S@H - I'm losing my mini work fleet tommorow *sniff*

[Assimilator1]

Before anyone panicks we're only talking about 3 rigs here ,2 ancient,1 old

I'm losing my mini work fleet tomorrow ,policy changes mean I have to pull SETI ,& just typical it would be the same time their upgrading their ancient machines too! :roll:

It's only a small fleet ,2 PIII 800's & a P4 2.4GHz,they run nearly 24/7 though so over the past 2-3yrs they've added quite a few WUs to my account
[edit] Just checked my Main SETIQ & it records over 6000 WU's from my work rigs,wow! :Q
Their combined output is about 13WUs/day....... lol my main rig nearly matches that by itself!

RIP my work fleet:wine:

I guess that gives me another reason to want to leave this job

 

[Freewolf]

As one whould has been there I know how you feel.
IT SUCKS
:brokenheart:

 

[petrusbroder]

Yeah, you get to care for those old crunchers. They do not produce so much, but they still count a lot.
My sympathies, Mark. Let them RIP!

 

[TAandy]

Can you cry tears of vodka?
I've a few empty bottles if you can
Edit:
PS:
You have my deepest sympathy :beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Hmm....how about saline water?

cheers:beer:

 

[Spacehead]

Sorry to hear that Assim

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Hmm....how about saline water?

cheers:beer:

Cheers back, not quite what I meant :beer: :wine:
You know, something alcoholic
Prohibition ended a long time ago

 

[BofRA]

Sigh


The death of another work fleet due to "Policy Changes"

RIP

 

[mondobyte]

I too can feel your pain.

I had to give up a rather large number of computers about 8-9 months ago ... as I recall it was about 70-80 computers ... so I went out and recruited more ... I'm still not crunching at that level yet but I am working on it ...

You should do the same ...

Mondo

 

[Crazee]

Keeping a work fleet is hard but you'll assimilate some more somewhere. (Afterall isn't that what your nick is all about )

 

[Wolfsraider]

Ouch, I know that hurts. Its like going back to dial up from cable.

We build and assimilate and gain in the stats and then wham, we lose one or a hundred and we miss them days

If I can do anything let me know. I'll throw a machine or two your way if you want


Before you agree, we are talking about 2 ancient,1 very old machines.
I have 1 XP 1700+ a 1400+ and a 1200 I'll set up on your account if needed.

I still owe you a thank you for all your efforts my way

Mike

 

[amdxborg]

That's really bad news Assim1.. who knows maybe you loose 3 and gain 30 soon..

 

[OhioDude]

/me bows his head.

 

[zodder]

Sympathy, sympathy, sympathy. That's a bummer, Assimilator1

 

[Smoke]

Take the usual dosage of :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer: and call me in the morning.

 

[Wiz]

heh...

when interviewing for a new position how many of us ask (and how high on our priority list is the question):

Can I run distributed computing projects here?

How many of us make that a pre-requisite of accepting the position?

 

[Assimilator1]

Well theirs been a stay of execution ,it seems its taking the IT guys a lot longer to switch over to the new system & replace PCs ,so the fleet runs for one more day ,though I flushed the Q midday just in case they were early.
My boss tells me that the workshop will be last in line to be switched over ,so bearing in mind that there's only 2 IT guys & they've only done 2 PCs (out of several dozen or more) I think they may still be running Monday! (though the switch over is supposed to of been done by Monday morning! ,bet it isn't!)

Andy
We never had prohibition here

mondo
That's alotta PCs to lose!:Q
I've already long since recruited just about everyone I can ,though their maybe a new recruit coming ,I'm building a PC for a friend of mine & its going to have an Opteron 146 (2GHz) ,hopefully it'll over clock to around 2.5-2.8GHz area ,that would bang out WUs! ....if he's up for it.

Crazee
Yep ,that & the borg

Wolfsraider
Thanks ,that's very kind of you ,but don't worry about my account I've hit all the MMs that I can realistically expect.You've yet to hit 10k on yours ,& I might yet switch my rigs to your account on that front ,lol (via TaBoo,if needs be)
Its more disappointing in terms of output to the MTR ,which I know your already doing a large wedge for

Smoke
lol ,with that amount I'd end up in hospital!

Wiz
I'd be surprised if anyone did

 

[Wolfsraider]

the offer stands if needed

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks

I spoke to one of the IT guys (who incidentally did SETI himself once) ,he said they'll definitely be gone Monday.
Atm their still running (unless the IT guys are working today?) so if I'm lucky I'll be able to grab a handful of results Monday morning ,& then that's definitely the end

So my last real flush was yesterday ,& that was low because the P4 screwed up & for some odd reason was taking nearly 2 days to do some WUs! ,bloomin typical it'd be on the last week!:roll:

Btw I would of lost this fleet once S@H classic is killed off anyway because I couldn't use the net connection ,but it would of been nice to have them to the end though.

 

[BadThad]

Sad, but happy....you did get 6k wu's out of 'em!

 

[Assimilator1]

True

Btw I went into work today to look at a car & noticed that 2 of the rigs are still crunching
Hopefully I can pull the results from the Q rig before it goes.

 

[ICXRa]

Darkone wins!!!

Sorry couldn't resist!

Sucks dude but since your not going to need all of those beers Smoke sent you I'm here to help!

hehe

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: BofBnT
Sigh

The death of another work fleet due to "Policy Changes"

RIP

Looks like we as a collective Society continue to backslide

 

[aberant]

Poor assim ! Nevermind matey, get youself up here (newcastle) for a weekend and we'll drown your sorrows

P.s. You thinkt that's old/ancient ? In this house there is currently an Athlon 1600, an AMD K6-2+ 500 and a PII 233 ! If it does 32bit, it aint ancient ! Ahh my old 286, those were the days...................

 

[CheesePoofs]

That sucks But, still, 6k WUs isn't really bad

Out of curiosity, did they give any rational for the policy change?