Dimes Stats - 6.29.2005

[caferace]

Clinging onto a slim lead over the bastiches at Hard|OCP, we're doomed to fall out of the top 10 shortly. Such is life, in the small world of 'Net mapping. Yes, it's a mere pittance, and some people find Java annoying.

Get over it. Come help, and at least help us escape the clutches of the dirty OCP fiends and track the tiresome BOINC. The route you save, may be your own.

Top 3:

1) rabidjade
2) Woodie
3) caferace

Full Team Stats: http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=dimes&team=Anandtech

Download the client at: http://www.netdimes.org/download.html (Win32 only, feh)

-jim

 

[MDE]

If it's to hold off HardOCP, I'll jump back in. I'll install on my laptop and secondary system, then on my main desktop once my hard drive gets here.

 

[BofRA]

OK I will install on my home fleet tonight. I think I have 6 or 7 computers that I don't have this on yet

 

[Xemus]

Looks like it doesn't use 100% CPU, or have I set it up wrong?
I'll check the docs.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Xemus
Looks like it doesn't use 100% CPU, or have I set it up wrong?
I'll check the docs.

It doesn't use CPU, it uses network bandwidth.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: Xemus
Looks like it doesn't use 100% CPU, or have I set it up wrong?
I'll check the docs.

It doesn't use CPU, it uses network bandwidth.

Thats what makes it a great project, you can run it along with any other CPU-using project. (As long as you have Broadband)

 

[Xemus]

Awesome, thanks for clarifying.

 

[caferace]

It's pretty true. The DIMES project is quite unique in that it rewards connectivity and diverse ISP routing. For example, a smallish ISP that peers with 1 or maybe 2 providers can be tough. But if you have a work machine on a national ISP, even if it's a P-233 the results can be incredible.

Real world examples. From me.

Boxen (1): PIII-733MHz / 640MB RAM running XPh, peered with SBCGlobal in a 3-way leap from the local DSLAM. Also running FAD and a web server, as well as a "general purpose" box. Quite happy, and finds amazing routes, leading to high point scores. Average bandwidth usage a day is ~20Mb.

Boxen (2): PIV-2GHz / 512MB Ram, running W2K, running a very quiet internal server w/Apache, MySQL and various other bits. On a split Netgear 4 port hub with box three, but peered through (and next door to) a Earthlink hub with some 8 different DS3's poking out of it. Shares the same wimpy netgear 4-port and ~22MB of daily traffic with..:

Boxen (3): PII-400 / 256MB RAM headless Win98/NT box used for occasional testing needs. Slow yes, but reboots into '98 and happily negotiates the FW to spit out endless UDP and ICMP traceroutes. A nicely productive box, and quiet.

It ain't horsepower, it's connectivity. It isn't about bandwidth, but peering for the best results. I'm rapidly working my way up the ladder just with three crap boxes. Imagine what you can do with a few physically (network-wise) disparate ones.

-jim

P.S.. Those of you who said you would join and did, Thanks! The rest of you who haven't yet, we had a kick-ass day but the HARD|OCP punks did too. They're closer than ever. Join up. Quick!

 

[Xemus]

Ok, anyway to run this as a service then? If I can get it to run without having to logon, I can get it going on a lot more machines.

 

[amdxborg]

OK, so I've joined up. I'll keep it running till the people at work complains about the unnecessary bandwidth usage. How often are the stats sent to the server, or does it happen realtime and how often are the stats updated on the free-dc site?

 

[Xemus]

They're updated quite often at Free-DC (within an hour or so, from what I've seen).

Regarding bandwidth, Caferace said it takes ~20 MB per month (and since it's essentially just sending tracert requests, that completely believeable), so that shouldn't be too much of a concern. I'll be monitoring my traffic as well and let you know.

 

[amdxborg]

Thanx Xemus. From caferace's post it seems like he says 20mb a day.. But I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes.

 

[caferace]

20Mb a day is the high rate from the box that's doing the most work. To be more clear, it's averaging about 12Mb a day amongst all the boxes. And it's quite nicely spaced out. The "hit" you take is when a run is completed and the count is transfered to the server.

Yes, it would suck on 14.4 dial-up. My apologies.

Oh, and welcome to the new folks. The last three days have seen new records set for the Anandtech crew. Wake-up call, indeed.

-jim

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Bump....

This is a great project for everyone to get into.

 

[Freewolf]

I just installed on one machine. Will see how it work alone side Find A drug.

 

[Xemus]

Shouldn't have any issues. I've been running it alongside BOINC-seti on multiple machines, and it's going nicely.