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Might as well get the important one out of the way.
So are we sticking with the Taldren team? I am almost to 300,000 and I figure it is a nice tribute.
Nice digs BTW.
GE-Raven
Lord God Emperor for Life of the Taldren SETI Group
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I'm sticking in the team till whenever.
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I'm here for the duration or hell freezes over.In the mean time lets get the team moved over here. Somebody should tell the team we have already moved in.
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Ironically BOINC went public recently i think
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Two questions.
Can one use the SETI BOINC and still contribute to an existing team? I may start back up.
How is the performance with BOINC compared to the older client?
Sorry, third question. Are there add-ons like SETI Queue for BOINC? I'm on dial-up and need to cache WUs.
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I think we should try to move to BOINC as a team
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I'm not moving to BOINC until i get hired on somewhere. After that i'll prolly move on in
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BOINC can be run as a Windows service. This requires the command-line interface (CLI) version of the core client, which is not available for download; you'll have to build it from the source code using Visual Studio .Net.
If this is what they consider ready they are in trouble.
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I looked around the Boinc page and neither the Taldren Team or my user account made the transition to BOINC :thumbsdown:
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I just read that they started all users and groups at 0 for BOINC.
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I just read that they started all users and groups at 0 for BOINC.
Thats true but I can't find myself or the team
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here is the new BOINC Taldren team page.
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/team_display.php?teamid=4
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I'll play with BOINC when i get a machine i'm actually on most of the time with enough power to bother with it.
Dependent on getting hired somewhere that pays
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Right now I am just trying to get to 7500
also I found myself at BOINC
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I wonder when IKV Nemesis will be post all the Seti info.
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I already see he is in here .
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New Seti At Home Link
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/team_display.php?teamid=4
They zeroes all the SETI Accounts.
June 22, 2004
Welcome to the new SETI@home! The project is now officially active. We've reset the project by deleting all results and workunits, and setting all credits (user, team, host) to zero. Thanks to everyone who participated in the alpha and beta tests for their help in debugging SETI@home and BOINC.
I lost all my BOINC Beta W/Us...
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Two questions.
Can one use the SETI BOINC and still contribute to an existing team? I may start back up.
How is the performance with BOINC compared to the older client?
Sorry, third question. Are there add-ons like SETI Queue for BOINC? I'm on dial-up and need to cache WUs.
According to SETIATHOME - there will be no caching programs (yet) - all machines must have direct or proxyed access to the Internet
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Just added a couple home machines to BOINC. Work machines can not be added due to DOD regulations and a multi-layered firewall. Oh well...
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According to the SETI Web Site:
All work units submitted after May 14, 2004 will not be carried over to BOINC. In essence, they will be lost.
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When somebody figures out how to run it as a service, please post as I have 3 machines that need to run it that way.
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I am not certain if I am going to make the switch or not... The queue program is pretty much a necessity for me. But I will go take a look... I do also need a seti client... not really looking forward to the "compile your own option" as my programming skills are about as adept as my Linux skills!
GE-Raven
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I am not certain if I am going to make the switch or not... The queue program is pretty much a necessity for me. But I will go take a look... I do also need a seti client... not really looking forward to the "compile your own option" as my programming skills are about as adept as my Linux skills!
GE-Raven
Give it time. SETI 1 didnt have queuing right away either IIRC.
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I am not certain if I am going to make the switch or not... The queue program is pretty much a necessity for me. But I will go take a look... I do also need a seti client... not really looking forward to the "compile your own option" as my programming skills are about as adept as my Linux skills!
GE-Raven
I'll be looking at it too... I can use some lab computers if there was a queue program. Its open sourced so it should not be that difficult.
It sucks losing all my beta units. It also sucks that we have to wait up to 2 weeks for results to be posted.
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I am not certain if I am going to make the switch or not...
GE-Raven
No switch, no SETI I am thinking. It looks like SETIclassic has got a very short lease left on life.
BOINC is pretty spiff technology so far from a dial-up home user perspective. I have no idea how it will hold up for you server farm types.
Anybody in or thinking of getting into that BOINC weather prediction thing?
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Well we made it to number 3 on the small companies and 109 overall.
I don't think I'm going to make the jump to BOINC. Without being able to locally Q WU's and mass dump them to the mothership it's not in the cards for me to make the change.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't have as many WU's as I could have because I stopped paying attention to my Q about two months ago and apparently it lost it's brains as far as where the server was so it wasn't polling and submitting WU's.
Your rank out of 5039617 total users is: 1643rd place.
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BUMP to the top
Just so no one is caught unaware, I have switched 2 computers over. I may get one more but that will be it until I can figure out the service thing. After that, I may get 6 or 8 more. In the mean time I have 4 still crunching on the old stuff.
:spam:
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bump from bottom of page 62, We need to pick a thread gentlemen.
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How do I get BOINC to upload results? I have one on dialup and one on a lan.
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Putanginamo 78.86 6.79 Philippines
The Postman 40.99 3.03 United States
Results thus far.
The project is DOWN yet again...
Only crunching on my crap home machines right now (Windows)
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June 25, 2004
Well this issue will have to be resolved next week, The memory sticks for the machine that was supposed to handle the web traffic was defective and so we are waiting on replacements before bringing it online.
June 25, 2004
The transitioner is not currently able to keep up with the splitters. We are going to bring down the frontend in an attempt to allow the transitioner a chance to play catchup with the rest of the system.
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SETI/ BOINC:
Project is shut down for maintenance - please try again later.
Maybe another project wants my spare CPU cycles?
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June 26, 2004
We are going to leave the website down until Monday. We are going to bring back up the scheduler in an hour. The transitioner was moved to it's own machine and it processing workunits at a much faster rate.
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Well Not that anyone would care anymore... but:
1) Raven 301679 177.036 years 5 hr 08 min 26.4 sec Mon Jun 28 19:04:46 2004 United States
I broke 300,000 on Friday... just had no place to tell anyone :-)
GE-Raven
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I sent my congratulations to you on Friday in the other thread, But I will do it again here also. :woot:
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Belated congats to Raven
and bump
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I some how think Boinc wasn't ready to go public yet. I have completed almost 40 workunits and only received credit for 5 so far. They also have shut off the pending credit pages so nobody can see how far behind they really are.
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Well im looking at it at mo and boy is it slow :banghead:
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Well i got it down loaded now i cant get any work to do :banghead: :banghead:
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Boinc is still not working for me and this needed a bump as it was sliping down page :banghead: :banghead:
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Well its all running for me now i have 5 Bonk units catched
( Im just trying to get a bit of a head start its the only way i will ever be in the top 10 :rofl:)
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BOINC BUMP from page 4 :spam:
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Well its all running for me now i have 5 Bonk units catched
( Im just trying to get a bit of a head start its the only way i will ever be in the top 10 :rofl:)
I dont think you need to worry. I don't think 10 people are running it.
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I have 2 comps runing it now and dont have a prob getting work any more :2gun: :brickwall:
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BOINC reminds me of an old cartoon (looney toons?) with a boxing segment - "He's up! He's down! He's up! He's down!" It may be Post Beta but it sure ain't Gold yet. But I think it is a great concept and hope they get the kinks out soon and some other projects come online.
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Any one else notice the change on the Taldren BOINC team page?
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1) Putanginamo 712.02 25.96 Philippines
2) IKV Nemesis 89.21 5.11 Canada
3) The Postman 2377.35 116.70 United States
4) f9TH SIR X 450.75 29.68 New Zealand
5) Tus 1337.41 70.35 United States
6) SlackerJoe 584.16 28.46 United States
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It works now? Hot d@mn! And I actually rate listing? Double d@mn! I better get a screenprint of the ephemeral glory before I get dusted by the big-boys.
(SlackerJoe - SETI piker extraordinaire)
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look im it the top 10
4) f9TH SIR X 450.75 29.68 New Zealand
For the first time ever :woot:
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look im it the top 10
4) f9TH SIR X 450.75 29.68 New Zealand
For the first time ever :woot:
Better still I am back in the top 5.
I only processed one BOINC datapackage.
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The downside to our glory? I think the six of us are listed 'cause we are the only ones to have any Taldren BOINC credit. Big fish in a very small pond for now. :(
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1) Putanginamo 784.14 18.97 Philippines
2) IKV Nemesis 89.21 5.11 Canada
3) The Postman 2870.44 99.61 United States
4) f9TH SIR X 913.89 50.52 New Zealand
5) Tus 1337.41 70.35 United States
6) SlackerJoe 680.94 22.68 United States
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i have been trying to get it to work but i keep getting this Deferring communication with project for 42minutes 51s. or some other random time. it has been like this for allmost 48 hours. can any one give me any idea whats up
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This is the page whenever you want current SETIBoinc news.
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/
They tend to be more down than up as far as dishing out WU's for Boinc. Hopefully they will get it all figured out before Christmas.
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thanks for the heads up
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July 28, 2004
The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling code such that returned results were not being updated in the database. We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each affected result as unsent so that it will be resent. Unfortunately, credit was not given for results affected by the bug.
There is a weeks processing down the drain. :(
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I hope these guys are not writing any software for space travel. If so, I ain't goin'!
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July 30, 2004
The project is *still* down. The database cleanup for the bug found on July 28 is going much slower than expected. We hope to have everything back up later today or early tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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And now my P4 is down as the modem is dead so im down to 1 slow comp.
At least ill still be in the top 10 for a long time by the looks of things :rofl: :rofl:
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Right now I just need the project to get running again. I have about 3-4 more days of crunching before I have to switch back to the other project. I was lucky, I had set my cache to 12 days just before the project went down.
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The project is up and running. Let's see for how long this time.
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Postman,
Are you able to upload any of your completed workunits? That I can't download anything right now is not a surprise. That I can't upload is worrying.
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As of right now, I have been able to upload 4 WU's out of 30+. I would bet there is a massive influx of transfers since they have been down almost a week. I still have about 3.5 days of work before I will begin to panic. If I run out I will just fire up seti driver again.
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TX. Ive been idle for 4 days now. :( Not that I contribute that much, its the principle. :)
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August 3, 2004
While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and web servers are overloaded. Because of this you may have noticed difficulty in transferring work and loading certain web pages. We're tuning these servers and trying to find the bottlenecks now.
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August 3, 2004
While the project is up and functioning normally, the database and web servers are overloaded. Because of this you may have noticed difficulty in transferring work and loading certain web pages. We're tuning these servers and trying to find the bottlenecks now.
Yup.... lol
2004-08-03 12:36:17 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
2004-08-03 12:40:02 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-08-03 12:40:02 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] No schedulers responded
2004-08-03 12:40:02 [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 54 minutes, and 57 seconds
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SETI needs way more fiber in their diet (or I do). In the last 3 days I have successfully downloaded 0 WU and uploaded 1 completed WU. Talk about backed up!
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Can anyone say FUBAR?
In other news I did get 1 PC 100% uploaded but have seen no updated results. It is going to run out of work in 64 hours.
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August 4, 2004
We discoverd that the sheer number of files in the upload directory was killing NFS performance for the file_upload_handler. We started with a new empty upload directory and the file_upload_handler performed much better. The rate of connection drops on the upload server dropped to zero (most of the time). Of course we need to get all those older results back into play somehow. We are preparing our new SnapAppliance 18000 to host the database. We need to fit it into the power load in our already fairly full data closet, configure the DB volume, run some tests, and then copy over the DB files. We will post the progress as we go.
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Woohoo! All WUs are go. Houston, we have traction!
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Woohoo! All WUs are go. Houston, we have traction!
But can you DL WU's? I can't. Thanks to some 4 minute WU's, i am going to run out of work tonight.
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Yes. It gave me 2 WUs last night and 2 more this morning. I only have a 2 day cache set. Not good for recent events :(
PS. TX for info on threads - I had not made the BOINC/notBOINC connection.
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PS. TX for info on threads - I had not made the BOINC/notBOINC connection.
Maybe a helpful admin can be persuaded to rename this the BOINC SETI Thread.
big old HINT! :)
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939 Mexico Team 6803
940 Taldren 6783
Team Rank Name World Rank Total Credit Recent Credit
TC RAC TC RAC
1 1 The Postman 5,541 5,768 2,943 101.79
2 2 Tus 10,835 8,655 1,337 70.35
3 3 f9TH SIR X 13,442 11,585 914 50.52
4 5 Putanginamo 14,406 19,865 784 18.97
5 4 SlackerJoe 15,292 18,395 681 22.68
6 6 IKV Nemesis 26,940 27,932 89 5.11
7 7 Bill Castner 31,410 31,919 35 0.95
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This one gets a big old BUMP :)
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I'm giving up on BOINC until it does something that is as good as or better than "classic"
.... like actually work
2004-08-18 11:13:17 [SETI@home] Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed
2004-08-18 11:13:17 [SETI@home] No schedulers responded
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By the time the hardware behind SETIBOINC is updated to match the load - the load is going to be gone back to SETClassic.
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Could anyone post a guide to using Boinc, what we need to download, if there's any useful addons (like setidrive, etc)like we used to have with Seti classic?
Thanks
Digi
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Right now Boinc is too messed up to even consider moving to. I would wait and continue processing with "classic" until they get the bugs worked out some more. ::)
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What Postman said.
When they do get their stuff together look here
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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August 23, 2004
The validator is up and running and credit is now being calculated for all those backlogged results.
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Taldren rankings
Member Name Team Rank Total Credit Recent Credit
The Postman 1 3,159.3 22.91
Tus 2 1,337.4 70.35
f9TH SIR X 3 913.9 50.52
Putanginamo 4 784.1 18.97
SlackerJoe 5 757.6 5.69
Raven 6 118.2 8.52
IKV Nemesis 7 89.2 5.11
KD4 8 36.4 0.55
Bill Castner 9 34.7 0.95
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Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 7,231 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 49 cobblestones
Total Members: 163 users
Active Members: 9 users
Total hosts: 12 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 894 of 6,870
Team Rank RAC: 1,394 of 6,870
http://www.setisynergy.com/stats/teams.php?team=4
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bump
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August 27, 2004
Well the last set of hardware issues have been resolved. Due to the time of day and other factors the upgrade will be delayed until at least tomorrow morning. We'll post the revised schedule as soon as plans have been firmed up.
August 27, 2004
We are currently experiencing a hardware issue with our scheduling server, we expect this issues resolved within the hour. The upgrade to 4.x will start around 11am PDT and will take roughly an hour. Anybody who has any remaining results to report should get them in before the upgrade, after the upgrade you'll need the 4.x clients to report new results, and upgrading to the 4.x client will reset the project on your machine. Roughly 100,000 results are queued up and ready to be sent out after the upgrade, plus the three splitters will be up and running producing work as quickly as possible.
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Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 12,736 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 501 cobblestones
Total Members: 163 users
Active Members: 9 users
Total hosts: 14 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 665 of 7,480
Team Rank RAC: 425 of 7,480
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August 28, 2004
The migration plan has been reschedule for tomorrow the 29th at 10am PDT. We have brought down the scheduler and file upload handler until the migration happens to give the splitters and transitioners time to produce enough workunits and results to send out after the migration when the clients reset themselves.
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Bump
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As of this morning, Taldren has done more work than 92.47% of all the BOINC Seti Teams. We are ranked 612 out of 8126 teams. We have done this with only 9 active members!
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I would sticky both of these SETI threads
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BOINC or standard Seti? Cause I'm still crunching along WU's the old fashioned way.
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Where's the second Seti Thread and I'll give It a sticky also.
Stephen
edit nevermind I found It on Page two.
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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!).
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How are you going to get work to it if it has no connection?
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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.
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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
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:) Congratulations to Raven for assuming the first position of the Taldren/Boinc team. :notworthy:
However do not get too relaxed, I have just added 2 more machines and I am looking at maybe 5 more.
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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
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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.
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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. ;)
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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
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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
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Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...
Still waiting for your "push" Postman ;D
I should have my new machine on Friday...
3.2 Ghz... DDR2 memory... MMMMMM fast!
GE-Raven
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Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...
Still waiting for your "push" Postman ;D
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. :)
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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
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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. ;D
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.
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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
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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
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Yay in the top 5 at last now how long can i stay there ;D
F9th Sir x
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Bi-weekly update :)
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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
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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?
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i joined up tonight, whats the deal with teh credits and that.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. :)
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Welcome to the 2 new additions to the team with I believe 1 more on the way.
Bi weekly team progress
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Biweekly progress :)
Happy Holidays to the Taldren Boinc team
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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
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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
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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
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In a small landmark... I topped 300,000 this week.
GE-Raven
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Congratulations to Raven for his Benchmark :)
Taldren reached a World Rank of 170 :)
Project statistics Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 801,197,707 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 7,728,768 cobblestones
Total users: 68,635 users
Total teams: 11,183 teams
Total hosts: 164,256 host(s)
Total Countries: 187 different countries
Statistics for Taldren Total credit granted: 394,441 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 4,778 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 12 users
Total hosts: 55 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 176 of 11,183
Team Rank RAC: 145 of 11,183
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Link to site (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/)
Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
After several months of testing, we are now 'throwing open the doors' for general participation. If you would like to take part, please use the Create account link to create an account, and follow the instructions. Einstein@home is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X computers.
This first production run of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the most sensitive 600 hours of data from LIGO's third science run, S3.
Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Feb 19, 2005
Einstein@Home was officially launched this morning at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington, DC, USA.
Link to rules and policy (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/info.php)
Uses BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php)
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February 23, 2005
Update: a breaker blew and the power for the entire lab was off for several hours. Power returned at 23:30 UTC, but we will be dealing with fallout for a while - the project will probably be down all night and through tomorrow morning. More info in Technical News.
February 23, 2005 - 23:30 UTC
A sudden, unexpected power outage due to a blown breaker shut the whole BOINC project(And Classic) down for several hours (along with all the other projects in the lab). The cause is still unknown (which is scary), so there will be a scheduled power outage in the near future to hunt for electrical problems. We do know this: we just can't seem to catch a break around here.
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Once all of the projects are up and running and all of the backlogs are cleared, I will post current progress reports.
