SETI@home News Vol. 112 (08/08/2010)

[TheTross]

Credit
1 SETI.USA 1,751,783,621
2 SETI.Germany 1,478,753,483
3 L'Alliance Francophone 831,162,120
4 SETI@Netherlands 790,614,039
5 The Knights Who Say Ni! 629,864,582
6 Overclockers.com 575,623,384
7 Czech National Team 558,047,380
8 BOINC Synergy 538,143,963
9 Team 2ch 510,238,736
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire 472,755,941
11 Team China 457,210,559
12 BOINC@Taiwan 443,881,359
13 Team Starfire World BOINC 411,249,120
14 TeAm AnandTech 394,250,927
15 OcUK - Overclockers UK 388,092,812
16 The Planetary Society 364,112,800
17 US NAVY 357,317,078
18 Team Art Bell 335,115,320
19 Canada 295,070,508
20 Ars Technica 294,874,956


RAC
1 SETI.USA 1,883,808
2 SETI.Germany 1,421,529
3 SETI@Netherlands 976,633
4 GPU Users Group 873,202
5 OcUK - Overclockers UK 728,623
6 The Knights Who Say Ni! 649,626
7 Team 2ch 614,024
8 L'Alliance Francophone 585,092
9 Overclockers.com 566,213
10 Team China 482,170
11 Brasil [SETIBR] 480,190
12 BOINC@Taiwan 459,234
13 Czech National Team 425,891
14 BOINC Synergy 394,604
15 Team Starfire World BOINC 352,525
16 US NAVY 350,974
17 Canada 344,542
18 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 338,007
19 Team Art Bell 337,553
20 The Planetary Society 319,157

Total Credit: 388,092,812
Crunched in a fortnight: 12,903,165
Current World Position: 15
RAC: 728,623 (+58,536)
Current RAC Rank: 5 (-1)
Members: 1,146 (+3)
Active Members: 148 (12.9%)
Members gaining credit: 121 (10.6% of total members)


Teams Stomped
None

Teams Stomped By
None

Teams in our Sights
14 TeAm AnandTech (14 days) (-22)
13 Team Starfire World BOINC (61 days) (-47)
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire (200 days) (-79)
12 Boinc@Taiwan (207 days) (-123)
11 Team China (280 days) (NEW)

The Ones to Watch
None!

1 Meridian 21,628,755
2 Burlsey 20,545,486
3 Mr Ludwig 18,727,498
4 br83taylor 12,946,163
5 IAN 12,381,512
6 Stuart Gibson 11,602,002
7 Biffa 10,683,440
8 Simon 9,900,047
9 Odan 9,265,436
10 Grimgoth 9,153,064
11 GrandMasterD 8,739,060
12 MadMaC 8,592,981
13 ReaVerUK 8,367,296
14 CGS 8,261,697
15 loudbob 8,231,685
16 bully 7,272,002
17 ToxicTBag 7,129,049
18 Alan Woodford 6,717,478
19 Richard Smith 6,462,946
20 Dave 6,027,555

1 ToxicTBag 99,203
2 halz 75,836
3 ReaVerUK 70,856
4 Meridian 53,000
5 Grimgoth 50,503
6 loudbob 45,337
7 MadMaC 42,228
8 pnutty 31,185
9 Area 51 22,339
10 GrandMasterD 22,164
11 br83taylor 19,004
12 CGS 16,272
13 Odan 13,685
14 k3v 12,528
15 Berserker 11,123
16 Simon 11,000
17 Dave 10,886
18 Burlsey 8,016
19 Marine Iguana 7,900
20 Ross Graham 7,735

Akansa 500
Stickman 500
Akansa 1,000
ianh 1,000
Stickman 1,000
Stickman 5,000
manbearpig 5,000
john 10,000
manbearpig 10,000
Eddy51 50,000
Hamish 100,000
Stompie79 100,000
Senture 1,000,000
Area51 1,750,000
Pilgrim57 2,000,000
pnutty 4,250,000
halz 5,000,000
ToxicTBag 5,500,000
ToxicTBag 6,000,000
ToxicTBag 6,500,000
ToxicTBag 7,000,000
loudbob 8,000,000
ReaVerUK 8,000,000

New Members
ianh
Akansa
Eddy51


Splitters
None

Highlighted entries are GPU assisted

1 ToxicTBag 649,108
2 ReaVerUK 512,632
3 halz 459,487
4 Grimgoth 356,397
5 MadMaC 317,209
6 loudbob 296,007
7 pnutty 271,702
8 Meridian 231,892
9 Area 51 154,268
10 br83taylor 122,204
11 CGS 111,065
12 GrandMasterD 89,728
13 k3v 88,306
14 Odan 85,863
15 Simon 83,404
16 Dave 76,358
17 Burlsey 62,601
18 Berserker 57,894
19 Marine Iguana 43,691
20 Stephen D. Ord 43,258
21 Pilgrim57 41,779
22 Jonathan Jeffrey Davis 37,927
23 kolala 37,416
24 Ross Graham 37,096
25 Graham 32,484

