SETI@home News Vol. 116 (19/09/2010)

[TheTross]

Credit
1 SETI.USA 1,822,836,841
2 SETI.Germany 1,537,606,739
3 L'Alliance Francophone 856,528,469
4 SETI@Netherlands 829,689,656
5 The Knights Who Say Ni! 656,012,413
6 Overclockers.com 596,974,561
7 Czech National Team 574,242,529
8 BOINC Synergy 553,301,548
9 Team 2ch 533,092,987
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire 485,073,404
11 Team China 476,392,021
12 BOINC@Taiwan 461,439,292
13 Team Starfire World BOINC 423,907,302
14 OcUK - Overclockers UK 420,356,219
15 TeAm AnandTech 405,643,427
16 The Planetary Society 378,077,752
17 US NAVY 370,759,365
18 Team Art Bell 346,391,812
19 Canada 308,056,617
20 Ars Technica 303,459,441


RAC
1 GPU Users Group 2,103,453
2 SETI.USA 1,801,424
3 SETI.Germany 1,590,478
4 SETI@Netherlands 1,046,467
5 OcUK - Overclockers UK 836,636
6 The Knights Who Say Ni! 709,796
7 L'Alliance Francophone 695,107
8 Team 2ch 606,085
9 Overclockers.com 585,196
10 Team China 511,111
11 BOINC@Taiwan 469,084
12 BOINC@AUSTRALIA 434,692
13 Czech National Team 409,691
14 BOINC Synergy 401,286
15 The Planetary Society 373,673
16 US NAVY 364,011
17 Team Starfire World BOINC 347,657
18 Canada 339,337
19 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire 339,270
20 Brasil [SETIBR] 338,908

Total Credit: 420,356,219
Crunched this week: 4,790,641 (-211,806)
Current World Position: 14
RAC: 836,636(-56,413)
Current RAC Rank: 5
Members: 1,158 (+2)
Active Members: 154 (13.3%)
Members gaining credit: 135 (11.7% of total members)


Teams Stomped
None

Teams Stomped By
None

Teams in our Sights
13 Team Starfire World BOINC (7 days) (-3)
12 Boinc@Taiwan (111 days) (+15)
10 BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire (130 days) (+8)
11 Team China (172 days) (+21)
8 BOINC Synergy (305 days) (+26)
7 Czech National Team (360 days) (+23)

The Ones to Watch
39 GPU Users Group (197 days) (-37)

1 Meridian 24,004,967
2 Burlsey 20,959,119
3 Mr Ludwig 18,816,521
4 br83taylor 13,649,448
5 IAN 12,381,512
6 Stuart Gibson 11,602,002
7 BA 11,459,327
8 ToxicTBag 11,437,186
9 loudbob 11,075,462
10 Biffa 10,711,983
11 Grimgoth 10,706,613
12 ReaVerUK 10,369,025
13 MadMaC 10,360,650
14 Simon 10,338,939
15 Odan 9,772,917
16 halz 9,398,507
17 GrandMasterD 9,280,292
18 CGS 8,807,657
19 bully 7,272,002
20 Alan Woodford 6,717,478

1 ToxicTBag 112,627
2 halz 89,148
3 loudbob 73,443
4 Meridian 56,964
5 ReaVerUK 49,756
6 MadMaC 43,287
7 Area 51 32,501
8 pnutty 32,313
9 BA 30,618
10 Marine Iguana 26,239
11 Berserker 23,984
12 Grimgoth 20,242
13 GrandMasterD 19,763
14 br83taylor 19,345
15 Ross Graham 14,726
16 k3v 14,687
17 CGS 13,153
18 Odan 13,077
19 Simon 11,953
20 Burlsey 10,431

Mason- 5,000
HeX.OCUK 10,000
ben 50,000
andyh159 100,000
Marine Iguana 2,250,000
Area51 2,750,000
Berserker 4,000,000
Bob Townsend 5,000,000
k3v 5,000,000
loudbob 11,000,000
ToxicTBag 11,000,000

New Members
Maurice
Mason-


Splitters
None

Highlighted entries are GPU assisted

1 ToxicTBag 669,065
2 halz 500,068
3 loudbob 339,119
4 ReaVerUK 283,436
5 Meridian 265,666
6 MadMaC 241,384
7 Area 51 225,768
8 pnutty 225,559
9 BA 163,425
10 Marine Iguana 158,586
11 Berserker 150,907
12 GrandMasterD 125,731
13 br83taylor 115,928
14 Ross Graham 104,610
15 k3v 99,514
16 Odan 76,589
17 CGS 73,544
18 Simon 67,212
19 Burlsey 65,144
20 Grimgoth 46,330
21 Dave 41,743
22 Stephen D. Ord 39,308
23 geoff 34,730
24 kolala 32,848
25 Graham 31,548

