

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Posted September 05, 2001 18:07

An Ars team might be viable...it could be small an still reach first, considering the first place team is called "Dutch Power Cows" which doesn't inspire too much fear in my heart.
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Posted September 05, 2001 18:11
If we get an Ars team, count me in it as soon as TPS is safe. I'm intrigued by this one. Sounds like a nice idea.

H@
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Posted September 05, 2001 18:16

sounds to me like you guys are spread pretty thin as is...

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Posted September 05, 2001 18:17

Like Hat Monster, my interest is growing. I went in 5 minutes from skeptical to intrigued and now to enthusiastic. I don't know anything about setting up an Ars team, but I would be willing to add new machines to this. If you are interested, post up!

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Posted September 05, 2001 18:18

Not thin, just lacking enough people with insane DC farms. wink

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Posted September 05, 2001 19:00

quote:Originally posted by j911:
An Ars team might be viable...it could be small an still reach first, considering the first place team is called "Dutch Power Cows" which doesn't inspire too much fear in my heart.

Heh, if DPC doesn't strike any fear into your heart wander on over to the RC5 stats and look at the #1 team in the world with an ever growing lead over the rest of the field. wink Dem cows ain't docile smile They represent www.tweakers.net if memory serves.

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Posted September 05, 2001 19:12

Guys, we have our power spread around too much already. If we start another team, we'd just be taking ghz away from the current teams (which need all they can get).

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Posted September 05, 2001 19:17

I know it would be taking away GHZ, but we could wait until the TPS shtuff settles down. I know many people who are not interested in g@h or f@h, and that would be interested in this. It's ultimatly the average Ars member's decision. Whatever.

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Posted September 05, 2001 20:01

I think this is the project that DPC and Anandtech's big guns are moving to. Nobody will be able to walk in and take over.

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Posted September 05, 2001 20:06

I don't understand why they don't go for one of the larger ones right from the start... I realize that the next step is over 250 times longer, but with enough users that shouldn't take too long.
Aaron

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Posted September 06, 2001 14:27

My biggest question is: Who are these guys?

At some point, wouldn't we be better served checking these guys out? They don't seem attached to a major university or anything else.

It's probably just some guys wanting to grab a little glory (and get back maybe 10 cents on the dollar in their expenses), but it could be darn near anything else. I mean, what do we know about the innards of these clients and what they do?

I recall we were initially wary of the UCC thing and that had major corps around it.

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Posted September 06, 2001 17:21
Larry: Haven't you heard ? At the 11th second of the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th century since Satan's most recent exile to the pit (11:11:11 pm on 11-Nov-2001), all the distributed clients throughout the web will simultaneously take over the world and mastermind the extermination all carbon-based life.

(Brad holds aloft a sign reading "We're Doomed !!") wink

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Posted September 06, 2001 17:36
And of course there is no Mac version:(
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Posted September 06, 2001 18:53

Yeah, well, before I die, I want to know if these guys are part of the conspiracy. . .

. . .and I mean that seriously as well as whimsically. . .

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Posted September 06, 2001 19:12
Well the website's with the University of Notre Dame.

Remember that D.Net and UD aren't educational establishments either.

H@
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Posted September 06, 2001 21:10

quote:(11:11:11 pm on 11-Nov-2001)

Holy crap! Not on my birthday of all days! eek eek eek

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Posted September 06, 2001 21:41

you all should quit seti and go all out on RC5 and genome... seti is all over

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Posted September 06, 2001 21:50

quote:Originally posted by azn-1337:
you all should quit seti and go all out on RC5 and genome... seti is all over

Really? Cool!!! I've noticed more wierd looking people around here lately.. That explains it all. wink

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Posted September 06, 2001 23:19

quote:
Remember that D.Net and UD aren't educational establishments either.

Right-o. And, that's a problem for some folk.

The fact that it is on ND's web site is helpful, but not necessarily dispositive.

Universities in the US (public and private) sometimes have an entrepreneurial streak, especially about their I/S services. It may mean affilliation with ND. It may only mean the live in Indiana or found out how to rent space cheap. Or, that one of them is a part time student. . .

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Posted September 08, 2001 10:21

quote:Originally posted by Larry Loen:
.... I mean, what do we know about the innards of these clients and what they do?

Hi Larry,

if you are concerned or curious about the innards od DC clients, then ECCp would be your thing as it is afaik the only Open Source DC client. You can look at the sources, compile it, and people are encouraged to port and optimize it, some already did. Perhaps you want to make a version for AIX on OS/400s wink The critical parts are assembler, though.
But as much as I like this concept, I'll stick with Folding for now because I profer its goals.

Bye, huraxprax

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Posted September 08, 2001 10:29

quote:I think this is the project that DPC and Anandtech's big guns are moving to. Nobody will be able to walk in and take over.

When the top movers at TA left Dnet in protest of the David Mcgowen thing, many joined ECCp and others moved to SETI. Right now, TA is taking on the continual nemesis DPCs (they are every friggin' where... eek ) in ECCp and are in a race against DSLR to see who can crunch 100,000 SETI WUs first. cool

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Posted September 08, 2001 10:40

Myself and two of my friends formed a team on the last ECC project and did pretty well. But, at the time, what we didn't know was what we were working on was a crack to an encryption code for a commercial product. They didn't tell anyone until it was over. All three of us thought we should have been told exactly what we were working on from the start. We were under the impression that it was 'pure science' not just trying to break a code for some commercial venture. So, I for one will not participate in any current or future ECC project because whatever they say in public about it, may not be what it is about. Both my friends feel the same way. Just thought I'd let you all know.

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Posted September 09, 2001 21:17

makes perfect sense to me... all these wanker web sites (anand, [H], etc) want to be #1 in something, so they all hop on the bandwagon of the next new DC project in hopes of dominating it. Not because they care about it, but for the positive PR that comes with it... they realize that the decent DC projects (RC5, Seti, Genome) are already more or less out of their reach, so they go with the lame ones. I think its cheap personally, but it fits the mindset of how these goon webmasters work

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Posted September 09, 2001 21:35

Ummm... our esteemed competition at [H] own Folding and are kicking butt and taking names at Genome. I wouldn't lump them in with the "wanker web sites". Whether the frogmstr is a goon or not is debatable I guess. wink

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