SETI@home News Vol. 109 (01/07/2010)

yoyo. I think they should allow trickle up results while the wu generators are down, then just resync when bring things back online- cos this is just going to be silly that everyone is going to be trying to upload 3-4 days of work in 1/3 of the normal time....
 
Yoyo indeed my mistake green across the board apart from up/download i will try for a while but think i will be best off leaving it a few hours.
 
There's definately some truth in the thought that there is a limit of 20 tasks.
Luckily - or not depending on how you look at it i had 23 tasks remaining and was receiving the limit message, as soon as there were 19 it downloaded 1 task ....rinse cycle repeat 3 times now.
Whatever decides the limit it cannot be hardware performance i've just beefed the rig up to 3 x 480 and have a 10 day cache set, i am only hoping this may be a temporary thing to ease the innevitable strain on the servers today.....and we'll all wake up tommorrow with 10 day cache's :(
 
I would imagine that we have to wait until some of the returned results have validated before we start filling our caches.
Im quite impressed on how well they handled the uploads as well as all mine have gone through.
If you use rescheduler to move all wu's to the gpu you should get lots of work once it starts flowing again. That worked for me last week :D
 
Thanks for the news Tross :)

Well what a week its been, not sure how I feel about the weekly outage yet, not made my mind up yet :confused:

One sad figure is 0.23 - out of all the people running seti thats the amount that made a donation towards running costs.

It would be nice to see more green stars after members names on Berkerleys boards, from our teams top 20 in particular.

If they had a bit more cash maybe we wouldnt be having these 3 day outages at all.

If anyone would like to make a donation you can do it here -

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php

The minimum donation is about £6:60, a mere trifle by GPU standards

Where does the money go ?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_budget.php
 
Marine Iguana said:
Running out of work soon also forgot to move CPU work to GPU and had it sat for a day doing just CPU :(
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Numpty :p

Halz, I've just donated. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time but just never seemed to get around to doing it. As far as our team's concerned ten* members have given money to the cause, so out of the 2,901 members our team has (162 of which are active, according to S@H's stats) ~0.34% of our members have donated.

*Only the first 1,000 members are shown on the SETI site, so the above figure is an assumption only.
 
TheTross said:
Halz, I've just donated. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time but just never seemed to get around to doing it. As far as our team's concerned ten* members have given money to the cause, so out of the 2,901 members our team has (162 of which are active, according to S@H's stats) ~0.34% of our members have donated.

*Only the first 1,000 members are shown on the SETI site, so the above figure is an assumption only.
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If we can get the teams contribution up a bit more I will do the rounds on the other seti team boards and brag about our effort.
Hopefully compelling them to do the same, thanks for getting the ball rolling mate.

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No problem :)

I'd be very wary of 'bragging' though. Money is a sensitive subject at the best of times, but during this ongoing global recession a lot of people might find it totally unsuitable, so having our team bragging about having a (relatively) high percentage of members having donated might end up being a bit of a faux pas, even though the intentions are undoubtedly good. This is why I'm not going to mention donations in my news posts - although I might include a link to the donations page somewhere within it to give people the chance to donate should they wish to.
 
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TheTross said:
No problem :)

I'd be very wary of 'bragging' though. Money is a sensitive subject at the best of times, but during this ongoing global recession a lot of people might find it totally unsuitable, so having our team bragging about having a (relatively) high percentage of members having donated might end up being a bit of a faux pas, even though the intentions are undoubtedly good. This is why I'm not going to mention donations in my news posts - although I might include a link to the donations page somewhere within it to give people the chance should they decide they want to.
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I should have mentioned that I meant the only the high performance teams (and even then the top 20 for rac in each team).
If they can afford high powered gpu's they can afford £6.60 for years of .....er fun :p
 
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