SETI Thread

[F9thDigi]

Is there anything like Seti Driver for Boinc which will let me process units on a computer not hooked up to the net?  Or a work machine?  I've got a my Dual 2.8 Xeon HT just waiting for some units but I need to run it 'offline.'

I think the original answer was no (ages ago!).

[The Postman]

How are you going to get work to it if it has no connection?

[F9thDigi]

How are you going to get work to it if it has no connection?

Hopefully the same way I did before with Seti Driver.  By copying the files to a CD or disk.

[The Postman]

It won't happen. Seti custom makes the workunits for each computer. The workunits that go a win 98 233 machine with 64 mb ram are not the same as units that go to a P4 machine with 1 gig of ram. Seti need to see each machine that it sends work to. Each computer processing on BOINC is cataloged with seti/boinc

[The Postman]

Congratulations to Raven for assuming the first position of the Taldren/Boinc team. 
However  do not get too relaxed, I have just added 2 more  machines and I am looking at maybe 5 more.

[The Postman]

                       Total Credit      Recent Credit
Raven              8,818.0           330.28
The Postman    8,761.3             86.17
KD4                 5,520.4             85.97
SlackerJoe        2,553.7             39.36
Bill Castner        1,437.6             21.92
Tus                  1,337.4             70.35
f9TH SIR X           939.6               2.36
Putanginamo        784.1              18.97
IKV Nemesis           89.2                5.11


Statistics for Taldren   
  Total credit granted: 30,361 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 539 cobblestones
  Total Members: 162 users
  Active Members: 9 users
  Total hosts: 15 host(s)
  Team Rank TC: 546 of 9,019
  Team Rank RAC: 497 of 9,019

[Gambler]

Was there any doubt of Raven being in the lead?  

Me I'm still plugging along in Seti - Original.  I can't get my workstations directly connected to the Net to get Boinc WU's.

[The Postman]

Was there any doubt of Raven being in the lead?  

Me I'm still plugging along in Seti - Original.  I can't get my workstations directly connected to the Net to get Boinc WU's.

Today is the first time Raven has been in the first spot on the team. I have every intention of getting it back if I can.

[GE-Raven]

My home machine just died... So far I only had the new client on 2 work machines...

But now I have ordered a 3.2 Ghz machine and I will see what kind of damage it can do.  So with my other machines I will have a "stable" of about 5 machines.

I am hoping to do some "testing" over Christmas break with the 45 2.0 ghz machins in one of our labs...

That ought to let me flex a little.

GE-Raven

[The Postman]

 Name                World Rank   Total Credit     Recent Credit
Raven               3,412           13,752            567.29
The Postman     4,328           11,386            231.47
KD4                  5,343           9,568             374.82
SlackerJoe        16,055          2,988               48.39
Bill Castner        24,216          1,438               21.92
Tus                  24,993          1,337               70.35
f9TH SIR X        28,718            940                  2.36
Putanginamo     30,537            784                 18.97
IKV Nemesis      46,138              89                   5.11




Statistics for Taldren

Total credit granted: 42,401 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 1,209 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 9 users
Total hosts: 16 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 498 of 9,261
Team Rank RAC: 408 of 9,261

[GE-Raven]

Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...

Still waiting for your "push" Postman 

I should have my new machine on Friday...

3.2 Ghz... DDR2 memory... MMMMMM  fast!


GE-Raven

[The Postman]

Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...

Still waiting for your "push" Postman 

I should have my new machine on Friday...

3.2 Ghz... DDR2 memory... MMMMMM  fast!


GE-Raven

I said that before your 4th computer showed up in the lists. How can my 4 ever compete with your 4?  If somebody wants to donate 1400 classic units to me so I can get my 10,000 certificate, I will convert 2 1.7ghz P4's and another 750mhz AMD.to the cause and really make it interesting as well as upgrading my 1.5 to 2.6. In any case I still have over 2000 cobblestones pending dating back to early August. I wonder how many I will actually see though.

[GE-Raven]

O.K. so my new machine is officially really fast.  Of course my work machine does them one at a time, and so complets 1 faster... but the whole "2fer" thing is pretty cool... anyone done any testing to see if the multithreading really helps much?

GE-Raven

[The Postman]

Now you have 7. I never had a chance did I? Well just you wait. As soon as I reach 10,000 classic units, I will convert the rest of my machines, upgrade one CPU from 1.5 to 2.6, and build a kick butt 3.2 with HT to cancel out your new machine.  
Then the 9 of us plus any newcomers can see how far up the list we can get the team. We seem to be stuck around 510 at the moment.

