SETI@Home News Vol. 128 30th April - 6th May 2011

ToxicTBag

ToxicTBag

ToxicTBag

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Joined
8 Mar 2010
Posts
7,184
Location
TBagTowers



Active participants: 140

Highest world rank on: Thursday, 27th January 2005 (ranked 1st)



Total Credit - 574,764,828.12 +

Crunched this week - 796,916.80 +

Current World Position - 12th
RAC - 796,956 +

Current RAC Rank - 9th

Members: - 1,192 +
Active Members: - 140 -

Teams Stomped
None :(

Teams Stomped By
None :D

Teams in our Sights
Team China - 18 Days :D:D

Splitters - 2 :(

New Members

There was a splitter from Team Taiwan who joined with the oh so random name of Administrator, while they are most welcome to our team i wonder if being stomped by OcUk was just too much for one of them to handle?



1. SETI.USA - 2,199,007,937.59
2. SETI.Germany - 1,900,908,175.94
3. SETI@Netherlands - 1,079,316,222.25
4. L'Alliance Francophone - 1,034,398,113.30
5. GPU Users Group - 848,257,242.49
6. The Knights Who Say Ni! - 831,316,988.96
7. Overclockers.com - 722,079,881.42
8. Team 2ch - 687,433,254.67
9. Czech National Team - 666,847,504.78
10. BOINC Synergy - 641,555,951.14
11. Team China - 578,844,649.75
12. OcUK - Overclockers UK - 574,764,828.12
13. BOINC@Taiwan - 557,044,006.48
14. BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire - 553,376,983.97
15. Team Starfire World BOINC - 496,626,379.24
16. TeAm AnandTech - 475,714,087.45
17. The Planetary Society - 471,920,761.15
18. US NAVY - 440,290,482.60
19. Team Art Bell - 415,200,933.85
20. Canada - 402,362,879.44

Recent Average Credit

1. SETI.USA - 2,163,807.28
2. SETI.Germany - 2,219,548.40
3. SETI@Netherlands - 1,579,279.50
4. L'Alliance Francophone - 1,075,477.36
5. GPU Users Group - 3,913,974.81
6. The Knights Who Say Ni! - 1,003,827.06
7. Overclockers.com - 1,017,142.30
8. Team 2ch - 893,257.26
9. Czech National Team - 584,104.52
10. BOINC Synergy - 506,578.39
11. Team China - 586,567.96
12. OcUK - Overclockers UK - 796,916.80
13. BOINC@Taiwan - 685,887.70
14. BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire - 400,691.55
15. Team Starfire World BOINC - 394,280.49
16. TeAm AnandTech - 429,384.36
17. The Planetary Society - 667,619.55
18. US NAVY - 409,656.93
19. Team Art Bell - 411,660.71
20. Canada - 568,571.96



1. Meridian - 36,385,985
2. ToxicTBag - 23,376,760
3. Burlsey - 22,443,906
4. ReaVerUK - 21,096,565
5. br83taylor - 20,990,997
6. Mr Ludwig - 19,814,517
7. MadMaC - 19,770,617
8. halz - 19,408,350
9. BA - 17,492,723
10. Grimgoth - 15,395,255
11. loudbob - 14,967,153
12. Simon - 14,697,253
13. pnutty - 14,401,605
14. Biffa - 12,483,941
15. IAN - 12,381,512
16. Odan - 12,112,969
17. CGS - 11,799,944
18. Stuart Gibson - 11,602,002
19. GrandMasterD - 11,213,438
20. Dave - 10,264,770




1. ReaVerUK - 72,994.99
2. Meridian - 67,684.86
3. ToxicTBag - 65,900.23
4. MadMaC - 60,255.18
5. br83taylor - 46,983.96
6. pnutty - - 44,332.54
7. Marine Iguana - 32,438.41
8. supernovagt - 31,601.38
9. kolala - 31,360.15
10. Simon - 25,806.77
11. Grimgoth - 23,579.39
12. Dave - 18,666.85
13. BA - 18,187.56
14. Ross Graham - 17,184.53
15. k3v - 16,468.81
16. dekez - 14,697.53
17. Jonathan Jeffrey Davis - 14,366.76
18. CGS - 13,087.44
19. Gordon Proctor - 12,498.74
20. Team Cake Boy's - 12,065.42






