SETI@home News Vol. 108 (24/06/2010)

[TheTross]

Credit
1 SETI.USA 1,668,899,898
2 SETI.Germany 1,414,841,843
3 L'Alliance Francophone 804,169,484
4 SETI@Netherlands 748,585,178
5 The Knights Who Say Ni! 600,488,312
6 Overclockers.com 551,792,356
7 Czech National Team 538,840,970
8 BOINC Synergy 521,010,833
9 Team 2ch 483,106,489
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire 458,094,726
11 Team China 434,575,146
12 BOINC@Taiwan 422,866,072
13 Team Starfire World BOINC 395,059,668
14 TeAm AnandTech 381,625,902
15 OcUK - Overclockers UK 358,057,056
16 The Planetary Society 349,815,952
17 US NAVY 342,068,075
18 Team Art Bell 319,329,865
19 Ars Technica 285,012,891
20 Canada 279,534,199

RAC
1 SETI.USA 1,772,946
2 SETI.Germany 1,534,903
3 SETI@Netherlands 1,000,772
4 L'Alliance Francophone 720,016
5 The Knights Who Say Ni! 660,471
6 Team 2ch 614,099
7 Team China 602,317
8 Overclockers.com 587,210
9 OcUK - Overclockers UK 578,383
10 GPU Users Group 578,366
11 BOINC@Taiwan 484,367
12 Brasil [SETIBR] 474,415
13 Czech National Team 447,281
14 BOINC Synergy 410,664
15 Team Starfire World BOINC 374,092
16 US NAVY 369,129
17 Canada 365,779
18 Team Art Bell 357,349
19 The Planetary Society 328,504
20 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 304,952

Total Credit: 358,057,056
Crunched this fortnight: 7,791,353
Current World Position: 15
RAC: 578,383 (-14,776)
Current RAC Rank: 9 (+1)
Members: 1,134 (+2)
Active Members: 153 (13.5%)
Members gaining credit: 127 (11.2% of total members)


Teams Stomped
None

Teams Stomped By
None

Teams in our Sights
14 TeAm AnandTech (81 days) (-9)
13 Team Starfire World BOINC (181 days) (+5)
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire (343 days) (+4)

The Ones to Watch
None!

1 Burlsey 20,287,028
2 Meridian 19,568,541
3 Mr Ludwig 18,499,417
4 IAN 12,381,512
5 br83taylor 12,137,794
6 Stuart Gibson 11,600,954
7 Biffa 10,432,438
8 Simon 9,418,883
9 Odan 8,666,782
10 CGS 7,743,764
11 GrandMasterD 7,644,489
12 Grimgoth 7,282,513
13 bully 7,272,002
14 MadMaC 7,011,001
15 Alan Woodford 6,717,478
16 Richard Smith 6,375,294
17 loudbob 6,182,249
18 ReaVerUK 5,723,461
19 Dave 5,591,587
20 geoff 5,574,531

1 halz 56,105
2 ToxicTBag 54,242
3 ReaVerUK 44,424
4 Grimgoth 41,378
5 Meridian 35,177
6 loudbob 32,026
7 GrandMasterD 28,299
8 MadMaC 25,327
9 br83taylor 22,816
10 pnutty 22,633
11 Area 51 18,848
12 Berserker 17,516
13 Marine Iguana 15,854
14 kolala 15,547
15 Senture 13,724
16 Odan 13,355
17 Dave 9,931
18 Mr Ludwig 9,578
19 k3v 9,292
20 Zarniwoop 8,936

KEVIN 1,000
Philip Breeze 5,000
Conor Robinson 50,000
s33r 100,000
TiMeSliDeR 100,000
Senture 750,000
Marine Iguana 1,000,000
halz 2,000,000
Stephen D. Ord 2,000,000
halz 2,250,000
halz 2,500,000
pnutty 3,250,000

New Members
KEVIN
StandardbredHorse


Splitters
None

Highlighted entries are GPU assisted

1 halz 435,332
2 ToxicTBag 364,841
3 Grimgoth 316,965
4 ReaVerUK 299,324
5 Meridian 222,543
6 MadMaC 189,264
7 Berserker 182,762
8 pnutty 180,189
9 GrandMasterD 178,244
10 loudbob 171,586
11 br83taylor 148,253
12 Area 51 143,438
13 kolala 110,681
14 Marine Iguana 109,085
15 Odan 96,612
16 Senture 87,735
17 Zarniwoop 80,265
18 Mr Ludwig 74,041
19 Dave 68,464
20 k3v 61,006
21 Simon 54,564
22 Stephen D. Ord 50,267
23 Burlsey 50,133
24 wayne 46,193
25 geoff 36,890

26 Gordon Proctor 34,214
27 CGS 32,961
28 Pilgrim57 32,238
29 Slashiem 31,870
30 Ross Graham 28,461
31 Jonathan Jeffrey Davis 27,219
32 retch 25,244
33 Graham 22,910
34 carbon8ed 22,607
35 Peter Lawson 20,549
36 Bob Townsend 16,074
37 Sparkles01 15,153
38 Lee Dixon 14,569
39 supernovagt 10,884
40 Soulfire 10,569
41 the_running_man 10,506
42 Chris 10,325
43 Vaz 10,301
44 Cluster 10,013
45 TiMeSliDeR 9,975
46 Chasser 9,724
47 Biffa 8,512
48 Ez-up 8,340
49 Team Cake Boy's 8,256
50 FluffySheep 8,090