26 carbon8ed 30,462
27 Gordon Proctor 29,930
28 Dave Curr 28,088
29 Mr Ludwig 27,236
30 Richard Smith 26,921
31 Neil 26,675
32 Phil 26,171
33 Dr Grey 23,865
34 Pilgrim57 22,416
35 Tom Nunamaker 22,050
36 TheTross 21,335
37 andyh159 20,410
38 Chasser 19,384
39 Peter Lawson 17,060
40 retch 16,773
41 Zarniwoop 16,062
42 Slashiem 15,644
43 Vaz 14,699
44 eggcup 14,181
45 Bob Townsend 13,488
46 Lee Dixon 11,238
47 MonkZ 10,666
48 Atreus 8,754
49 shady 8,206
50 Sparkles01 7,323

51 dmc1970 6,929
52 HeX.OCUK 6,872
53 Jonathan Jeffrey Davis 6,440
54 Mark 6,327
55 Shai-Alit 6,184
56 Cluster 5,717
57 FluffySheep 5,537
58 john 4,666
59 AB1 Computers 4,291
60 Bradshawma 4,127
61 Mason- 3,868
62 Stickman 3,847
63 Hag 3,726
64 BENJAMIN HERBLE 3,636
65 Hamish 3,612
66 JMaragh 3,262
67 Ez-up 3,224
68 Soulfire 2,732
69 Robert McHattie 2,661
70 Harlequin 2,560
71 Ben 2,536
72 Blondie 2,459
73 duck 2,360
74 Patchw 2,263
75 Senture 2,250

76 Conor Robinson 2,105
77 Dorsai 1,985
78 TJLUK 1,886
79 DCJoeDog 1,530
80 David 1,428
81 Cyclone 1,422
82 Team Cake Boy's 1,368
83 Iain Cochran [xenoc] 1,278
84 H@WK_EYES 1,273
85 Mark 1,237
86 supernovagt 1,192
87 quackers 1,079
88 Lynxman 1,067
89 xrobert 1,018
90 Pro2type 835 928
91 Stompie79 843
92 Jez 787
93 Owner 746
94 Biffa 735
95 BurningHorizons 707
96 William Lack 690
97 Shining69 685
98 Will 672
99 TwoFace76 603
100 Neutron 551

101 Chris 515
102 IanH 502
103 Mad Pierre 473
104 siofwolves 387
105 Helen 373
106 Zippyatrainbow 360
107 Warspite 332
108 manbearpig 284
109 wayne 277
110 ezy50 274
111 God 273
112 DrJohn 266
113 KevinH 257
114 Mart 243
115 Tim 234
116 s33r 233
117 Allen Jamieson 221
118 froggy 202
119 lips of a moose 158
120 Ben 151
121 reggyt 142
122 Eddy51 122
123 cjo9900 121
124 revelation1318 117
125 Reg 117

126 Akansa 107
127 TiMeSliDeR 104
128 mutz_nutz_uk 101
129 Grid 99
130 john 94
131 Philip Breeze 81
132 lancediamond 77
133 Fezzer 72
134 ______Y_o_z_z_e_r______ 54
135 VeNT 25


Single PC League
1 Area 51 225,768
2 Marine Iguana 158,586
3 k3v 99,514
4 Pilgrim57 22,416
5 TheTross 21,335
6 eggcup 14,181
7 HeX.OCUK 6,872
8 Mason- 3,868
9 quackers 1,079
10 Shand Stewart 0
11 cyclo 0

No articles this week.


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



Apologies for the slightly late news today, but I was involved in an online whisky tasting with another forum I frequently participate on (hic!)

Berkeley have had problems this week with the air conditioning unit playing silly buggers, explaining why some of the numbers this week seem a little odd. Hopefully the issue has been fully resolved and normality (if there is such a thing with SETI!) has now resumed.

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've been missed off the milestones list then please let me know so I can add you manually.


H'onwards and h'upwards!

