Team OcUK SETI@home News Vol. 31

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Team OcUK SETI@Home News
For the week ending 07/08/2008

Total Credit: 153,766,984
Crunched this week: 1,233,081 (-443,535)
Current World Position: 13
RAC: 197,294 (-23,984)
Current RAC Rank: 22 (+1)
Members: 1,040 (-1)
Active Members: 186 (17.9% of total members)


Teams Stomped
None

Teams Stomped By
None

Teams in our Sights
None

The Ones to Watch
14 The Planetary Society (79 days) (+5)
15 Team Starfire World BOINC (166 days) (-36)
18 TeAm AnandTech (206 days) (+15)
16 SETI@Taiwan (222 days) (-7)
17 Team China (396) (NEW)


The Top Twenty
1 bully 7,272,002
2 Mr Ludwig 5,956,917
3 Biffa 5,385,486
4 Richard Smith 5,313,813
5 CGS 5,173,379
6 Alan Woodford 4,623,014
7 Meridian 3,009,688
8 Bob Townsend 2,747,145
9 carbon8ed 2,591,219
10 BENJAMIN HERBLE 2,400,067
11 br83taylor 2,338,974
12 geoff 2,210,767
13 Gordon Proctor 2,204,835
14 Sammael 2,178,116
15 Dunc 2,166,151
16 Bradshawma 2,040,755
17 Team Jolt Cola 2,001,122
18 Babyface uk 1,972,184
19 Stuart Gibson 1,946,047
20 shady 1,497,657


Top of the FLOPs
1 IAN 15,038
2 Meridian 13,863
3 Mr Ludwig 13,750
4 Biffa 11,926
5 CGS 11,676
6 Alan Woodford 10,298
7 indigo_prime 6,526
8 GrandMasterD 6,318
9 br83taylor 6,032
10 kev.morris 5,799
11 geoff 5,723
12 Soulfire 5,209
13 Chasser 4,937
14 Lee Dixon 4,821
15 Stuart Gibson 4,382
16 MadMaC 4,353
17 Ross Graham 3,748
18 Bob Townsend 2,873
19 Dave 2,838
20 Gordon Proctor 2,649


Recent Tiffy Winners
Phlipper 1,000
edward 2,500
Conor 5,000
oliversmith2 7,500
Addict 10,000
doaa 250,000
JohnSheridan 500,000
Bungle_Bear 1,000,000
Meridian 3,000,000


New Members
None :(


Splitters
room199


Members' Weekly Cobbly Dumpage
1 IAN 100,026
2 Meridian 91,613
3 Mr Ludwig 78,431
4 CGS 77,425
5 Alan Woodford 66,825
6 Biffa 59,816
7 indigo_prime 45,620
8 kev.morris 41,811
9 geoff 38,487
10 GrandMasterD 36,732
11 br83taylor 34,390
12 Lee Dixon 33,473
13 Soulfire 29,340
14 MadMaC 27,833
15 Ross Graham 24,176
16 Bob Townsend 22,317
17 Chasser 21,892
18 Dave 21,073
19 Gordon Proctor 19,751
20 Lewis Stuart 18,933
21 Stuart Gibson 18,703
22 Bungle_Bear 18,145
23 retch 18,108
24 carbon8ed 12,763
25 JohnSheridan 12,429

26 Vaz 11,184
27 monkeyGOD 10,879
28 SteveT 10,145
29 Phil 9,513
30 john 8,817
31 Mart / Q6600 2.4Ghz SSSE3x 7,835
32 Team Cake Boy's 7,787
33 kolala 5,965
34 Graham 5,867
35 TwoFace76 5,766
36 FrostedNipple 5,609
37 ukdavros 5,553
38 Grimgoth 5,434
39 TheDogFather 5,310
40 Bradshawma 5,202
41 hamesy 5,078
42 York Overclocker 4,905
43 clarknova 4,733
44 Colin Steadman 4,619
45 Hazzy 4,612
46 Dorsai 4,523
47 BENJAMIN HERBLE 4,461
48 diogenese 4,432
49 Dr Grey 4,332
50 Ragnarok 4,260

51 RTS 4,248
52 Cluster 3,988
53 Zarniwoop 3,635
54 starfury6 3,573
55 Pro2type 835 3,524
56 A1lenski 3,135
57 RossDagley 3,019
58 Ed Winward 2,910
59 Elbulus 2,678
60 doaa 2,584
61 Jeffrey Van Etten 2,518
62 Keith Symington 2,504
63 God 2,441
64 KevinH 2,268
65 A1Masachist 2,175
66 edward 2,162
67 shady 2,162
68 Pilgrim57 2,142
69 Willowbark 2,126
70 6EQUJ5Mike 1,946
71 JayMax 1,938
72 reggyt 1,903
73 BlueDeath 1,865
74 TheTross 1,748
75 Addict 1,745

