http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=3224812

I am in competition with another user in my team, and I would personally like to thank seti for NOT giving me DUE credit for the work I have done ONCE AGAIN!

On a newly formatted system with NO problems and Nothing but boinc installed.!

WTF!

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Fixer was here..

From one of your invalid results:

<message>
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>03oc03aa.9580.16849.823572.3.255_1_0</file_name>
<error_code>-131</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>

In the Wiki (click my sig) you'll find this:

ERR_FILE_TOO_BIG -131 file size too big an output file was bigger than max_nbytes

I don't know the reason for this, but it's some more information at least.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

Hi Ben , have you checked to see if your machine is overheating, or does it have a faulty memory simm.

From the machine spec's it looks like a P3 500Mhz , which by now could even have a failing CPU fan. (Something I have suffered from in the seti classic days).

To test the memory I would suggest Memtest X86 (usually comes as a boot option on knoppix CD's).

Hope this helps

Bruce

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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=3224812

I am in competition with another user in my team, and I would personally like to thank seti for NOT giving me DUE credit for the work I have done ONCE AGAIN!

On a newly formatted system with NO problems and Nothing but boinc installed.!

WTF!

If you are in COMPETITION, why would you not have the optimised app on your machines...At least get at much credit for the ones you do get credit on. When was the last time you took any of those machines outside and blew them out real good?

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And no good credit hound!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=3224812

I am in competition with another user in my team, and I would personally like to thank seti for NOT giving me DUE credit for the work I have done ONCE AGAIN!

On a newly formatted system with NO problems and Nothing but boinc installed.!

WTF!

If you are in COMPETITION, why would you not have the optimised app on your machines...At least get at much credit for the ones you do get credit on. When was the last time you took any of those machines outside and blew them out real good?

Correctemundo on both counts!!
Dust bunnies and kitty fur can bring down even a faily new rig due to cooling problems caused by clogged fans and heatsinks. It builds up faster than you think, if you have not had the case open on a rig that's been running a while with no attention to cleaning, you might be shocked!
And even older, slower computers can see a large increase in crunching output by using the correct Chicken app from Simon. You don't have to be running the latest and greatest CPU to benefit from them.

And the kitties say....'Sorry about the furballs, and get yo' Chicken!!'

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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=3224812

I am in competition with another user in my team, and I would personally like to thank seti for NOT giving me DUE credit for the work I have done ONCE AGAIN!

On a newly formatted system with NO problems and Nothing but boinc installed.!

WTF!

If you are in COMPETITION, why would you not have the optimised app on your machines...At least get at much credit for the ones you do get credit on. When was the last time you took any of those machines outside and blew them out real good?

Correctemundo on both counts!!
Dust bunnies and kitty fur can bring down even a faily new rig due to cooling problems caused by clogged fans and heatsinks. It builds up faster than you think, if you have not had the case open on a rig that's been running a while with no attention to cleaning, you might be shocked!
And even older, slower computers can see a large increase in crunching output by using the correct Chicken app from Simon. You don't have to be running the latest and greatest CPU to benefit from them.

And the kitties say....'Sorry about the furballs, and get yo' Chicken!!'

Well that's cause Kitties love Chicken. ;)

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Validation error usually means that the result returned by your host does not agree with the other hosts. The typical causes if this happens repeatedly are: Overheat, and overclocking too much.

This happens to all of us occasionally. However, it it happens alot, you should start by chasing the dust bunnies out of your system and reducing the clock rate if you are overclocked.

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Validation error usually means that the result returned by your host does not agree with the other hosts. The typical causes if this happens repeatedly are: Overheat, and overclocking too much.

This happens to all of us occasionally. However, it it happens alot, you should start by chasing the dust bunnies out of your system and reducing the clock rate if you are overclocked.

Uh thanks for your input, but my system is clean and no "dustbunnies"

And its a Quad PIII Xeon 550 system, no overclocking possible on this intel SC450NX mainboard, allthought if it were possible I wouldnt mind trying.

However I have been running rosetta, and she does like my cpus.