In other news,I broke through 50,000 yesterday. :)
March 5, 2005 - 01:00 UTC
The project is down for the weekend. Although we made some diagnostic progress, the servers are still not able to talk to the UPS's. The power in the building is still not trustworthy. There will probably be a power outage next week so that campus can track this down :(
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For anybody reading, I installed the 4.25 manager (GUI) on one box. One of the new things is that it will replace WU's 1 for 1. Another is that the venues (home, work, school) actually work now. There are many other changes, some good, some bad in this build but nothing I don't think you can't live with.
I will post a new progress report on Sat. since the project seems to be running ok now.
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Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 1,067,142,766 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 5,166,366 cobblestones
Total users: 81,421 users
Total teams: 12,627 teams
Total hosts: 194,696 host(s)
Total Countries: 195 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 465,876 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 1,482 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 12 users
Total hosts: 56 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 200 of 12,627
Team Rank RAC: 337 of 12,627
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This is for some one I know who also runs seti@home anyway he was paying a game and left seti on whle playing it and his cpu got quite hot and AMD3200 I believe anyway.The question I ask is it best to shut down seti while playing a game.Thanks
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This is for some one I know who also runs seti@home anyway he was paying a game and left seti on whle playing it and his cpu got quite hot and AMD3200 I believe anyway.The question I ask is it best to shut down seti while playing a game.Thanks
SETI keeps the CPU running at 100% at all times. Running the game won't increase that. It (the game) would increase use of other components (video card, HD, CD etc) which might add enough heat to the system that the CPU can't cool quite as well. Likely games loading the system like that would use 100% of the CPU if SETI were not running and drive the heat up as well. Sounds like they should a/ clean their existing fans - especially the power supply and CPU fans and b/ consider adding another.
My Athlon XP 3200+ has no problems with heat running SETI and a game at the same time. But my system does not have a mega video card and does have excessive cooling.
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It is possible I had a bad build of W2K, but BOINC is 1 - 2 hours faster per WU under XP pro than W2K with a 766 celeron in the same box with the same settings. I was using 4.25 under both systems with the 4.09 cli. Does anyone else have information on this?
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Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 1,201,647,093 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 6,249,069 cobblestones
Total users: 96,350 users
Total teams: 14,326 teams
Total hosts: 225,042 host(s)
Total Countries: 200 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 497,826 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 1,369 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 7 users
Total hosts: 57 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 209 of 14,326
Team Rank RAC: 396 of 14,326
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:) A welcome to Kenneth Yeast for making the switch to BOINC
:) Congratulations to Raven for braking 400,000
Now a monthly progress update:
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 1,411,127,405 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 6,555,070 cobblestones
Total users: 106,504 users
Total teams: 15,280 teams
Total hosts: 248,655 host(s)
Total Countries: 208 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 539,171 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 1,213 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 6 users
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 58 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 226 of 15,280
Team Rank RAC: 447 of 15,280
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The cogent link went down at 07:00 UTC (00:00 PDT) this morning. It looks like it may be down all weekend again.
The link is now up but overwhelmed
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You might note a "slight" increase in production for the summer months.
:-)
GE-Raven
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You might note a "slight" increase in production for the summer months.
:-)
GE-Raven
I wondered if we would see you ramp it up for a while. As for me, I hope too as well as soon as classic ends or I knock off a couple more of my goals. :)
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http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php
Here are the plans for the future of classic and Boinc. Looks like BOINC will be getting more hardware soon.
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Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 1,781,809,505 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 7,788,023 cobblestones
Total users: 131,412 users
Total teams: 17,889 teams
Total hosts: 298,096 host(s)
Total Countries: 214 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 649,229 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 3,832 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 8 users ( 15 in XML)
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 88 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 227 of 17,889
Team Rank RAC: 172 of 17,889
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Man you guys rock. When I think of how long this Project has been going on, and how you all have Kept It running.... It just bogles my mind.
Stephen
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Congratulations to Raven for getting 600,000, it has been a tough week to make any progress! :)
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Thanks man... my goal is 1,000,000 before the end of the year.
GE-Raven
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Raven, Have you been forced to scale back? Your numbers have been down for the last few days.
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Yup.... my summer run has ended... coupled with needing a new "core" on my older machines... I hope to get some power back soon... but it may be a bit.
GE-Raven
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Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 2,539,904,778 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 11,333,343 cobblestones
Total users: 204,501 users
Total teams: 24,400 teams
Total hosts: 435,616 host(s)
Total Countries: 226 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 941,735 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 2,219 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 8 users ( 15 in XML)
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 90 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 207 of 24,400
Team Rank RAC: 394 of 24,400
1) Raven 695,625.72 1,235.43 United States
2) The Postman 109,493.02 389.64 United States
3) Kenneth Yeast 31,626.88 245.08 United States
4) RazalYllib 42,568.48 164.29 United States
5) AJTK 6,161.50 77.85 United States
6) Tus 1,337.41 70.35 United States
7) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
8) f9TH SIR X 19,599.96 64.06 New Zealand
9) Noah Wallace III 5,780.89 52.43 United States
10) Bill Castner 1,437.57 21.92 United States
11) SlackerJoe 7,414.61 19.06 United States
12) Rob 243.11 13.66 United States
13) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
14) IKV Nemesis 89.21 5.11 Canada
15) digi 1,987.54 1.18 United Kingdom
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1) Raven 718,809.74 639.48 United States
2) RazalYllib 50,424.85 285.70 United States
3) The Postman 121,141.33 280.91 United States
4) Kenneth Yeast 39,462.26 260.77 United States
5) AJTK 10,568.35 178.47 United States
6) Tus 1,337.41 70.35 United States
7) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
8) thirdleg 597.48 42.89 United States
9) Noah Wallace III 6,879.08 41.78 United States
10) SlackerJoe 8,226.03 32.67 United States
11) Bill Castner 1,437.57 21.92 United States
12) f9TH SIR X 20,155.30 19.37 New Zealand
13) Rob 243.11 13.66 United States
14) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
15) IKV Nemesis 89.21 5.11 Canada
16) digi 1,987.54 1.18 United Kingdom
Got me another box, el cheapo E-machines $600 walmart special, but it has an amd64 and has put me from an average of 75 average credit to 178 ac in 2 weeks! FYI, according to SETI, this $600 amd system runs seti approx 3 times faster than a 2.4p4 in my laptop! Interesting fact if you are in the market for a second (or more) pc for seti/gaming, etc. This stock amd runs Eve perfectly out of the box.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, my avg credit is STILL going up after 2 weeks, nearly straight up on the graph, cant wait to see where it tops out.
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Congrats to you for being able to up your production. I have had to pull some back to classic for one last push and I had another where the motherboard quit. But I will be back in the hunt soon enough.
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Congrats to thirdleg for joining the team. :)
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Thought they took classic down already, thats the only reason I went to boinc! Oh well.
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Thought they took classic down already, thats the only reason I went to boinc! Oh well.
It is still there. They don't allow the creation of new accounts but it still allows those who have accounts to process WUs. I'm a couple of days from passing 40,000 WUs myself.
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Matt Lebofsky
Project developer
Joined: Mar 1, 1999
Posts: 247
ID: 122079
Credit: 35,398
RAC: 22
Message 186528 - Posted 7 Nov 2005 1:48:42 UTC
December 15th is the current target date. Have a big outage soon for a big step in the master migration database, and then when we're back up start sending out the mass e-mail saying it's time to start moving over.
- Matt
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Big outage: master migration (merging old SETI@home classic science database with BOINC). Everything needs to stop for this to happen, and may take 24-76 hours. Don't want new users coming over to BOINC and finding it down for several days. Of course we'll post news items about this when we have a better idea when this will happen.
Remember this is only the current planned cutoff date, and may slip a week or two, but we're really trying to stick to this one.
- Matt
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Actually, we might be able to get by without an outage - we're working that out now. You can see why I don't post things to the front page until we are a lot more certain about events/dates/times...
- Matt
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I have now moved one machine over to BOINC, the rest will come over when either my cache runs out or they stop accepting returns.
18) IKV Nemesis 126.54 2.19 Canada
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1) Raven 763,819.98 741.96 United States
2) The Postman 142,115.23 366.19 United States
3) RazalYllib 66,403.39 241.80 United States
4) Kenneth Yeast 56,252.94 239.24 United States
5) AJTK 24,953.00 256.79 United States
6) f9TH SIR X 20,854.79 12.40 New Zealand
7) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
8) SlackerJoe 9,350.29 11.06 United States
9) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
10) Noah Wallace III 6,879.08 41.78 United States
11) thirdleg 6,588.51 100.45 United States
12) IKV Nemesis 3,357.29 245.99 Canada
13) digi 1,987.54 1.18 United Kingdom
14) Hollis J. Wood 1,572.92 48.97 Canada
15) Bill Castner 1,437.57 21.92 United States
16) Tus 1,337.41 70.35 United States
17) ATimson 445.62 17.97 United States
18) Xeir 391.15 27.87 United States
19) Rob 243.11 13.66 United States
20) Daniel 82.61 3.85 United States
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I like this list better ;)
Name Total credit Recent average credit Country
1) Raven 763,955.15 740.93 United States
2) The Postman 142,387.22 373.42 United States
3) IKV Nemesis 3,593.09 265.71 Canada
Where it shows me in 3rd place for recent average credit and my output still rising. Just how high can I go? Moo Hunt II ?
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Are you thinking of hunting me?????? :)
Be warned, my RAC will continue to go up for several weeks. With the machines I have right now, I will top out around 430. Once I get a raid card, case, cpu and a boot drive( I have a pair of 200 gigs for the raid), I will have another for the farm. I expect that I can get my RAC up over 600 without trying too hard. I would have that now except that the IT people at my second job decided to block BOINC's outside access without telling me after I had permission from them to run on 3 P4's.
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Are you thinking of hunting me?????? :)
Be warned, my RAC will continue to go up for several weeks. With the machines I have right now, I will top out around 430. Once I get a raid card, case, cpu and a boot drive( I have a pair of 200 gigs for the raid), I will have another for the farm. I expect that I can get my RAC up over 600 without trying too hard. I would have that now except that the IT people at my second job decided to block BOINC's outside access without telling me after I had permission from them to run on 3 P4's.
When the Moo Hunt began he had 11 or 12 machines and I had 1. Along the way I was told that a home user would be lucky to get into the top 20 of the Taldren team. As a home user I was told that getting into the top 10 let alone the top 5 was impossible.
Nothing is impossible.
Note: I actually had 2 machines to start with but only one was connected to the internet, the other had to have the modem taken to it to upload WUs.
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DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE MOO HUNT!
If it werent for the great Moo Hunt - i doubt the Taldren team would have been anywhere near as big as it got without the Hunt.
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DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE MOO HUNT!
2) The Postman 142,754.92 376.50 United States
3) IKV Nemesis 4,476.85 326.05 Canada
Closing in. Only 50 behind. Yesterday it was 108 at one point.
If it werent for the great Moo Hunt - i doubt the Taldren team would have been anywhere near as big as it got without the Hunt.
Moo Hunt V1.0 would not have been near as effective if not for your statistics keeping. I give those statistics which started well before the Moo Hunt credit for a lot of the effort that people put in to get on your list and stay there.
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Are you thinking of hunting me?????? :)
Name Total credit Recent average credit Country
1) Raven 765,107.32 749.80 United States
2) IKV Nemesis 5,146.13 376.58 Canada
3) The Postman 142,837.72 368.99 United States
That was easy. Time to see if I can pluck Raven and take first in RAC until he gets the work network on line again. :)
Since I don't have enough experience with BOINC to do more than guess where my RAC will end up I can only guess that it may be above Ravens current RAC. None of my computers has been running BOINC long enough to reach their maximum RAC. My guess is that it is averaged over 14 days and 1 of my machines has been producing for 9 days, 2 for 5 days and the probable highest RAC for only 2 days so I don't have much of a baseline to estimate from - yet.
Actually I think that Total credit is more important than RAC and at present I can't even begin to rival the top 6 but I hope to enter the top 10 before years end.
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Are you thinking of hunting me?????? :)
Name Total credit Recent average credit Country
1) Raven 765,107.32 749.80 United States
2) IKV Nemesis 5,146.13 376.58 Canada
3) The Postman 142,837.72 368.99 United States
That was easy. Time to see if I can pluck Raven and take first in RAC until he gets the work network on line again. :)
Since I don't have enough experience with BOINC to do more than guess where my RAC will end up I can only guess that it may be above Ravens current RAC. None of my computers has been running BOINC long enough to reach their maximum RAC. My guess is that it is averaged over 14 days and 1 of my machines has been producing for 9 days, 2 for 5 days and the probable highest RAC for only 2 days so I don't have much of a baseline to estimate from - yet.
Actually I think that Total credit is more important than RAC and at present I can't even begin to rival the top 6 but I hope to enter the top 10 before years end.
Funny, this current link shows you at 342.63??????
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=7360
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Try this one (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=4&sort_by=expavg_credit&offset=0) it seems to be more up to date.
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Yeah, your glory was short lived. I just dumped my cache and I am over you again, 379.11. It hasn't shown up on the team list yet. By the way , where did you find that link? the only one I have is: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=4
Another good one is in my sig.
PS, i will make it harder for you when I can get mt 2.6 HT going again. It hasn't communicated since 12/26. The only problem is I don't have direct control over it and must rely on someone else.
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Yeah, your glory was short lived. I just dumped my cache and I am over you again, 379.11. It hasn't shown up on the team list yet. By the way , where did you find that link? the only one I have is: [url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=4[/url]
Another good one is in my sig.
Don't worry too much about my glory because my update hasn't finished working through either ;) . Recent average credit 387.55
The link was the first one that I found when switching to BOINC I forget exactly where.
PS, i will make it harder for you when I can get mt 2.6 HT going again. It hasn't communicated since 12/26. The only problem is I don't have direct control over it and must rely on someone else.
I have the advantage in that all 4 machines are under my direct control and 2 are dual CPU. The first one I set up on BOINC and the last one are both duals. If I add the current RAC of each individual machine I get about 460 and rising by the hour. I am also going to be doing some research on how to optimize them for BOINC output, I should be able to boost my efficiency at least somewhat. I managed to double my speed in SETI 1 by careful research on setup. Here I doubt that I will do that well but even 5% is worthwhile.
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SETI@Home BOINC
Overtake Statistics for The Postman
Brought to you by BOINC Team - "BOINC Synergy"
("100%" BOINC is there any other reason?)
The Postman will not overtake anyone!
The Postman will be overtaken by:
IKV Nemesis: 4,978.1 days
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SETI@Home BOINC Overtake Statistics for IKV Nemesis
Brought to you by BOINC Team - "BOINC Synergy"
("100%" BOINC is there any other reason?)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
Noah Wallace III 1.6
thirdleg 1.7
Putanginamo 5.7
SlackerJoe 7.3
KD4 11.2
f9TH SIR X 34.2
AJTK 103.1
Kenneth Yeast 206.6
RazalYllib 291.6
The Postman 4,978.1
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
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SETI@Home BOINC Overtake Statistics for IKV Nemesis
Brought to you by BOINC Team - "BOINC Synergy"
("100%" BOINC is there any other reason?)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
Noah Wallace III 1.6
thirdleg 1.7
Putanginamo 5.7
SlackerJoe 7.3
KD4 11.2
f9TH SIR X 34.2
AJTK 103.1
Kenneth Yeast 206.6
RazalYllib 291.6
The Postman 4,978.1
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
Interesting stats where did you get them?
They aren't accurate though as my RAC has not yet stabilized. I've already passed thirdleg.
8) SlackerJoe 9,350.29 11.06 United States
9) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
10) Noah Wallace III 6,879.08 41.78 United States
11) IKV Nemesis 6,803.09 476.61 Canada
12) thirdleg 6,781.89 90.93 United States
I'll pass Noah later today and by Monday should pass Cyber (Putanginamo) and SlackerJoe a day later.
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These stats get updated once a day when SETI dumps the data in XML format. The last update to user stats was :
Last update user XML 2005-12-29 22:37:09 GMT
Last update host XML 2005-12-30 00:56:41 GMT
Last update team XML 2005-12-30 01:11:44 GMT
http://www.boincstats.com/
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I have now entered the top 10:
7 ) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
8 ) SlackerJoe 9,350.29 11.06 United States
9 ) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
10) IKV Nemesis 7,025.80 488.68 Canada
My next targets for the next few days.
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SETI@Home BOINC Overtake Statistics for IKV Nemesis
Brought to you by BOINC Team - "BOINC Synergy"
("100%" BOINC is there any other reason?)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
Putanginamo 3.2
SlackerJoe 4.5
KD4 8.0
f9TH SIR X 28.6
AJTK 74.7
Kenneth Yeast 166.3
RazalYllib 225.1
The Postman 2,511.4
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SETI@Home BOINC Overtake Statistics for IKV Nemesis
Brought to you by BOINC Team - "BOINC Synergy"
("100%" BOINC is there any other reason?)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
Putanginamo 3.2
SlackerJoe 4.5
KD4 8.0
f9TH SIR X 28.6
AJTK 74.7
Kenneth Yeast 166.3
RazalYllib 225.1
The Postman 2,511.4
Thanks I have found the link. The numbers are still exaggerated though. I expect the numbers to get more realiistic by Jan 10th. Cyberkada will be passed over night unless he becomes significantly active. The last one should be more on the order of 300 days. (Note to self: Consider doing something to decrease that time. ;) )
I like this line "IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!". When it lists how long until I overtake Raven I'll like it even more. :)
MOO!
Happy New Year all and beware the Great Moo Hunt V2.0.
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unless you are adding more machines to your mix, you have forgotten a couple of details.
I am going to add another HT machine of my own in the 30-60 days. That should add an RAC of 600-800 (todays numbers)to the mix
Seti is going to switch to the enhanced client in the next few weeks. WU's will take 4-10X longer to crunch. WU's will have deadline measured in months instead of days. It could take up to 3 months to get credit if 1 person is slow in crunching and returning
PS, how about unhiding your farm so I can really see what I need to do to stay on top.
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unless you are adding more machines to your mix, you have forgotten a couple of details.