51 Cyclone 7,358
52 TheTross 6,842
53 Pro2type 835 6,587
54 TwoFace76 6,343
55 Dave Curr 5,938
56 Dr Grey 5,674
57 Mark 5,655
58 Conor Robinson 5,621
59 Robert McHattie 5,398
60 shady 5,332
61 VeNT 4,823
62 TJLUK 4,648
63 Blade 4,517
64 BENJAMIN HERBLE 4,278
65 dmc1970 4,261
66 duck 3,495
67 Mad Pierre 3,421
68 Bradshawma 3,312
69 downloading virus 3,098
70 revelation1318 2,476
71 Shane 2,264
72 Hamish 2,175
73 john 2,036
74 Mark 1,964
75 Warspite 1,924

76 God 1,909
77 Iain Cochran [xenoc] 1,876
78 Kevin 1,665
79 Ben 1,622
80 Sammael 1,583
81 David 1,566
82 David 1,542
83 Dorsai 1,523
84 Lynxman 1,359
85 dreadhead 1,274
86 Smurfinho 1,271
87 KevinH 1,194
88 BurningHorizons 1,049
89 Stompie79 1,004
90 quackers 965
91 lancediamond 826
92 Maximilian 750
93 Philip Breeze 745
94 Jez 634
95 Shining69 594
96 Hammer 542
97 ______Y_o_z_z_e_r______ 531
98 Stuart Gibson 528
99 lips of a moose 508
100 kruptikos 419

101 mutz_nutz_uk 413
102 Shand Stewart 402
103 cjo9900 400
104 s33r 398
105 reggyt 387
106 hamesy 341
107 DrJohn 339
108 Scott 283
109 hilly 273
110 aggie 270
111 easygoin' 191
112 DeathStalker 182
113 john 159
114 Michael Attwood 159
115 Steeev 148
116 CaptainSuave 148
117 ezy50 135
118 Alex Javed 128
119 Corsair 115
120 Ken Syrett 103
121 Geoff Fielder 85
122 xrobert 85
123 Bungle_Bear 77
124 =VTA=MANFACE 67
125 Admin 64

126 William Lack 37
127 H@WK_EYES 35


Single PC League
1 Marine Iguana 109,085
2 k3v 61,006
3 TheTross 6,842
4 Shand Stewart 402

Maybe ET's Calling, But We Have the Wrong Phone
Astronomy Without a Telescope - SETI 2.0


Run SETI on a GPU?
Run SETI on only one PC?


Sorry once again for the lack of news last week. This edition covers the past fortnight.

Our RAC has dropped a little compared to what it was two weeks ago, but that's due to issues with the servers at Berkeley so there's nothing to worry about.

Welcome to the new members, and as always congrats to the tiffy winners! Don’t forget that you can get your tiffies from www.teamocuk.co.uk; simply click on your username, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the relevant urls to display them in all their Technicolor beauty on this forum! If you think you have been missed off the milestones list, please let me know and I’ll add you manually.

Acknowledgements
All Project Stats
BOINCstats
teamocuk.co.uk
All graphics used in this news post are courtesy of halz

 

[picnic]

I think I've earned this

and with luck will have another by next week

 

[TheTross]

And with any luck I'll manage to include you on the tiffy list next week unprompted

Congrats on the tiffy

 

[loudbob]

Well, about a thousand completed work units uploaded and reported with no problems.

But getting no work in return.

Still got a little in reserve


Pending: 220,414.47

 

[ReaVerUK]

Still got a little in reserve

Your lucky.
Its typical i get back from holiday to find the main rig out of work and not uploading/downloading so switched it off. To top it off i'm at work atm so it'll be 12Hrs before i can try to upload again and knowing my luck the servers will be down again by that time nice to see nothing changes
At least the small rig has some work to keep going at.

 

[loudbob]

I sympathise with your bad luck

And rejoice that I may be able to extend my lead (not by much - but every little helps)


Pending now: 286,922.58

 

[mymorph]

well im powering down for the weekend, just finishing uploading and shutdown! were off glamping in wales - 1st time with the 2 nippers!

 

[edgedemon]

Cheers for the news TT, hopefully Borkley will stay up for a decent period of time this week...

 

[Marine Iguana]

Thanks for the news TT

Good to see the problems at Borkley haven't damaged my out put too much

 

[TheTross]

Hmm...

New Outage Schedule
Starting next week our servers will be turned off for several days a week - initially, Tuesday through Thursday. This will allow us to devote more time to scientific development.

Interesting.

 

[Marine Iguana]

Hmm...



Interesting.

Yeah 10 day cache here i come

On another note my RAC just hit shy of 17K take that Area 51 (hopes his pending is pap )

 

[loudbob]

My pending just dropped 60k to 220k

RAC a poor 32k

Just checked again (5 mins later) and:

Pending: 215,259.61

RAC: 33,336.60

Total: 6,246,601

Seems a lot of validation is going on.

