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Can FAD be setup to use a proxy? And if not, is there any way to manually download the WUs?

Mark?

Biggles does the CPU rating have anything to do with the jobs. I'm still running Proteome and have been for quite awhile, most of the time nothing else is running on my main machine except FAD. Yet for some reason right now the two jobs are 98, 105. They were both at 96 (x2) since I mentioned before, as I said their max used to be for quite some time just around 87 (x2) nothing more. I find it odd that it's gone up by so much when nothing has changed at all. A CPU increase of almost 29 from what it use to be, 11 from previous increase. Total 203 with 2 jobs, 140 with 1 job, I suppose this means more Gflops for me, not complaining mind. When you have yours overclocking how much would that improve on your CPU rating?

Got my 2nd certificate, wont be long till I get my 3rd at this rate. Don't they do a million certificate for Gflops? Or is it for 100million? I guess my next lot will be 1 Year CPU time and 1 million Points (8million Gflops right?)

Gflops 6th
Jobs 4th (2nd tomorrow)
Hits 3rd
Molecules 4th (2nd tomorrow)
Days 6th

For jobs/Molecules we're in 56th that's kinda bad but atleast the guys ahead with Gflops are behind us. For hits we're doing a lot better in 45th position, I guess that's because of you and Aoe. 57th for Days, coming up to 4 years worth. Ah just had a stats update, 2 jobs done another 24,000Gflops for me. I think I've almost run all 4 computers for a week now. 510,000Gflops 71 jobs 31 days of CPU. I guess it would be a lot more if my brother left his new computer for 24/7 only getting about 3 days worth of CPU and doing the same amount of work as his old PC but for 7 days. Would be on 650,000Gflops then. Would rather have a million a week ;P

They don't do certificates for hits, because that is luck of the draw. So probably molecules then.

Oh one very last question, what will be my first certificate? 1,000,000 molecules? 10,000 hits?

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> EDIT - Nothing, all worked I see.

Ah excellent :) and I've gone up even more despite 3 big jobs about to finish in the next few hours. I was thinking of getting one of the old PCs to do Proteome, they don't seem to bad. Cheers for the advise (RE; CPUs,etc.) and letting me bug you about FAD with questions hopefully tomorrow we'll go back into 51st place.

EDIT - Nothing, all worked I see.

hey Biggles just to let you know I quitted the Special Reserve team, not sure if it'll leave my old account before I reinstalled it or will just take the whole lot. Thought I might give Team Phoenix a try. Good luck and keep crunching ^^

Cool we finally beat them, now lets get ahead of them, I must be unlucky most of the Proteome jobs haven't been 1 hour but as high as 24. 2 more finishing by 1800 hours.

That and we've lost two more members, 6/20

84,904 till #50 of course there are several larger groups behind us who are outproducing us by a vast amount so we'll probably end up 53 again.

Lot's of things require ever more computing power. Every new version of Windows needs more power, to run newer features. Media files are of ever better quality and so need more power to decode them and play them in real time. Some things haven't changed much, like word processing. But other things like databases have, they grew and needed more power. And of course there are computer games.

More power allows for more features, which require more power.

I'd be going AMD. The P4 is just an inefficient architecture, which is why an Athlon 64 at 2.4 GHz gets a rating of 3800. It's not to say they aren't powerful, they are, just they need to ramp up the clock speeds to make them powerful as opposed to having a good architecture to begin with. Besides, Intel just scrapped plans for the 4 GHz P4, so you'll either have to wait until next year for dual core, or a Pentium M based processor for the desktop, or go for dual Xeon's.

Or just get Athlon 64s. Or if you want really fancy, a dual Opteron.