I am going to add another HT machine of my own in the 30-60 days. That should add an RAC of 600-800 (todays numbers)to the mix
It isn't that I have forgotten it, it is that at this point there are too many variables to take into account.
1/ My RAC is not stabilized yet. (Currently listed as 604.25 but over the last 6 days my total has gone up by 6300 - 6300/6=1050)
2/ When/if you add the additional machine, its actual RAC, how much control you have over it.
3/ I've been toying with putting together an Athlon X2 myself and that would be a major boost to my RAC as well. :)
Seti is going to switch to the enhanced client in the next few weeks. WU's will take 4-10X longer to crunch. WU's will have deadline measured in months instead of days. It could take up to 3 months to get credit if 1 person is slow in crunching and returning
Considering that SETI 1 going offline soon was over 2 years I am not going to worry too much over the "enhanced client". Also unless they abandon the existing concept of cobblestones then a WU taking longer will just mean more credit/WU so no change. It might cost you some credit yourself, will your two slow machines still be useful if WUs take 4-10X times longer?
PS, how about unhiding your farm so I can really see what I need to do to stay on top.
My little farm.
Date activated Recent average credit Total credit # of CPUs CPU type CPU Speed
Dec 19th 191.14 3,423.65 2 Athlon(TM) MP 2100+ 1.733ghz
Dec 23rd 151.54 1,988.57 1 Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ 2.2ghz
Dec 23rd 157.19 2,052.79 1 Turion(tm) 64 ML-34 1.8ghz
Dec 26th 152.39 2,056.65 2 Athlon(TM) MP 2400+ 2.0ghz
Total ~652
Remember my RACs are still increasing though the first machine should stabilize soon.
I passed Cyberkada on the 1st and SlackerJoe last night putting me in 8th for total output.
5 ) AJTK 26,323.40 247.85 United States
6 ) f9TH SIR X 20,909.17 9.85 New Zealand
7 ) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
8 ) IKV Nemesis 9,585.73 602.26 Canada
9 ) SlackerJoe 9,350.29 11.06 United States
10) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
KD4 should be hehind me Tuesday night then it will take a while to pass f9TH SIR X as that gap is bigger.
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Yes, my new box will be under my direct control just like the 1.5 P4 is. This one is to replace the bad motherboard on the 766 celeron with the intel 810 chipset that gave up a couple of months back. Perhaps you will remember that from another thread. I am building this one on the cheap from parts I pick up off of ebay as I get the time and money. Somewhere in the next 12 months however, I do need to build a new, kickbutt system because this Shuttle AV40 was, while the hottest thing around when I built it, is getting to be a bit antiquated. It will get one one last CPU upgrade and then it will be seti crunching and massive data storage.
As for the enhanced client, havent you noticed the Berkley infrastructuring buckling under the present load? they need to slow the project down so the hardware can keep up. As soon as the data merge between the old and new is done, they are supposed to start implamenting this. The 2 sets of work and clients will comingle for a few weeks untill they get the last minute bugs worked out. This is going to happen ASAP, weeks not months. The added bonus will be that they will be getting better science with the enhanced client.
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On another note, I was hoping that with the new team output we could stop our slide in the standings, but it doesn't seem possible so far. :(
http://www.boincsynergy.com/stats/overtake.php?project=sah&team=4
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I passed KD4 for total total credit on schedule last night. Next f9TH SIR X.
6 ) f9TH SIR X 20,951.52 11.87 New Zealand
7 ) IKV Nemesis 11,737.66 664.18 Canada
8 ) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
I also passed Raven for RAC.
1) IKV Nemesis 11,737.66 664.18 Canada
2) Raven 768,980.08 662.79 United States
3) The Postman 147,149.99 490.79 United States
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For those who may not have noticed there is an outage notice.
Outage Notice
In order to gain more resources to clean out our database, we shut off all the data servers starting at 16:15 UTC. We probably won't be back up until Thursday around noon (Pacific time). More about it in Technical News.
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Today marks my 3rd anniversary with seti. :) As for the outage, I think I have enough to hold me over. Congrats to you for getting ahead of RAVEN. I don't think he has noticed yet. As a matter of fact I don't remember seeing him for a while on the boards.
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Today marks my 3rd anniversary with seti. :)
Congratulations.
As for the outage, I think I have enough to hold me over. Congrats to you for getting ahead of RAVEN. I don't think he has noticed yet. As a matter of fact I don't remember seeing him for a while on the boards.
I only have a 2 day cache. Raven is around, mostly in Hot and Spicey. Maybe I should post a "Raven has been dethroned" thread in Hot and Spicey to stir him up.
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January 4, 2006
Happy New Year! SETI@home Enhanced 5.0 is released (and will go to public if no problems show up). Still no graphics on Linux due to dynamic symbols not being properly exported. If any Linux hackers want to take a whack at it, please do.
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IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
f9TH SIR X 9.7
AJTK 28.6
Kenneth Yeast 79.3
RazalYllib 106.8
The Postman 613.5
Raven 9,431.1
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
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From SETI site.
January 7, 2006
There is a lab-wide problem (not just SETI@home) that is causing our connection to the world to briefly disappear every few minutes. Otherwise everything is working just fine.
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... and today it is 630.7 days :)
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... and today it is 630.7 days :)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
f9TH SIR X 6.9
AJTK 22.5
Kenneth Yeast 73.5
RazalYllib 96.2
The Postman 625.2
Raven 7,180.9
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
Fluctuations of 1 or 2% are not significant.
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I just found out that one of my dual CPU machines was only running one copy of SETI (it had been running 2). That explains why it had dropped its RAC by 12 over the last few days when I thought it should still be increasing. Both CPUS are now in use and my RAC should increase more rapidly again. The bright side is that in spite of that machine my overall RAC was still going up and now should increase faster again.
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Yeah, when are you going to tell Raven?
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He knows...
Time to crush you puny insects (in a loving way of course...)
GE-Raven
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He knows...
Time to crush you puny insects (in a loving way of course...)
GE-Raven
I see you activated 4 more computers. Good about time you woke up. ;)
Just remember that I am the tortoise, I may not be fast but I just keep plodding along without stop.
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He knows...
Time to crush you puny insects (in a loving way of course...)
GE-Raven
Great to see you around, I thought you had foregotten about us. :)
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finally got back into this :)
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Never thought I would be tracking how long it would take Raven to catch ME. :)
1) IKV Nemesis 20,170.06 878.70 Canada
2) Raven 775,235.89 743.71 United States
The first time I have ever been in the lead for the SETI team.
Welcome back Tus. The more the merrier.
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Never thought I would be tracking how long it would take Raven to catch ME. :)
1) IKV Nemesis 20,170.06 878.70 Canada
2) Raven 775,235.89 743.71 United States
The first time I have ever been in the lead for the SETI team.
Welcome back Tus. The more the merrier.
hmmm... might want to enjoy the sun quickly... it looks like you are about to get a shadow...
GE-Raven
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Tus 1,337.41 70.35
hmmm is that first number trying to tell me something ;)
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Well, I have lost part of the farm at least for now. The 448 is gone for the weekend because the IT guy took it. As for the 2.6 HT, I don't know when I will get it online. maybe tonight, maybe in a week. I was told it asked for a reboot and when it came back up, it was blank. Time will tell. :'(
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hmmm... might want to enjoy the sun quickly... it looks like you are about to get a shadow...
GE-Raven
I burn easily so I tend to stay out of the sun.
1) IKV Nemesis 21,123.56 891.32 Canada
2) Raven 776,917.02 834.87 United States
3) The Postman 152,929.04 571.94 United States
But my shadow is still on you for another day and you will have to work just a little harder all the time to stay out of my shadow. Then it is still on everyone else.
KV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
AJTK 15.7
Kenneth Yeast 61.0
RazalYllib 79.6
The Postman 484.2
Raven 5,933.3
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
For totals I have passed f9TH SIR X and am now targetting AJTK. AJTK will take a little time as he has some serious production to counter.
5) AJTK 29,135.60 243.90 United States
6) IKV Nemesis 21,123.56 891.32 Canada
7) f9TH SIR X 20,980.22 8.57 New Zealand
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2.6 HT is back and running. Just had to talk them through a restore point. :)
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He's been awakened ;)
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He's been awakened ;)
About time. If he dozes off again he knows that I am right behind him and will be in front of him as quickly as possible.
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How long until you pass me now??
GE-Raven
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How long until you pass me now??
GE-Raven
My goal is to maximize output for the team. So if by my actions you are spurred to higher speeds to out run me I win. If you don't and I pass you I still win in a different way.
A no lose scenario, for me. So keep out running me and we both win. So does the team. Now if only Postman can accelerate. :)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
AJTK 8.0
Kenneth Yeast 52.0
RazalYllib 67.5
The Postman 381.8
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
I think that AJTK will be passed in 7 days actually.
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Now if only Postman can accelerate.
I need a raid card(also a stick of DDR 400, any Northwood CPU and agp card). I bought one on ebay and now the guy won't accept my payment or ship it. So I still need a raid card. Now if only we had our in house trading forum. I was planning ahead when I suggested it both for mine and the teams benefit. Not to worry, If I can get it running like my current P4, I should be able to see an RAC over 500 for the one machine. 800 if I can get the right CPU!
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Sometime soon I hope to start to make actual use of my new Laptop at which point my RAC will drop somewhat depending on how much I am carrying it around.
As to the Athlon X2 that has to wait for a contract resolution (Earliest late feb to resolve then a few weeks to accumulate parts). The 4200 according to some sources can output 750/day. Between us maybe we can force Raven to go even faster. :) The longer the contract takes to resolve the more likely I am to take the next step up due to CPU price drops. I still haven't decided if I will build it though, depends on other things.
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The IT dept did not return the 448 today. :( So now I have to hope they will get it done by next week and they don't firewall me.
glad I have a BIG cache. It could be Sunday before I get connected again. I haven't been able to get anything up or down since they came back up.
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I just noticed that 2 days ago was my 4th anniversary on the Taldren SETI team.
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The "Push for 1,000,000" is beginning....
You might notices a "slight" increase in my production.
GE-Raven
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The "Push for 1,000,000" is beginning....
You might notices a "slight" increase in my production.
GE-Raven
About time ... slacker. ;)
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SETI does not appear to be accepting uploads at present but I did pass AJTK overnight and am now in 5th place. 4th will take some time.
3) RazalYllib 72,279.38 217.24 United States
4) Kenneth Yeast 61,724.84 221.53 United States
5) IKV Nemesis 31,477.99 921.03 Canada
6) AJTK 31,424.28 221.44 United States
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Project is back up. :)
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The end of seti@home classic meant one thing to me, I would lose rank in the group when the heavy guns moved in to boinc and got to work. I may be able to stall the end with the impending purchase of a new box.
Yes this year I get to spend my hard earned cash from slaving away in the saltmine as a refund from fed taxman. This translates into about 2.5k--3k to spend on a spanking brand new machine.
My wifes machine (1.5ghz Athlon Thunderbird) will become a tiny slow webserver, she gets mine (Athlon XP running just over 2ghz).
I have not even looked around for what to look for in a new box. My requirements are sli capable (get vid card #2 a little later) and mem....I have digital audio mixing needs (cool edit pro is my tool of choice) that requires considerations for this machine. A start to that solution would be SB Audigy Pro as the audio card, though have not looked for other cards that might be able to handle multiple analog inputs which is what I really want but is probably outside my budget= A Single Midtower case with couple 200+ gig HD and enough ram to buffer to allow it to simultaneous capture and record (@48k sample) a minimum of 24 tracks of mono audio.
Any ideas you have to point me in the right place or suggestions as what look for outside the dream "studio in a box" for about 2.5k-3kish would be appreciated.
What ever I wind picking up will be running boinc and up my RAC, it will of course be faster than what I have now.
That will keep me far ahead of that founder of the blue plague AJTK!!!
It was starting to bother me, a green blooded romulan, would be passed by one of those of the vile Federation, especially a known war criminal and threat to galactic stability and prosperity as those of the blue plague.
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If your looking for a chip that will have power for anything you plan to use it on for a couple of years or more you can't go wrong with any of the dual core chips offered by either Intel or AMD. As a bonus they are all reputed to do very well on BOINC.
Personally I would target a chip with 1 mb of L2 per core rather than the lower 512kb per core versions.
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Stage Two is now complete.
Should be another "slight" uppage in WUs.
GE-Raven
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KV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
Kenneth Yeast 34.4
RazalYllib 47.6
The Postman 233.7
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone!
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Say it ain't sooooooo!!!!
MOOOOO!!!!!
(http://mrbongo1.homestead.com/files/alien_cow_2.jpg)
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Say it ain't sooooooo!!!!
MOOOOO!!!!!
So are you coming back to do your trample your way to the top routine again?
Hope so.
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well now that i got stuff qued up this is working better :). now i just need my router from home so i can get my lappy working to...
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well now i got my lappy working now whoot... its amazing what a little patience can do... that and remembering you can set up an ad-hoc network....
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well now i got my lappy working now whoot... its amazing what a little patience can do... that and remembering you can set up an ad-hoc network....
Good going. That should quickly shoot you up to #4 on RAC.
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how does it normally take seti to start telling you workunits a newly added computer is doing? been almost 16 hours and the site ain't telling me shyt...
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how does it normally take seti to start telling you workunits a newly added computer is doing? been almost 16 hours and the site ain't telling me shyt...
The server (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html) was having "issues" for a few hours today so I wouldn't worry much until tomorrow some time.
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well i'm numbe 4 in the RAC now :)
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well i'm numbe 4 in the RAC now :)
Now can you reach #3?
Fear the Mighty Moo!!
19) moofighters 72.20 6.56 United States
May he trample his way up the rankings once more. MOO!
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me doubts i'll reach numero 3, i've got 2 computers running v. postman's 4... of course i can OC one of them.....
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me doubts i'll reach numero 3, i've got 2 computers running v. postman's 4... of course i can OC one of them.....
Bluff a little. Make him feel the heat, even if its only imaginary. Thats how the Moo Hunt V1.0 began. :)
If you have total control over all your computers you have an advantage over Postman.
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me doubts i'll reach numero 3, i've got 2 computers running v. postman's 4... of course i can OC one of them.....
Bluff a little. Make him feel the heat, even if its only imaginary. Thats how the Moo Hunt V1.0 began. :)
If you have total control over all your computers you have an advantage over Postman.
This is what I have been working on this very night. 2.6 HT, 800 fsb, 400 gig raid etc, etc Expected RAC, 500 - 600, Total cost, < $250US so far :) and this one is Mine, all mine. :) :)
All I need is my raid card(in transit) and a boot drive for the OS
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well i'm numbe 4 in the RAC now :)
Now can you reach #3?
Fear the Mighty Moo!!
19) moofighters 72.20 6.56 United States
May he trample his way up the rankings once more. MOO!
I'll do what I can, but I don't have the processing power I did way back when....... or do I ?? MOOOOO!!!! :-)
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well i'm numbe 4 in the RAC now :)
Now can you reach #3?
Fear the Mighty Moo!!
19) moofighters 72.20 6.56 United States
May he trample his way up the rankings once more. MOO!
I'll do what I can, but I don't have the processing power I did way back when....... or do I ?? MOOOOO!!!! :-)
See Tus? Moo know how it done. Bluff and sound confident.
I don't have the processing power I had back then either ... I have more ... much more. :)[/color]
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well if i get desperate enough i can alwasy resort to useing the computer labs....
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Well it looks like ~1025 +/-10 is my current daily ceiling. At least until I decide I just have to build a new system.
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Looks like I just cracked 900,000. ;D
Looks like I am 16-18 days from 1,000,000
GE-Raven
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Wonder how much production my new box will output:
AMD 64 x2 4800+
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2x 1 gig Corsair DDR400 ram
for video, went w/ 2 x eVGA GeForce 7800 GTX w/ ACS....
Should be here by the weekend. Going to be a busy one as I move data around from wifes box to my current one for back ups, my back up needs....should be quite eventful...
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Raven is on the move, Postman as well and now RazalYllib. Things may be getting interesting.
:)
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Even w/ a Phat Box...they are going to blow me away.
Just wanting to ensure I stay as far ahead of AJTK (founding member of the blue plague) as my budget will allow.
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Even w/ a Phat Box...they are going to blow me away.
Just wanting to ensure I stay as far ahead of AJTK (founding member of the blue plague) as my budget will allow.
Based on todays numbers
RazalYllib will not overtake anyone!
RazalYllib will be overtaken by:
days
IKV Nemesis 37.6
Kenneth Yeast 772.3
Tus 926.8
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Even w/ a Phat Box...they are going to blow me away.
Just wanting to ensure I stay as far ahead of AJTK (founding member of the blue plague) as my budget will allow.
Based on things I have read that chip might get to a RAC of 800 or more all by itself if it is 24/7. So you may easily become a threat to myself and perhaps Postman depending on how much he can keep his expanded farm going.
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Just have to wait and see, Reyam has a duel core as well, may have to "encourage" him to decloak and install boinc...under my acct naturally
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i think my brother's computer might accidently get seti installed this weekend...
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:)What a difference a week makes...
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:)What a difference a week makes...
Over the last few weeks Raven has woken. You have been kicked into action. TUS reactivated and has reached #4 for RAC. Moofighters has rejoined us and begun his RAC climbing (#10 at present). RazalYllib is talking dual core. So I have to agree the things are perking up. Which I quite enjoy.
Have you noticed this?
Team Rank TC: 236 of 35,820
Team Rank RAC: 135 of 35,820
As a team we should be rising. Pretty good for only 15 currenlty active members. More than 2/3s Raven of course.
As an individual I've reached the top 20,000 in the world. Top 1000 in Canada. #6 in my signup class. Still rising across the board.
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By my caclulations I should hit 1 Million sometime Sunday.