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

 

[loudbob]

Better late than never

Erm:

 

[Marine Iguana]

Nice tiffah Bob

Thanks for the news TT

Wonder if we can stomp Starfire this week

 

[ToxicTBag]

Most excellent tiffy Loudbob well done sah and thanks for the news TT much appreciated

 

[eggcup]

impressive tiffy indeed

 

[Marine Iguana]

Certainly a few bob raised for Seti at the weekend

 

[edgedemon]

Certainly a few bob raised for Seti at the weekend

yeah, I saw that (and stumped up) - hopefully it will mean a bit more reliability and some science getting done...

Well done to the tiffy winners and welcome to the new members - you have no idea what you have let yourself in for

 

[ToxicTBag]

Afternoon peeps, any idea how long it takes for the stats to update on einstein? cheers

 

[Area 51]

Sometimes -arrggghh!!!

Looks like me H50 is titz! The pump assembly has developed the dreaded clicking noise, which seems to be a known problem with these units. I'll have to switch back to my monster Noctua cooler whilst the RMA goes through.

Lucky I didn't sell my Noctua!!!!!

....and I just got tickets to see Jean Michel Jarre in dear old Glasgeee!!!!! Been waiting to see him live for years

 

[Berserker]

He's still touring?

One of the few artists I'd love to see too. Envious.

 

[Area 51]

He's still touring?

One of the few artists I'd love to see too. Envious.

Just kicking off a tour - you may still be able to get tickets....

 

[ToxicTBag]

In the hope that Halz ventures onto the forums and seeing as you are the team founder, my stats have updated for einstein but why am i not on the team list?

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_members.php?teamid=317&sort_by=total_credit&offset=0

 

[TheTross]

You are. Sort the table by RAC and go to page two, where you're currently in 26th place. If you still can't see yourself then you might need to do a full refresh there (Ctrl + F5)

 

[ToxicTBag]

Thanks for that TT, must have just appeared in last hour, not that i am keen or anything but have been trying allday....when your a bit power crazed its allways nice to see your name up there

740 vlar and some 10 day astropulse, are Borkeley trying to tell me something or are we all going through a bad patch?

 

[TheTross]

740 vlar

Ouch . I assume you've rescheduled them?

I currently have no SETI WUs as I'm running down my list of Einstein work first.

 

[Area 51]

Thanks for that TT, must have just appeared in last hour, not that i am keen or anything but have been trying allday....when your a bit power crazed its allways nice to see your name up there

740 vlar and some 10 day astropulse, are Borkeley trying to tell me something or are we all going through a bad patch?

I think the servers are having a bad hair day ! I certainly hope my 3 ap tasks are'nt (EDIT - doh) gonna take 3 days each - I've just re-scheduled 340 VLARS (christ, my DCF is gonna go throught the roof) - and I have about an additional 600 pucka CPU tasks!!!

The duration estimates have been off for me by a factor of about 3 for weeks now. Not sure they've cracked the server-side estimating stuff!

 

[Marine Iguana]

Happy days my turbo on my car is now working and I can annoy people with my dump valve

No big bill for me ahhhh feels like a massive weight off my shoulders

 

[ToxicTBag]

I have now was just sat back in amazement downloading one after the other quite funny really. Must admit i am impressed with Einstein running multiple gpu tasks and the gpu rarely goes over 55 degrees nice, i could get used to that although Mr Edge reckons the cpu could be the bottleneck when doing that.....worth a try

****Way to go Mr Marine sah****

Chuffed for ya lad

 

[TheTross]

Have read about your ongoing car woes MI. Am so glad it's working now as it's an absolute beauty

Toxic, don't forget that the CPU bottleneck with Einstein will purely be down to the fact that each GPU task requires one CPU core, so you physically cannot run more Einstein instances than you have cores (or logical cores if your CPU's hyperthreaded; you seem to have so much hardware that I have no idea what it is you have, let alone what you're running on what!).

 

[ToxicTBag]

Tell you the truth TT am a bit bored tonight so am just trying to push this i7 to the limit, which for me is 3.4 stable clock and as many instances of whatever project i can lay my hands on.
Managing to get 12 cuda tasks and 4 cpu tasks running on einstein it's funny as hell trying to figure out how far you can push something, am fortunate in that i usually pull up before the precipice rushes up to greet me...lallalallalalaaaaa

Managed to lower the 1 cpu per gpu task to .33 and theyre chugging along....not as fast but definately working, normal operations will resume tommorrow for now am quite enjoying myself

**Edit**

Anyone have any idea on the following: i know i can choose not to use cpu in seti options and that it will apply to all boinc projects, unless i specify a different location with the appropriate prefferences.
My question is how on earth can i set prefs to do gpu +astropulse only??? ta muchly