Wow! That is awesome! Congratulations!

Minnesota Crunchers finished in the top ten in the Asteroids@home - Just for fun challenge! Hopefully, that is some nice visibility for the team.
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/challenge/team/chat/373
Congratulations to all participants!

I had been watching a large hawk-like bird for a couple of days and finally discovered it was nesting in the cell phone tower just to the south of my place. I thought maybe it was a peregrine falcon nest, but the birds (I eventually saw the second one) were too big. They had a whitish underside and a very long wingspan, but the wings were narrower than an eagle's wing. Finally, today, I saw one of them land on top of a telephone pole and start eating something. When I got close enough I looked through binoculars and saw it was eating what appeared to be a goldfish about 7-8 inches(16.5-18cm) long. I thought maybe it had grabbed a koi from somebody's pond. This time I really got a good look at the bird. Turns out it is a nesting pair of ospreys. Black on the top and white on the bottom. Probably at least a 5 foot 1(1.5 meter) wingspan. It should be interesting seeing them and their brood. Eventually I hope to get a good picture of them.
Cheers

The ability to offer gpu processing is dependent on a number of factors such as programming expertise, availability of programmers, and structure of the project i.e. is the project highly parallel. Let's hope they build on the success of HCC and promote the power of gpu.
I just converted on of my server boxes(2X Xeon 5320) from 32 bit linux to 64 bit linux. I tried for three days to do this over a wireless connection and will never try that again. I finally broke down and brought that machine into the house and used an ethernet connection. Then it only took an hour and a half to do the OS install and and all the updates and install BOINC. With the wireless it would constantly time out on the downloads and I would have to start all over. Once the machine is fully updated the wireless seems to work much more consistently. It would be nice if it had worked out of the box so to speak, but I learned the hard way.
With HCC ending I will set this one to doing the vina projects. (It looks like HFCC is not going to be ready for a while.) The 64 bit version seems about 50% to 75% faster than the 32 bit version. It had been running about 18-19 points per hour per core and with the 64 bit version it should run 30+ points per hour per core. That will be a significant increase in throughput. I should know in a couple of days. This is where Piroque's program WCGDAWS comes in very handy.
Cheers

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Just a suggestion Sgt. Joe, you might try downloading a copy of the 64 bit Linux distro you are using and burning it to DVD after doing a md5 check. Or you could buy a copy from On-Disk in Michigan. I did that with the Linux 14 Mint Cinnamon version and its been a breeze to set up. I don't think it took me even 45 minutes to install on my HP workstation and put BOINC and WCG on.

I have seen about a 1-1.5 hour decrease in the time it took Linux 64 bit machine to process the GFAM, SNS, and DFSL WU's. CEP I see about an hour decrease too.