GE-Raven
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After an exceptionally long and extreamly intense war, my new system is up and crunching SETI...it was a long and bloody struggle, but the Romulan Empire succeeded in this endeavor. The new system, which should give many years of service to Empire:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Processor Socket 939
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Athlon 64(FX)/Athlon 64 X2/Sempron Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA
Zalman CNPS9500 LED CPU Cooler
eVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX W/ACS3 PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video Card w/HDTV, Dual DVI & VIVO (got 2 of them)
Thermaltake Swing VB6000SNS Mid Tower Case (Silver)
Thermaltake W0049RUC Silent PurePower 680W Power Supply w/Active PFC
Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT 1GB DDR400 XMS3200 Dual-Channel Memory w/Platinum Heat Spreader
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer
Shuttle CR40 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Drive
Case and initial components went together fairly easy. The Case wiring was just "ok" not as nice as the power supply though, with more than enough color coded power taps. Very nice gets the thumbs up on great design!
The Zalman CNPS9500 LED CPU Cooler was interesting to install, and somewhat painful. Google for an pic and imagine those copper vanes penetrating any soft fleshy body parts that just happen to come into contact with it. In hindsight, should have gotten a pair of thin rubber gloves for handling it. Would have saved many drops of my own red vino (I left a couple on the case as a reminder that thin copper vanes BITE).
Everything went together smoothly after that and initial power test went OK. Plugged a moniter in and started to install win xp pro w/ sp2....even that seemed to go well...too well it seems.
Got WinXP installed and made a error...I decided to put some of the additional non essential hardware in and plug it in to the network to update drivers. That destablized it in a major league way...BSOD and lockdown was trouble shot methodically over 48 hours...more installs than I want to even contemplate, though I tip my hat again to da boyz and gurlz over in Redmond...the XP installer is very robust....back to the battle.....it turned out that my MB really did not care for the SB512 card in any of the PCI slots so I had to remove it, install all those itty bitty audio plugs for the front panel - but that gave me the time to re-cable every thing nice and pretty and more critically air flow!!!
I also couldnt get a stable install w/ both Vid cards in...had to install with a single, load drivers, then put it in...weirdness overall weirdness. Never had such a battle w/ hardware quirks like that. Once things were basically loaded and tested (except the sound) I install the only single disk stress software I possessed, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3...loaded that graphic intensive diversion and was absolutely blown away with the crispness and smoothness with all the bells and whistles maxed. Plopped down a couple stock coasters in Sandbox Mode and jumped in and took a ride...It was smooth and not a frame dropped even while looking around while on the ride. Once I got it upstairs from the basement "dungeon and raceway-30 foot HO scale slot car layout", I updated windows and installed CoH -- it also ran flawlessly with all the bells and whistles turned up to 11.
Of course the next piece of software to be loaded was boinc and things are looking nice that way, each core runs a separate piece of work and my other romulan buddy has been convinced that running boinc on his duel core would be a good idea for the Glory of the Empire. Cannot wait to see what the numbers are going to look like in a week or so.
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IKV Nemesis, I think you need to step up the pace a bit. Tus is coming up hard behind you. ;D
I hope to start loading W2K tonight into the new HT machine. Who knows, I might could get #1 RAC during Raven's slow times.
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IKV Nemesis, I think you need to step up the pace a bit. Tus is coming up hard behind you. ;D
I hope to start loading W2K tonight into the new HT machine. Who knows, I might could get #1 RAC during Raven's slow times.
If he can get ahead of me then good for him.
All 4 of my computers are at maximum output, until the contract is settled at work I won't be looking to upgrade so a steady 1035 +/- 20 per day is where I will be hovering for the forseeable future.
Amazing how people have sped up isn't it?
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When my laptop arrives (1.83ghz dual core centrino 1gb 667mhz DDR2 ram) arrives, i plan to throw BOINC on, at least for a while.
The LT is for media viewing, and if it interferes, the client will be off when im using it.
(wont arrive till early march)
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When my laptop arrives (1.83ghz dual core centrino 1gb 667mhz DDR2 ram) arrives, i plan to throw BOINC on, at least for a while.
The LT is for media viewing, and if it interferes, the client will be off when im using it.
(wont arrive till early march)
I would expect that to output in the general neighbourhood of 400 if used 24/7. Nice machine.
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By my caclulations I should hit 1 Million sometime Sunday.
GE-Raven
Let me be the first to congratulate you on achieving that goal
1) Raven 1,000,051.80
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Thanks... all... woot 1,000,000 Total Credit.
GE-Raven
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Thanks... all... woot 1,000,000 Total Credit.
GE-Raven
The applause was deafening wasn't it? :)
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I have had two units that had triplets. looking for more. ;D
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Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 5,151,048,747 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 22,027,117 cobblestones
Total users: 395,834 users
Total teams: 36,427 teams
Total hosts: 815,813 host(s)
Total Countries: 239 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 1,580,350 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 11,447 cobblestones
Total Members: 163 users
Active Members: 16 users ( 22 in XML)
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 140 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 226 of 36,427
Team Rank RAC: 122 of 36,427
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This really bites, I have blown through a 5 day cache in 36 hours. Only the farm HT and my 1.5 still have work. The 1.5 still has 116 WU's but they will be gone by Sat AM :(
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This really bites, I have blown through a 5 day cache in 36 hours. Only the farm HT and my 1.5 still have work. The 1.5 still has 116 WU's but they will be gone by Sat AM :(
What bites worse is that 3 of my machines will be done by morning only 1 can last till saturday. THEN when SETI starts sending out work again being on dialup it will take forever to reload my cache. :(
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This really bites, I have blown through a 5 day cache in 36 hours. Only the farm HT and my 1.5 still have work. The 1.5 still has 116 WU's but they will be gone by Sat AM :(
What bites worse is that 3 of my machines will be done by morning only 1 can last till saturday. THEN when SETI starts sending out work again being on dialup it will take forever to reload my cache. :(
Seeing how long we will be down, I am not sure I will be able to get work in the 1st 24 hours after they come back up. If I read the tech news correctly, it will be tomorrow night at the soonest before they are back up. For me, I will leave the dial up on line overnight Sat/Sun and hope I will wake up full.
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Splitters are up and running :)
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html
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I'm back up to full production. I didn't get the 4th system back up until today, after some adjusting it is performing somewhat better so far. Hopefully everyone else is fully back up too.
Anyone know whats going on with boincstats?
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Anyone know whats going on with boincstats?
From the forums, Willy's explanation
I'm have serious performance issues with the server. The increasing number of visitors, users/teams/host is bringing the server to its knees.
I’ve been putting in faster and more hardware of the past year, and still it’s not enough. Now running Athlon X2 4400+, 3GB RAM, OS on 10000rpb SCSI HD, database on 2x 15000rpm SCSI HD’s in striping), SATA HD for backups and XML files, running a 64bit Debian, MySQL 5.0 and PERL/PHP.
During the updates the server load gets so high that it stalls or reboots. Last it rebooted again, and didn’t boot up again. I went to the datacenter today to fix it, but the current Debian network install had problems with my hard disk combinations. I couldn’t get it to boor properly, without loosing the (very important) backup on the SATA disk.
At last I have decided to take it home, and try it here (which I’m now doing).
I hope to get BOINCstats back up somewhere this week.
Then @ ~10:00 UTC today:
Is it looks now, BOINCstats will be back late today or early tomorrow morning.
If you edit your hosts file, and add your BOINCstats URL to it with the IP 82.161.19.50 you can test it.
(I will do some more tests today, so it may not always be up!)
and then later
I don't think the current server is upgradeble. Not at the moment at least. Its hardware is pretty up to date.
The main problem is when visitors request pages that perform a large SQL qeury when the server is also updating (for example all combined hosts for a single user). This causes MySQL to stall queries.
I figured the best way to solve this problem is by adding a webserver in front of the current server, which will then act as a DB server. On the webserver there will be a copy of the latest updated stats.
But maybe two servers for a single stats site is overkill.
Nonetheless I calculated what it might cost me. I found a co-locater who is offering me to add the second server for only €15 a month if it's a 1U, and the connection to the DB server is a dedicated (server to server, cross-link LAN) connection)
But that's not the problem. If I have to buy that server it's gonna cost me about €700~800, depending on how much rebate I get on the components from my company.
So, I'm gonna sleep on that a bit, and in the meantime I'll try to keep things going with the current server.
OR...... I can reduce the detail of the stats, that may solve the problems. What to do, what to do???
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FYI, it looks like part of the project went down overnight. They were almost caught up too. :(
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For those that crunched or flew with him:
http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163365298.from0.html#new
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The pending option now works on your BOINC account information. If your interested.
$%^&* Naturally just as I am doing some performance testing on my laptop 16 WUs in the last 48 hours stay pending (from the laptop). My other machines have only 0-4 pending at any given time. From today alone 9 are pending for that machine grrr .
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Well Nem...I show about a year for overtake due to recent efforts in expanding the Romulan Empire...I have a couple more outlying systems that soon will join the glorious republic..and soon my older box will awaken as a webserver ( if I ever get the time to ) and it will purr away too..
When that happens, I should have enough impetus to keep my #3 team rank unless you are able to up your production.
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When that happens, I should have enough impetus to keep my #3 team rank unless you are able to up your production.
Things are a little deceptive at present. So we will have to wait and see what the true situation is once our RACS (mine especially) stabilize after that last outage.
My RAC is down because of running out of WUs on 2 of my systems for 2 days during the last outage and 3 days for a third (the laptop). Also 2 of my systems have been adjusted to substantially increase their output and the other 2 will be adjusted to match over the weekend. Once those performance enhancements have had time to be reflected in my RAC we shall have to see what the status is between you and I and Postman. The adjustments to the first system have been enough that even with the outage its RAC is already back to its normal range (adjusted last Sunday). The laptop in spite of having 17 (now) WUs pending over the last 2 days has ceased to have its RAC drop and is holding steady (it was adjusted late Wednesday night). Once the number of pending WUs on the laptop go back to normal levels its RAC will surge forward very significantly.
So if you want to hold your positions you and Postman need to maintain or increase your speed and keep looking over your shoulders as I will surely hold or increase my speed just as I did in the old SETI.
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I am not worried, I haven't even started the HT machine yet. I am still waiting for an RMA on a bad stick of RAM. Right out of the box I had a bad WD drive and a bad stick of DDR 400. I couldn't even install the OS. So When it is all said and done I hope to have an RAC around 2K.
At the moment I have over 2000 sitting in pending which shoould equal 3000 by the time I actually see it. Most of my work has an extreme undervalue in claimed credit.
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Time will tell the tale
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I am not worried, I haven't even started the HT machine yet. I am still waiting for an RMA on a bad stick of RAM. Right out of the box I had a bad WD drive and a bad stick of DDR 400. I couldn't even install the OS. So When it is all said and done I hope to have an RAC around 2K.
At the moment I have over 2000 sitting in pending which shoould equal 3000 by the time I actually see it. Most of my work has an extreme undervalue in claimed credit.
Of course the big question is how much can you sustain? My output is very reliable as I control it all. No one else can turn it off or uninstall it.
Hopefully your replacement RAM and HD will work well. I'd like to see what a well tuned dual core machine can do.
My chance to upgrade to a dual core is going to have to wait a bit. In fact since it will be delayed I'm waiting till the X2 core with DDR2 800 is due out in June/July then I will decide. They should be real hotrods (at least until the quad cores make them look old).
I just adjusted my dual Athlon XP 2400, it will be a while before I see the effects clearly. The dual 2100 will have to wait until Saturday sometime. My laptop is now doing a WU in 1 hr 26 min. My gaming machine is doing one in 2 hrs.
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My 1.5 P4 is cranking them out every 90 minutes and the 1.7's are turning them out every 65-70 minutes. The two 1.7's have not reached their top RAC yet either as they are still climbing.
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We'll do a different one today.
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My 1.5 P4 is cranking them out every 90 minutes and the 1.7's are turning them out every 65-70 minutes. The two 1.7's have not reached their top RAC yet either as they are still climbing.
Thanks for that info. As a result of it I just did a test on my gaming machine and output a WU in 1:06, I'm processing another just to confirm that it was not an anomoly. If this type of improvement is consistant and can be put onto all my machines 2000 is not out of reach. I would need to empty my 4 day cache before implementing it but that is just a delay and my one machine is just about done that now so I can apply the test directly to it later today. Thanks again.
EDIT: The 2nd unit also in 1:06 so once the cache is drained a big performance boost. 2000+ here I come. :)
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December 27th 2005
1) Raven 763,819.98 741.96 United States
2) The Postman 142,115.23 366.19 United States
3) RazalYllib 66,403.39 241.80 United States
4) Kenneth Yeast 56,252.94 239.24 United States
5) AJTK 24,953.00 256.79 United States
6) f9TH SIR X 20,854.79 12.40 New Zealand
7) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
8 ) SlackerJoe 9,350.29 11.06 United States
9) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
10) Noah Wallace III 6,879.08 41.78 United States
11) thirdleg 6,588.51 100.45 United States
12) IKV Nemesis 3,357.29 245.99 Canada
13) digi 1,987.54 1.18 United Kingdom
14) Hollis J. Wood 1,572.92 48.97 Canada
15) Bill Castner 1,437.57 21.92 United States
16) Tus 1,337.41 70.35 United States
17) ATimson 445.62 17.97 United States
18) Xeir 391.15 27.87 United States
19) Rob 243.11 13.66 United States
20) Daniel 82.61 3.85 United States
Today March 11th 2006. The change in RACs for those marked in Red is very noticable.
1) Raven 1,164,494.37 8,239.32 United States
2) The Postman 210,359.05 1,389.56 United States
3) RazalYllib 98,547.41 974.61 United States
4) IKV Nemesis 77,989.64 996.17 Canada
5) Kenneth Yeast 69,023.65 154.16 United States
6) AJTK 45,436.94 411.27 United States
7) f9TH SIR X 21,135.12 3.95 New Zealand
8 ) Tus 19,945.55 363.57 United States
9) KD4 11,050.56 11.84 United States
10) SlackerJoe 9,796.29 14.15 United States
11) Putanginamo 8,687.99 65.43 Philippines
12) thirdleg 7,547.55 10.82 United States
13) Noah Wallace III 6,879.08 41.78 United States
14) Xeir 5,128.60 71.76 United States
15) moofighters 5,004.01 111.10 United States
16) digi 1,987.54 1.18 United Kingdom
17) Hollis J. Wood 1,572.92 48.97 Canada
18) Cayne 1,548.42 85.98 United States
19) Bill Castner 1,437.57 21.92 United States
20) Daniel 588.78 9.17 United States
21) ATimson 445.62 17.97 United States
22) Rob 243.11 13.66 United States
Now a quote from Postman on the same day :)
With the machines I have right now, I will top out around 430. Once I get a raid card, case, cpu and a boot drive( I have a pair of 200 gigs for the raid), I will have another for the farm. I expect that I can get my RAC up over 600 without trying too hard.
Slightly out performing expectations.
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You know, we really should let every one in on this, if we are going to do it. HOWEVER, do you know for each APP upgrade for seti by seti, we need to do them manually. We also need to reduce the caches, and switch back to the stock application and remove the Appinfo.xml BEFORE we can switch to enhanced. The switch is about 2 months away which is why the 2 machines i don't see are not using cruncher or trux.+
As for my performance jump, that is easy to explain. I figured out how to run BOINC on the 4 machines I was using on classic at the end. The Problem was despite the fact I had admin. privalages and permission, Every Boinc client I installed would have a "Master File Fetch" failure. IE I coukd run classic but not BOINC. Then I tried going backward and installing version 4.19 which did not right to the registry and it works. One of these days, I will copy the directory from a late version and just copy it over the BOINC folder and I think it should work.
EDIT: The 2nd unit also in 1:06 so once the cache is drained a big performance boost. 2000+ here I come.
Now you are going to make me upgarde that 1.5 to something faster. With a mild OC i bet i could get it's RAC over 500. Boy I love those Shuttle boards.
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You know, we really should let every one in on this, if we are going to do it. HOWEVER, do you know for each APP upgrade for seti by seti, we need to do them manually. We also need to reduce the caches, and switch back to the stock application and remove the Appinfo.xml BEFORE we can switch to enhanced. The switch is about 2 months away which is why the 2 machines i don't see are not using cruncher or trux.+
I was planning on doing so once I had learned enough to maximize performance. Right now I am just learning what to do and how to do it. As an example my one machine the upgrade "didn't take. A difference in the behaviour of the BOINC manager on different platforms, once that machine empties its cache again I try again. Also of course finding the best upgrade. The gaming machine going from 2:32 to 2:00 to 1:06 shows how I am still learning.
Since your experience goes back to at least December I will let you do the explaining.
Now you are going to make me upgarde that 1.5 to something faster. With a mild OC i bet i could get it's RAC over 500. Boy I love those Shuttle boards.
:) My goal is always to drive the team ahead so my goal is being accomplished.
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http://www.guntec.de/Crunch3r/setix86.html
These are the best crunchers by far. your RAC will go up by 2.5X with intel processors. To see which cruncher is best for your processor get CPUZ from http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php Then get your cache size up to 7-10 days so that you can withstand outages AND so that credit is already granted before you report back becuse the claimed credit from your machine will be next to none. As for me, once the rest of you really get going, I will be left in the dust because you will have RAC's over 3000 and I won't be able to come close to that.
As for your other benchmark question, a 2.6 HT, 800fsb, 865 chipset with stock cruncher is running around230-250 RAC I am hoping for550-700 when I get mine running.
my 1.5 P4 went from 6 hours stock to 2.5 with Tetsuji Maverick Rai's cruncher and then with help from Trux and Crunch3r it went down to ~90 minutes /WU
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Then get your cache size up to 7-10 days so that you can withstand outages AND so that credit is already granted before you report back becuse the claimed credit from your machine will be next to none.
I see something you may have missed that might be of help. Along with the actual processing software you can get optimized BOINC Manager software that redoes the benchmark to account for how much work your processor is doing with the additional features. With the redone benchmarks using SSE1/2/3 or MMX your claimed credit increases. The same site has the manager software. If you upgrade a processor you should also redo the benchmarks as otherwise you would be claiming low again (unless the manager software can detect that?).
Right now the laptop is claiming low numbers because the client software is faster than the manager software can account for and it is dragging down the numbers somewhat. I still need to update it. My gaming machine however is matched properly and claiming properly for actual calculations done. Match the client and the manager updates and you should be claiming appropriate credit levels.