26 geoff 30,755
27 Gordon Proctor 28,922
28 TheTross 27,484
29 Richard Smith 25,844
30 carbon8ed 24,569
31 Lee Dixon 21,299
32 Zarniwoop 17,712
33 Slashiem 15,831
34 Peter Lawson 15,611
35 retch 14,272
36 Mr Ludwig 11,020
37 Vaz 9,617
38 Sparkles01 9,556
39 Cluster 9,059
40 shady 7,978
41 Senture 7,549
42 Mark 6,381
43 wayne 6,247
44 AB1 Computers 5,800
45 john 5,704
46 Team Cake Boy's 5,284
47 Robert McHattie 5,276
48 Soulfire 5,258
49 Chasser 5,221
50 Hamish 5,167

51 Ez-up 5,001
52 Bradshawma 4,994
53 William Lack 4,977
54 BENJAMIN HERBLE 4,739
55 Bob Townsend 4,389
56 Dr Grey 4,213
57 supernovagt 3,725
58 TwoFace76 3,666
59 IanH 3,621
60 Cyclone 3,464
61 Blondie 3,425
62 Mart 3,200
63 dmc1970 2,943
64 Lynxman 2,866
65 Conor Robinson 2,730
66 duck 2,312
67 Mad Pierre 2,179
68 Biffa 2,133
69 Dave Curr 1,935
70 Warspite 1,855
71 KevinH 1,766
72 FluffySheep 1,672
73 Ben 1,585
74 Stompie79 1,533
75 manbearpig 1,398

76 God 1,322
77 Pro2type 835 1,306
78 TiMeSliDeR 1,186
79 Mark 1,103
80 David 1,051
81 xrobert 969
82 H@WK_EYES 923
83 Stickman 866
84 TJLUK 830
85 Grid 804
86 s33r 725
87 Barbie 685
88 quackers 580
89 Tim 570
90 Shining69 562
91 Iain Cochran [xenoc] 550
92 Keith Symington 517
93 Blade 490
94 lancediamond 439
95 Chris 411
96 ______Y_o_z_z_e_r______ 402
97 Dorsai 383
98 revelation1318 351
99 Neutron 312
100 David 308

101 Kevin 299
102 mutz_nutz_uk 298
103 lips of a moose 254
104 john 253
105 cyclo 249
106 Eddy51 248
107 DrJohn 225
108 Akansa 222
109 reggyt 193
110 Will 158
111 paul 138
112 cjo9900 125
113 Shane 111
114 Jez 109
115 VeNT 108
116 Steve 103
117 James Sanders 89
118 DCJoeDog 57
119 Shand Stewart 3
120 Owner 1
121 Steeev 1

Single PC League
1 Area 51 154,268
2 k3v 88,306
3 Marine Iguana 43,691
4 Pilgrim57 41,779
5 TheTross 27,484
6 quackers 580
7 cyclo 249
8 Shand Stewart 3

No articles this week.


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



Apologies for there being no news post last week but I was on a canal boat with no hope at all of getting the news done. As always with cases like this, the news covers the past fortnight EXCEPT for the weekly dumpage and single league stats, which cover the past week only.

The news has been shifted again, this time from Fridays to Sundays. I've decided to do this in order to let the various stats sites catch up with Berkeley’s weekly three-day outage.

We keep going from strength to strength; our RAC has never been so high and we have five teams in our sights!

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

 

[TheTross]

Sorry for yet more news failure yesterday. I'd just got back from a week away walking the Cumbria Way and was too shattered to cobble a news post together.

Hopefully normal service will resume as of next week as I'm pretty sure I've nowt else planned. As dictated by my wallet...

 

[TheTross]

Some sort of database would be very handy as long as it was done well.

Using one WU as the benchmark would provide a direct comparison from one piece of hardware to another. However, the 'problem' with this is that only one angle range would be being benchmarked - there would be no data for extremes of angle range, and as we know lower angle ranges generally take longer to process (at least on GPUs) and so any figure obtained would be very limited.

The other method - taking averages of x number of WUs - also has issues, as WUs that ended early - due to noisy data contained in the WU or otherwise - would have to be extracted from the data and GPU and CPU tasks differentiated and separated. It would also mean users having to sift through their tasks to obtain the data, although importing completed valid tasks into, say, Excel and sorting it as required would avoid that problem.


EDIT: As a test I just imported 20 completed valid WUs into Excel and got an average time of 871 seconds for my GTS250, but the shortest time was 19.69 seconds (noisy WU) and the longest 1,272, so obtaining an average figure would have to be done carefully for it to have any meaning.

 

[TheTross]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes

Tried to get up to Kendal for the day but couldn't thanks to the M6 being shut and the whole of Preston and the surrounding area subsequently being at a complete standstill... so ended up going the other way to Southport for a stroll along the sea front