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Caseh · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:09

Apparently Computation is suspended - And i haven't told it to stop, and it doesn't seem to want to do anything. Any ideas?

platypus · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:32

Check your activity settings?

Zirax · 9 Mar 2009 at 15:34

Crunching at about 2 units per 3hrs on the main and 2 units per 3.5hrs on the server

CaseyChaos · 9 Mar 2009 at 16:57

Berserker said:
I'd guess at around 30MB/day/core, but that is only a very rough guess so has a big margin of error (if you want to be really cautious, double it).

If that's a problem, access your account page at Rosetta@home, go to Rosetta@home preferences, edit the preferences and change the 'Target CPU run time' setting. For example, selecting '12 hours' would reduce the bandwidth requirements by 75%.

I worked out from 60mb/day/core I'd be using 7GB with my quad, not good cos I have 40GB limit, turned it down to 20% cpu usage so that should be 1 or 2GB, that'll be fine, pc on 24/7 so 20% should still crunch enough

Kristoph · 9 Mar 2009 at 17:18

Am I not being a little slow here?

Aren't Pirate Fleet ahead already?

They're 29th and we're 41st...

A.N.Other · 9 Mar 2009 at 18:01

mp3kla said:
Am I not being a little slow here?

Aren't Pirate Fleet ahead already?

They're 29th and we're 41st...

Negative. http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=rosetta&st=0#67

Caseh · 9 Mar 2009 at 18:43

Im getting 3 units done in just less than 3 hours

EDIT: Can you have 2 computers doing this for the same username?

Zirax · 9 Mar 2009 at 18:57

A.N.Other said:
Negative. http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=rosetta&st=0#67

It's just updated, thats the stuff. Starting to pull away again now

Zirax · 9 Mar 2009 at 18:59

[Cas];13648206 said:
Im getting 3 units done in just less than 3 hours

EDIT: Can you have 2 computers doing this for the same username?

Yep, just enter the same login details in the client and on the account page it will show your two machines.

Spleenus · 9 Mar 2009 at 20:51

excellent, have completed 1100 points in 24 hrs for the cause. I see we're making more than them now!

(I remember why I used to do SETI before boinc now too!)

neon.uk · 9 Mar 2009 at 21:16

Well i use a download monitor, and when it was at the stage "downloading work" or whatever, i used up 10MB in no time - so im not sure

I only get 15GB for 3 PCs (one is a very light user, the other two are me and my bro)

Berserker · 9 Mar 2009 at 21:44

CaseyChaos said:
I worked out from 60mb/day/core I'd be using 7GB with my quad, not good cos I have 40GB limit, turned it down to 20% cpu usage so that should be 1 or 2GB, that'll be fine, pc on 24/7 so 20% should still crunch enough

OK, your best option for absolute minimum bandwidth usage and maximum points is to set it to as much CPU as you're comfortable with (I have my Q6600 set to 75% which leaves a core free for MediaPortal), and then set it to process workunits for 24 hours each. Absolute worst case that'll be 1GB/month, and probably closer to 600MB/month.

PS - you always get a bigger download hit the first time you connect as it has to download all the software. After that, it'll only download that again if there's an update, which usually happens once a month or less.

zetec452 · 9 Mar 2009 at 21:57

I used to have an old SETI account, it doesn't seem to be active. Do they expire?

Edit: Created a new account anyway.

NightmareXX · 9 Mar 2009 at 23:35

No, the accounts never expire as far as I'm aware

Morba · 9 Mar 2009 at 23:38

probably already answered but im not going to read every post...

what have you actually found, if anything, from all of this?

NightmareXX · 9 Mar 2009 at 23:43

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rah_medical_relevance.php

That's a brief overview of what they're trying to find/research.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rah_articles.php might also have some information about what's been discovered already.

Peve · 9 Mar 2009 at 23:43

A.N.Other said:
As a separate note, one thing that always comes up in these threads is that people like to see that the project is achieving things (science-wise). An overview of the research being done can be found here and the publications from the lab are here.

Kristoph · 10 Mar 2009 at 01:35

http://boincstats.com/charts/chart_uk_rosetta_object_rac_teams_431.gif

Shows our graph and the improvement in the last day or so, imageshack is being a PITA so I'll just leave that link there.

Marine Iguana · 10 Mar 2009 at 02:03

Joined using Q9550 3hrs to go.

Berserker · 29 Mar 2009 at 18:28

I'd just like to say a massive

Thank You

To everyone who responded to this. This is what you did...

From the bottom graph, it's evident that a few people have drifted away, and that isn't unexpected. However, we're still achieving more than double the output we were before this thread started.

If you're thinking of switching away yourself, then that's your right, and we all thank you again for your contribution, however big or small. However, before you do put back to port, please remember those pesky pirates still have their fleet, and they still want our booty, so watch out behind...