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The optimised boinc client did not make a big difference in claimed credit for me. With the self adjusting time to finish in the newer managers, I found it was just easier to stay stock.which you must do if you dabble in other projects. Trux BTW and not cruncher has the best BOINC client.
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The optimised boinc client did not make a big difference in claimed credit for me. With the self adjusting time to finish in the newer managers, I found it was just easier to stay stock.which you must do if you dabble in other projects. Trux BTW and not cruncher has the best BOINC client.
It may also vary depending on OS and processor. Yours are mostly PIVs and mine Athlon XPs with a single Turion 64. Which is best may differ between us. Even without the maximally optimized client 2 of my machines are on the border now of setting new highs for their RAC. It'll go even higher with the better (for me) client.
Currently at least I am only doing SETI so I don't need to worry about the others having trouble with the manager.
EDIT: I just (several hours ago) updated my dual Athlon XP 2100 (SUSE Linux) and the time seems to have dropped from ~5hrs / WU to a little over 2hrs as a first approximation a 2.2 x increase in output. It was putting out around 240 / day and this should make it up to ~520 / day. Very nice indeed. :)
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The optimised boinc client did not make a big difference in claimed credit for me. With the self adjusting time to finish in the newer managers, I found it was just easier to stay stock.which you must do if you dabble in other projects. Trux BTW and not cruncher has the best BOINC client.
It may also vary depending on OS and processor. Yours are mostly PIVs and mine Athlon XPs with a single Turion 64. Which is best may differ between us. Even without the maximally optimized client 2 of my machines are on the border now of setting new highs for their RAC. It'll go even higher with the better (for me) client.
Currently at least I am only doing SETI so I don't need to worry about the others having trouble with the manager.
EDIT: I just (several hours ago) updated my dual Athlon XP 2100 (SUSE Linux) and the time seems to have dropped from ~5hrs / WU to a little over 2hrs as a first approximation a 2.2 x increase in output. It was putting out around 240 / day and this should make it up to ~520 / day. Very nice indeed. :)
You'll never beat my 6 units on the original server... Sure you guys crank out a billion a day, But mine where just that... Mine , they are my 6 total units... No one can touch them, no one can have them , My Prescious Precious...
OK so how do I get started again? Links guys?
Stephen
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http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/
your old account(s) are already transfered, you just need to activate it, dl software and attach and run. Or set up as new account and attach to the team page. After you are up and running we will set you up with some better software.`You should just show up on the team page.
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better software......?
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better software......?
With BOINC the SETI team lets out the source code and those with the skills and tools can optimize them for each processor and OS. (Link to site (http://www.guntec.de/Crunch3r/boincx86.html)). I've known of this since well before I joined the BOINC SETI but decided to wait to get a bit of experience so I could judge the degree of improvement before making the change. After all it would not be worth too much effort for a minor improvement. For me at least the boost is not minor.
My gaming machine for example was doing a WU in ~2:33 it is looking like it can do them in about ~1:06 for an output boost to 235% of what it had been doing. If I can get that for all my systems I will be putting out ~2400 credits a day. I will also be reaching the point where any further increase is impractical unless I get off dialup and onto broadband. It is beginning to take just too many hours a day to transfer my data back and forth. :) A problem I never thought to have. :rwoot:
(1 WU seems to be about 25 credits typically in my experience)
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You'll never beat my 6 units on the original server... Sure you guys crank out a billion a day, But mine where just that... Mine , they are my 6 total units... No one can touch them, no one can have them , My Prescious Precious...
OK so how do I get started again? Links guys?
Stephen
And every single WU mattered then and matters now.
SETI @ Home Homepage (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)
Download page (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php)
Do as much or little as you like. You don't HAVE to get competitive like some of us ;) but it can add to the fun if you have the inclination. Feel free to bluff if you wish, it has worked for me in the past ;) MOOO!.
Note for Stephen: Wednesdays are a bad time to join the SETI as they have the database down for a few hours and it can look like you are having problems when in fact the system is just undergoing routine maintenance.
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You'll never beat my 6 units on the original server... Sure you guys crank out a billion a day, But mine where just that... Mine , they are my 6 total units... No one can touch them, no one can have them , My Prescious Precious...
OK so how do I get started again? Links guys?
Stephen
And every single WU mattered then and matters now.
SETI @ Home Homepage ([url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/[/url])
Download page ([url]http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php[/url])
Do as much or little as you like. You don't HAVE to get competitive like some of us ;) but it can add to the fun if you have the inclination. Feel free to bluff if you wish, it has worked for me in the past ;) MOOO!.
Note for Stephen: Wednesdays are a bad time to join the SETI as they have the database down for a few hours and it can look like you are having problems when in fact the system is just undergoing routine maintenance.
Thanks Guys. I'll grab the Proggy tomorrow, and get started. Chances are, I'll have to start a new account though, as my old one... well, Let's just say I forgot the password. Man Looking at the site though, It's changed since the last time I looked at it.
Stephen
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And here is the team page :) The team overall is headed back into the top 200 once again :)
Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 5,555,458,634 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 20,973,241 cobblestones
Total users: 406,826 users
Total teams: 37,040 teams
Total hosts: 844,541 host(s)
Total Countries: 239 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 1,853,228 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 13,022 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 14 users ( 22 in XML)
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 145 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 211 of 37,040
Team Rank RAC: 104 of 37,040
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From tech news:
March 21, 2006 - 20:00 UTC
Quick update: As you may have noticed connections to our data servers are spotty at this moment in time. There are two reasons for this. First, we are one day before our weekly database compression/backup and this is when the database is at its worst (it gets fragmented and bloated over the course of the week, so it requires more disk I/O to find data than when the data is nicely compressed in a smaller physical space). Second, we just quickly rebooted the scheduler to attach it to a new console server.
Outside of that, it's been business as usual the past few weeks. The new data recorder is being wrapped up and tested, and the SETI@home enhanced client is almost out the door.
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MUCH BETTER!
1) Raven 1,260,882.59 8,064.14 United States
2) IKV Nemesis 99,380.20 1,573.07 Canada
3) The Postman 230,528.14 1,549.89 United States
4) RazalYllib 112,229.70 1,094.90 United States
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... i can't wait for my cadet loan.... $30k at 1% interest.... 5k of which will be put into the construction of a new rig... shame i have to wait 1 more year.... DOH
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MUCH BETTER!
1) Raven 1,260,882.59 8,064.14 United States
2) IKV Nemesis 99,380.20 1,573.07 Canada
3) The Postman 230,528.14 1,549.89 United States
4) RazalYllib 112,229.70 1,094.90 United States
I have had one hell of a week. The new Shuttle has been giving me a fit. All of the work I have been doing is being error-ed out. also the times are about double what they should be. Only this morning have I been able to do a bios upgrade and get the latest 4in1 drivers installed. All ready it is running with more stability. Maybe I am starting to get it on track. The bios upgrade should take care of the DDR400 issues and the 4in1 drivers should get the chipset running better. (keeps fingers crossed) I am hoping that the DDR400 issues are what screwwing up the WU's. If not, I will get another board and build again.
My main home PC, another Shuttle with VIA chipset (1.5 P4), abruptly aborted 150 WU's the other night. I have no idea if something hiccuped or I had help from the 2 year old. It will take at least a week to get that RAC back where it should be.
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I have had one hell of a week. The new Shuttle has been giving me a fit. All of the work I have been doing is being error-ed out. also the times are about double what they should be. Only this morning have I been able to do a bios upgrade and get the latest 4in1 drivers installed. All ready it is running with more stability. Maybe I am starting to get it on track. The bios upgrade should take care of the DDR400 issues and the 4in1 drivers should get the chipset running better. (keeps fingers crossed) I am hoping that the DDR400 issues are what screwwing up the WU's. If not, I will get another board and build again.
My main home PC, another Shuttle with VIA chipset (1.5 P4), abruptly aborted 150 WU's the other night. I have no idea if something hiccuped or I had help from the 2 year old. It will take at least a week to get that RAC back where it should be.
My RAC is still going up since the optimizing I expect to pass 2000 but by how much I don't know. One anomoly is that my former fastest machine is now my slowest machine. It is slower than my other similar machine even though it uses faster CPUs. On the other hand my Laptop went from its baseline of 2:43/WU to 0:59/WU and is now putting out more WUs/ day than any of my other machines.
My formerly fastest machine is now undergoing a long delayed OS replacemnet. Converting to SuSE Linux. Running preinstall check of install media right now. I do wonder if it will support the ancient Promise RAID card or not. Probably not. No loss.
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My new box has gotten much better BUT I am still outputting junk. I have shut it down. I cant run it as a single or HT. The computer is running mostly fine now. It makes a great dvd player BUT it can't crunch. At this point I think the CPU is busted. I am still getting result overflows. If and when I get rich again, I will get a new cpu for the 400 fsb and move the 1.5 to this one. I should be able to test that way. If it is a bad cpu, I would then replace it. These bios do allow extreme edition processors which might come down in price by then. (Living in New England makes me a cheap Bast**d)
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My RAC is still going up since the optimizing I expect to pass 2000 but by how much I don't know. One anomoly is that my former fastest machine is now my slowest machine. It is slower than my other similar machine even though it uses faster CPUs. On the other hand my Laptop went from its baseline of 2:43/WU to 0:59/WU and is now putting out more WUs/ day than any of my other machines.
My formerly fastest machine is now undergoing a long delayed OS replacemnet. Converting to SuSE Linux. Running preinstall check of install media right now. I do wonder if it will support the ancient Promise RAID card or not. Probably not. No loss.
What do you consider ancient? I am still running a FT 66 and a FT100. The new board does have SATA raid but I only have a single Seagate on it so I can't compare it to even the FT100 which is also on that board.
I hope they roll out enhanced soon, I think Berkley is buckling under the load. If I could get it running correctly, the 2.6 Northwood would be turning out ~48 WUs a day.
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What do you consider ancient? I am still running a FT 66 and a FT100. The new board does have SATA raid but I only have a single Seagate on it so I can't compare it to even the FT100 which is also on that board.
I bought it for my first (socketed) Athlon. It is an ATA 100, which is better than that old motherboard supported but not capable of the full speed of the (2x 120GB) ATA 133 HD with 8mb cache that it has now. SuSE is using it but not in RAID data striping mode. Just as a HD controller separate from the built in controller so each is a master with its own DMA and so are my CD/RW and DVD/RW on the motherboard controllers.
Early indicators are that the system is kicking out 2 WUs every ~2:08 compared to the 2:37 it was doing so that is significantly better but I was hoping to get down to 2:00 or slightly less. My laptop is now my undisputed champion at output.
As a suggestion have you tried running memtest (http://www.memtest86.com/) on that new machine? You could have some flakey memory causing the problem. You might even try turning down the FSB a speed grade because if either the CPU or memory is marginal it would likely work at 333 even if it isn't reliable at 400.
Edit: I just went back through the thread to the posting with the picture of your new system. I noticed that it appears to have an Antec power supply (which is my preferred choice) but I could not see the wattage. The newer Pentium IVs are quite power hungry and 2 HD and all the other things you are putting in seems like it is possible you are on the low side power wise.
Also the various cables (in the image) looked like they could be either A/ blocking airflow or possibly B/ close enough to some components to cause induced currents which could (and once in my past did) interfere with the proper operation of the computer. I realize that picture was early in the construction but it occurs to me that you may not yet have straightened them out as you are still working on the system and they could still be in inappropriate locations.
One final thing. You do seem to have an adequate supply of fans but are they all blowing in the optimal directions? Could you have a heat problem? Something as simple as a heatsink put on backwards (yes I did that once :) the system worked until the next CPU upgrade when I recognized it but ran warm) can cause cooling to be marginal. Not just CPU temperature but case temperature. If your RAM or northbridge are too warm you can get the same problems. Even HDs can overheat.
I'm not questioning your competence to assemble the computer but sometimes even the best need to be reminded of some of the simpler things that could be overlooked. Recently I solved a problem for someone (who knew better) by asking them if they had cleaned the fans/heat sinks on the video card they were having trouble with. They promptly went "OH! &^%!" cleaned it and the problem was solved. They got too wrapped up in debugging the "software conflict" and forgot it might be something basic like a misplaced cable or forgetting to remove the protective tape from the bottom of the heat sink (seen that too). I've even seen "faulty" HDs and CD burners turn out to be known good cables gone bad, change the cable save the expensive component. The moral of course is don't forget to check the simple "stupid" things you might have missed just because they are basic and don't take much attention to get right. Sometimes people still get them wrong.
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My SuSE converted machine has done a little better than I thought. It looks to be outputting 2 WUs every ~2:01. Not quite as fast as the laptop but close. I expect it to vary somewhat (like the other dual Athlon SuSE machine) so I can't be sure if that is the norm, high end or low end for some time yet. I should have a better idea by next weekend. The dual 2100 (this is a dual 2400) does 2 WUs in ~2:17 so ~2:01 is roughly where it should be and a great improvemnt on ~2:38 under Windows.
The just converted to Linux machine is handling things well enough that I'm using Firefox on it to post this message and do some web browsing rather than the gaming machine that I normally use to read and post here. I can't run the monitor at full resolution (2048x1536) at present as there seems to be a slight flicker but I'm trying it at the next notch down right now and so far it seems OK. Windows did handle full resolution better but I may need to change some settings to get it right (as I did with Windows in fact).
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Well, I have at least partially ruled out the power supply, although I need a bigger one, by unplugging everything but the boot drive and still no success. However I do notice that the northbridge does run HOT with it's passive heat sink when crunching and not when it is idle. My AV40 actually has a fan on the northbridge and it does much better. I am going to pursue this line later in the week when I have more time.
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Well, I have at least partially ruled out the power supply, although I need a bigger one, by unplugging everything but the boot drive and still no success. However I do notice that the northbridge does run HOT with it's passive heat sink when crunching and not when it is idle. My AV40 actually has a fan on the northbridge and it does much better. I am going to pursue this line later in the week when I have more time.
Have you considered returning the board? If the northbridge is overheating it should be considered defective. Keep us posted and good luck.
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(Imagine the Jaws theme music playing in the background)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
RazalYllib 17.7
The Postman 944.1
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone! (Gotta love this line ;))
RAC still rising.
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I saw that also...
Notta thing I can do about it, like that time oh so many years ago, SFC mplague, my I had just Shift Z and alpha'ed at one of them feds w/ drones; we both were injured pretty badly and remaining plasma in arc had just recharged so I closed and alpha'd...he was doomed but I noticed to my dismay the clever one had a final surprise in the form of one each scatterpack with my name on it. Needless to say I knew I was about to be retired, I had not enough juice to cloak, no operable tractors and not much I could do other than wait...I did have the satisfaction of watching him pop first in that case though...
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I saw that also...
Notta thing I can do about it,
Try the optimized clients. That X2 will roar you past Postman and put you in the neighbourhood I will be at. Use them with the other machines as well and I will be behind you. My Turion is a laptop version of the Athlon 64 running at 1.8ghz and is doing a WU in roughly 3550 seconds (RAC 491 and rising). Your X2 should manage 2 WUs in 2400 seconds or less with the optimized client under Windows.
like that time oh so many years ago, SFC mplague, my I had just Shift Z and alpha'ed at one of them feds w/ drones; we both were injured pretty badly and remaining plasma in arc had just recharged so I closed and alpha'd...he was doomed but I noticed to my dismay the clever one had a final surprise in the form of one each scatterpack with my name on it. Needless to say I knew I was about to be retired, I had not enough juice to cloak, no operable tractors and not much I could do other than wait...I did have the satisfaction of watching him pop first in that case though...
Here is my version of that.
In SFC1 flying an K-E4B, total wreck, no weapons except 2 marines and the probe launcher with 3 probes left doing attack runs on a Lyran BCH that was wrecking a Romulan BCH. The Lyran player blamed the Romulan for taking out his ESGs but it was my probes. When the Lyran finally blew the shock detonated my E4 as well.
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(Imagine the Jaws theme music playing in the background)
IKV Nemesis will overtake:
Days
RazalYllib 17.7
The Postman 944.1
IKV Nemesis will not be overtaken by anyone! (Gotta love this line ;))
RAC still rising.
new MB ordered. IF I can get it running with anywhere near the numbers I caught a glimpse of, I think I can hold you off indefinitely especially with a modest CPU upgrade to the AV40. 400fsb socket 478 are getting pretty cheap these days. Razal on the otherhand could become a real threat if he ever catches on to the new apps. However, if I were in his shoes, I would wait until the switch before I installed them because of the headaches that will happen with the switch.
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So I should go to the http://www.guntec.de/Crunch3r/setix86.html and get a new client, one for each of the machines of the empire?
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So I should go to the [url]http://www.guntec.de/Crunch3r/setix86.html[/url] and get a new client, one for each of the machines of the empire?
Yes. This is the precise link for the Athlon64 (http://www.bm-makler.de/setiathome/setiathome/Athlon64_SSE3.zip) with Windows. With it that X2 should roar.
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new MB ordered. IF I can get it running with anywhere near the numbers I caught a glimpse of, I think I can hold you off indefinitely especially with a modest CPU upgrade to the AV40. 400fsb socket 478 are getting pretty cheap these days.
Likely your right. Though my RAC is still going up my output is stable and pushes the limits of what my dialup can handle. Also I have to await a contract settlement before I look at an upgrade. With all that and the new X2 coming out in a few months it is probably best to wait for them and see if I can't get on broadband. Probably September at the earliest now. Roughly 30mb of downloads a day is rough on dialup.
Razal on the otherhand could become a real threat if he ever catches on to the new apps. However, if I were in his shoes, I would wait until the switch before I installed them because of the headaches that will happen with the switch.
It appears he is not vulnerable to that particular Jedi Mind Trick. "These aren't the optimizers your looking for". ;)
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FYI, I am going to SC until Friday on on union business. My home machine will have a full cache but may not get transmitted until friday PM. My numbers and RAC will drop accordingly until then.
