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Forum: Nutritious Rice for the World
Thread: Badges... Who's got badges |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
whaaahhhh! I want my rice badge! ...but at the rate my craptop crunches, I'm still only about 45% there! (its taking an average of 12-14 wall-clock hours to crunch each "8 hour" job)  There's always the possibility to set the profile to crunch at 100% instead of the default 60%. Rice is perfect for machines with little ram and CPU horsepower, plus the slower the machine the smaller the result file (less seeds completed in 8 hours).
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ultimaThule
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 825 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Jojjoo.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I got my badge sometime in the last three days. Wahoo! I didn't have my profile set to exclusively handle NRW jobs, but apparently that is all I've received in the past few weeks.
I just hope the rice seed they are looking to make is perennial seed (if possible) so it is a plant that keeps on giving. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I've got too.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
whaaahhhh! I want my rice badge! ...but at the rate my craptop crunches, I'm still only about 45% there! (its taking an average of 12-14 wall-clock hours to crunch each "8 hour" job) There's always the possibility to set the profile to crunch at 100% instead of the default 60%. Rice is perfect for machines with little ram and CPU horsepower, plus the slower the machine the smaller the result file (less seeds completed in 8 hours). Unfortunately, I already discovered that setting it to 100% causes my system (its an old Thinkpad laptop) to run the fan constantly, which led to the premature demise of said fan.... guys three cubicles away from me at the office could hear it crying out in pain (oops!) Our PC Services department will only buy the "Gee, I have no idea how this happened!  " story so many times before they start getting suspicious! hee heeSo sadly, I am pretty much doomed to just cry over not having my badge yet while running it at the 60% defaults... but thanks Sekerob for pointing out that possibility (maybe someone else reading this can learn and gain from my childish whining  ) |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
whaaahhhh! I want my rice badge! ...but at the rate my craptop crunches, I'm still only about 45% there! (its taking an average of 12-14 wall-clock hours to crunch each "8 hour" job) There's always the possibility to set the profile to crunch at 100% instead of the default 60%. Rice is perfect for machines with little ram and CPU horsepower, plus the slower the machine the smaller the result file (less seeds completed in 8 hours). Unfortunately, I already discovered that setting it to 100% causes my system (its an old Thinkpad laptop) to run the fan constantly, which led to the premature demise of said fan.... guys three cubicles away from me at the office could hear it crying out in pain (oops!) Our PC Services department will only buy the "Gee, I have no idea how this happened! " story so many times before they start getting suspicious! hee heeSo sadly, I am pretty much doomed to just cry over not having my badge yet while running it at the 60% defaults... but thanks Sekerob for pointing out that possibility (maybe someone else reading this can learn and gain from my childish whining )Dont know what you use your laptop for in day to day work, but if mainly word processing other low demand work, set BOINC to 100% and use intel Speedstep or whatever the IBM T41 has to control CPU speed and lower it. This way you get your 8 hours in 8 hours and a bit, get the job done and keep it cool. And when you have a heavier chore flip the switch temporarily. And now the  part, start asking for a faster computer because it is so slow doing powerpoint. 
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darth_vader
Veteran Cruncher A galaxy far, far away... Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Post Count: 514 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It it too late to join the "I've got my rice badge party"?
Comment about thinkpads ... most my WUs over the last couple of years have been crunched on a T42 (2 GHz). No problems with it overheating when set at 100%, but the fan does run continuously at a fairly low level and I don't crunch when running on battery power. It's important to make sure there is sufficient air space around the fan intake / exhaust. Also, make sure that you are not getting any dust accumulation - I vacuum the thinkpad every couple of months - as a 100% busy thinkpad will gather more dust than an idle one. I've had more problems with power supplies, aka transformer bricks, going out due to overheating. Keeping the transformer on a surface that conducts heat well, such as a metal window sill, helps a lot. -D |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
If u join wcg with a mobile cpu like me, u can use rightmark cpu clock utulity (RM Clock). With this utility u can undervolt your cpu. Thus, your cpu generates less heat. For example, my cpu is T7300 and it's standart voltage is 1,25V but i discovered this voltage too high for working at default speed (2 GHz) and undervolt its maximum voltage slowly and then it could working at 1V maximum and 0.85V minimum with Speed-Step technology. While my cpu working in wcg core tempratures is about 70-75 degree centigrade but when i closed the RM Clock cpu temperature rise to 85-90 degree centigrade and fan starting to whistle disturbingly.
With this way Your total system power consumption decreases too. U can try RM Clock: http://cpu.rightmark.org/download/rmclock_235_bin.rar |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
today!!!!!
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Markus123
Cruncher Joined: Dec 23, 2006 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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got mine today.
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