I've been running Seti for some time. Below are my statistics, I'm wondering if I'm doing anything worthwhile? Can anyone give me an answer here?

Name Preflight

Total credit 240,997
Recent average credit 215.89
SETI@home classic workunits 1,175
SETI@home classic CPU time 15,418 hours

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I've been running Seti for some time.yea about 71/2 years! your doing fine, but you could contribute more to the project,If you updated your boinc client, and used the V8 app. you'd do much more work , and your credits and recent average credits would increase by about 40%.. hang in there and perhaps get more involved.. Good luck..... Dan

If you visit these pages regularly, and keep up to date, then looking at the optimised applications threads. And download the correct application for your OS and CPU could boost your performance by over 50%, by much more for the AstroPulse application.

The downside is that they install an app_info.xml file, this file means you, and you only, are responsible for the application running and updating as required. The app_info file inhibits automatic upgrading of the default application(s)

I've been running Seti for some time. Below are my statistics, I'm wondering if I'm doing anything worthwhile? Can anyone give me an answer here?
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Only you can judge what value this effort has for you. I consider it very worthwhile.

The work our hosts do is to reduce large amounts of data received from the multibeam recorder at Arecibo to a manageable set of possible signals. On average, the project gets about 160 GB of data a day, that can be split into about 722,000 setiathome_enhanced workunits and 17,800 astropulse workunits. During the last day, we reported completion of 407,520 setiathome_enhanced and 11,724 astropulse workunits. The project has to put part of the data into off-site storage unexamined because we can't keep up. All contributions of CPU cycles are needed.

The over two billion possible signals in the master science database have not yet been compared to find persistent signals (those at the same frequency and sky position at different observing times). The Near real-Time Persistency ChecKeR (NTPCKR) is still under development, and they don't yet have the hardware to run it so it can live up to the "Near real-time" concept. So the project doesn't have candidates for reobservation selected, and certainly no obvious E.T. signals found. This is a long-term effort and participants need to be patient.

                                                                Joe

I'm wondering if I'm doing anything worthwhile? Can anyone give me an answer here?

I can give you a (slight) bleeding edge answer on how to improve and squeeze maximum performance and SETI crunchingness for your PC: (Apart than these I don't have any other suggestions!)

Tip 1 - Download AK V8 Multibeam / AP5 Astropulse as Voyager & WinterKnight noted.
Tip 2 - If possible, overclock your system to a stable yet performance-enhancing state
Tip 3 - Leave your computer running as long as possible! :)
Tip 4 - In Windows Task Manager, turn off any unused processes that might be stealing CPU cycles or RAM.
Tip 5 - If running Windows Vista, turn off the eye-candy and the Aero Interface
Tip 6 - Minimize PC usage to bare minimum, but still usable!
Tip 7 - Make sure all BOINC & SETI preferences are set for optimal SETI crunching performance

Goodluck Preflight, I hope some of these options may be useful to you, and, Welcome to the boards! :)

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- Luke.

I'm wondering if I'm doing anything worthwhile? Can anyone give me an answer here?

I can give you a (slight) bleeding edge answer on how to improve and squeeze maximum performance and SETI crunchingness for your PC: (Apart than these I don't have any other suggestions!)

Tip 1 - Download AK V8 Multibeam / AP5 Astropulse as Voyager & WinterKnight noted.
Tip 2 - If possible, overclock your system to a stable yet performance-enhancing state
Tip 3 - Leave your computer running as long as possible! :)
Tip 4 - In Windows Task Manager, turn off any unused processes that might be stealing CPU cycles or RAM.
Tip 5 - If running Windows Vista, turn off the eye-candy and the Aero Interface
Tip 6 - Minimize PC usage to bare minimum, but still usable!
Tip 7 - Make sure all BOINC & SETI preferences are set for optimal SETI crunching performance

Goodluck Preflight, I hope some of these options may be useful to you, and, Welcome to the boards! :)

Agreed ... and get that BOINC updated to 6.2.19 your current version gives odd credits that don't usually correlate to newer versions

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Diogenes Of Sinope

Tip 7 - Make sure all BOINC & SETI preferences are set for optimal SETI crunching performance

Can someone please guide me to what are the best boinc/seti prefs 2 crunch as fast as we can?

i use a amd opteron 180 2.4g latest boinc client 3gb ddr400 vista home premium latest updates
intel core 2 quad @ 2.66 latest boinc client 4gb ddr2 667 xp pro sp3 latest updates. plus v8 opti app on both pcs
Thanks

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1) Try to use "leave app in memory" option - it's saves CPU cycles on restarting app.
2) set cache size to sensible amount of days to have work when your host doesn't connected to internet or when project has some difficulties with new work providing.

ADDON: you said you use AK8 opt app. It's opt app for SETI MB part of project If you still using stock app for AP (SETI AstroPulse) you should replace it with opt AP version too. Or you can disable AP work in preferences.

Thanks for pointers. I don't process AP work this is partly because of the large bandwidth needed per workunit and the lenigh per unit. is the AP work more important then the MB work when it's available?

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Thanks for pointers. I don't process AP work this is partly because of the large bandwidth needed per workunit and the lenigh per unit. is the AP work more important then the MB work when it's available?

Hiya Speedy,
I admit - AP WU's do run quite long, but if you run the AP 5.00 Opti-app, you can get roughly the same credit pr second compared to MB.
I would give it a try and take the leap (if you want to run AP5.00 you'll have to splice you appinfo.xml file) what's the worst that can happen? :)

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- Luke.

Hi Luke I might look into splitting the appinfo.xml file tomorrow I'm sure it's easy to do. If I make a mistake will it crash my wu's in the processing line? Good night from Blenheim New Zealand

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Hi Luke I might look into splitting the appinfo.xml file tomorrow I'm sure it's easy to do. If I make a mistake will it crash my wu's in the processing line? Good night from Blenheim New Zealand

Good luck... and while you do that, you might as well give your BOINC and MB application an update if necessary. I'll try post some useful links later... Goodnight Speedy.

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- Luke.

it would be nice if there was away for us to tell on our account page how many work units we have crunched. this has been done with the clasic work units. I crunched 412 it took 2,882 hours. Do other people like this idea?

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yes

they arent going to go back and create a second counter for the individual WU's. This isn't the old seti. Old seti allowed people to get "sweet" WU's that ran about 60 seconds and counted as a complete WU. with the BOINC Seti you are granted credit for your FloP count. If you get a short "sweet" WU now you get very little credit because you did very little work.

Trust the Seti folks that this is a better way of doing things. if you want to try and guestimate your count then divide your credits/ 30-35 which I've found is the average credits/WU. Some WU's get only 15 some get 90 but they all average around 30-35

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

All I'm asking people is weather they like the idea of there been a total number of boinc work units that they have crunched on there account page. i was using the classic work units as a example. sorry for any miss understanding.

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