Regarding: "Starting next week our servers will be turned off for several days a week"

Me thinks that my cause more problems..........................

 

[edgedemon]

Hmm...

Interesting.

That's not good - My Fermi Rig has always had a ten day cache, but Im guessing as it is new and the time to completions are all out, in reality it never has work past a 2 day outage, then I run out..
I think this will have a big impact on quite a few people...

I managed to get 40 tasks last night, but they are nearly gone and I have requesting work to no avail since 8pm last night...

 

[Area 51]

My pending just dropped 60k to 220k

RAC a poor 32k

Just checked again (5 mins later) and:

Pending: 215,259.61

RAC: 33,336.60

Total: 6,246,601

Seems a lot of validation is going on.

Regarding: "Starting next week our servers will be turned off for several days a week"

Me thinks that my cause more problems..........................

I don't know. The message could be read several ways (I very much doubt they will just take all the servers except the DB servers off-line). I read it as being a case of "during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we will concentrate on things other than servers". As long as they keep the assimilators, validators and splitters running - and tapes fed, I don't think it will be that bad (although it could get a bit messy for the mega-crucnhers). This way, the servers could be sorting out what's been uploaded, and prepare for the next torrent. Obviously, Monday and Friday will become fire-fighting days with people connecting to re-fill their cache and upload their completed results - and timing the connections will play a massive role in whether a decent sized cache can be kept running (I got caught out yesterday with a 3 hour back-off 20 minutes before the servers came back up). Having said that, I haven't run out of work, my cache is healthy-ish and my RAC (as reported by the SAH SITE) has been 17-20K over this latest outage storm, with 18K being generally what I see as my norm'. I think we will just have to wait and see.

 

[Area 51]

Yeah 10 day cache here i come

On another note my RAC just hit shy of 17K take that Area 51 (hopes his pending is pap )

Mr Marine Iguana

It appears that you have responded to my parp and increased your output. I am therefore forced to temporarily retract it and begrudgingly pay homage!!!!!!

However, your output is still not good enough to hold me off. I have 24K more in pending than I would normally expect to see, and my RAC is still higher than yours. Additionally, the two remaining machines that form part of the Groom Lake Data Centre have been switched over to Prime Grid (as was my plan when Dark Orion came up to speed), and although their output is small I can always switch them back..........

Enjoy your victory - it will be short lived

 

[Berserker]

Hmm...



Interesting.

Can't say I'm surprised. They just don't have the resources to keep the project running all the time now. Everything has been suffering recently.

May also be an over-reaction to the incessant complaining on their forums. Can't blame them for that, either.

Thanks for the news TT, though your tiffy winners list is somewhat incomplete.

 

[Marine Iguana]

Mr Marine Iguana

It appears that you have responded to my parp and increased your output. I am therefore forced to temporarily retract it and begrudgingly pay homage!!!!!!


Enjoy your victory - it will be short lived

I will milk it for all it's worth I still have a 40k more than normal pending so might be able to hold you off

I await a re-parp

 

[Biffa]

May also be an over-reaction to the incessant complaining on their forums. Can't blame them for that, either.

Not exactly going to improve the SNR over there tho is it?

 

[edgedemon]

I don't know. The message could be read several ways (I very much doubt they will just take all the servers except the DB servers off-line). I read it as being a case of "during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we will concentrate on things other than servers". As long as they keep the assimilators, validators and splitters running - and tapes fed, I don't think it will be that bad (although it could get a bit messy for the mega-crucnhers). This way, the servers could be sorting out what's been uploaded, and prepare for the next torrent. Obviously, Monday and Friday will become fire-fighting days with people connecting to re-fill their cache and upload their completed results - and timing the connections will play a massive role in whether a decent sized cache can be kept running (I got caught out yesterday with a 3 hour back-off 20 minutes before the servers came back up). Having said that, I haven't run out of work, my cache is healthy-ish and my RAC (as reported by the SAH SITE) has been 17-20K over this latest outage storm, with 18K being generally what I see as my norm'. I think we will just have to wait and see.

from the seti news post

In addition to gaining developer time, we will take advantage of public server outages to run the science servers at full bore, getting all of the database resources. So science production, as well as science development, will increase.


If they can fill up the 10 day caches, then it will be OK, I can't blame them, they have been struggling for so long nowe, hopefully this will help with uptime.
This might mean that the team OCUK combined boinc stats will become more relevant as I think based on current conditions (I have 3 rigs out of work and crunching MW), other backup projects might come into play more...

http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_stats.php?pr=bo&st=0

we are at 51st and not looking good for stomps based on the current RAC..

But the postie did drop this off

An interesting link for stats graphs on seti..

http://bluenorthernsoftware.com/scarecrow/sahstats/graphs.php

 

[Berserker]

Not exactly going to improve the SNR over there tho is it?

No, but it might be enough to drive at least some of them away - some of those who keep threatening to quit might actually do it. Shame for the science but no bad thing for everyone's sanity.