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

Biffa · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:05

Of course, there are other things that you could be doing with your GPU while you wait over the next few days, that I'm sure would benefit the team.

I just can't think of any right now..

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Folding@home
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Oh well.. must be those damn tablets they keep giving me..

mymorph · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:09

Biffa said:
Of course, there are other things that you could be doing with your GPU while you wait over the next few days, that I'm sure would benefit the team.

I just can't think of any right now..

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Folding@home
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Oh well.. must be those damn tablets they keep giving me..

strange, after several measures of single maltssss. i hear 'folding@home' being whispered

better have another drink beforwe bed me thinks

Marine Iguana · 7 Jul 2010 at 01:11

Ahh my back up project

If I run out of work its ready to run

Senture · 7 Jul 2010 at 05:48

Seems like all those GPU units downloaded really didn't cut the mustard. Most of them have completed in 3-5 mins :eek:

Numbers are counting down. 42.. 23.. 16.. 15.. 8.. 4.. system failure

Marine Iguana · 7 Jul 2010 at 06:18

I thought it was just me who had 3 minute work units obviously not

Area 51 · 7 Jul 2010 at 06:27

ReaVerUK said:
Is it just me or was there an inordinately large number of VLAR's ?

I'm now showing 437 VLARs. It was higher, but I'm slowly bashing through them. Certainly the percentage seemed quite high in comparison to recent weeks. As to where they all came from - 1 guess is as valid as any other!

edgedemon · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:04

Biffa said:
Of course, there are other things that you could be doing with your GPU while you wait over the next few days, that I'm sure would benefit the team.

I just can't think of any right now..

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Folding@home
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Oh well.. must be those damn tablets they keep giving me..

Biffa - Why folding and not Rosetta - no reason other than simple curiousity?

ToxicTBag · 7 Jul 2010 at 12:43

Before Borkely went down for the 3 day outage i had 1300 tasks in download queue, what do i do with them? Will it simply start off from where it left when servers come back online?

Berserker · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:04

Yes. You only need worry about anything that's near deadline.

ToxicTBag · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:10

Thanks for that Berserker was not sure, at least am saving some electricity

CGS · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:26

Hi

Havnt posted on here for ages probably years

How is everyone ?
Still crunching a bit and had a question.
Is it worthwhile using a GPU 8800GTS for crunching?
have been testing with one and figures look good so thought i would ask to be sure.
Does pull 310 watts on i7 with all cores loaded so assume is expensive to run.

Thanks

CGS

Area 51 · 7 Jul 2010 at 13:56

ToxicTBag said:
Before Borkely went down for the 3 day outage i had 1300 tasks in download queue, what do i do with them? Will it simply start off from where it left when servers come back online?

....

Wow, I was impressed with my 600 stuck in the queue, but 1300 :eek:

derk · 7 Jul 2010 at 14:08

CGS said:
Hi

Havnt posted on here for ages probably years
How is everyone ?
Still crunching a bit and had a question.
Is it worthwhile using a GPU 8800GTS for crunching?
have been testing with one and figures look good so thought i would ask to be sure.
Does pull 310 watts on i7 with all cores loaded so assume is expensive to run.

Thanks

CGS

Welcome back CGS

, the 8800GTS is great for SETI, the 512mb version is the best with 128 cores versus 96 on the other versions.

And if you think thats expensive to run you have seen nothing yet :eek:

ToxicTBag · 7 Jul 2010 at 14:12

Area 51 said:
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Wow, I was impressed with my 600 stuck in the queue, but 1300

Yeah suffice to say i was not pleased. Would have made sense if they had a way of letting people complete downloads that were allready in progress, i even chaned to a 5 day cache. It's kinda weird without the noise of fans turning lol

CGS · 7 Jul 2010 at 16:03

halz said:
Welcome back CGS , the 8800GTS is great for SETI, the 512mb version is the best with 128 cores versus 96 on the other versions.

And if you think thats expensive to run you have seen nothing yet

Erm think mine is the older version 640Mb ram no idea on the cores

derk · 7 Jul 2010 at 16:26

CGS said:
Erm think mine is the older version 640Mb ram no idea on the cores

For 8800 specs see here -

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/geforce_8800.html

To compare it to other gpu's see here -

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/graphics_cards_buy_now_uk.html

Stream Processors (cores) is were it counts, the more you can get the better.

Marine Iguana · 7 Jul 2010 at 21:50

My CPU is not crunching even though I have work for it to do can't get it going stupid ******* thing

ReaVerUK · 7 Jul 2010 at 22:18

Marine Iguana said:
My CPU is not crunching even though I have work for it to do can't get it going stupid ******* thing

LOL at least you wont run out

derk · 7 Jul 2010 at 23:57

Well I think I have enough work but oh boy are these units taking a long time to complete.
As others have mentioned, I also have a crate load of work partially downloaded.
And why is it that when downloading each unit it would download 30% then stop and start downloading another, this is then repeated over and over.

Marine Iguana · 8 Jul 2010 at 04:03

Now I see what my problem is I have run out of work

Forgot that it shows tasks that are being sent in the tasks part but they are still not downloaded so this worked out well

*Goes and folds*