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Fixer was here..

WHERE CAN I FIND THE RIGHT "OPTIMIZED" CLIENT FOR MY SYSTEM?

I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN I COULD FIRE UP A SYSTEM FROM A DOS FLOPPY WITH NIC SUPPORT AND RUN CLI.

BUT OH NO, NOT WITH BOINC, GOTTA RUN LINUX OR SOME CRAP. GREAT.

I WOULD PREFER BOOTING TO FLOPPY AND LETTIN THIS BOX CRUNCH THE REST OF ITS DAYS AWAY IN PEACE.

ANY SUGGESTIONS THAT DONT REQUIRE A DEGREE TO INSTALL LINUX?

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Fixer was here..

WHERE CAN I FIND THE RIGHT "OPTIMIZED" CLIENT FOR MY SYSTEM?

I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN I COULD FIRE UP A SYSTEM FROM A DOS FLOPPY WITH NIC SUPPORT AND RUN CLI.

BUT OH NO, NOT WITH BOINC, GOTTA RUN LINUX OR SOME CRAP. GREAT.

I WOULD PREFER BOOTING TO FLOPPY AND LETTIN THIS BOX CRUNCH THE REST OF ITS DAYS AWAY IN PEACE.

ANY SUGGESTIONS THAT DONT REQUIRE A DEGREE TO INSTALL LINUX?

Geez Ben, you don't have to shout.
If you go to Simon's website (there is a link in the 'optimized apps' sticky towards the top of this forum), you will find the downloads for the optimized apps (the famous Chicken apps). You can either manually download the app that matches the cpu on the rig you are installing on, or there is an autmatic installer option.
You don't need Linux to use them, there are versions for both Windows and Linux there. You can definately get some more output from your Intel farm by switching to the Chicken apps!
Check it out, and if you have problems with the install, you can post on Simon's site or back here, and someone will be glad to help you out.
Good luck with your crunching, and please try to have just a bit of patience with Seti's growing pains. They have been migrating to a new server to help eliminate some of the validate errors and other problems that ol' faithful Kryten has been causing due to his age, and are making good progress with it.
Hope you see your RAC increase with the new apps.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN I COULD FIRE UP A SYSTEM FROM A DOS FLOPPY WITH NIC SUPPORT AND RUN CLI.

Geez Ben, you don't have to shout.

Still bashing away at an old clunk-bang-whallop TELETYPE machine or even a more 'modern' VT100 terminal perhaps?...

Wheeee, those were the days!

;-)

Depending on the machine, my preferred choice is Kubuntu + Boinc or Damned Small Linux + Boinc. There's also the recent hackings using Windows PE CDs that is a nice interesting twist to the idea.


Happy crunchin',
Martin

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I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN I COULD FIRE UP A SYSTEM FROM A DOS FLOPPY WITH NIC SUPPORT AND RUN CLI.

Geez Ben, you don't have to shout.

Still bashing away at an old clunk-bang-whallop TELETYPE machine or even a more 'modern' VT100 terminal perhaps?...

Wheeee, those were the days!

;-)

Depending on the machine, my preferred choice is Kubuntu + Boinc or Damned Small Linux + Boinc. There's also the recent hackings using Windows PE CDs that is a nice interesting twist to the idea.


Happy crunchin',
Martin

Hey, a VT100 had lower case! Let's not lump it in with a Teletype machine. :-)

And I had a lot of quality time on a VT100 talking to a VAX 11/780 running VMS. I miss that OS. That was a loooong time ago.

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I MISS THE OLD DAYS WHEN I COULD FIRE UP A SYSTEM FROM A DOS FLOPPY WITH NIC SUPPORT AND RUN CLI.

Geez Ben, you don't have to shout.

Still bashing away at an old clunk-bang-whallop TELETYPE machine or even a more 'modern' VT100 terminal perhaps?...

Wheeee, those were the days!

;-)

Depending on the machine, my preferred choice is Kubuntu + Boinc or Damned Small Linux + Boinc. There's also the recent hackings using Windows PE CDs that is a nice interesting twist to the idea.


