OK, I\'m in business.
I got me a name.
I got me a team.

I\'m one crunching dude. Thankx everyone!

Hurray, just got my first four models completed.

I tried back in 2004 to do some crunching, but had insufficient RAM to not impact on my work. I re-visited the project in January due to the BBC exposure, and have been crunching 24/7 since. I did weekly backups, but was lucky and never needed to restore them.

Alas I part ways with the dual Xeon box next month, just enough time to get four season attribution models done. I\'ll continue crunching the main project on my iMac at home.

Keep up the good work everyone.

Well done, Edward Wright! We already congratulated you on the first two in the team Scotland thread in the Oxford boards and in the Scottish forum, so now I can go and add two more - good luck with the next models. ;-)

Regards, MM @ the Pavilion
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That\'s a big contribution to the research data, Edward.

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I just passed 100K here. Yes, I know my RAC is zero. I had been doing beta after my two finished models here.

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Well done, Kathryn!

Just thought I\'d report another milestone for team Scotland - we\'re still struggling to reach 100 complete models in BBC but meantime have already reached the half-century of completed models in CPDN!

The list of team Scotland models (full-length models only) is now:

8 dtkirk/labrat (+ 9 BBC models)
5 crcam/Alistair
5 RRodway (still crunching in BBC too)
5 scottishwebcamslive.com/IanBoyle (+ 5 in BBC)
5 Iain Inglis (still crunching in BBC too)
5 talister (+ 10 in BBC)
4 Edward Wright
4 adempster
2 Lockleys (+ 2 in BBC)
2 Gregor
1 Jam Dave
1 Gregorach
1 Egon
1 Rory (+ 3 in BBC)
1 Graham (+ 4 in BBC)

50 Scotland team total

Well done, all!
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Strathpeffer wrote:

Well done, Kathryn!

Just thought I\'d report another milestone for team Scotland - we\'re still struggling to reach 100 complete models in BBC but meantime have already reached the half-century of completed models in CPDN!

Ooops, it seems I counted one model twice - thanks to IanM for pointing out that talister has completed 4 models, not 5. Sorry about that, but my own model has now completed - see here - so team Scotland has indeed reached the half-century ;-)

The list of team Scotland models (full-length models only) is now:

8 dtkirk/labrat (+ 9 BBC models)
5 crcam/Alistair
5 RRodway (still crunching in BBC too)
5 scottishwebcamslive.com/IanBoyle (+ 5 in BBC)
5 Iain Inglis (still crunching in BBC too)
4 talister (+ 10 in BBC)
4 Edward Wright
4 adempster
2 Lockleys (+ 2 in BBC)
2 Gregor
1 Jam Dave
1 Gregorach
1 Egon
1 Rory (+ 3 in BBC)
1 Graham (+ 4 in BBC)
1 Strathpeffer (+ 4 in BBC)

50 Scotland team total

Well done, all!
Anyone reading this is more than welcome to
park his/her BBC credits with team Scotland
and/or join team Scotland in CPDN!

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600K CPDN today.
600K SETI a couple days ago.
My first 1M project will be Einstein in a few weeks.

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I see you are #1158 in the boinc world league and nearly half the people above you are from the USA.

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Milestones are like buses, you don\'t get any for ages then four come along at once.

This week:

* Completed my 100th successful SAP model
* Reached my goal of completing at least 1% of all completed SAP models (estimated at 9,500 at the moment).
* Regained a top-ten position at SAP
* Reached a million overall

The 1% of completed models target is the big one for me - I\'ve been working towards it for well over a year.

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Wow, very impressive Mike! Well done.

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That\'s pretty good, Mike! How long until you complete that last BBC model?

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I calculate it should finish two days before the deadline on the model, so the 22nd November. Might be out by a day either way.

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Like last winter I am now using my computer in the dual role of crunching two models and as an office heater. My RAC has again climbed above 500. :D

Last winter I only needed extra heating for one day. This winter, thanks to the present cold snap I have already had to switch on extra heating for two days. This could be because I am using SATA drives rather the PATA drives I had last winter?

Hi, John,

Is there a mechanical difference between the two types drives? I didn\'t think so, just the electrical and data paths. Is it the same size drive?

If you have the record, how do the outdoor temperatures compare for the three added-heat days?

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Hi, John,

Is there a mechanical difference between the two types drives? I didn\'t think so, just the electrical and data paths. Is it the same size drive?

If you have the record, how do the outdoor temperatures compare for the three added-heat days?

Interesting question. I have the figures for the total load on the computer then and now

Last Winter with 200gB and 120gB PATA drives
Idling : 160w Boinc only : 163w
One model : 209w Two models : 220w

This Winter with 2 250gb SATA drives
Idling : 155w Boinc only : 157w
One model : 203w Two models : 213w

Unplugging the LCD reduces the load to 183w
Switching off the LCD, with the 12V adapter still attached to the mains, reduces the load to 188w.

Now the interesting one. The second drive is used mainly for backups of my software so I have it set to power down when not in use. BOINC runs in the 5th partition on the first drive and I back it up daily to the second drive.
Backing up last winter (not BOINC - this was still running) the load increased to 232w. Backihg up this winter the load increased to 217w

Everything else is exactly the same. The motherboard can support both PATA and SATA drives.
So overall the load is 5-7w less with the new setup running the models on the SATA which it 25% bigger and 15w less when running the second drive which is 100% bigger. That second drive was about 5 years old.

I am being more diligent remembering to unplug rather than just switch off the LCD monitor so overall I could be saving around 5-10watts. Not really enough to explain the heat difference. I can only conclude that this winter is already turning out to be colder than last. The last few days have been around 6°C during the day and -2°C at night.

The office is very small, about 4 feet by 5 and in a converted cloakroom near to an outside door which is not very draught proof. We are having a better door fitted early next year. I will see what difference that makes.

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Impressive detail. Shows my prejudice about mechanics was wrong.

Hope the new door helps; best of luck with it.

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I calculate it should finish two days before the deadline on the model, so the 22nd November. Might be out by a day either way.

\'Tis now done

http://bbc.cpdn.org/result.php?resultid=1401989

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Well done Mike!

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And a pretty hot model it was too:

http://bbc.cpdn.org/graph.php?resultid=1401989

The temperature scale for these BBC models has, I think, had missing figures on the vertical axis before. 19º is missing, so I\'m not sure whether your predicted temp rise is 6 or 7º.

This CPDN model of Mike\'s has 13º missing:

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=5100719

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