SETI@Home

SickBoy

Not sure who started this group but if theres any freelance SETI users on this board why not join the group and if your in a different group leave and help get boards.ie noticed
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_113584.html

TinCool

Yes do join up, it's strangley addictive

SickBoy

Ahh it was you TinCool!

Hecate

your avatars are scary

Kali

updated the announcement for the Technology board with that url there...
go boards.ie

Mixie

Perhaps someone should consider setting up a Boards.ie group for:

http://www.ud.com/home.htm

Its a cancer research project, similar in style to Seti@Home.

SickBoy

http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=7B148F5C-3FAD-4BD1-AD50-24D74B6EA65F

Quorthon

ok, I've gone and joined. Where's everyone else?????


Q

SickBoy

People will come, oh yes! People will come...

Quorthon

Maybe we can get some serious stomping going Sickboy.

I was in OCUK's team for lack of a serious Irish team, but the fun they have trying to catch other teams etc is great.

Q

TinCool

Shinji, how are you managing to complete units in half the time as me ?

4) Shinji 46 1516 hr 23 min 32 hr 57 min 54.7 sec
5) TinCool 20 1318 hr 50 min 65 hr 56 min 33.0 sec

I'm running it on 3 pcs. One's a p3-650, one's a celeron700 and the other is a crappy p2 something or other. My average time on a unit on the p3-650 along is always 40-50 hours. I'll have to go out and buy a 1.4ghz athlon to get my unit time down

SHADOW

do you guys leave it running all the time??

I just leave it on the office machine overnight while I am at home. PIII 733 coppermite.

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If the bottom falls out of your world, drink Andrews and the world will fall out of your bottom!!
games?

SickBoy

If your serious about getting more WU's done in less time then dump the GUI screen saver approach and download the command line client here which can process a WU far quicker. Also get SETI Driver here. SETI Driver can cache work units and makes it very easy to use the command line client. All you need really is a folder called SETI and both the command line client and SETI Driver in that folder. Create a shortcut to SETI Driver in the startup folder and Bobs your uncle.

SB...

Robbo

Jesus, I dont know what the hell's the story here but my first WU is 37% done and its taken 16 hours!

Bit bizarre on an Athlon 1ghz, 256 megs of RAM and Win2k Pro...

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Rob.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

SickBoy

I know BugBlaster uses an AMD system(not sure but I think its a 700MHz Athlon) and he is completing WU's in just less than 15hrs.

Magwitch

SETI: I joined up, still have not finished my first batch (50% there). Great idea, I used to do it a year or two ago and put in alot of time on my old PB166.

SickBoy

Magwitch, can you not remember your old login? How many work units had you done on the old account?

Quorthon

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TinCool:
Shinji, how are you managing to complete units in half the time as me ?

4) Shinji 46 1516 hr 23 min 32 hr 57 min 54.7 sec
5) TinCool 20 1318 hr 50 min 65 hr 56 min 33.0 sec

I'm running it on 3 pcs. One's a p3-650, one's a celeron700 and the other is a crappy p2 something or other. My average time on a unit on the p3-650 along is always 40-50 hours. I'll have to go out and buy a 1.4ghz athlon to get my unit time down </font>

Tincool

There must be something really fuxx0r3d with your PC. Even with the GUI screensaver client it should still take no more than 16 hrs for a p3650 to complete a WU. My average time is 10:30 or something with seti driver and thats on a p3-600!!!!!!!!!!!

Same for Robbo, should be far better than this.

Q

Robbo

My machine is performing well in every other aspect, so it really is beating the hell out of me.

Maybe if I reinstall the bugger.

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Rob.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

TinCool

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Quorthon:
Tincool

There must be something really fuxx0r3d with your PC. Even with the GUI screensaver client it should still take no more than 16 hrs for a p3650 to complete a WU. My average time is 10:30 or something with seti driver and thats on a p3-600!!!!!!!!!!!

Same for Robbo, should be far better than this.

Q

</font>

Ill give the comman line a shot for the next week and report back. hopefully it'll reduce my WU time.

SickBoy

How did it go TC?

TinCool

Great, P3 is doing them in under half the time it used to do them at. Must get the command line version going in work

Magwitch

Sickboy, I was just about to finish my first batch on this computer and new account when I signed up to the boards team. First batch is now finished.

Magwitch

ps. Magwitch = Irish Alien

SickBoy

We could still do with some new members to boost the totals (and also give me some competition )
Comon, close to 4000 registered users here and only 16 Boards.ie SETI members...
Update: we now have 18 members...