Happy crunchin',
Martin

Hey, a VT100 had lower case! Let's not lump it in with a Teletype machine. :-)

And I had a lot of quality time on a VT100 talking to a VAX 11/780 running VMS. I miss that OS. That was a loooong time ago.

Ah, yes! VMS v3 on a MicroVax II!

I remember those days!

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Hey, a VT100 had lower case! Let's not lump it in with a Teletype machine. :-)

And I had a lot of quality time on a VT100 talking to a VAX 11/780 running VMS. I miss that OS. That was a loooong time ago.

Ah, yes! VMS v3 on a MicroVax II!

I remember those days!

I worked on those, also. VT52 before the VT100 came out, then the color VT220, wow!

Vax 11/780, wow, new machine. First machine I was on was a PDP 11/23. 110 baud modem on the teletype, no auto answer on the other end, either. Had to call a number tell them a modem call was coming in. Hang up, dial the modem number, hope they'd pick up and connect correctly, otherwise make the call. Some people forgot to change the switch to tell that it was the answer side, etc. Today's instant on is just no longer as fun as the old days.

Now you went and made me nostolgic. I might have to go find my old CAT modem, and see if I can get a modem to talk to it (-:

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I worked on those, also. VT52 before the VT100 came out, then the color VT220, wow!

Vax 11/780, wow, new machine. First machine I was on was a PDP 11/23.

Those were the days . . . I wrote my first program on a PDP 11/34 using a VT52. By the time I got VT100s and VT220s we had upgraded to a PDP 11/73 running a multi-user version of RT-11 called TSX-Plus.

On the PDP 11/34, we had seven VT52 terminals hooked up and it only had 256KB of RAM. Only three of the VT52s could access memory at once. The other four had to wait with their work swapped out to disk. We've come a long way from 300 baud acoustic modems to now :)

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I worked on those, also. VT52 before the VT100 came out, then the color VT220, wow!

Vax 11/780, wow, new machine. First machine I was on was a PDP 11/23.

Those were the days . . . I wrote my first program on a PDP 11/34 using a VT52. By the time I got VT100s and VT220s we had upgraded to a PDP 11/73 running a multi-user version of RT-11 called TSX-Plus.

On the PDP 11/34, we had seven VT52 terminals hooked up and it only had 256KB of RAM. Only three of the VT52s could access memory at once. The other four had to wait with their work swapped out to disk. We've come a long way from 300 baud acoustic modems to now :)

First programming for me was on an IBM System 360 Model 67. FORTRAN using the WATFOR compiler. Late 1969. Oh, that was a loooong time ago. We had a Teletype in the basement of the high school to access the computer, or we could go over to the computer center at the university and use Teletypes or keypunches. Ah, nostalgia. :-)

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Ah, more name dropping...

Decsystem 10s,
...HP 1000s,
.....CDC 6400s, CDC Cyber 73
......ICL 1901
.......PDP-8, PDP-11/70
........VAXes

KSR-33 (teletype with punch-tape, 80 column punch-cards and of course the infamous porta-punch!

And of course - the ARPANET

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

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Ah, more name dropping...

Decsystem 10s,
...HP 1000s,
.....CDC 6400s, CDC Cyber 73
......ICL 1901
.......PDP-8, PDP-11/70
........VAXes

KSR-33 (teletype with punch-tape, 80 column punch-cards and of course the infamous porta-punch!

And of course - the ARPANET

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

IBM 1620, and the venerable 026 for input....

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IBM 1620, and the venerable 026 for input....

Damn. Don't remember those... but then i did forget to mention the IBM 360.

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Damn. Don't remember those... but then i did forget to mention the IBM 360.

The university I work for is still running all the student information on an IBM 390 complete with a library of several thousand 210 MB cartrige tapes that are fetched on demand by tape monkeys. They even have a web app for enrolment and financial aid that interfaces to the mainframe on the back end. Because it can only support relatively few connections at a time they made the session timeout for the web app insanely short - I think 3 minutes. It really annoys everyone but few know why it is that way :)

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