Hello every one, I joined up recently and I thought I would come say hello.



Also giving some king of an up to this topic that seems to be falling down in the depths of the forum

So I'm a long-time UFie, and participated in some distributed-computing projects a long time ago. But this one has gotten me to install on four of my machines. (A Pentium 4 3.8 GHz will get it as soon as I fix Windows on that machine.)

Just introducing myself. (And it looks like I'll end up in the top 10 on my first day! Yay!)

Aloha Didactylos and Team UserFriendly.Org!

Alright, just thought I'd start something by listing the machines I have this running on. For the record, these are all in my house.

2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 with 2 GB RAM (MacBook Pro, main computer)
2.26 GHz Intel Pentium M 780 with 1 GB RAM (Compaq V2000, work laptop)
3.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 670 with 1 GB RAM (Family room computer, used for simple games like Frogger, and now for testing Vista.)
3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 520 with 512 MB RAM (Son's HP desktop.)
1.4 GHz Intel Celeron M 360J with 512 MB RAM (Compaq V2000, company spare laptop, not in use for anything productive.)
1.25 GHz Motorola PowerPC 7445 (a.k.a. G4,) 768 MB RAM (eMac, wife's desktop)
600 MHz IBM PowerPC 750CXe (a.k.a. G3,) 384 MB RAM (iMac, 'kitchen' computer)
500 MHz Motorola PowerPC 7400 (a.k.a. G4,) 448 MB RAM (upgraded Power Mac G3, 'family room' web browsing computer)
233 Mhz PowerPC 750 (a.k.a. G3,) 96 MB RAM (iMac, bedroom iTunes computer)

Total: 19,650 MHz, 7,072 MB of RAM. (Counting Core Duo as 2x2.0 GHz, but Hyperthreading as only one processor.)

I had to rig up internet access for four of the computers that didn't already have it... But, managed to get them all on the network without buying any new hardware. I also have a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 570J that I don't have any equipment to put it in. (Curse HP for not correctly supporting it, even though their website says it should work! I got both 3.8 GHz P4s specifically to upgrade my son's computer, but neither will work...) I tried to get 2 GB of RAM for the 3.8 GHz machine today, dirt cheap, $80 per 1 GB PC2-3200 stick! But it was registered memory, and the shop didn't realize it. So I had to return it. Anyone here need a 3.8 GHz, socket 775 Pentium 4?

And, if work goes well, I may soon be getting a Mac Pro!

Oh, and the 'caseless' PC? It's just a P4-compatible power supply I had sitting around, a 945G-chipset motherboard I got used for $25, the processor I had gotten for my son's PC plus half his PC's memory, and an ancient 4 GB hard drive. That's it. No optical drive, no case, nothing. It has integrated video, sound, and LAN. For setup, I temporarily 'stole' the game PC's optical drive. I suppose I really should put the P4 in the 'Game PC's case, and have the Game PC's guts become caseless.... But the Game PC needs cards for video, sound, and LAN, and I don't like the idea of a caseless PC with cards sticking out.

Update: Found 1 GB of RAM for the caseless PC, put the 256 back in my son's PC. Specs above show current setups.

Update 2: Got my company spare laptop back, so it's busy crunching now. It's a 1.4 GHz Celeron M, which means it's way better than a 'desktop' Celeron, because it has 1 MB L2 cache. (It's basically a Pentium M in slower speed, with power saving disabled.)

Update 3: Replaced the 2.8 GHz, 256 KB L2 cache Celeron with a 3.2 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading in my son's PC. Should help a noticeable amount. And it's a hot weekend around here, and all those GHz crunching makes a noticeable impact on the temperature in my house, so they're taking the weekend off. (I just hit the 250k mark, so it shouldn't be too big a deal.)

Update 4: The RAMBUS-based 2.4 GHz Celeron computer died, so I threw the 3.8 GHz Pentium 4's parts into the case.