Posts by Purple Rabbit

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Am I the only slow one? (Message 6869) Posted 11 Dec 2004 by Purple Rabbit Post: My sorry set of computers is finally reaching their first CPDN milestone. I am getting toward the end of my first WU on both of them. It's been 4 months. I'm getting excited and worried. The laptop overheats and crashes (sigh), but so far so good. I haven't lost very much. I back it up every so often. So far I haven't needed it. I'm hoping it will complete successfully. The laptop ought to finish on 17 Dec. The Celeron will finish after the first of the year. Both will be shutdown for Christmas. I'm going away. Both started the first of September. A question: Am I useful? Am I taking too long to return a result? I know the computation deadline is 1 year, but I wonder how soon the results are needed to meaningfully add to the scientific database (papers, raw data, whatever). I saw the notes on the THC calculations. They are still available (on classic), but no longer relevant. I'm I in the same boat?
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Am I the only slow one? (Message 4955) Posted 2 Oct 2004 by Purple Rabbit Post: I joined CP on Sept 1 and started my first run on my Windows XP 866MHz laptop. This worked well, so I started another run on my Windows XP 1300MHz Celeron on Sept 2 (computes a bit slower than the laptop). Everything is running great, but I\'ll be done sometime around Thanksgiving (USA Holiday, 25 Nov) and maybe not until Christmas (sigh). I trickle every other day or so. It\'s clear to me that I am computationally challenged compared to the other participants. I also run SETI (since 1999) and Predictor so nothing completes as quickly as a lot of the crunchers. I\'ll keep at it, but do I have company in the dregs-of-computing-basement? Purple Rabbit PS: I was really \"insulted\" when I found I couldn\'t run CP on my 486 :-) It did a BOINC SETI WU in 12 days, so I figure 5 years wouldn\'t be tooooo bad for CP.
23) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Avatar test thread. (Message 4332) Posted 18 Sep 2004 by Purple Rabbit Post: test

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