SETI@home News Vol. 115 (12/09/2010)

[Area 51]

Most excellent. Make sure you include instructions that the donation should be used for the new science database server

 

[Marine Iguana]

Done

 

[Area 51]

Done

Cheers - I'll say no more and leave it to everyone else to decide whether they can afford the £7.09 & thruppence happeny (spelling?) that it will cost them to generate an extra $400 towards the server !

 

[Marine Iguana]

I feel all warm and fuzzy (gay)

Must be lack of sleep really should see about getting some

 

[edgedemon]

Done

 

[Area 51]

I feel all warm and fuzzy (gay)

Must be lack of sleep really should see about getting some

Sleep is for wimps - you need more coffee!!!!!!

 

[ToxicTBag]

Okeedokee got my head around milkyway and einstein so before i go rattling off and fiddle with app_info yet again will someone tell me how i add both of those projects to my sig....much appreciated

 

[Marine Iguana]

Better sleep just fell asleep at my monitor clicked loads of carp 24hr days are fun, but hurt my on fire eyes

 

[TheTross]

Okeedokee got my head around milkyway and einstein so before i go rattling off and fiddle with app_info yet again will someone tell me how i add both of those projects to my sig....much appreciated

Look at your sig code. Where you see 'SAH', add 'EAH' and 'MWAH' immediately after it, separared by ':' so that that whole section looks like 'j=SAH:EAH:MWAH&i='. Depending on what order you set those determines how they are ordered in your sig.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Thank you TT very much appreciated, will give it a go in a mo, must admit i like the look of Einstein spent the day reading up on gravitational waves etc

Aww brill i got something right lol

 

[TheTross]

Aww brill i got something right lol

Haha! You sound surprised by that

Einstein also allows you to do work on pulsar data, leading to re-observations of known ones and potentially finding new ones (they found a new one some time last month).

 

[ToxicTBag]

Yeah its definately grabbed my interest!
Am doing a correlation on cpu and a pulse search using the gpu, prey tell Mr TT i was a bit tired this morning so am sure i mucked it up, which exact entries do i change to allow more than 1 task per gpu. I found what i thought was the correct"count" entry and changed it to .5 and it showed in bmanager as using .5 gpu but its back to normal this afternoon.
Needless to say i know i am a pain but just think of the science

 

[TheTross]

Unfortunately, it seems that whenever your rig contacts the einstein servers to get more work it resets the <count> value to 1, so at the moment the only way around it is to keep changing it manually. I suppose an app_info could be set up to enforce the <count> setting, but I haven't a clue how to go about doing that

The only other issue with E@H is the ridiculous amount of bandwidth required to download work. Each GPU pulsar task has four files of ~1MB each and the correlation tasks seem to be made up of 44 files, some of which are up to 4MB and many over 3MB . Put another way, I currently have well over 800 einstein transfers for less than 50 tasks...

 

[ToxicTBag]

Core blimey - but hey it'll be worth it if there's even the slimmest chance of a pulsar being named ToxicTBag

 

[TheTross]

Hehe

Unfortunately they're given names that hardly roll off the tongue: the pulsar that Einstein (more accurately, a couple of E@H users) found has been named PSR J2007+2722...

 

[ToxicTBag]

Not to worry about the naming its just interesting is all, started milkyway again but someone said not to use the app_info with the app that speeds it up so i deleted it in favour of the stock app it downloaded a few cuda units but they errored out and now its only doing cpu....very slowly too.
Rather than get myself in a stew over it all i think i will retire for an hour with pen and paper, go through all my options with the hardware i have, and figure out which rig can be configured to do what and spread the work across the 3 clients.....and i have to fit folding in there somewhere too

 

[edgedemon]

Look at your sig code. Where you see 'SAH', add 'EAH' and 'MWAH' immediately after it, separared by ':' so that that whole section looks like 'j=SAH:EAH:MWAH&i='. Depending on what order you set those determines how they are ordered in your sig.

Dont s'pose you know how to reposition the text do you?
I haven't got room to fit Einstein on at the moment..

 

[TheTross]

Yep, you just need to alter the y value. Y = 10 puts the Rank & Credit text right at the top, which leaves enough room at the bottom for a fourth project, although setting y to 13 aligns everything properly.

 

[Area 51]

Not to worry about the naming its just interesting is all, started milkyway again but someone said not to use the app_info with the app that speeds it up so i deleted it in favour of the stock app it downloaded a few cuda units but they errored out and now its only doing cpu....very slowly too.
Rather than get myself in a stew over it all i think i will retire for an hour with pen and paper, go through all my options with the hardware i have, and figure out which rig can be configured to do what and spread the work across the 3 clients.....and i have to fit folding in there somewhere too

methinks you need a fourth machine Mr Toxic........

 

[ToxicTBag]

[Lancashire mode start] 'appen yer right lad i say 'appen your right![Lancashire mode end]
I am jiggling aboot (sorry canada) and trying to figure the best way to configure 3 rigs so all projects get a fair share, have been scribbling on pen and paper but its a minefield.
Ok seti is easy it runs on 2 biggish rigs so am going to give the cpu time off them to milkyway. Einstein ooerrrr at present its got a gpu to itself and teh cpu is......argghhhhhhh apple crumble start again - sigh