SETI Thread

[Darth Sidious]

Post the full specs here

(i'd look at Seti directly; but i think it's blocked due to one of my predecessors here@work putting SetiClassic on the standard image without permission)

[Darth Sidious]

Just checked the stats for Tus's new pc.

That machine alone will probably out-produce my entire stable of PCs.

[Tus]

Q6600, Core 2 Quad (2.4 ghz)
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i
2 Gigs of memory
2 x Geforce 8800 GTS
1 Xi-fi Sound card

Think thats all the relevant info

[Tus]

well all my stuff is going offline for a week, however i'm pretty impressed w/ my rig, in a matter of week (uploading everyday) it hit 1,268.63 avg wu  WOOT.

Cya all in a week... Italy here i come! 

[Commander Maxillius]

I've just d/l-ed boinc on both my machines.  an HP 725n 2.0 GHz Athlon 2400+ processor and a Mac Mini 1.67 GHz Intel Core Duo

[Nemesis]

Welcome aboard.  The more the merrier.

[Commander Maxillius]

How exactly do they award credits?  I've had my machines working on this for the grand total of 36 hours and I'm up to 342.41 credits.  I don't know if it's fast or anything like that.

[Commander Maxillius]

I've also got a question.  How hot should my processors be?  MY HP is running between 158F and 162F and the Mac is doing the same, 158F to 165F.

Is that normal for maximum processor usage?

[Darth Sidious]

Those are on the high end of normal... i think.

Make sure both machines have adequate airflow

I've also got a question.  How hot should my processors be?  MY HP is running between 158F and 162F and the Mac is doing the same, 158F to 165F.

Is that normal for maximum processor usage?

[Nemesis]

How exactly do they award credits?  I've had my machines working on this for the grand total of 36 hours and I'm up to 342.41 credits.  I don't know if it's fast or anything like that.

Quick version:

Step 1/  You and several others download WU
Step 2/  The first ones back that agree with one another set the awarded credit
Step 3/  All those who return the correct answer get the same crediit
Step 4/  Credit is based on the amount of work your computer needs to do to get the answer.
Step 5/  You may have a cache for up to 10 days and that will cause you to have WUs completed and retiurned for which you have yet to recieve credit

[Commander Maxillius]

I'm number 8 in average credits at 173.18.  Apparently the mac is burning through WUs about 4 times faster than the HP is.  Both cores of the Intel are twice as fast as the single AMD!  In the time I've been running SETI, the mac has done 38 WU's and the HP has done 6!!!  And the HP is no slouch either, so that Mac is *fast*!!!

[Darth Sidious]

It all comes down to proccessor efficience and execution more than clockspeed.  (Performing more work in one clock cycle)

Core2Duo, and Core Duo do VERY well at the type of math Seti does.  AMD processors not so well.  Even standard Pentium 4's (and Pentium D's) get blown away by even low end Core Duo/Core2Duo machines.

There's a couple threads at the Seti boards that can explain this better than I can.

I'm number 8 in average credits at 173.18.  Apparently the mac is burning through WUs about 4 times faster than the HP is.  Both cores of the Intel are twice as fast as the single AMD!  In the time I've been running SETI, the mac has done 38 WU's and the HP has done 6!!!  And the HP is no slouch either, so that Mac is *fast*!!!

[Commander Maxillius]

Some how the AMD is getting progressively slower at crunching WUs too...  The rest of the machine isn't suffering though.  It's weird.

[Tus]

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[The Postman]

May 4, 2007
Great news! Sun Microsystems is coming to the rescue and will be replacing our inoperative science data base server. They are preparing the machine now and will be rushing it to us on Monday. Once we have the machine up and the database recovered, we can start sending work out again. Details on the server crash and our recovery from it can be found in Technical News.

May 1, 2007
Happy May Day. Unfortunately for us it's been "Mayday! Mayday!" At 4:43 (PDT) this morning, our science database machine, thumper, became hasenfeffer. It currently refuses to acknowledge that it has any disk drives. Since the controllers are attached to the motherboard, major repairs will probably be required. No work can be created until this machine gets fixed. We are on the phone with Sun now in hopes of securing repair or a replacement. More info in Technical News.

[Darth Sidious]

Production is down for most everyone due to the week+ outage; but things do seem to be looking up

[The Postman]

Happy Birthday Raven

[GE-Raven]

Thanks Postman.

GE-Raven

[Darth Sidious]

My oldest machine finally bit the dust (Duron 800) - leaky capacitors.

So i'll be down about 70max production for a couple months untill I can replace the PC entirely.

[GE-Raven]

 

Some one is BACK

GE-Raven

[Darth Sidious]

I noticed

It'll be interesting to see max production out of that many machines.

Some one is BACK

GE-Raven

[The Postman]

Yeah, but he has not been in the habit of using Chicken Little.
Also, IF I can get my act together, I may try to give all of you a run for your money. It will all depend if I can get the "D" running with Chicken Little.

I noticed

It'll be interesting to see max production out of that many machines.

Some one is BACK

GE-Raven

[Darth Sidious]

A bunch of Dual proc P4 3.6s might not even need Chicken Soup to outproduce.

[GE-Raven]

Yeah... this production level is a little more fun :-)

GE-Raven

[The Postman]

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[GE-Raven]

Hoping to get well past 2.5 million before I have to scale back again.

GE-Raven

[Nemesis]

Due to a corporate take over last Christmas it is currently looking very bad for the continuation of my job for more than a few more months.  So I'm working out my cached WUs and leaving SETI to reduce my expenses at least until I either know my job is continuing (which looks unlikely) or I have a new job.  I do intend to produce again at some point when things have stabilized again. 

[GE-Raven]

I am very sorry to hear that Nem... maybe you can get a job in the states where the dollar is actually worth real money!  Let me know if you want me to do some looking.

GE-Raven

[Nemesis]

I am very sorry to hear that Nem... maybe you can get a job in the states where the dollar is actually worth real money! 

You really must stop listening to Punishers propaganda.  The Canadian dollar has risen to ~95% of the U.S. dollar, which makes it "real money".  I fully expect it to pass the U.S. dollar if the government keeps paying down the debt as they have. 

Let me know if you want me to do some looking.

GE-Raven

I appreciate the offer but given my parents ill health and that no one else in the family is able to check up on them very often I need to stay in this area.

In any case it is still possible that they will find a buyer and leave us operating.  I personally don't think they can in the time available but I could easily be wrong if they have already been looking or if the prior owners had offers.

[The Postman]

we'll miss your production