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

joeyjojo said:
If you're raising money it should go to the Aricebo Observatory as they've had funding problems now for many years. No Aricebo = no SETI@home.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Searchi...lose_Arecibo,_world's_largest_radio_telescope
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Not entirely true. Aricebo's funding has been secured in the near term. Even if it wasn't (in theory at least), the data acquisition equipment could be moved to a different telescope....

S@H needs the funding far more. The plug could be pulled quite literally any day, and there is approaching 10 years worth of crunched data that needs to be sifted and analysed yet........
 
halz said:
3 days work by 3 x GTX295's down the toilet

Hard drive failed :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:mad:

The ironic thing is my other PC's are made from 2nd hand parts, the drive that failed was a brand new WD Caviar Black.

This is the second drive I have had die on me, the last one was new as well.....go figure :rolleyes:

Not a happy chap at all at the moment.
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Check your email Mr Halz sah can have a hd in the post before 10 in the morning...it's temporary and it allways picks up...heck you only have to take a look at my disasters to know theres hope :)

Area 51 said:
Shouldn't be too long now! It's been running fine on my machine for about a week now, although its only setup initially to sort out -12 and -529697949 errors. For me, I get about 10 of these a week (-12 and -529697949) - but it finds, cleans and re-assigns them to the CPU with no problems. I am looking to add -177 and other types of errors bit by bit. You will be handy, because you have a Fermi setup (and when your setup goes wrong, in the usual 'Toxic way', it doesn't do it on a small scale)! ;) . All I need now is a willing volunteer who is running 2 or more GPUs, 1 Fermi and 1 lnon-Fermi jobbie......

I would also like to find a couple of people who are running Windows XP 32 bit......

To complete the first release ready for testing, I need to implement a section of code that extracts the version numbers of the GPU app and CPU app that are being used. I can't assume someone has an app_info.xml file, or that it is in a clean state - so all information has to come from client_state.xml. At the moment, these values are hard-coded, which is no good good for general distribution or for maintenance-free code. However, I did finally figure out how I can get the required info last night, so I just have to implement that in a reasonably efficient way.
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Hi Area51, got most of my bits and pieces together for a dedicated test rig rather than risk main rigs, there again if the main machines go kapputz at some point theres test material right there lol:)
Best of luck with your script and just give me a shout when i should go guinea pig :D
 
logged in at seti and Im getting b****slapped by an annoyed member

MadMac

Your excessive cache (standing at well over 9,000 at present) is a large contributory factor in my SETI crunching, and other similar excesses resulting in 2 month delays to a resend for all so called "wingmen".

The last straw for me was the 3 day outage (effectively lasting 5 days) each week.

I would recommend you abort at least 6,000 tasks and keep your cache in future to a reasonable level. (Too late to benefit me, but will many others.)

Keith​
:eek::eek::eek:

I replied with the outstanding wu number I had (3552) and then got a very sarcastic reply..

In fairness I have shedloads of ghost wu's, so I have set to NNT, and will run things down over the next week, detach and then re-attach, but really, I have pending fom March and Im not messaging those wingmen to hassle them...
 
Hey Edge.....

Why is it you always have all the fun?

Some good news for me:

My RAC has started to look a bit more respectable.....

racs.jpg


And thats without the upgrades/new build.

Looks like I shall be making inroads into the top ten sooner than I thought :D

Watch your back Grimgoth and you too edge :D
 
edgedemon said:
logged in at seti and Im getting b****slapped by an annoyed member

MadMac

Your excessive cache (standing at well over 9,000 at present) is a large contributory factor in my SETI crunching, and other similar excesses resulting in 2 month delays to a resend for all so called "wingmen".

The last straw for me was the 3 day outage (effectively lasting 5 days) each week.

I would recommend you abort at least 6,000 tasks and keep your cache in future to a reasonable level. (Too late to benefit me, but will many others.)

Keith​
:eek::eek::eek:

I replied with the outstanding wu number I had (3552) and then got a very sarcastic reply..

In fairness I have shedloads of ghost wu's, so I have set to NNT, and will run things down over the next week, detach and then re-attach, but really, I have pending fom March and Im not messaging those wingmen to hassle them...
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I would just ignore that individual. I looked for the exchange but couldn't find it (perhaps the mods have deleted it!). I have got over 800 ghosts that have just timed out on me. That's the way it is right now. I cannot stand people like that! We appreciate you edgemon!

I have given up trying to run down my cache, as it proved impossible to time it so that it occurred when the servers were up. The server peeps need to implement a check that ensures when the servers allocate a user a task, it is actually sent to them. Ghosts are a server side issue, that need to be fixed there and I can't understand why they are being ignored. I also cannot understand why people get so worked up about pending. 'tis a mystery to me!
 
edgedemon said:
logged in at seti and Im getting b****slapped by an annoyed member

MadMac

Your excessive cache (standing at well over 9,000 at present) is a large contributory factor in my SETI crunching, and other similar excesses resulting in 2 month delays to a resend for all so called "wingmen".

The last straw for me was the 3 day outage (effectively lasting 5 days) each week.

I would recommend you abort at least 6,000 tasks and keep your cache in future to a reasonable level. (Too late to benefit me, but will many others.)

Keith​
:eek::eek::eek:

I replied with the outstanding wu number I had (3552) and then got a very sarcastic reply..

In fairness I have shedloads of ghost wu's, so I have set to NNT, and will run things down over the next week, detach and then re-attach, but really, I have pending fom March and Im not messaging those wingmen to hassle them...
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What a misserable git can't stand people like that :mad:
 
loudbob said:
Hey Edge.....

Why is it you always have all the fun?

Some good news for me:

My RAC has started to look a bit more respectable.....


And thats without the upgrades/new build.

Looks like I shall be making inroads into the top ten sooner than I thought :D

Watch your back Grimgoth and you too edge :D
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Hmmm - good news for you (and the team), but very bad news for me, I reckon 7-10 days before you pass me..

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OMG - I thought you were bad enough with an update of 230K, but I have just seen Toxic - 450K :eek::eek:
 
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Yeah i kind of forgot to switch machines off before i went away, and suprise suprise they didn't have so much as a hiccup....now there's a turn up for the books:D
No house fire either which is also good!
 
ReaVerUK said:
I wouldn't take it personally. He's in a hurry to pass everyone :p

Anyhow when you've finished upgrading you'll probly give him a good run for his money ;)
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Not true, i was impatient and in a hurry to get my systems working as they should but the real jump in rac has been since i got the hang of o/c ing them. Its a learning curve but as you say Loudbob will probably come a parping one of these days :( and Mr Halz allways has something in reserve so i aint counting my chickens just yet :)
 
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