Gauntlet 2009 Joiners Thread!

Biffa · 10 Sep 2009 at 23:14

Happy said:
I seem to have stockpiled a huge amount of CPU and Cuda WUs now, so hopefully I shouldn't run fry for a while (I think I set 5 days of extra work )

Once you get running dont forget to stop Boinc and run the lunatics optimised app installer.

Biffa · 11 Sep 2009 at 00:11

No, you can tell if you are running the optimized apps in task manager it will show different tasks than the standard client.

Biffa · 11 Sep 2009 at 23:07

Gotcha

Can anyone who wants to be in please check the first post in the thread to make sure I haven't missed/forgotten anyone in my old age.

Biffa · 12 Sep 2009 at 15:44

Anyone can join, if we get too many we will split the team into two.

Biffa · 12 Sep 2009 at 19:51

http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads

Biffa · 13 Sep 2009 at 01:44

Just checked, mine hovers between 4 and 6%

What CPU? Mines a [email protected]

Biffa · 14 Sep 2009 at 01:06

Berserker said:
I plan to switch over towards the end of this week. Hopefully that's not too late to start building a decent RAC.

I'm aiming for the 17th to get up and running properly

Biffa · 14 Sep 2009 at 11:40

Its quite tense isn't it?

Looking at these pre-gauntlet stats we are currently 4th in RAC, but I've got a funny feeling that there is a lot going on behind the scenes. I know production ramped up hugely for some teams during the last gauntlet.

Remember that we can't add any new people once the gauntlet starts but if you are already in the gauntlet team you can add new "machines" to your account to add an element of surprise to the results.

Biffa · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:07

Of course in an open forum like this we can discuss many things.

But theoretically, I would think any machines one wanted to bring on on between now and the start of the gauntlet should, probably, start making a difference around the time the gauntlet starts, maybe.

But its all pure speculation, anything could happen, and often does.

/me wonders if he can run Seti on his n97

Biffa · 16 Sep 2009 at 20:40

Just compensate by replacing all the bulbs in the house with 2V energy efficient ones

Biffa · 16 Sep 2009 at 21:09

Umm... whats you bill estimate? You've got how many 295s now?

Biffa · 23 Sep 2009 at 12:59

No astropulse here

Biffa · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:09

Keep crunchin guys, we are currently in 2nd in RAC and total points

Biffa · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:16

Remote desktop will break GPU crunching

Biffa · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:50

I managed to get boinc and seti and cuda running stable as a service, also using boincview like zerker with the same file so I rarely have to remote onto any boxen

Biffa · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:30

No

Biffa · 30 Sep 2009 at 00:42

Lovely guys, but we just dropped a position and are slowing down on RAC. What can we do?

Biffa · 2 Oct 2009 at 12:38

dekez said:
Just been looking through my tasks, I seem to be getting some coming up as error while computing every couple of hours.

Looks like the optimized client killing the VLAR WU's

From: 1377894835

<core_client_version>6.6.38</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code -6 (0xfffffffa)
</message>
<stderr_txt>

VLAR WU (AR: 0.010559 )detected... autokill initialised
SETI@home error -6 Bad workunit header

File: ..\worker.cpp
Line: 144

</stderr_txt>
]]>

Biffa · 5 Oct 2009 at 00:11

Can I use this to move some uncrunched WU's from one rig to the other?

Biffa · 5 Oct 2009 at 00:42

Yeah thought as much. Bummer got one rig (probably more) completely out of work. CPU only cruncher is happy as larry though with about a weeks worth of work to do.