76 David 1,581
77 Cruize 1,494
78 Rabid Dog 1,416
79 Martin Green 1,342
80 gabriel 1,305
81 OracleGod 1,296
82 Administrator 1,292
83 Area 51 1,189
84 FluffySheep 1,172
85 Blade 1,164
86 Phil James 1,079
87 Mark 1,077
88 Naran K Patel 992
89 [NeXuS]11762 948
90 Berserker 831
91 Barry 830
92 Spitoo 801
93 xrobert 743
94 Mad Pierre 737
95 Michael 732
96 dchbrown 667
97 Hepatic@[GP] 635
98 Nitwit 625
99 Derek 579
100 oliversmith2 565

101 Hammer 511
102 Barbie 477
103 nedsram-cdl 476
104 LJ 433
105 Anemia 429
106 Shining69 419
107 siofwolves 350
108 Phlipper 348
109 Adnams Drinker 344
110 shaf* 339
111 Jonathan Jeffrey Davis 325
112 philip.gray37 322
113 DrJohn 300
114 TheVelvetUnderground 280
115 DeCeBee 275
116 rameen 271
117 Ken Syrett 269
118 s33r 238
119 Ez-up 229
120 ______Y_o_z_z_e_r______ 226
121 Razar 220
122 Havoc 214
123 Stu 202
124 Jim 202
125 Neil 198

126 NightmareXX 198
127 Chris 194
128 simon255 180
129 Mark 176
130 Conor 174
131 Blue Icarian Wings 173
132 Witness 171
133 ezy50 168
134 Jackal 157
135 quackers 154
136 Dobo 148
137 Rob_Davies 142
138 King Richard 128
139 Micheal 127
140 DanCake 113
141 Reg 92
142 Tim 74
143 raymond_dale 72
144 slugger 68
145 Mark Lloyd 63
146 Da[]San 54
147 Raymond Clark 53
148 Smurfinho 52
149 Jambo 47
150 Martin 37

151 Cyclone 35
152 a2l 18
153 creed 18

Today's news is brought to you by the websites All Project Stats, BOINCstats and Team Starfire World BOINC Stats ‘N Stones.


Production is obviously down this week due to our collective efforts in Rosetta, resulting in Team Art Bell falling off the radar. But apart from Team Starfire World BOINC, the chasing pack haven't really made much headway, which surprised me somewhat :)

As ever, a warm welcome to our newest members! And as always, a big congrats to all the tiffy winners! Don't forget to get 'em out, and if I’ve missed anyone then just give me a prod.
 
TheTross said:
As ever, a warm welcome to our newest members! And as always, a big congrats to all the tiffy winners! Don't forget to get 'em out, and if I’ve missed anyone then just give me a prod.
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Thanks for the stats, as usual. And I'll just whip this out:

cpartcert1.php



:D



M
 
For anyone interested, Astropulse WUs have started to be distributed but can only be automatically downloaded if you're using the standard client. For those using optimised apps (hands up who aren't!), you need to modify the app_info.xml file (in the BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu folder), as well as downloading various files and the Astropulse executable.

The app_info.xml modification is simple. Stop BOINC, open app_info.xml and paste the following just below <app_info>:

<app>
<name>astropulse</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>astropulse_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<file_info>
<name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<file_info>
<name>ap_graphics_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>astropulse</app_name>
<version_num>435</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>astropulse_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</file_name>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>ap_graphics_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe</file_name>
<open_name>graphics_app</open_name>
</file_ref>
</app_version>

Save the file. You then need to download the following files (right-click and Save As...):

astropulse_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe
ap_graphics_4.35_windows_intelx86.exe
libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll
ap435.jpg
astropulse_4.35_AUTHORS
astropulse_4.35_COPYING
astropulse_4.35_COPYRIGHT

Place all these files in the BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. Then restart BOINC, and hopefully you should be good to go! You may not get an Astropulse WU straight away, but if everything's right then you'll get one eventually.

A word of warning though: Astropulse WUs take a lot longer to crunch than the regular WUs, reportedly sometimes well over a day on a decent rig and obviously much longer on slower systems. Deadlines seem to be about a month though, so most users here should be alright.
 
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I guess the big question is what sort of PPD do you get on the Astropulse WU's compared to the normal ones and are they doing more/better science? :)
 
Biffa said:
I guess the big question is what sort of PPD do you get on the Astropulse WU's compared to the normal ones and are they doing more/better science? :)
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PPD?? That's foldy lingo! We'll have none of that round here thankyouverymuch! :mad: :D

In theory they earn the same credit per second as the standard WUs, so Astropulse WUs would claim credit of several hundred cobblies. However, I think I remember someone on the SETI boards saying that his RAC dropped substantially when crunching AP WUs. Also, there are currently issues with AP WUs getting zero credit, but that's a problem with the Astropulse validator and credit will be granted manually.

