TheSkyNet news thread - 17/10/11

ReaVerUK · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:43

There is certainly something up with the Trophy system. Just been awarded The HAL (9000), The Core (30000), Owner of the Galaxy (100000) & The space Traveler (384000).
The trophies for me were correct @ 2800ish points when i checked yesterday but now @ 3021 they are showing incorrect so it may be going wrong ~3000 points or everyone may have been given them accidentally today??
As long as the science i correct who cares if the trophies are wrong but im sure i can be sorted.

shadowscotland · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:41

From the main forums, regarding the stall in points every now and again

Hi All,

Credit problems noted and the problem is caused by server instability - as suspected. I am keeping the system running manually at present while we trace the problem (which could even be the new hardware the DB was moved to last week). There may be still a couple hours of stagnation if I don't get to the server when broken e.g. while asleep. But it should be running fine now.

In the meantime please bear with us - if you're not getting credits then at least no-one else is, and the processing code is unaffected (the results are coming back just fine).

Thanks again

Rhys

derk · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:55

I was about to say it would be down for the night but its running again, still going to post this anyway...sorry Tim

For those who dont know who Ageotas (Tim Young) is or what he does .....

http://www.scitech.org.au/about/scitech-presenter-set-to-star-on-beauty-and-the-geek.html

Tim - Front left on 'Beauty and the Geek' 2010

...the polarimetry of single pulse emissions from the Vela Pulsar - What guys will do to pull chicks

BaBa · 18 Oct 2011 at 18:37

OK ive got this up and running (i think) :confused:

Im geting points but no processor usage :confused:

Does this realy not have any front end, if not how do you run multiple cores?

Not realy had time to fool with it work getting in the way

shadowscotland · 18 Oct 2011 at 19:04

Your on the team page and gaining points - I've no active work at the minute either.
For more clients - log into the website, and press the green tick for extra brower based clients.
You can have one per core open (one less if running the background client)

BaBa · 18 Oct 2011 at 19:41

Can you not have multiple cores running on the background client?

I think a minimal front end for the background client is going to be a must even if it just shows the number of active clients and allows you to launch/stop multiple cores.

ToxicTBag · 18 Oct 2011 at 20:12

Am well chuffed that i am able to run seti and do a bit here too will try my best

Has anyone given this much thought? With the sudden influx of information and crunchers there's allways the chance TheSkyNet could become self aware and come back to bite us on the asp .... runs n hides

PhilthyPhil · 19 Oct 2011 at 05:43

We just stomped The Knights Who Say Ni

derk · 19 Oct 2011 at 07:24

PhilthyPhil said:
We just stomped The Knights Who Say Ni

Yes its official

...............Next

Colasanto · 19 Oct 2011 at 13:15

Hehe, It's funny how I only push my system more for folding and not gaming. Overclocked by CPU by another 400mhz and upped my graphics card for higher core clock and extra 50gb/s throughput on the memory.

Being economical you see, my PC = my radiator and heater

ToxicTBag · 19 Oct 2011 at 13:32

Colasanto said:
Hehe, It's funny how I only push my system more for folding and not gaming. Overclocked by CPU by another 400mhz and upped my graphics card for higher core clock and extra 50gb/s throughput on the memory.

Being economical you see, my PC = my radiator and heater

Aye tis the season for heavy duty overclocks and save on the central heating

shadowscotland · 19 Oct 2011 at 13:42

Spent most of the morning tweeking the spreadsheet and set up the graphs in advance.
Mainly as I've a favour to ask - would anyone like to do the news this week?
I'll be in spain for a week and can't guarentee I'll have computer access every day.

It involves a manuel stats grap off TheSkyNet 'ladder' tab
(as the team one updates less frequently and Biffa and DavidCopeman's stats are not recorded correctly)
Using firefox it's easier as the usernames are remembered - but it still 19 look ups.
With both the position and points score added to the spreadsheet.
Every thing is auto from then on except the high/low ppd value - that done by hand
I'm sure an excel macro could do it - might read up on it this week.

Oh and MarineIguana - looks like you forgot to switch it on again

And I'm taking loudbob, dekez, Biffa and LavaMoney off the graphs this week as they are all inactive currently

derk · 19 Oct 2011 at 15:33

Alright, I'll give it a bash, I think its about time I did my own news updates too.

BaBa · 19 Oct 2011 at 15:37

Ok so Hydra dropped a bigadv(6903) at 98% :mad:

For her penance she is now doing skynet, i say for her penance you should try setting up 48 cores on this its a PITA :eek:

derk · 19 Oct 2011 at 15:52

Cool

, sorry to hear about the bigadv though mate.

shadowscotland · 19 Oct 2011 at 18:23

is that 48 cores? or 24 core all hyperthreaded?
And that some serious point out put - you're going to love the graphs this week

Thankd halz - I'll e-mail you the database on friday.
You do have excel2000 or newer I hope

BaBa · 19 Oct 2011 at 19:36

Thats 48 core AMD at 2.9Ghz or 52212 MIPS

Cant do this for long the network load is huge i think 100+ GB a month just with what i have running now

Edit: Not sure how much work its doing ,seems only 3-4 cores are loaded im just getting the points for active clients.
Thats 4608 points per day just for active clients.

shadowscotland · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:03

4.6k is epic

derk · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:22

shadowscotland said:
You do have excel2000 or newer I hope

Yes

Windle · 19 Oct 2011 at 23:39

I completely forgot about this, not bad considering it's only running on 2 machines at work which are rather crap old workstations without much (read any) oomph. Should probably stay late one night and install it on the whole office