[This message has been edited by SickBoy (edited 19-07-2001).]

SickBoy

Any more takers?

Shinji

Is there any cunning way of comparing how Boards.ie is doing in the overall team rankings? I know we don't have a huge number of members (get signing up you slackers!) but it'd be cool to see how we're ranked nonetheless...

SickBoy

All that info is available to the group founder. Comon TinCool get the finger out! Post some stats & stuff...

SickBoy

Any new members care to join?

sisob

i shall add my 1GHZ of power to the "movement" soon

Typedef

Your credit: Name (and URL) Bill
Results Received 327
Total CPU Time 6862 hr 19 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 20 hr 59 min 08.5 sec
Last result returned:Tue Feb 19 18:22:46 2002
UTC Registered on:Tue May 25 16:33:06 1999
UTC View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 2.743 years

Strangely by the looks of it someone has either left one of these machines on or by some fluke/accident at least one is still running the client

Last result returned:Tue Feb 19 18:22:46 2002

/Baffled as I left Gateway in Feb 2001 !\

Typedef

I suppose I could add my
athy 1.4
p 120
33 mhz 486
and 40 mhz 386 to the mix running *nix clients in some shape or form

SickBoy

Originally posted by Typedef
Your credit: Name (and URL) Bill
Results Received 327
Total CPU Time 6862 hr 19 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 20 hr 59 min 08.5 sec
Last result returned:Tue Feb 19 18:22:46 2002
UTC Registered on:Tue May 25 16:33:06 1999
UTC View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 2.743 years

Strangely by the looks of it someone has either left one of these machines on or by some fluke/accident at least one is still running the client


/Baffled as I left Gateway in Feb 2001 !\

Very nice:)
With the 1.4ghz Athlon that avarage time should drop real fast but the 386 should balance that with its 300hours/WU

Gerry

Since United Devices appear to be researching anthrax cures instead of cancer now, I think I will come back to seti

PhilipMarlowe

Gerry, you can just edit your default profile and select only the cancer research project... which is what I have done...

Lucifer

i am currently signing up to add my P4 1.3Ghz 128MB RD RAM to help

Gerry

licksy, have a look here: http://www.theinquirer.net/15020202.htm

PhilipMarlowe

Thanks for that Gerry.... btw, got an UD newsletter this morning which says that the anthrax one is now over.. so you could at least keep the cancer one going till it ends...

Lucifer

i am running a P4 1.3 Ghz with 128 RD Ram and my first Data is on 93.7% after 18hrs 36 mins 20 sec. should they take this long, or have i not got it set up rite???

EDIT: running Win2K Pro and 56K modem (if this makes any difference)

SickBoy

Lucifer.POD, read the first page of this thread, there's some good tips on improving the performance of the client on that. A P4 1.3 should do a work unit in under 5hours.

Lucifer

one other thing, do i have to uninstall the current seti prog before installing the command 1?

Lenny

For some reason, my account won't make,
tried loads of times

Lucifer

ye, mine kept trying to connect to the server aswell, but wouldnt, keep trying and u will get it.

EDIT i think i have the driver set up proberly, should i change any of the settings?

Cerberus

I've added myself to the group now. I'm knocking them out on average once every 5 hours so it should be a help. My first 2 took ages for some reason but I installed the command line and now its flying it.

flamegrill

i've join now aswell and my first WU only took 9 hr 52 min 27.7 seconds. Im running the GUI client on a PIII 933 in work and on my athlon 750 at home. mite stick it on more pcs in work aswell, we got a few new 1.2 GHZ one around somewhere.

i also mite comendeer Stpehens pIII 866 and run it on that durin the day.

flamey

Lucifer

can any1 give me any tips on what settings to use in the SETI driver?

SickBoy

I have SETI Driver set to cache what I've calculated to be 7 days worth of work units on each machine. If your doing a WU in 6 hours then 24/6=4x7=28.
I think I'll patent that formula
The other settings are more for systems with 2 or more CPU's...

Lucifer

does anybody else have problems connecting to the server other than oj? coz mine takes forever, i keep trying, and eventually it works?

Lenny

Right, I finally got signed up

Now all I gota do is wait for them to mail me my password...


Do you hvae problems always logging in, or trying to sign up?

I had massave problems trying to sign up..
But I'm signed up now, its doing whatever shíte its doing...

Maybe it could be problems with our routers on NTL Lucifer?

Lucifer

you need the password 2 join the boards team, but u can start processing information straight away

Lenny

Been waitng for my password all day

They're under some real heavy load