1. kolala - 7,000,000
2. Chasser - 4,750,000




1. ReaVerUK - 534,399
2. Meridian - 466,850
3. MadMaC - 460,291
4. ToxicTBag - 455,554
5. br83taylor - 405,308
6. pnutty - 286,146
7. supernovagt - 230,864
8. Marine Iguana - 226,684
9. kolala - 215,841
10. Simon - 180,998
11. BA - 134,058
12. Grimgoth - 124,198
13. k3v - 121,836
14. Ross Graham - 120,049
15. Jonathan Jeffrey Davis - 102,786
16. dekez - 102,084
17. Christian - 92,590
18. CGS - 87,075
19. Gordon Proctor - 79,887
20. Odan - 70,886
21. Chasser - 68,615
22. Dave - 60,991
23. hamesy - 58,559
24. Team Cake Boy's - 58,468
25. geoff - 58,158
26. Burlsey - 54,679
27. Ez-up - 44,931
28. adruss85 - 37,719
29. Stephen D. Ord - 35,720
30. Pilgrim57 - 34,846
31. retch - 33,173
32. carbon8ed - 32,390
33. Conor Robinson - 29,233
34. Zarniwoop - 26,653
35. OracleGod - 23,329
36. Mart - 23,256
37. Cyclone - 22,937
38. Dave Curr - 22,015
39. Mr Ludwig - 20,032
40. Cruize - 18,014
41. SourChipmunk - 17,656
42. easygoin' - 17,622
43. Elbulus - 17,031
44. eggcup - 14,843
45. Neil - 13,216
46. Sparkles01 - 13,214
47. dmc1970 - 12,183
48. Graham - 11,722
49. Lee Dixon - 11,463
50. shady - 11,135
51. Cluster - 10,358
52. tjluk - 9,749
53. Tom Nunamaker - 8,586
54. OZ - 8,234
55. Bob Townsend - 7,647
56. Mark - 7,619
57. john - 7,320
58. FluffySheep - 7,164
59. an1x - 7,022
60. Slashiem - 6,855
61. GrandMasterD - 6,186
62. TwoFace76 - 5,965
63. Matty - 5,677
64. Mark - 5,520
65. duck - 4,818
66. Craig - 4,447
67. indigo_prime - 4,351
68. Patchw - 3,995
69. Gerard Scheitler - 3,993
70. Iain Cochran [xenoc] - 3,426
71. Willowbark - 3,370
72. D0gma64 - 3,357
73. Lynxman - 3,127
74. JB - 2,233
75. Fezzer - 2,185
76. BENJAMIN HERBLE - 2,113
77. siofwolves - 2,091
78. David91 - 1,987
79. halz - 1,801
80. Bradshawma - 1,720
81. KevinH - 1,692
82. Chris - 1,658
83. xrobert - 1,607
84. Neoki - 1,548
85. Vaz - 1,515
86. David - 1,514
87. starfury6 - 1,508
88. Sean - 1,455
89. Ben - 1,398
90. Pondermotive - 1,310
91. Martin - 1,299
92. PJ - 1,298
93. Mad Pierre - 1,290
94. Shining69 - 1,222
95. quackers - 1,078
96. hardwaregeek - OcUK - 989
97. M Fletcher - 915
98. kevin christie - 845
99. BurningHorizons - 813
100. Tim - 796




1. Marine Iguana - 226,684
2. kolala - 215,841
3. k3v - 121,836
4. dekez - 102,084
5. Pilgrim57 - 34,846





How would you Gamify Seti?

http://mashable.com/2011/05/05/seti-gamify/


As allways the following article i came across was written with an American slant but the principle is the same the world over.

"John at μcosmologist has created an interesting infographic depicting how much it would cost to run SETI from one year ($2.5 million) versus various other things we spend money on. In the graphic, each radio dish represents $2.5 million. Here’s a (small) piece of it:




The whole thing is much larger, and you really need to see it. Especially the bit about how much people spend on Starbucks. Yegads.

