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> Mike - re your 9 boxes, that is interesting. So you just use your primary computer and monitor to control lots of other boxes, and you have total control over all these other boxes just as if you were sitting at each one? Yes, that's exactly right. I open a remote desktop connection to each of the other boxes from my laptop. Each appears as a window on my laptop. The only limitation is that the remote box must already be running and you will not be able to see any BIOS startup information remotely as the box is booting. Once it's booted, there's no difference. Maximizing any of those windows would be identical to sitting in front of that box with its own monitor. Tiling the windows (e.g. right click on taskbar, then "Tile Windows Vertically") will layout all the windows evenly accross your screen so that you can visually monitor them all simultaneouly. This is also how I am able to do my day job from home; VPN into the corporate network, then use remote desktop to drive the desktop that sits on the desk in my empty office ;) > Do you use all the others for running backtests/optimizations? Yes. I use IO (see files section) to leverage 1 client and up to 3 supporting servers for distributed walk forward testing. For whatever reason, any more than 3 servers fails in IO - at least in my environment. I don't know if it's a problem with IO or with my network. If anyone has a solution to this I'd love to hear it (sfclimbers [at] yahoo.com). Since I can't get all servers to work at once in IO, I manually run individual backtests/optimizations on the remaining boxes over different time periods and hand stich the results togeather, else run optimizations for different strategies on the other boxes. > So then I imagine you would "check in" from time to time and view the progress of your runs on each box? Right. Though, as indicated above, if the optimizations are of a short enough nature, I'll just have tiled windows opened for all boxes and work on something else until I see them all start to complete. > Do you make notes about when the opts are due to finish so you know when to check back on each box? For lengthy optimizations, I just fire off the processes and go to bed. > Sorry for all the questions but this idea sounds intriguing so was just wondering how you manage it all. Thanks! If you decide to go down this route, and if the other boxes are not in the same room as the main one, you may start wondering if you can activate/suspend the machines remotely too. The answer is yes, using WoL (wake on lan), but can be a bit of a headache to get configured. Hope that answered your questions. Mike --- In [email protected], "Steve Dugas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for all the info guys - very helpful. > > TJ, don't worry about your memory, you probably remember more than I have ever known! 8 - ) > > Mike - re your 9 boxes, that is interesting. So you just use your primary computer and monitor to control lots of other boxes, and you have total control over all these other boxes just as if you were sitting at each one? Do you use all the others for running backtests/optimizations? So then I imagine you would "check in" from time to time and view the progress of your runs on each box? Do you make notes about when the opts are due to finish so you know when to check back on each box? Sorry for all the questions but this idea sounds intriguing so was just wondering how you manage it all. Thanks! > > Steve > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tomasz Janeczko > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:20 AM > Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT - Matching monitor with video card? > > > Sorry, my memory to numbers gets worse :-( , should be DB15. You will find wealth of info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tomasz Janeczko > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:18 AM > Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT - Matching monitor with video card? > > > Hello, > > As long as your video card has old D-Sub DB25 (analog) video output it will be OK. Note that some new video cards come with only DVI outputs > and then you would need to use DVI->DSub dongle to be able to connect to analog monitor > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Sub > > Best regards, > Tomasz Janeczko > amibroker.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Steve Dugas > To: Yahoo - AmiBroker > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:05 AM > Subject: [amibroker] OT - Matching monitor with video card? > > > Hi All - I am thinking about buying another computer for running optimizations. I can buy the computer with or without a monitor, and to keep the price down I would like to buy it without and just use an old monitor I already have. If I included a monitor in the purchase, my choices are limited to digital flat-panel monitors. My question is, will the new video card ( for a digital flat-panel monitor ) work OK with my old bulky regular monitor? Thanks a lot for any help! > > Steve >
