SEV Betatest...

ZeroAdunn · #1 March 17th, 2005, 08:30 AM

I applied. Don't think I'll get in, but I applied. I have minimal programing experience (does basic count?) and no beta testing experience. But, I figure, its always worth a shot.

Makinus · #2 March 17th, 2005, 09:08 AM

just sent my aplication.... i�m pretty sure i will not be selected since i live in Brasil, but it does not cost anything to apply....

I�m a lawyer but i have a very good programming background, as i was a database systems programmer before i become a lawyer and still tinker a little with programing...

Other good point i have is the number of machines ( and system configurations) i have... i have 6 computers with various configurations and systems, being 5 desktops and 1 notebook, with processors rangind from 550Mhz up to 2.4Ghz, from 4mb sis video cards up to geforce 64mb video cards (and an old Voodoo 3 16mb video card)... in Operating systems i have from Win98 up to WinXP some in single and others in dual-boot, and even a linux machine...

I send all my machines specs and my experinece in program debbuging but i�m pretty sure i will not be selected because i live in Brasil...

Thermodyne · #3 March 17th, 2005, 04:02 PM

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Makinus said:
just sent my aplication.... i�m pretty sure i will not be selected since i live in Brasil, but it does not cost anything to apply....

I�m a lawyer but i have a very good programming background, as i was a database systems programmer before i become a lawyer and still tinker a little with programing...

Other good point i have is the number of machines ( and system configurations) i have... i have 6 computers with various configurations and systems, being 5 desktops and 1 notebook, with processors rangind from 550Mhz up to 2.4Ghz, from 4mb sis video cards up to geforce 64mb video cards (and an old Voodoo 3 16mb video card)... in Operating systems i have from Win98 up to WinXP some in single and others in dual-boot, and even a linux machine...

I send all my machines specs and my experinece in program debbuging but i�m pretty sure i will not be selected because i live in Brasil...

Well if hardware gets you in. this baby should be a lock for a slot.
Stack

tesco samoa · #4 March 17th, 2005, 04:13 PM

tesco looks under the forums for canadians... Damn they are there as well...

NullAshton · #5 March 17th, 2005, 04:16 PM

Peanut cheese?

Instar · #6 March 17th, 2005, 07:37 PM

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Thermodyne said:

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Makinus said:
just sent my aplication.... i�m pretty sure i will not be selected since i live in Brasil, but it does not cost anything to apply....

I�m a lawyer but i have a very good programming background, as i was a database systems programmer before i become a lawyer and still tinker a little with programing...

Other good point i have is the number of machines ( and system configurations) i have... i have 6 computers with various configurations and systems, being 5 desktops and 1 notebook, with processors rangind from 550Mhz up to 2.4Ghz, from 4mb sis video cards up to geforce 64mb video cards (and an old Voodoo 3 16mb video card)... in Operating systems i have from Win98 up to WinXP some in single and others in dual-boot, and even a linux machine...

I send all my machines specs and my experinece in program debbuging but i�m pretty sure i will not be selected because i live in Brasil...

Well if hardware gets you in. this baby should be a lock for a slot.
Stack

OMG! Very nice... but you need to build an enclosure for it... if only to shield the EM radiation from it

Thermodyne · #7 March 17th, 2005, 09:21 PM

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Instar said:

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Thermodyne said:

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Makinus said:
just sent my aplication.... i�m pretty sure i will not be selected since i live in Brasil, but it does not cost anything to apply....

I�m a lawyer but i have a very good programming background, as i was a database systems programmer before i become a lawyer and still tinker a little with programing...

Other good point i have is the number of machines ( and system configurations) i have... i have 6 computers with various configurations and systems, being 5 desktops and 1 notebook, with processors rangind from 550Mhz up to 2.4Ghz, from 4mb sis video cards up to geforce 64mb video cards (and an old Voodoo 3 16mb video card)... in Operating systems i have from Win98 up to WinXP some in single and others in dual-boot, and even a linux machine...

I send all my machines specs and my experinece in program debbuging but i�m pretty sure i will not be selected because i live in Brasil...

Well if hardware gets you in. this baby should be a lock for a slot.
Stack

OMG! Very nice... but you need to build an enclosure for it... if only to shield the EM radiation from it

And full speed of 13Ghz, it put out as much heat as a blow torch, could hardly keep it cool sitting in the open. In the old alfa case I was using, CPU temps would hit throttle stops in less than an hour at full load.

Instar · #8 March 17th, 2005, 11:23 PM

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That's astounding Thermodyne... how did you build it and how much does it cost? I want one...
How is it set up, is it a Beowolf cluster or something? It looks like some kind of supercomputer array.

Thermodyne · #9 March 17th, 2005, 11:49 PM

It's a....well a it's.....a...Damn if I really know.
Its a $1000 quad processor I guess. 1st board is the master, and the other four are slaved to it. As programmed, it took folding@home work units apart and split the work between the four slaves. When it was synced, it returned results at a rate of more than 4 times the speed of the master working alone. Slaves are ram drive systems with 512mrg drives and 64megs of system memory. Master has 128 megs of ram and a 100gig raid 5 ide array. All cpu's are XP3000-266's. Main boards are VIA 400 chipset biostar's ($32 each) with hacked bios flashes. All ran nix. Never could get it to stay in sync for more than about 18 hours. Ended up running it as 5 2K blade servers in a cluster with good results. But it cost about $10 a day to run, so I lost interest at about 40K worth of units.