And yes, they do more science:

What is Astropulse?

Astropulse is a new type of SETI. It expands on the original SETI@home, but does not replace it. The original SETI@home searches for narrowband signals, as does a conventional AM or FM radio. Astropulse, on the other hand, listens for broader-band, short-time pulses.
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Link
 
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Damn. My first AP WU failed because the AP app couldn't be found. A quick check found that the AP files that I could've sworn I put in the setiathome.berkeley.edu folder weren't there :o. So if you're an optimised app user wanting to crunch Astropulse WUs as well, double-check to make sure everything's in place!

Fingers crossed that the next one plays nice!
 
Well I can't get any work from Berkeley re. Seti :( or upload any results and looking on the Seti forum it seems their system is having problems yet again!

Been like that a couple of days now so leaving my home PC crunching Rosetta instead.

Might leave Seti for a few months as they seem to be having problems almost every week now either with their servers or comms.
 
Biffa said:
I guess the big question is what sort of PPD do you get on the Astropulse WU's compared to the normal ones and are they doing more/better science? :)
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well, wrt to the credits, my first large non beta astropulse unit just completed; considering the machine is doing nothing but crunching, albiet jumping a lot between projects, and isn't the biggest in the amount of ram... a comparison between a normal wu and the astropulse one:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=4100361

basically:
astropulse:
405135 seconds claiming 715.15 credits
setiathome non optimised client:
14949.67 seconds claiming 59.59 credits

simple maths (as its the same machine), of credits/time, says that the normal wu claims roughly twice (and a bit) as much as the astropulse for amount of time spent.
 
Thanks for the news TT. Impressive tiffy Meridian:)
Not a bad week for me despite these awful 18 pointers. & I got sent some more today:( Getting there slowly.
 
Grimgoth said:
simple maths (as its the same machine), of credits/time, says that the normal wu claims roughly twice (and a bit) as much as the astropulse for amount of time spent.
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I was afraid of that. Ah well, if it all goes atropulse then we are all in the same boat. I still wonder why they didn't roll it out as a separate project astro@home or something.
 
Grimgoth said:
simple maths (as its the same machine), of credits/time, says that the normal wu claims roughly twice (and a bit) as much as the astropulse for amount of time spent.
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But how does this compared to an optimised client? That knocked 1/2hr -40 minutes off a wu for me. Sounds like a lot <points:confused:
 
Pilgrim57 said:
But how does this compared to an optimised client? That knocked 1/2hr -40 minutes off a wu for me. Sounds like a lot <points:confused:
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Erm, is there an optimised client for Astropulse already? I used the non optimised seti client, which means that an optimised seti client will take less time and claim about the same amount of points, making the astropulse wu even worse credit/time wise.

edit: have to say that during this time of outage, it is good to have an astropulse wu....
 
Grimgoth said:
edit: have to say that during this time of outage, it is good to have an astropulse wu....
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Or a Rosetta one :)

People have to remember, this has happened before with S@H, twice if my memory serves me. WU processing requirements increased hugely causing much consternation until the hardware caught up :)
 
I meant the optimised std client, which I'm using so Astropluse would be a big hit to my prodution. Glad using the optimised client stops these from dowloading:)
 
Hey :D

I dunno how to get included in the stats, but i was folding non stop till my GPU client beta ran out... but now got the new one so will be folding non stop for us!

Currently sitting here in the Team stats...

Rank Username Score Work Units
394 craig_kennedy83 11868 68

Hope to progress up the ranks :D Nothing spectacular tho, only running a 3870 on a 3.1 c2d :(

EDIT** My bad, posted in the wrong thread! :( Sorry ppl!
 
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Well finally getting a trickle of WU from Seti - 1st I've had since last Thursday so my score over last week is going to be virtually nil :(

O well at least Rosetta is doing well :D
 
2 days of not much and three days of nothing at all for my stats. Unless its sorted out before the weekend I guess the numbers are all going to be low this week :(

Off up to Durham for the weekend tomorrow, catch up with some family and bring my mum into the age of the internet with broadband and a laptop!! Shes a complete Internet and laptop noob!!
 
indigo_prime said:
...and bring my mum into the age of the internet with broadband and a laptop!! Shes a complete Internet and laptop noob!!
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Hmm, do I sense a pending borging session? :D

And you're right, the stats are pitiful this week. It's the same across the board though, so it's the same difference really.
 
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