SETI Thread

[Nemesis]

Maybe somebody should invite him to come over, we might be waiting a while otherwise. He hasn't been around here in quite a while..

Just PM'd him.  Text of the PM below.

Subject:     You have been nominated and seconded...
Now check out the SETI thread to find out what for.

[GE-Raven]

I suppose if I am going to be Lord God Emperor for Life... I may have to do a little work.

I have initiated the peaceful transfer of power.  If Kenneth fails to heed my demands I will take control by force.

GE-Raven

[GE-Raven]

Ken has denied my Transfer of power... so it appears he wants to fight!

GE-Raven

[The Postman]

Ken has denied my Transfer of power... so it appears he wants to fight!

GE-Raven

Did you get the idea he wants somebody else?

[GE-Raven]

I got no message... just that he refused to give me the ownership... Meh...

GE-Raven

[Nemesis]

I wonder if the whole thing is just a SETI glitch?

[The Postman]

long overdue progress report

[Nemesis]

Just under a year since I began putting my systems on BOINC full time and I've passed 400,000.  In spite of my one machine being under clocked (waiting for a rebuilding) my output is not doing too badly now that I've put the laptop back online, I don't like carrying it once the snow begins to fly. 

At some point events will stop blocking my rebuilding systems and I'll begin to upgrade my dying dual Athlon 2100+ system then I should advance much better.  The question will be dual core or wait for quad?

[Tus]

i would suggest you go w/ the dual core. 2 main reasons

A) there is no native quad core avaible until 2007 Q2/Q3 (so this might be possible for you if it takes that long to get a new system )
B)  the only curren methods to get quad cores are excesivly expensive (EE intel quad or AMD's solution which turned out to be a bit of a letdown)

And i would personally suggest go w/ the core 2 duo, the processors outpeform its AMD counterparts in almost every test and do so with a good margin.  So unless AMD's upcoming processors are signifcantly better (and they happen to available at the time of your purchase) i personally see no reason to go w/ them outside of price (though the price/peformance curve is heavily weighted in intels favor atm)

[Darth Sidious]

Just switched my Core Duo and Core2Duo machines to customized clients.

Cant wait to see the RAC improvement.

And I hope to be adding 1, maybe 2 more machines to my fold in the next month or so.

[The Postman]

Just switched my Core Duo and Core2Duo machines to customized clients.

Cant wait to see the RAC improvement.

And I hope to be adding 1, maybe 2 more machines to my fold in the next month or so.

Oh poop, Now you are going to force me to spend money I don't have on cpu and ram  upgrades. to stay on top of this. Lets see, 2 Northwood 3.4's +  1 gig of pc 3200 is ???????. That should up my RAC by 750 and 1k I hope. That would still leave me room to grow into EE cpus down the road.

[Nemesis]

I haven't made a final decision as to X2 or Core2Duo  yet. 

One advantage the AM2 socket motherboards have is they are supposed to be able to handle the quad core chips when they arrive so I could put a "low cost" X2 in and shift to quad when they come out.  The AM3 chips when they arrive are also supposed to be able to go in AM2 motherboards.  I haven't heard the equivalent from Intel (which doesn't mean they won't match that I haven't really had the time to follow things lately).

I was thinking about the AMD 4x4 outfits.  They are getting a lot of flack for taking 600watts for the system.  One of them could replace 2 of my systems and allow me to virtuallize my Win2k on top of Linux with no real loss in potential from the Win2k (only handles 2 cores).  I think each of the current systems likely draws 300 watts so replacing 2 with one 600 watt killer machine wouldn't be the big power cost it seems like in the beginning.  Of course if I were to go that way I'd be waiting for the quad core chips to get 8 cores in one machine.

[Darth Sidious]

Also, I just bumped my cache to 5 days... lets see if that makes a difference.

I'm kinda disappointed in my C2D 2.4...  it should be producing 2x what it's RAC has been.  Hopefully the changes I made will allow it to make up that difference.

[Darth Sidious]

Broke 100k this morning; and for a while, had top RAC according to Seti's team stats.  (not the case now).

