Team Anadtech needs more crunchers for DPAD!

[petrusbroder]

Look here, please!

___ TA daily _____ Free-DC daily _______ TA production _______ Free-DC production
___ average _______ average __________ last 28 days __________ last 28 days____
_ 712 732 Mpts __ 2 055 282 Mpts ______ 18 654 954 Mpts ______ 58 454 668 Mpts

This is a race. Not offcially announced, but still, they race past us soon.
Unless we marshall some more crunching power and start producing much more.

So, all TA-crunchers, please join the effort. TAS has already voted DPAD as the project for March - we will add our output and top it as much as we can.

We have some great crunchers around ... could YOU join too?

Team Anandtech needs all crunchers in DPAD!

 

[Silverthorne]

Yes, we could use some help here, even adding one machine will help. I know there are a lot of members on this team but we really need some people to step up and put a computer on DPAD.

 

[Spacehead]

I just set up another comp. Is there a way to monitor progress over a network?

 

[Silverthorne]

Yes there is, try Moun Cockpit.

 

[caferace]

Please, oh please come give us a hand folks. If I can figure it out, surely you all can.

ANY questions on how to set up DPAD, feel free to ask here. It really is pretty easy.

cheers,

-jim

 

[Coquito]

I support TeAm Anandtech fully, but I won't help eliminate our existance.
I'm ignorant of all the facts, but the thought of creating black holes scares me. Yes, I know that science has already created one on a very small scale for a brief period of time, but the thought still scares me.

 

[caferace]

Originally posted by: Coquito
I support TeAm Anandtech fully, but I won't help eliminate our existance.
I'm ignorant of all the facts, but the thought of creating black holes scares me. Yes, I know that science has already created one on a very small scale for a brief period of time, but the thought still scares me.

Finding aliens might get us killed too.

-jim

 

[Spacehead]

I was going to run the benchmark on this 2nd comp. When i moved it over from my main comp, Avast alerted me, saying it contained a trojan (Win32:Qukart-Z) & i quarentined it.
I've run AV scans on both comps(AntiVir on my main one, Avast on the other) & Spybot on both so far.
I downloaded the benchmark directly from the DPAD site. I'm hoping it just a false positive. I know in the past Avast has given me a false positive with a F@H file.
Anyone recall any reports about it? I haven't had time to look on the DPAD forums yet.




I'll check out Muon Cockpit, thanks

 

[caferace]

Which benchmark proggie was it? I run AVG with current updates and didn't get any warnings.

Please check it again. Saying something DC-related contains a virus is a great way of getting people turned off of DC.

-jim

 

[Spacehead]

Muon1Bench - it's on the "Utilities" section of the front page here.

I'm not saying this is a trojan for sure, i'm just asking if anyone's heard of this before, as i haven't had the time to look thru the DPAD forums myself yet.
I know when Avast alerted me about a problem with F@H, it ended up there was info about the false poitive report on the F@H forum, so it ended up not being a problem at all, just a known issue.

 

[petrusbroder]

I have Avast on all my computers, and am (or have previously been) running DPAD on all of them.
I have not had any problems with any warning. Checked 3 of my systems now with Windows Defender, AdAware Pro, Spyware Search and Destroy and ZoneAlarm Pro (the one with the spyware detector) and have not had any positive sign ...

Should be a false sign, or something else ...

 

[irishScott]

nvm

Up and running on my Core Duo T2500 Lappy.

 

[caferace]

w00t! Welcome Scott!!

-jim

 

[petrusbroder]

Welcome, irish scott!

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
I have Avast on all my computers, and am (or have previously been) running DPAD on all of them.
I have not had any problems with any warning. Checked 3 of my systems now with Windows Defender, AdAware Pro, Spyware Search and Destroy and ZoneAlarm Pro (the one with the spyware detector) and have not had any positive sign ...

Should be a false sign, or something else ...

It's not a problem with the client itself, just the benchmark program. Have you run that on your computers?

 

[BlackMountainCow]

I also ran the benchy prog on my PC, and didn't get any alarm. I also think that a DC project sponsored by so many official institutions just can't allow itself to contain a virus/trojan.

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
I have Avast on all my computers, and am (or have previously been) running DPAD on all of them.
I have not had any problems with any warning. Checked 3 of my systems now with Windows Defender, AdAware Pro, Spyware Search and Destroy and ZoneAlarm Pro (the one with the spyware detector) and have not had any positive sign ...

Should be a false sign, or something else ...

It's not a problem with the client itself, just the benchmark program. Have you run that on your computers?

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes I have: no problems with Avast on 8 computers.

[OT: One comp shut down due to ... overheating: leaking capacitators, mobo has gone to mobo-heaven after more than 5 years of 24/7 service.). We crunchers really run out comps hard: maxumum load for more than 95% of the time, for more than 45 000 hours.]

 

[Silverthorne]

Originally posted by: irishScott
nvm

Up and running on my Core Duo T2500 Lappy.

Thanks for lending a computer to DPAD irishScott! :thumbsup:

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder

Originally posted by: Spacehead

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
I have Avast on all my computers, and am (or have previously been) running DPAD on all of them.
I have not had any problems with any warning. Checked 3 of my systems now with Windows Defender, AdAware Pro, Spyware Search and Destroy and ZoneAlarm Pro (the one with the spyware detector) and have not had any positive sign ...

Should be a false sign, or something else ...

It's not a problem with the client itself, just the benchmark program. Have you run that on your computers?

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes I have: no problems with Avast on 8 computers.

[OT: One comp shut down due to ... overheating: leaking capacitators, mobo has gone to mobo-heaven after more than 5 years of 24/7 service.). We crunchers really run out comps hard: maxumum load for more than 95% of the time, for more than 45 000 hours.]

I have - after communicating with Spacehead - retried to download the current version of the benchmarking program. It triggered the viruswarning from Avast AV-program (see posts above).

When looking in my directories I saw that the version I have run before has a slightly different file-size than the current version - it is 8 KBytes larger. If this is a version difference or an infection I do not know. I have not checked other virus scanneers.

Please forgive me the previous communication. I should have checked the current download - not the old one.

I'll look in the DPAD-forum if there is a mention about this, if not, I'll write a post ...

 

[Spacehead]

I've also rechecked with AntiVir this morning & updated Ad-Aware & ran a complete scan & found nothing. So AntiVir, Ad-Aware & Spybot all come up clean.
I'looked thru some of the thread topics on the DPAD forum but didn't notice anything about this.
I'm inclined to think Avast is reporting a fasle positive but i just wanted to be sure.

 

[petrusbroder]

I have posted here - let us see if we get more info!

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: Spacehead
I've also rechecked with AntiVir this morning & updated Ad-Aware & ran a complete scan & found nothing. So AntiVir, Ad-Aware & Spybot all come up clean.
I'looked thru some of the thread topics on the DPAD forum but didn't notice anything about this.
I'm inclined to think Avast is reporting a fasle positive but i just wanted to be sure.

I have checked (tried downloading the file) with Norton AV - on one of my kid's computers - it does not react at all.
Lets see what happens ...

 

[Starrider]

I tried it with trend micro...no problems. The avast anti-virus on my secondary machine claimed it found a trojan with the aforementioned file.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks Starrider - it looks lika a false positive ...

 

[Starrider]

Now, my only problem (insert captian kirk voice here) must...resist...urge...to throw a cruncher...at Dapd...for awhile