east or west of the international date line?

Hey Ya twilyth, courine, Ker et al...
I do live near Vallejo, twylith!!!!!
Heh Heh Heh Okay, back on point for me!
Anyhow, what about those HCC work units.
!. They are reminiscent of the FAaH monster work units. My e-abacus average time to completion is 17hours for a full unit, and since it is on 24/7, now running at 80%, mine completes these as if it is just an extra piece of baggage on a treadmill. Yawn!
2. My system uses the older AMD single core Duron CPU.
3. My board is capable of handling an Athlon, no prob. It is now running PC 3200 DDR SDRAM at 512 MB.
4. BUT...
After all I have read, and heard, I am loathe to Dual core my system. Why?
Any software glitch in the projects our systems crunch is a problem. Like a lug nut loose in the car's hubcap, ya know! But on a dual core based system, any quark sized quirk will cause greater difficulty, and slowdown of systems. Why? The chips are elegant, and flawless. There can be no room for error, either in their construction or in their output. Because they handle so much more, well, call it throughput, than any predecessors, they have inherently less toleration for endless loops, or non-design symmetry flaws that find there way into code. If you put questionable fuel into a Boeing 777, and expect that the Rolls Royce turbofans with their Chip based engine control systems will not choke and cough when the fuel gets to minimums, ask some folks in London about that!!!
I like the analogy. See, alot of us have some very elegant, expensive machines ( not me! ). And have some very snobbish, downright puritanical ideas about their abilities ( include me! ). And we must question authority! Because we represent the very best of purposes, and we are the benchmarks which the software must match up to. Not the other way around. I don't think any of us would be trying to help the world in the way we do in this project if we were anything else.
Solutions?
1. Put HCC through a micoscope. Every line, every digit, every 0 and 1.
2. Encourage more study, and effort, into models for multi core processor applications. And perhaps a revamping of the holy grail, code.
And this is something everyone should be encouraged to get involved in, not just the hard working folks at WCG. they have enough on their plates

Hey!
So, that's a "real time" street sign. I'll turn 51 tomorrow, and man this world never ceases to surprise me!
Yeah, I like the ' pipeline descrip '. My intro into the basics of chips was when I worked for a local business coffee service. One of our clients was called Silicon Spice. It was in Santa Clara. When I walked in to service the account, I didn't find a spice and tobacco shop. I had walked smack into one of the most advanced think tanks for semiconductor research. Picked up little tidbits here and there, as long as I left extra French and Italian Roast Coffee beans! Sometimes the white boards weren't erased in the room where the coffee computer was. It was 1999-2000, and the duals were right up there, in red, black, green, blue and yellow marker designs! We never said a word, but we were all secret geeks in the coffee business!!! It took some of us just a couple of months to figure out. Of course, Xeons were already established, and the technology wasn't new. Just the size, and capabilities of these newer designs. It was astonishing!

Why is the claimed points such a big deal. From all the concerns, it seems like you're just chasing points/ranking and forgot about what this is all about and the good the results will do. Think about it.

This is not about points or ranking. A nice ploy, but its far from the truth. Let me ask this, "If you found out that, for example this project, was 20% inefficient, would you still crunch it?" You could say, "The work needs to get done!" The I say, "To have code that blocks so many high end machines from the fight. How can I be a problem saying there is one.?"

The fact that I have had to set a low end limit on this at all, screams a problem. The fact that I am watchdogging screams another. The problem I find worse is if I question this on any issue, I'm a problem. A perfect tactical maneuver to rid this place of tigers. Then use the sheep to clean up the mess, as that is all that is left. Which points to another problem. Not the sheep, but the mechanism.

What happens if you try to kill a tiger and are not completely successful? You send me another watchdog. Why do you have watchdogs? Because this place need not be a stain on it's own future.

Woof Woof.