That is all
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FYI, I am going to SC until Friday on on union business.
Hopefully this will be far more enjoyable than one would expect of such a trip. Good Luck.
My home machine will have a full cache but may not get transmitted until friday PM. My numbers and RAC will drop accordingly until then.
That is all
Hopefully everything continues to process smoothly and that you can upload and download your cache easily as soon as your back.
Have fun.
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And I slide up one notch.
1) Raven 1,368,711.30 7,983.68 United States
2) The Postman 251,634.97 1,574.24 United States
3) IKV Nemesis 125,387.68 1,815.95 Canada
4) RazalYllib 124,597.60 896.19 United States
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Here is a blast from the past and it has our roots and beginnings. Very interesting read as to how this team started. :)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011122222545/216.203.248.212/ubb/Forum1/HTML/014710.html
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What a blast from the past!.
To think that 3000 units was tops :)
Here is a blast from the past and it has our roots and beginnings. Very interesting read as to how this team started. :)
[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20011122222545/216.203.248.212/ubb/Forum1/HTML/014710.html[/url]
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Incredibly eerie ... I had almost forgotton what the forum layout used to look like... how the time flies
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new MB ordered. IF I can get it running with anywhere near the numbers I caught a glimpse of, I think I can hold you off indefinitely especially with a modest CPU upgrade to the AV40. 400fsb socket 478 are getting pretty cheap these days.
New machine processing? From your RAC rise I would think so. :thumbsup:
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new MB ordered. IF I can get it running with anywhere near the numbers I caught a glimpse of, I think I can hold you off indefinitely especially with a modest CPU upgrade to the AV40. 400fsb socket 478 are getting pretty cheap these days.
New machine processing? From your RAC rise I would think so. :thumbsup:
Don't panic yet, I am going to have to take the Shuttle AV40 off line for a week or so in order to format and reload. It caught a cold. In the mean time, the Shuttle AV49PN(VIA PT800) has been replaced with a ASUS P4P800E (865PE, 2.6 Northwood) and is spitting out 2 every 70 minutes on rather conservative settings. That is the absolute limit of the dial up. Between the 2, I am moving close to 60 WU's a day through 1 dialup connection.
It would seem the Shuttle board was bad even though it would sort of run.
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Don't panic yet, I am going to have to take the Shuttle AV40 off line for a week or so in order to format and reload. It caught a cold. In the mean time, the Shuttle AV49PN(VIA PT800) has been replaced with a ASUS P4P800E (865PE, 2.6 Northwood) and is spitting out 2 every 70 minutes on rather conservative settings. That is the absolute limit of the dial up. Between the 2, I am moving close to 60 WU's a day through 1 dialup connection.
It would seem the Shuttle board was bad even though it would sort of run.
Not panicing. I'm glad to see it.
Afterall if catching you was easy there would be no fun in it. :) Thats why I gave the thumbs up smiley. :thumbsup:
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May 4, 2006
We've started distributing work for a new version of SETI@home called SETI@home Enhanced.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_enhanced.php
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Right now I can't upload or DL work because the network is jammed.
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May 4, 2006
We've started distributing work for a new version of SETI@home called SETI@home Enhanced.
[url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_enhanced.php[/url]
If I understand this right the new packets will take longer to process / K of data and credit should be increased in proportion so 10 hours work with the new or old systems should produce ~ equal credit. If I am right in that then this will be good for me as I am currently transferring data in about as high a volume as I can handle on my dial up internet account. This will decrease the transfer per computer and allow the possiblity of adding more computing power to my systems. :)
Right now my output is down as my laptop is being used more (posting this from the laptop at my parents new house as I await appliance deliveries) and I am playing Galactic Civilzations II which stops BOINC on my gaming machine when running.
P.S. Happy Birthday! :drinkinsong: :rockinband: : :tonybanks: :drinkinsong:
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Thanks.
Don't forget. if I understand this correctly, we need to delete the Appinfo.xml before we can get the new app or WUs. Then we can load the new apps. I think for a few weeks, our RAC will be a little messed up.
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Don't panic yet, I am going to have to take the Shuttle AV40 off line for a week or so in order to format and reload. It caught a cold.
Well, I pulled it apart this AM and tried to boot into a new HD and now I can't get into the bios or anything else. I may have killed the board.. If I did, all I can say is it was a kick a** board that served me well. In the mean time, I am transferring the flag to the ASUS board. All of my documents, seti boinc logs, email etc are being copied and transfered. When it is all done, I may give the shuttle AV49PN 1 more try and see if it will run at 400fsb.
in other news, I do have some enhanced work on the ASUS. it keeps the manager messed up for your cache size. I am going to need to find the optimised client for enhanced fast.we need version 5.12, not the beta version.
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Is anybody else running enhanced besides me?
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I am running enhanced on the duel core box
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May 16, 2006
All of our splitters have been altered to create workunits for SETI@home enhanced. Thanks, for your patients during this transition.
As it turned out, I had finished changing over the farm this morning. I have Win2K loaded on the new/old Shuttle and just need to upgrade to XP SP2 to get all of the drivers then that will be back on line.
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Well my RAC is on the rise again, however slowly. The AV40 has been replaced with the Av49PN and it seems to be running well except for no sound. I am going to need to check for driver conflicts to see if I can resolve that one. There does not seem to be the math issues that I had the last time I tried this board.
The Asus P4p800E is running very well. I never did get to see what its RAC was going to top out at with the 4.18/4.11 work units. I think 450 is about where its going to be now with the 5.12 units.
For those that can't get to the new optimised client because of 404 errors, try this link:
http://calbe.dw70.de/
All of the downloads needed to setup the new optimised enhanced client are there. Remember to pick the right one depending on your processor.
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I just started enhanced on one of my machines, they have all run out of work on the old client. I found the easiest way to do the upgrade (from an optimized client) was just to detach and reattach to the SETI project. I'll probably run the stock client for a day then upgrade to the optimized again. So for the next few days or maybe a week or two my numbers will likely be down as I upgrade to enhanced then to optimized clients again.
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I ran 4.18/4.11 together with 5.12 for quite a while. I actually was receiving a mix of WU's for a couple of weeks on the Asus and the 1.7's. Your numbers are going to be down no matter what. My shuttle was running an RAC of ~350, yesterdays output with the optimised enhanced app was 160. my 1.7's that were running just under 400, are now running around 250.
on another note, the dial up is no longer stressed. Where I was doing 60+ wu a day through the dialup, I am only doing 12-15 now
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on another note, the dial up is no longer stressed. Where I was doing 60+ wu a day through the dialup, I am only doing 12-15 now
That is good news as I hoped. Now I can plan for future upgrades of SETI processing power. ;)
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Something I haven't seen before. Two of my systems have WUs with status marked "preempted". Anyone see that under enhanced?
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Something I haven't seen before. Two of my systems have WUs with status marked "preempted". Anyone see that under enhanced?
I see it all of the time. When the manager downloads a WU with an earlier dead line, it will jump to those WU's. The manager always crunchs the earliest deadline 1st.
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Well I'm back and running after a 24 hour break. Between these 2 trees, I had no power at my house for 24 hours, which only came back on about 90 miutes ago.
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Something I haven't seen before. Two of my systems have WUs with status marked "preempted". Anyone see that under enhanced?
I see it all of the time. When the manager downloads a WU with an earlier dead line, it will jump to those WU's. The manager always crunchs the earliest deadline 1st.
Thanks for the info.
I think that I will run the standard Enhaced client until next Sunday then try the optimized clients on a machine or 2. The laptop should get the biggest increase so it is my number 1 for the upgrade then one of the dual CPU Linux machines..
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Well I spoke to soon, After only 4 hours, yet another tree went down knocking out power untill 5 minutes ago. At this rate, I will never finish any WUs. :(
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Well I spoke to soon, After only 4 hours, yet another tree went down knocking out power untill 5 minutes ago. At this rate, I will never finish any WUs. :(
As my router has gone flakey I can sympathiize with you. Getting another router with serial port so I can connect the modem to the network as my internet connection won't be easy.
So if I go "missing" for a few days just blame a dead router and remember "I'll be back".
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Well I spoke to soon, After only 4 hours, yet another tree went down knocking out power untill 5 minutes ago. At this rate, I will never finish any WUs. :(
As my router has gone flakey I can sympathiize with you. Getting another router with serial port so I can connect the modem to the network as my internet connection won't be easy.
So if I go "missing" for a few days just blame a dead router and remember "I'll be back".
Good luck amd we'll be waiting for your return.
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As my router has gone flakey I can sympathiize with you. Getting another router with serial port so I can connect the modem to the network as my internet connection won't be easy.
So if I go "missing" for a few days just blame a dead router and remember "I'll be back".
Good luck amd we'll be waiting for your return.
I haven't gone yet.
The router is behaving "poorly" but it is still working (mostly). Last night one of the sockets just didn't work so one of my computers had no network access. I left it unplugged all day while I was at work then plugged it back in and all 4 sockets functioned and I was able to upload WUs without trouble. I have put an old heatsink on it as I think that it is overheating. I sent an E-Mail to see if my brother-in-law still has the similar old unit that he once had and still wants to get rid of it. If so I may get it before the current one fails utterly.
I had a spare 8 port router but my mother is using it right now as the firewall for her cable internet connection. It doesn't have a serial port unfortunately or I would just quickly grab a new 4 port router for her and take back the 8 port. For now at least I'm still online, just not reliable enough that I would willingly play SFC as I can't trust the connection to stay stable or reliable enough to be sure I'm still online tomorrow. I have a 4 day cache so I should be able to last through any router caused outage until I can get another router and get back online.
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Looks like I can get the replacement router with serial port, I just don't know when I can squeeze in the time to get it.
I was too busy to remember to turn down the cache on any of my systems so they will continue with the non optimized client for at least another week.
On the bright side:
Position in Country stats 197 (Canada of course)
World Position (based on incremental update) 4,535
Position in 'sign-up date' stats 2 (#1 by the end of June)
Top 1% both overall and in Canada.
So I'm doing fairly well in spite of the last second transfer to SETI II from I.
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It was never my plan to replace my AV40 board, but since I have with a board that can run non prescott cores, would you replace the RAM or the CPU first? Right now I have a 400fsb set up with a 1.5 P4 and pc2100. I can move up to 800fsb, pc3200 and all socket 478's short of prescott. What order would you upgrade if it was going to be done in steps rather than all at once?
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It was never my plan to replace my AV40 board, but since I have with a board that can run non prescott cores, would you replace the RAM or the CPU first? Right now I have a 400fsb set up with a 1.5 P4 and pc2100. I can move up to 800fsb, pc3200 and all socket 478's short of prescott. What order would you upgrade if it was going to be done in steps rather than all at once?
I don't have any current experience with Pentiums so I can't be sure. As a general principle I would leave upgrading the component whose price will drop most before the upgrade till last. That would be the CPU in my opinion. Add in that people are beginning to transition to DDR2 and there is the risk that if you leave the memory upgrade till later you may run into a price increase for the RAM instead of decrease.
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It appears that the client optimizer Crunch3r has left the SETI community and taken his website down so I don't know when or if I'll get to upgrade to an optimized client for my Linux machines. I have a client that is better but suboptimal for my laptop and maybe for the gaming machine. I'm testing it on the laptop now. Perhaps next weekend I'll see if it works on the gaming machine. So I guess that for the forseeable future I won't reach the heights I once did.
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I have Windows SSE and SSE2 5.12 put away if you can use them
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I have Windows SSE and SSE2 5.12 put away if you can use them
Thanks for the offer but I have the SSE2 for Windows. The ones I need are the SSE3 for Athlon and the Linux SSE for Athlon.
Crunch3r may yet return. One of the comments indicated he was in talks with the admins and it might still be resolved.
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Happy Birthday Raven ;D
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Happy Birthday Raven ;D
Thanks Man.
GE-Raven
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Good News and Bad News
Good News: I installed the updated OpenSuSE 10.1 on one of my 2 SuSE machines and my WU output for that machine went up by 50%
Bad News: The credit per WU dropped by 50% so that machine is outputting more work and getting less credit.
Since it really is about processing the maximum amount of data I'll be updating the 2nd OpenSuSE machine this weekend and hopefully get the same increase in output WUs.
If I get the chance I may try and see if the Windows BOINC version of SETI works faster on Linux/Wine as did the old SETI. If so I can migrate the optimzed Windows client to those machines and maximize my output though I don't know how it will affect my RAC.
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Project statistics
Name of Project: SETI@Home
Total credit granted: 7,705,032,633 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 18,419,642 cobblestones
Total users: 468,108 users
Total teams: 40,370 teams
Total hosts: 989,687 host(s)
Total Countries: 240 different countries
Statistics for Taldren
Total credit granted: 2,885,571 cobblestones
Total Recent Avg Credit: 5,602 cobblestones
Total Members: 162 users
Active Members: 11 users ( 22 in XML)
# Member Countries: 5
Total hosts: 162 host(s)
Team Rank TC: 184 of 40,370
Team Rank RAC: 214 of 40,370
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Good News and Bad News
Good News: I installed the updated OpenSuSE 10.1 on one of my 2 SuSE machines and my WU output for that machine went up by 50%
Bad News: The credit per WU dropped by 50% so that machine is outputting more work and getting less credit.
Since it really is about processing the maximum amount of data I'll be updating the 2nd OpenSuSE machine this weekend and hopefully get the same increase in output WUs.
If I get the chance I may try and see if the Windows BOINC version of SETI works faster on Linux/Wine as did the old SETI. If so I can migrate the optimzed Windows client to those machines and maximize my output though I don't know how it will affect my RAC.
The OpenSuSE updated machine went back to normal times it must have just been a single anomolous batch of WUs all at once. I didn't yet upgrade the 2nd machine as it wouldn't read the DVD+R/W I used and I didn't get a DVD+R to burn until fairly late Sunday. I still plan to do the BOINC/Wine tests when time is available.
I did just hit 2 personal SETI landmarks. I passed 250,000 Credits and reached #1 in 'sign-up date' stats.
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I am going to the land of Moose and loons with the family for some R&R. I will be back in a week with hopefully empty caches. So the plan is the dial up up will have a very busy night when I return uploading a weeks worth of work. :)
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IKV Nemesis, Have you checked to see if KWSN Chicken has made any apps that you could use?
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IKV Nemesis, Have you checked to see if KWSN Chicken has made any apps that you could use?
I'm using one now. However one of my machines is having "issues" it may just need a new network card or the motherboard may be going so it may be sometime before I reach my old RAC. Hopefully just the network card as it may be sometime before I can swap the motherboard.
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IKV Nemesis, Have you checked to see if KWSN Chicken has made any apps that you could use?
I'm using one now. However one of my machines is having "issues" it may just need a new network card or the motherboard may be going so it may be sometime before I reach my old RAC. Hopefully just the network card as it may be sometime before I can swap the motherboard.
Have you seen enough to say which is better, Cruncher vs Chicken?
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Have you seen enough to say which is better, Cruncher vs Chicken?
The one I'm using is on a Linux machine, I didn't have Crunchers for SETI Enhanced on Linux, so I can't say.
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A good reason for delaying upgrading my output. (Along with waiting for the Core2Duo dust to settle)
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Did it do much damage?
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Did it do much damage?
Looks like light damage to a shed only. Can't really tell all the details till the tree is chopped up on Tuesday.
EDITED in:
The 2nd trunk of the big old maple decided to come down. It appears to have knocked out my 2nd phone line and possibly taken my mainline down but left it functioning. I think I'll be turning off the SETI machines tonight until I come home from work on Tuesday just in case something extreme happens while they are cutting things up. The hydro comes in on the other side of the building so that is safe. Now of course both my neighbours are annoyed as the 2nd trunks branches overhang the other neighbours fence and block their yard access.
Naturally overnight we are scheduled to have a thunderstorm. Hopefully that won't cause any damage.
The joys of home owning. Can't just call the landlord and say deal with it.
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It appears to have knocked out my 2nd phone line and possibly taken my mainline down but left it functioning.
BUREAUCRACY!
I called to get my downed phone line and the nonfunctional line fixed. Because it isn't dangerous just a problem they want to wait until next Monday to fix the downed line. My 2nd line they would probably fix quicker but since I don't recall the number and it isn't listed on my bill (I use it for dial up internet only so I don't ever give the number out) the repair center can't schedule a repair. I have to contact customer service before 5 pm, the repair service can't access the account info. So tomorrow I have to try and get hold of them during business hours to schedule the repair of the non functioning line which means that the scheduled repair of the downed line shouldn't be needed. If they decide not to push it ahead I'll tell them just to disconnect the 2nd line and use only one.
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BUREAUCRACY!
I called to get my downed phone line and the nonfunctional line fixed. Because it isn't dangerous just a problem they want to wait until next Monday to fix the downed line. My 2nd line they would probably fix quicker but since I don't recall the number and it isn't listed on my bill (I use it for dial up internet only so I don't ever give the number out) the repair center can't schedule a repair. I have to contact customer service before 5 pm, the repair service can't access the account info. So tomorrow I have to try and get hold of them during business hours to schedule the repair of the non functioning line which means that the scheduled repair of the downed line shouldn't be needed. If they decide not to push it ahead I'll tell them just to disconnect the 2nd line and use only one.
I managed to get the number on Wednesday and called the repair request in and they fixed it today. The repaired line is also allowing the 50666 bps compared to the 43000 I've been getting lately.
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So does that mean you are back up and running?
In other news, I will be dropping out for a week so. hopefully the power won't hiccup this time while I am gone.
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So does that mean you are back up and running?
The one computer is down still at least until I can get another network card (if that is the only problem) in a week or so. If the problem is bigger then it is down for a few months at least.
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Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...
Still waiting for your "push" Postman ;D
I should have my new machine on Friday...
3.2 Ghz... DDR2 memory... MMMMMM fast!
GE-Raven
Raven, My RAC has been in first for a while now. If you can tear your self away from Mrs. Raven and Baby raven, you might want to kick start some of your machines :)
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So does that mean you are back up and running?
The one computer is down still at least until I can get another network card (if that is the only problem) in a week or so. If the problem is bigger then it is down for a few months at least.