[The Postman]

 
Statistics for Taldren   
  Total credit granted: 53,049 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 898 cobblestones
  Total Members: 162 users
  Active Members: 9 users
  Total hosts: 20 host(s)
  Team Rank TC: 507 of 9,694
  Team Rank RAC: 483 of 9,694

[The Postman]

Total credit granted: 72,374 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 1,303 cobblestones
  Total Members: 162 users
  Active Members: 9 users
  Total hosts: 21 host(s)
  Team Rank TC: 451 of 10,003
  Team Rank RAC: 375 of 10,003

[Entrail]

Yay in the top 5 at last now how long can i stay there 
F9th Sir x

[The Postman]

Bi-weekly update

[RazalYllib]

I have boinc on my big WU box, and my spouse still going classic..

I am gonna see how the two keeps my rank until I pull her box on boinc

[F9thDigi]

Thought I'd give this a go again.  I might try the wu for that einstien project as well.  Do they all count together, towards the same credit?  or are the scores above just purely for seti credit?

[manitoba1073]

i joined up tonight, whats the deal with teh credits and that.

[The Postman]

i joined up tonight, whats the deal with teh credits and that.

Welcome to the team. I don't see you on the lists yet, but all that means is that you haven't had your first WU validated yet because you are waiting for the other 2 results to return.
After you have processed and returned a work unit, the 2 other people that the WU was sent to also have to return it with the same results. If all 3 units match for result, than a credit will be issued to the 3 of you based on how much crunching had to be done to get the result. It can take as little as one day for you to be credited for the work but most show up within 2 weeks. I have a few outstanding since October because no one will respond with a finished WU to be the 3rd result. When somebody doesn't return a finished WU, 2 other people are held up for credit until seti can reissue the WU and get a result.

[The Postman]

Raven, Do you have a way to run BOINC as a service yet? I hope to reach 10,000 in less than 5 weeks and then I will be looking to move the last 3 boxes over.

Thanks for setting me up the first time. I wouldn't have gotten to 10,000 (I hope) with out your help.

Happy Crunching
The Postman

[GE-Raven]

Raven, Do you have a way to run BOINC as a service yet? I hope to reach 10,000 in less than 5 weeks and then I will be looking to move the last 3 boxes over.

Thanks for setting me up the first time. I wouldn't have gotten to 10,000 (I hope) with out your help.

Happy Crunching
The Postman

Yes I do... On a W2k box or WinXP you install it like normal but make sure it doesn't launch on startup.  Then copy in your "account...xml" file so it is "working for you" and attaches to the proper project.  Once you have it running shut it down and navigate to the C:\program files\boinc directory from a cmd window.  Once there type::

boinc_cli -install

This will install the boinc_cli as a service.  You must then go to services and change the logon tab to "Log on as system" this must be done or it won't run.  Then reboot.  If you did the above correctly you will not see the little "B" in the corner but if you Ctrl-Shift-Esc you will see setathome and boinc_cli running in the processes list.  You won't be able to use the Boinc_gui to monitor your progress though...  In order to do that you need to stop the service then launch boinc from the start bar as per normal.

BTW I will have a couple of weeks with a booted production.  Lets see what I can do with about 45 2.0 ghz boxes.

GE-Raven


GE-Raven

[The Postman]

Thanks for the information Raven. All of my boxes are W2K. I also hope when my last machines make the switch, I will get my RAC over 600.

[The Postman]

Welcome to the 2 new additions to the team with I believe 1  more on the way.

Bi weekly team progress

[The Postman]

Biweekly progress

Happy Holidays to the Taldren Boinc team

[The Postman]

First of the Year Benchmarks

Name of Project: SETI@Home
  Total credit granted: 646,909,150 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 6,042,756 cobblestones
  Total users: 64,631 users
  Total teams: 10,839 teams
  Total hosts: 153,732 host(s)
  Total Countries: 188 different countries
   
Statistics for Taldren   Total credit granted: 266,983 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 6,010 cobblestones
  Total Members: 162 users
  Active Members: 12 users
  Total hosts: 53 host(s)
  Team Rank TC: 216 of 10,839
  Team Rank RAC: 87 of 10,839

[The Postman]

Bi weekly update and progress

The Taldren Boinc Team is now ranked 188 in the world

Project statistics   Name of Project: SETI@Home
  Total credit granted: 691,628,102 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 6,618,063 cobblestones
  Total users: 65,950 users
  Total teams: 10,954 teams
  Total hosts: 156,620 host(s)
  Total Countries: 187 different countries
   
Statistics for Taldren   
  Total credit granted: 322,457 cobblestones
  Total Recent Avg Credit: 7,241 cobblestones
  Total Members: 162 users
  Active Members: 12 users
  Total hosts: 53 host(s)
  Team Rank TC: 188 of 10,954
  Team Rank RAC: 82 of 10,954
 

[GE-Raven]

Raven is about to get VERY mortal.... in terms of production it will be may before I can really start kicking ass again.

GE-Raven