No new PC's for a while unless I get an unexpected gift.

[The Postman]

Does anyone know of an SSE3 cruncher for non intel chips?

[The Postman]

I just lost over 2000 credits because of validation errors on Seti's end. Everyone may want to sit on their WU's rather return them for o credit. 

[Darth Sidious]

Only have 1 invalid WU recently; but Seti Site is extremely sluggish, and WU's arent uploading.

I did pass your RAC though Postman

[Nemesis]

Merry Christmas to the SETI crew. 

I haven't made a final decision as to X2 or Core2Duo  yet. 

This decision is delayed indefinitely.  I was E-mailed by a co-worker a few days ago and it seems we have been bought out again.  At this point I don't know what that means to my job and it could mean anything from "Job?  What job?" to "40 hours a week is not nearly enough".  Until I know all major expenses are on hold.

[Darth Sidious]

That sucks.

Looks like my RAC has stabilized around 2700 for now.

I'm kinda annoyed I didnt spring for a better motherboard on my Core2Duo machine.  Apparently it's easily overclocked :/

This decision is delayed indefinitely.  I was E-mailed by a co-worker a few days ago and it seems we have been bought out again.  At this point I don't know what that means to my job and it could mean anything from "Job?  What job?" to "40 hours a week is not nearly enough".  Until I know all major expenses are on hold.

[The Postman]

That sucks.

Looks like my RAC has stabilized around 2700 for now.

I'm kinda annoyed I didnt spring for a better motherboard on my Core2Duo machine. Apparently it's easily overclocked :/

That still leaves you in reach IF they don't pull the plug in the next few weeks. We will all lose our custom apps (crunchers)though  when they bring the multi beam recorder data out of beta.
I already have a line on the 1st new Northwood CPU upgrade to slow down your catching up to me.

[The Postman]

I hope it is an accident but The Postman is not showing up on the team.

SETI@home member since   4 Jan 2003
Country   United States
Total credit   443,450.01
Recent average credit   1,547.38
SETI@home classic workunits   14,951
SETI@home classic CPU time   71,949 hours
Team   None

It was not an accident but I didn't do it either. Somebody got access to my account through the work computers and trashed my account. I am allowed to use them so long as I leave full access in case Seti interferes with their normal operation. My general preferences are now messed up and I don't remember what they should be. I have also been banned from the Seti/boinc boards for a post I didn't even make. For the short term I have been allowed to password protect my accounts but I may wind up losing 3 of my faster machines over this.

Well it would appear that I have lost at least one 1.7 P4 so far over this.

[Darth Sidious]

Losing a machine is never good.  I remember back in SetiClassic when we figured out a network upgrade hosed PCs running my setistealth program (which I had full permission to run; as long as it didn't interfere with PC performance).  I lost about 50 PCs running Seti.

[Darth Sidious]

More on the losing a Machine bit.  I've just lost the use of the Athlon 64.  The PC is in a location where high speed is off when not being actively used.  Thus, BOINC has a spazz about trying to connect to server every couple minutes per WU waiting for upload.

So, unless there is a different BOINCManager that can be forcibly set to only connect when there is an active connection - and not bug the user about needing one; this PC cant run seti.

[Darth Sidious]

Anyone have any experience running Boinc in a Virtual machine?

[The Postman]

Congratulations to Raven for hitting 2 million!!

[GE-Raven]

Thanks Postman... I just noticed today myself.

Well it will only take me 3 more years at my current rate to hit 3 million :-)

Don't worry I hope to "kick in some more power" soon.

GE-Raven

[Darth Sidious]

*chirp chirp*

Pushing 3200 RAC now. 

[Nemesis]

*chirp chirp*

Pushing 3200 RAC now. 

As soon as SETI will take it my (malfunctioning and underclocked) Dual Athlon XP 2100+ machine will be uploading its last WUs. R.I.P. So my RAC will be changing soon.

[Tus]

so shall mine... in about 5 days my new computer will be based upon the Q6600 kentsfield

[Tus]

New computer is online and running WHOOOOOOT... now to see how fast it works