I got the network card and installed it. The card is working. Tonight I hope to try setting up the Windows version of BOINC on SETI just to see if like the old SETI the Windows version is more efficient. The old SETI Windows version ran 10% faster on Linux than on Windows while the Linux client was slower.
However I'm planning on finally being able to actually use the laptop for what it was bought for so that machine will be producing intermittently, it'll leave my RAC bouncing around but hopefully higher than it currently is.
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I just recieved an E-Mail from my ISP telling me that my account was being terminated as I requested. I did not request termination of my account and have E-Mailed them to tell them so. So if I go missing its ISP problems. I'll be back.
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I just recieved an E-Mail from my ISP telling me that my account was being terminated as I requested. I did not request termination of my account and have E-Mailed them to tell them so. So if I go missing its ISP problems. I'll be back.
It is always something.
I lost a power supply on one of my farm machines while I was on Vacation. I am told it went back online around noon today. We shall see.
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I just recieved an E-Mail from my ISP telling me that my account was being terminated as I requested. I did not request termination of my account and have E-Mailed them to tell them so. So if I go missing its ISP problems. I'll be back.
It is always something.
I lost a power supply on one of my farm machines while I was on Vacation. I am told it went back online around noon today. We shall see.
Sure is.
I just got a follow up E-Mail telling me to disregard the termination notice. Hopefully I'm safe (crossing fingers)
On the other hand the heat is over powering my air conditioner and the just repaired machine is acting up. I hope its just the heat. If it is just the heat it will be up as soon as temperatures drop.
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In other news, I think we are having an outbreak of 403 errors (can't upload). I can download fine but can't upload(yes I know it is Tuesday but it should be fine by now). :(
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On the other hand the heat is over powering my air conditioner and the just repaired machine is acting up. I hope its just the heat. If it is just the heat it will be up as soon as temperatures drop.
Finally the 4th machine is back up. It didn't function properly with lower temperatures so on a whim I plugged the power into a power bar rather than the UPS and its stable again. The odd thing is that the power bar is plugged into the same UPS. I might just have a bad socket on the UPS.
I'll run it overnight with the stock client before updating to the enhanced Linux client. I should be heading back up past 1000 RAC barring down time due to excessive heat :( or laptop use ;).
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Well I guess it is time to start the "friendly" jibes...
Still waiting for your "push" Postman ;D
I should have my new machine on Friday...
3.2 Ghz... DDR2 memory... MMMMMM fast!
GE-Raven
Raven, My RAC has been in first for a while now. If you can tear your self away from Mrs. Raven and Baby raven, you might want to kick start some of your machines :)
Now that my 4th machine is back on line I've joined you in out running Ravens RAC.
1) The Postman 431,460.65 1,320.15 United States
2) IKV Nemesis 287,965.78 948.16 Canada
3) Raven 1,822,992.10 944.91 United States
RAC is still rising again. I expect to pass 1,100 I just don't know by how much.
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finally got my machines back up, summer tends to lead to much stuff getting packed in the storage room... to include my rig. now to wait for my rac to climb back up...
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Welcome back. See you soon in the top 5? Higher?
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o higher of course, need to break my last max rac ;)
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o higher of course, need to break my last max rac ;)
Good thing I'm not planning on resting on my laurels then.
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slight rac drop last night, spent 4 hours tweaking my computers performance. I managed to bring the proc up to 3.44 from 3.2 and dropped my timings on my memory to 2-2-2-5. basically gave me a 10-15% performance boost on my system performance. from the looks of that for seti it has basically cut an average of 1 hour off of all my work. so now to see where that gets me on the rac ;)
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You guys are going to make me go broke. If you keep this up, I am going to have to up grade my cpu's and ram. It is a good thing I didn't take thes things to the wall on the first build.
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you won't like me in feberuary.... i'm upgrading and from the looks of it i'll have a quad core sitting in my rig ;)
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you won't like me in feberuary.... i'm upgrading and from the looks of it i'll have a quad core sitting in my rig ;)
I'm watching the AMD 4x4 in case I feel like upgrading my ancient dual Athlons (I'd love to do that with dual quad cores ;)). I'm sorely tempted to upgrade my gaming machine to the Athlon 64 5000+ dual core but will wait a month or so to decide. There are rumours that AMD has released the 5200+ without announcing it so maybe some price adjustments are around the corner.
I have a couple of experiments in mind for this weekend that just possibly will up my RAC a little. Every little bit helps.
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might go 4x4 though it depends on intel. The conroe (core 2 duo) is beating the pants of the amd procs right now. now i know that 4x4 is supposed to out do it (and it should... especially w/ 2 top end amd chips... else that would be some stupid marketing) current timelines have intel releasing a quad core come dec/jan time frame. If that beats the 4x4 in benchmarks i'll be going intel. but in 6 months alot can happen (and considering i'll have 5k to put into a rig, top end is what i'll be aiming for) so we will see.
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I'm waiting to see Conroe results on retail motherboards (its also not available locally anyhow yet). Its one thing to get great test results on motherboards chosen and provided by Intel another to do it in the real world. I expect good results but wonder if they will live up to the Intel configured models. Especially the memory controller as it (I believe) was responsible (due to low latency) for a good part of the performance boost. I believe that older chips will fit in a Conroe board, I wonder how their performance will be affected by the low latency memory controller? Could be a significant performance boost.
As to Intel 4 core they have 2 problems as I see it. First it is 2 dual core chips repackaged into one chip not fabricated as one chip. I have to wonder how that will work out as when they did the same with the early dual core chips they ran very hot. The second is memory bandwith Intel hasn't substantially improved that and increasing demand 2 fold could be an issue that could substantially impact potential performance. AMD has a higher memory bandwidth ceiling that quad core will not likely hit (part of the reason for DDR2 for AMD).
The 4x4 I have yet to see an absolutely clear definition of. Whether the 2 chips share one memory bank or separate in a NUMA configuration is unclear so is what chips it will work with, X2? FX? some new designation?
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actually nem, the benches for conroe have been out for quite sometime, and they weren't intel built systems. go check out toms hardware and see for yourself ;). i also agree w/ the intel quad core, but thats how intel has always worked, they'll start by slapping 2 chips together then follow up by making it on one die. so i will wait for the benches to see. I will go w/ whoever gives me the most bang for my buck ;).
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actually nem, the benches for conroe have been out for quite sometime, and they weren't intel built systems. go check out toms hardware and see for yourself ;). i also agree w/ the intel quad core, but thats how intel has always worked, they'll start by slapping 2 chips together then follow up by making it on one die. so i will wait for the benches to see. I will go w/ whoever gives me the most bang for my buck ;).
The benchmarks I have seen have all been from the NDA time frame with machines Intel provided. Which is why I specified retail motherboards. I want to see what results I would get if I bought and built a computer with that motherboard.
Toms Hardware (IMO) says good things about whoever gives the higher ad revenues which is why I stopped going to that site.
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I hope it is an accident but The Postman (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=33830) 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
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I've read through the Conroe links you sent me Tus. Quite interesting. Thanks again.
The review pointing out that the memory controller is not new but the enhanced latency is due to the CPU prefetch changes kills my speculation that older chips would get a performance boost from the newer motherboards though unfortunately.
Finally the Core2Duo is starting to show locally as well which is good (at least as special orders). I think for SETI I'd want the 2x2MB L2 myself which means buying toward the high end, which I tend to do anyhow.
On the motherboards I would not go for the ATi Crossfire based ones as Intel pulled the license from ATi after the AMD/ATi merger and the Crossfire on Intel is going away so significant driver debugging there is likely to be lacking. On the otherhand with Intel opening up the source for their own onboard video and WiFi (and possibly other features) for Linux Intel mother boards are looking very good to me. Hopefully AMD/ATi and nVidea will be under enough pressure from this to open their own as well so Linux video performance (and WiFi though that doesn't interest me the same) will improve.
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I hope it is an accident but The Postman ([url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=33830[/url]) 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.
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I hope it is an accident but The Postman ([url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=33830[/url]) 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.
Some people just have to be twits and cause trouble.
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*looks at nems and postmans RAC* good lordy... its going to take some work to beat you all ;)
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*looks at nems and postmans RAC* good lordy... its going to take some work to beat you all ;)
Hopefully you can do it. The more the teams output rises the better. Just don't expect us to make it easy for you. :thumbsup:
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Things are finally back together after the router power supply died and all computers are net connected once more with completed WUs all turned in. So my dropping RAC is on the rise again.
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Glad to see your back on track :thumbsup:
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Now the question is where will my RAC stabilize? I think it is in its target area now as the optimized clients speed me up but claim less.
That of course only lasts until I decide to either rebuild the dual Athlon XP 2100+ or build a new machine. (Or take the laptop offline).
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I hope everyone has full caches because it looks like the spltters are down for the weekend. That means no new work until at least mid day Monday :(
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I hope everyone has full caches because it looks like the spltters are down for the weekend. That means no new work until at least mid day Monday :(
got me a bunch fo 13 hour projects that should take me 10 hours to complete... so i'm fine ;)
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I may run short but will make it at least until mid day Monday so as long as I can connect once I get home from work I won't be out for too long. That may be a big if however with all the contention likely for connections.
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Two of my machines are out now the other two should last overnight. I may leave my connection up and hope to pick up some WUs over night.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. One of the machines that was out just got a single WU downloaded. Hopefully more to come as the other is still sitting empty.
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Well i just hit a new record for my computers, 440 WOOOT
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I apparently fail at getting FedoraCore5 BONIC working nicely. I was hoping for more than ~50 RAC from the thing.
And yes, I am a Linux n00b
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I apparently fail at getting FedoraCore5 BONIC working nicely. I was hoping for more than ~50 RAC from the thing.
And yes, I am a Linux n00b
I just took a look at your stats and will make a couple of suggestions.
1st stretch your cache size out to 3 or more days. by keeping it small, the scheduler sends you small wu's that get small credit. The RAC goes up with the big WU's.
2nd You need to hook up with Nemesis andget him to set you up with the enhanced crunchers that you need for AMD-Linux. I use the windows/Intel crunchers and my RAC is double what it would be with the stock issued ones. As long as your not interested in the graphics, this is the way to go. By removing the graphics code from the cruncher, it cuts the time in half and therefore you get twice the credit and RAC.
3rd If you can do it, double your ram to 512. That will also get you bigger WU's. As a matter of fact, if you post what RAM you need, somebody might have some extra lying around and send it to you. :)
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I apparently fail at getting FedoraCore5 BONIC working nicely. I was hoping for more than ~50 RAC from the thing.
And yes, I am a Linux n00b
2nd You need to hook up with Nemesis andget him to set you up with the enhanced crunchers that you need for AMD-Linux. I use the windows/Intel crunchers and my RAC is double what it would be with the stock issued ones. As long as your not interested in the graphics, this is the way to go. By removing the graphics code from the cruncher, it cuts the time in half and therefore you get twice the credit and RAC.
3rd If you can do it, double your ram to 512. That will also get you bigger WU's. As a matter of fact, if you post what RAM you need, somebody might have some extra lying around and send it to you. :)
I'm far from an expert with Linux myself and I don't use Fedora (OpenSuSE (http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org) for me).
Early on with old SETI I set up my first serious Linux system and the SETI crawled. Then I did a reinstall and left out all the stuff that I wasn't actually planning to use and the performance of that Linux running Duron surged strongly enough that it competed well with a Windows running Athlon that was faster. If your not careful (like I wasn't) you'll find that your Linux install is running all sorts of services and utilities that you have no interest in.
There is a command line utility called top (all lower case) that lists what is running and how much memory and the % of the processor that is in use by each item. If you are not doing anything the Seti Boinc should be running at 99% +.
This is the link to the optimized SETI BOINC (http://lunatics.at/index.php?PHPSESSID=a5de4681014bc5e8f52e800e4e5d1b71&module=Downloads;catd=1) client that I'm using.
Hope that helps.
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I apparently fail at getting FedoraCore5 BONIC working nicely. I was hoping for more than ~50 RAC from the thing.
And yes, I am a Linux n00b
Actually your making an error of interpretation. Here is a link to your stats (http://www.boincstats.com/stats/user_graph.php?pr=sah&id=3271).
Your RAC is based on a longer time period than you have yet had with that machine. Watch it rise day by day until it stabilizes.
If you scroll down the linked page you'll see a table with your recent output. Your actual days since you received credit recently are listed below.
Credit/day 188 187 214 107 0 61
My Linux based dual Athlon XP 2100+ is running around a RAC of ~300.
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I'll have to give that enhanced client a try when I get home.
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I'm finally being able to use my laptop as intended so its going offline permanently as soon as the cache is empty. Which means my RAC should drop to 800-900 until my next upgrade (dual cores are getting very tempting).
I do plan a couple of experiments to see if I can't squeeze a few more points out of the Linux machines but don't expect anything spectacular so just maybe I'll stay a little over 900.
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:)
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And the other way :)
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The laptop ran its cache down Thursday. On Friday I took it to work with me. On the way I attempted to boot it up to do some note taking. Windows wouldn't load no matter what I did. Eventually I found the utility in the BIOS to restore to the factory installed Windows. Which of course meant I lost all the configuring I had done.
I did learn two things however:
The first is just an observation and I could be wrong. It appears that if you give an account admin access in Windows it resets all the Admin functions to factory default. So after I created a specific user to be Admin Auto Update and the XP Firewall were turned back on, which solves a mystery of how that happened last time.
The 2nd is the advantage of free software. I naturally didn't have software install disks with me not expecting to need them. Most of the software on the system is free software and I kept the original install files so was able to reinstall my Open Office and Firefox among other programs on the fly.
As a side note the restore utility claimed to be loading Windows 98 and used a version of the Symantic Ghost utility. I'm assuming its just the integrated DOS (which Microsoft denied existed) from 98 not the whole OS installed in the BIOS. Too bad it isn't able to be booted and used directly. For some things it would be enough.
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I've joined the Taldren team and have used Chicken's SSE2 enhancements for the two AMD's I have and the P4. They've made a huge improvement - roughly 25% on the processing time of a WU!
I notice they've made it now that if folk leave the team it retains the credits which is how it should be. Nice. :)
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Max, welcome to the team. :) In other news, AJTK left the team and went ARMY. :(
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I've just added a laptop to the stable of three. I wonder how it will affect RAC - despite getting a flurry of those rubbish WU's that generate -9 overflow errors. What a pain they are.
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Had to ditch FC5. Couldnt get samba shares working the way I wanted to; so 2003'd it, but still running BONIC
Also added my personal DC laptop to the mix; and willl be adding an old W2k 800mhz duron; and possibly another mid-power laptop.
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Hmmmm If I do run a D2 server at some point that'll mean I'll have to take my best cruncher offline for it.
Does anyone know or has anyone tried running a d2 server with the boinc app? Will it suspend activity when a player logs on for example? Or does it just scan for usage at keyboard/mouse level?
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Had to ditch FC5. Couldnt get samba shares working the way I wanted to; so 2003'd it, but still running BONIC
Also added my personal DC laptop to the mix; and willl be adding an old W2k 800mhz duron; and possibly another mid-power laptop.
Sounds like a good boost. What username do you go by on S@H? So I can track ya! ;)
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Sounds like a good boost. What username do you go by on S@H? So I can track ya! ;)
Same one I used for S@H1. Phillip *****.
Probably wont be able to get that 2nd laptop into BOINC. GF's laptop used heavily for graphic programs. That and she doesnt want me putting junk on her laptop... until something breaks.
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Yeah I know that feeling. I can see me losing 2 crunchers shortly...the laptop is sporadically running S@H anyway and will probably be kidnapped. Grrr.
Heh, I wonder if I can sell the idea to my mother and remotely install...hmmm
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I must say; my DualCore laptop does quite well despite my using it frequently.
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The servers are giving out 403 errors(can't upload finished WU's). I would expect that issue to be resolved sometime tomorrow. :)
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I got home today and one of my UPS was sounding. That computer is functioning "erratically". I won't have the time to do anything about it until the weekend. So expect my output to decline at least for a few days.
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Just broke 500 on my RAC for the first time, new record for me WOOT :)
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I got home today and one of my UPS was sounding. That computer is functioning "erratically". I won't have the time to do anything about it until the weekend. So expect my output to decline at least for a few days.
Unfortunately it was not the UPS. It still might be the powersupply. I may have a PSU that I can substitute this weekend. If not then it may require a full rebuild and will be offline for a while.
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I underclocked (about 25%) the downed machine and it is working stably now. I'll see if there is some way to stabilize it at full speed on the weekend.
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Couple days away from bringing my new PC online.
2.4ghz core2duo, 2gb ram.
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I've been thinking of rebuilding one of my machines along those lines myself. I may do so as a Christmas present to myself. Let us know how it works out.
What motherboard, video etc are you going to use?
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I've been thinking of rebuilding one of my machines along those lines myself. I may do so as a Christmas present to myself. Let us know how it works out.
What motherboard, video etc are you going to use?
D946GZIS 946GZ motherboard, onboard video (not going to use it as a gaming machine) - but PCI-Express16 capable. Will probably pick up a video card if Legacy runs poorly on my laptop (Core2duo 1.83, 1gb ram)
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Unless I am misunderstanding what I am seeing, Ken is giving up control of the team. Does somebody want to step forward and run this team?
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Unless I am misunderstanding what I am seeing, Ken is giving up control of the team. Does somebody want to step forward and run this team?
That is the way it looks. How much "running" does it actually take? Think we can con persuade Raven to do it?
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Unless I am misunderstanding what I am seeing, Ken is giving up control of the team. Does somebody want to step forward and run this team?
That is the way it looks. How much "running" does it actually take? Think we can con persuade Raven to do it?
I also nominate Raven to run the team.
Additionally, my new PC is up and running; and crunching SetiBoinc.
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Unless I am misunderstanding what I am seeing, Ken is giving up control of the team. Does somebody want to step forward and run this team?
That is the way it looks. How much "running" does it actually take? Think we can con persuade Raven to do it?
I also nominate Raven to run the team.