John made this because of SETI having to mothball the Allen Telescope Array, and I strongly suspect because people were trying to say there are better things to spend money on. I’ll tell you, I think that argument is a crock. First off, it’s a false dichotomy; we can afford to do more than what we need to survive. And moreover, there is always something better to spend money on, yet we still seem to be able to justify (or rationalize) the way we spend the money we do.

In the United States alone we spend five times as much on tobacco products as we do on the entirety of NASA. How’s that for rationalization? And what we spend on NASA is much, much more than we spend on SETI (7500x more, actually). And we don’t spend enough on NASA, either.

On the other hand, as a skeptic, I understand the desire to ask why we should spend this money on SETI, why we should spend it looking for alien intelligences? There are lots of reasons, actually, but I still think the best one is simple: "

Because we should!

Congratulations to Mr kolala and Mr Chaser on their tiffy achievements this week :D
A huge thank you to every team member for their efforts this week, our rac is climbing slowly and steadily, i still think we do grand considering the number of active users we have compared to other larger (less significant) teams :D





Acknowledgements
All Project Stats
BOINCstats
teamocuk.co.uk
All graphics used in this news post are courtesy of halz
 
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Oh knowledgeable ones :confused:

I know it takes a while for gpu output to peak etc but am a bit worried. Just over 2 weeks ago (17days) i setup a new machine q8300 790i mobo 8gb ram and installed 3 gtx 470 all went well.
The output total so far is 390,000 and daily doo da is around 16,500 trouble is it seems to have stalled at those figures, one day it did do 16,890 but now its back below 16,000 per day.
Is there anything i may have done wrong or is it just taking longer than usual?
About 6 months ago i had a similar setup and it took no time to peak at 67,000 per day ....mucho confusing :(
 
:D Afternoon Mr Reaver sah, its all getting confusing but this is whats showing as far as pc's go





I have long suspected something fishy with that 31 million on machine number 1 but 2 is the pc in question today :confused:

Pending credit 1,005.83 grrrrrrr :mad:

**Edit** Just had amooch through pending tasks 145 pages and a good 20 to 30 of them are validation inconclusive and relate to the 580's.
Hmmm i might be better off starting from scratch and using stock apps to see whats going on :confused:
 
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Aye looks like a fun packed sunday ahead, at least i will know one way or the other.
Start from scratch at stock including the gpu's and watch carefully for any errors. Looks like output might take a hit but if it comes right i will be pleased.
I just felt certain that the 2 580's eventually would peak around 80,000 given that Mr dekez has a480/2700k that delivers 30,000 and the 3 x 470 should be around 55,00 given that a 4 x 470 setup was giving 77,000 and i dont think it had peaked.
So no lunatics etc for now, will run 1 task per gpu at a time, not sure how to do more than one task per gpu without the lunatics app_info but will leave that till another day.
Thanks for the input Mr Reaver sah much appreciated keep that top spot warm for me ;):)
 
:D Wayhayyy upgrade time, what might you be thinking of Mr Marine? :)

Same poop different day here, back to square one yet again. Darn 470's on anything above 255 drivers and tehy go potty 580's on 270 drivers fine.
If it goes belly up once more its all going outta the 1st floor window:mad:
 
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A most excellent tiffy Mr Marine .... you da man! :D

**Just wondering if you have the chrome all running and insured if you have your upgrade yet?**
 
:eek::eek: Is that all :D:D
Am getting ready to put my foot through this lot if your still thinking of upgrading in a few weeks there might be some bits n bobs here of some use :)
Gotta go ....date with Mila Jovovich and the sofa ;):)
 
kolala said:
Oh good, gives me a chance to sneak this under your door.

Just maintaining the gap between me and Mr MI;)

Oh nice one Mr Kolala sah and just in the nick of time, doubt Mr M will be as chuffed but project wise its all good!

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dekez said:
I had to google what Fablon was, thought it was some sort of washing power! lol :p
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Google Fablon :eek:
This is where i show my age and remember Fablon as a poor persons new kitchen :)
 
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