Additionally, my new PC is up and running; and crunching SetiBoinc.
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..
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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.
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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
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Ken has denied my Transfer of power... so it appears he wants to fight!
GE-Raven
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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?
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I got no message... just that he refused to give me the ownership... Meh...
GE-Raven
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I wonder if the whole thing is just a SETI glitch?
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long overdue progress report
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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?
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Does anyone know of an SSE3 cruncher for non intel chips?
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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. >:(
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Only have 1 invalid WU recently; but Seti Site is extremely sluggish, and WU's arent uploading.
I did pass your RAC though Postman ;)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hope it is an accident but The Postman ([url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=33830[/url]) 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.
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:(
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.
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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.
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Anyone have any experience running Boinc in a Virtual machine?
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Congratulations to Raven for hitting 2 million!!
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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
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*chirp chirp*
Pushing 3200 RAC now.
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*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.
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so shall mine... in about 5 days my new computer will be based upon the Q6600 kentsfield :)
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New computer is online and running :) WHOOOOOOT... now to see how fast it works
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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)
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Just checked the stats for Tus's new pc.
That machine alone will probably out-produce my entire stable of PCs.
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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 ;)
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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! ;D
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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
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Welcome aboard. The more the merrier.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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
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;D 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*!!!
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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.
;D 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*!!!
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Some how the AMD is getting progressively slower at crunching WUs too... The rest of the machine isn't suffering though. It's weird.
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3) The Postman 882,982.17 1,337.42 United States
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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.
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Production is down for most everyone due to the week+ outage; but things do seem to be looking up
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Happy Birthday Raven :)
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Thanks Postman.
GE-Raven
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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.
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;D ;D ;D
Some one is BACK
GE-Raven
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I noticed :)
It'll be interesting to see max production out of that many machines.
;D ;D ;D
Some one is BACK
GE-Raven
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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.
;D ;D ;D
Some one is BACK
GE-Raven
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A bunch of Dual proc P4 3.6s might not even need Chicken Soup to outproduce.
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Yeah... this production level is a little more fun :-)
GE-Raven
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Hoping to get well past 2.5 million before I have to scale back again.
GE-Raven
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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.
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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
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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 (http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/rates/exchange.html) 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.
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we'll miss your production :(
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I'll be back. It is just a matter of time.
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For those running "Chicken Soup" Apps:
Hi Folks,
over at the main SETI@Home project, Multibeam apps have been released.
This marks a major turning point for the project, as we're switching from data gathered on the (now no longer operative) linefeed receiver at Arecibo to the newer ALFA Multibeam receiver (that can record 14 signals at the same time the old did one).
The updated apps also bring another change: the default credit multiplier was adjusted. It used to be 3.35, now it's 2.85. The reasoning behind this adjustment is the following - since a lot of optimized code from the lunatics apps was incorporated into the new MB stock applications, the processing speed improved significantly. Earlier, Eric Korpela wanted to increase the credit multiplier upon switching to MB; after the new code was added, the apps were so much quicker that instead it had to be reduced - to stay at approximately the same credits/hr as the old one.
This has created a bit of resentment among the power crunchers; after all, their bonus over the average user just got gutted. In contrast, all average users now process significantly more WUs, though they will continue to receive similar credit/time as before.
It all balances out in the end; at least, it should, IF:
Most people do update their optimized apps if they use any
There does not remain a "hard core" of crunchers refusing to update and skewing credit claims for everyone
Meaning: if you don't update your science app, you will overclaim compared to the average cruncher. Anyone care to remember what ensued the last time this happened? "Big Bada-Boom", as the fifth element would say...
So what happens if you say "ah well, screw it, it's not as if they could do anything about it"?
Well, wrong, they can and will. Namely, they (the S@H project) will reduce the credit multiplier even more to balance out the overclaimers, punishing EVERYONE for mistakes a few made. Next step will probably be, all KWSN apps up to 2.2 will be officially unwelcome at the main project.
I would ask you to consider this and make the right decision - another point to mention is that our optimization community will be much less motivated if people turn out to value credits more than fairness and scientific value. In fact, some of them would probably not continue to work on further optimizations.
So, I'd like to request that everyone update their science apps ASAP, please (I'm uploading them as this is posted).
Regards,
Simon.
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Oddly enough the timing is perfect.
2 of my machines bit the dust this week. (Well, 1 dead, 1 needing data transfer/retirement). My Core Duo Laptop either blew it's power supply or critically overheated. It won't power up now.
So, i'll be down to one machine for the forseeable future. I'll switch to standard client soonish
For those running "Chicken Soup" Apps:
Hi Folks,
over at the main SETI@Home project, Multibeam apps have been released.
This marks a major turning point for the project, as we're switching from data gathered on the (now no longer operative) linefeed receiver at Arecibo to the newer ALFA Multibeam receiver (that can record 14 signals at the same time the old did one).
The updated apps also bring another change: the default credit multiplier was adjusted. It used to be 3.35, now it's 2.85. The reasoning behind this adjustment is the following - since a lot of optimized code from the lunatics apps was incorporated into the new MB stock applications, the processing speed improved significantly. Earlier, Eric Korpela wanted to increase the credit multiplier upon switching to MB; after the new code was added, the apps were so much quicker that instead it had to be reduced - to stay at approximately the same credits/hr as the old one.
This has created a bit of resentment among the power crunchers; after all, their bonus over the average user just got gutted. In contrast, all average users now process significantly more WUs, though they will continue to receive similar credit/time as before.
It all balances out in the end; at least, it should, IF:
Most people do update their optimized apps if they use any
There does not remain a "hard core" of crunchers refusing to update and skewing credit claims for everyone
Meaning: if you don't update your science app, you will overclaim compared to the average cruncher. Anyone care to remember what ensued the last time this happened? "Big Bada-Boom", as the fifth element would say...
So what happens if you say "ah well, screw it, it's not as if they could do anything about it"?
Well, wrong, they can and will. Namely, they (the S@H project) will reduce the credit multiplier even more to balance out the overclaimers, punishing EVERYONE for mistakes a few made. Next step will probably be, all KWSN apps up to 2.2 will be officially unwelcome at the main project.
I would ask you to consider this and make the right decision - another point to mention is that our optimization community will be much less motivated if people turn out to value credits more than fairness and scientific value. In fact, some of them would probably not continue to work on further optimizations.
So, I'd like to request that everyone update their science apps ASAP, please (I'm uploading them as this is posted).
Regards,
Simon.
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as of this AM, 3 of my crunchers are out of work. My best one has 1.5 MB (multi Beam) WU's left and it too will be MT. :(
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Processor question:
Is this a 64 bit processor?
Can I run 64 bit crunchers?
Do I need a windows XP 64 to run those crunchers
Thanks
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Processor question:
Is this a 64 bit processor?
Can I run 64 bit crunchers?
Do I need a windows XP 64 to run those crunchers
Thanks
The AMD Turion is the mobile version of the Athlon64 and IS a 64 bit chip. (I have a Turion laptop myself). I haven't looked at running 64 bit software yet myself and wouldn't be running 64bit XP in any case.
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Processor question:
Is this a 64 bit processor?
Can I run 64 bit crunchers?
Do I need a windows XP 64 to run those crunchers
Thanks
The AMD Turion is the mobile version of the Athlon64 and IS a 64 bit chip. (I have a Turion laptop myself). I haven't looked at running 64 bit software yet myself and wouldn't be running 64bit XP in any case.
Thanks
http://lunatics.at/windows/some-refrormance-comparision-between-x86-and-x64-windows-based-apps.msg4411.html;topicseen#msg4411
right now it is running the 32 bit version of 2.4 SSE2. When I can get some time, I will try upgrading to the 64 bit and see what happens.
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Well I got to 2.5 million... however my production is about to quickly slow. School year is almost here.
GE-Raven
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Speaking of Production - Mine is essentially done for the forseeable future.
Down to one PC; and cannot afford to have heat issues with the one machine I have left. Gonna finish my current batch of WU's then take a break till I can aquire new machine(s)
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Well my rig is back up... its been down since saturday. Been trying to recover data for about... o 3 days. finally gave up and fraged the hds, set them to raid 1 (smart this time ;)) and found out that low and behold, one of my drives is messed up since i get a degraded message on boot. fun for me. So looks like wd will be replacing a hd for me
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I have had to take my laptop off line for a few weeks. However, as soon as the IT dept gets some RAM installed, I will be bringing one of my older P4's back on line.
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There seems to be a little more hope that my job will continue. We have had 2 visits by a prospective buyer so far. One of our top corporate executives is flying down to Florida for a meeting on the purchase. We are supposed to be having another visit sometime this month by 12 people from the prospective buyers.
What makes it only somewhat likely is that the buyers must deal with a 3rd party to buy the land and buildings which could involve an evironmental assessment. Since this facility has been in use since the late 50s when standards were much lower the chance of an expensive failure is fairly high. The land owners do want to sell though. It all depends on whether the 2 companies realize that it is better to sell at a loss or low profit than keep it at a greater loss. Also just how much the buyers are willing and able to spend on relatively short notice, they currently have only 3 plants so buying a 3rd is a major issue.
Originally our current owners were talking about a European purchaser but this is a North American one so it is possible there is another purchaser we haven't heard from yet.
If the sale doesn't go through I will likely be unemployed in time for Christmas. :( The end of February at the latest.
If it does go through I could still be laid off. If either I am not laid off or get another job that pays decently I'll be starting back up, probably with an ugraded machine. ;)
Meanwhile keep things going guys. :thumbsup:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/17/seti_brains_resign_over_active_messages/
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This thread is so dead, not like the old days. :(
My shuttle caught a cold courtesy of my 4 year old and killed it. Will rebuild and upgrade the CPU from a 1.5 P4 400fsb to 2.8 P4 800fsb HT. I will upgrade the the RAM from pc2100 to pc3200 as budget allows.
My 865 (running stock apps) chipset that my coworker was running has died from a cold and neglect from a teen age girl. The coworker is going to gift me the tower. will be rebuilt and upgraded from stock apps to chicken coop.
If all goes as planned, I could see a RAC increase of 500 in a month or so.
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They finally set a date for the end. Friday May 30th. After that it is job hunting time. :( It has been a very long time since i had to do that.
There are some jobs available elsewhere in the company and I was recommended for some of them by my (former) Supervisor who has already transferred elsewhere. Unfortunately I can't take them as they are too far to commute and my (handicapped) parents need someone reliable to help them at times (which means me).
Our local top boss is using his connections in local business to try and find places for us and there are at least some possibilities coming up, some of which may apply to me.
I do plan to see if my last employer (its been a long time) is hiring, they did say that if I ever wanted to come back I could ;). Both my old supervisors are still there, when I apply I will list them as references :), that ought to attract attention. It would be amusing to go back and in many ways much more convenient physically and my experiences since leaving would apply there if I return.
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Good luck with the job hunting Nemesis, hope it goes well.
I've recently dusted off the pc's and added as well as updated the boinc app on them. RAC should increase a bit now until I need the CPU for other stuff. Meanwhile it's all back to being devoted to the Taldren team...
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The job hunting is just beginning. I had to trim back my spam filters to ensure that i don't filter out messages from prospective employers :banghead:. I haven't seen spam in ages. :( The company is spreading my resume around to a variety of local firms with the plant managers endorsement. Hopefully it will result in a job promptly as things are beginning to wind down quickly. I'm hoping for the job promptly so I can roll most of the severance over into my pension fund (and thereby delay taxing it).
Right now I have a machine running SETI to burn it in. I was rebuilding it when the situation at work blew up. I finally decided to finish rebuilding it and put it to work for now. The RAC is ramping up quite nicely for one machine.
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I have a job application in that looks likely, I'm just waiting for the callback about an interview. Its a"good news bad news" type of job though.
Good News its more money. If it works like the other facility that we have information on I'd be working every 2nd Sunday and be paid double time and a half for Sunday work which knocks the wages up even more (plus statutory holidays). Based on what a co-worker who has already been accepted thinks, they may be looking for workers that can be promoted up from the ranks to supervision (which is more money of course if he is right and I get so promoted). It is the same company that owns my current employers but I would still be laid off first and then rehired which means I get the severance pay.
Bad news its in Toronto and 12 hour shift work so I would have to either move (not going to happen because of my handicapped parents) or rent a room to sleep there (which is what I'm planning) and come home for "weekends" every 2 to 3 days. That could be rough as I've never worked 12 hour shifts before. I would be back to 2 weeks vacation annually though :(. The room and longer transit will eat up part of the extra wages though.
If I get it then I will be up intermittently over the summer months, then get serious once the cooler weather comes in the fall. If this happens I will be looking to move up the list so be warned I'll be gunning for YOU!
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For now I have taken the SETI offline as I am officially unemployed for now. I will be back. Even when I get a job I may wait until the worst of the summer heat is over to get running again.
I have a job application in that looks likely, I'm just waiting for the callback about an interview. Its a"good news bad news" type of job though.
It didn't come through. There is the possiblity that some time down the road they will contact me with a job though.
I had one job that was supposed to call me back by now and hasn't so I guess it isn't going to come through. It would have only been a job to keep money coming in while looking for a real job so I'm not too disappointed.
I had another interview yesterday and they said I would hear from them in 2 weeks. They called today with a "conditional" job offer. I didn't get the call and my call back hasn't had a response yet. There are some negatives to this job but it should be good enough. Part of the conditional is going to be a police background search to find out if I have a criminal past. That should not be an issue.
I also visited a former employer and met with one of my old bosses so did seem genuinely glad to see me (it has been a very long time) but as I already knew they are not hiring right now. However it puts my resume in his hands rather than with a Vice President who has no clue who I am and since he is the one who would make the decision on hiring now that is where I wanted it. It was good to see the old place, I wasn't sure it would survive when I left. It is possible that sometime down the road this could get me a job closer to home.
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Nem, we will miss your output :(, come back when you can.
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Nem, we will miss your output :(, come back when you can.
Assuming that there are no surprises in the police background check and I pass the medical I should be starting the new job in late July. Then once the cooler weather comes in October I plan to start back up.
My dual core machine (just converted to being my main machine today) will go back up and averages ~1050 / day. By then I should have a salvaged P4 2.8ghz machine as a games machine to add in but I don't know what its output will be.
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I was getting worried as the call was due by the end of last week but I have now been hired. Thursday July 10th I go for orientation and begin on either the 21st or 28th.
I should be doing some intermittent processing again soon. Not up to full steam but some.
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I was getting worried as the call was due by the end of last week but I have now been hired. Thursday July 10th I go for orientation and begin on either the 21st or 28th.
I should be doing some intermittent processing again soon. Not up to full steam but some.
I'm winding down again.
I just had a call about my new job. It is on indefinite hold and therefore may not happen. So I'm emptying my caches and going back to job hunting. :(
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Nem, I am really sorry to hear that. Good luck on your hunt.
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Nem, I am really sorry to hear that. Good luck on your hunt.
I was out all day today and just checked my answering machine. The job is back on again but not until towards the end of the month or start of next month.
Now should I wind down or wind up? I'll decide when I get up.
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The job is back on again
Now its off again. :(
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The job is back on again
Now its off again. :(
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8604962
friend of yours?
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[url]http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8604962[/url]
friend of yours?
None of my friends use the OS that is on his main machine. If I had that machine I'd wipe the HD and put Linux on it.
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Max Torps left the team
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Server Status
Our BOINC database server crashed for the second day in a row. It is in the middle of recovery now. We expect the project to be back up sometime tomorrow.
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I'll be back. It is just a matter of time.
Times up. One machine goes back to SETI this weekend. Due to router failure I can only put one machine online at this time.
Now that the job hunting is over the SPAM filters go back on the E-Mail. Yay SPAM filters!!
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Happy Birthday Raven.
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A belated congratulations to RazalYllib for taking #4 spot from me. Keep up the good work.
1) Raven 5,150,177 5,995.66 United States
2) The Postman 3,573,921 2,862.13 United States
3) Profile Tus 1,183,903 0.09 United States
4) RazalYllib 984,373 3,326.30 United States
5) IKV Nemesis 975,121 377.55 Canada
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A congratulations to RazalYllib again for reaching the elite "7 figure club".
4) RazalYllib 1,014,128 3,875.87 United States
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RazalYllib moves up another notch. Congratulations there.
1) Raven 5,413,596 3,471.16 United States
2) The Postman 3,720,390 1,619.43 United States
3) RazalYllib 1,192,639 2,781.29 United States
4) Profile Tus 1,189,876 8.01 United States
5) IKV Nemesis 1,000,190 359.18 Canada
I also join the 7 figure club. Whoo HOO!
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trying to get back into this, like the fact that new software had allows for my gpus to do work , wonder what kinda numbers i'll be pulling
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when my machine gets back up and running I should look into updating the software. It has been along time since I did any updating on it.
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Yah ... it is good to be up a notch...the new quad core REALLY helps w/ the WU
Need to get seti on my daughters box and my sons laptop ... every little bit counts
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true, even tho I have run SETI from way back. My numbers are not that great because of the machine and machine being the main game machine also.
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you'll never touch my number crounching. muwhahaha
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Reached 4 million this morning
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grats wtg postman.
Can't wait for my pending credit to kick in lol.
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u320/manitoba1073/misc/Image1-1.jpg)
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Well, My farm just was gutted. The IT director removed BOINC from all of my machines because he said it was slowing them down. I will be lucky to maintain 800 now :(
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Hey all...
anyone knock me out of top spot yet?
:)
GE-Raven
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Hey all...
anyone knock me out of top spot yet?
:)
GE-Raven
Getting there damn it. Getting there. I see you tripled your usual output recently, lol. getting scared of being caught up :laugh:
Sorry to hear about ur seti farm Postman. I am only running 3 comps myself. 1 is always doing seti, just got my second one back up from being down (still crashes for some damn reason every 2-3 days.), then my main pc I run seti when Im not playing games on it( its got the most seti points lol)
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I'm doing SETI again. I'm 'way behind, but we'll see how it goes this summer.
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welcome back to the project.
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welcome back to the project.
THANKS!
Hey, SETI is down right now, right?
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Word...
GE-Raven