You are using an original AMD Athlon? Yes, I'd turn off AstroPulse for your machine. AP runs noticably slower on AMD chips by almost 2x, and your original AMD Athlon doesn't even support SSE or later implementations of SIMD instructions, so installing an optimized application to process AP won't even help much.

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Whats the differents between astropulse and astropulse 5 pls?

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Can someone please give me a answer? Because i cant find it anywhere

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Whats the differents between astropulse and astropulse 5 pls?

I'm not sure of the exact difference. All I know is that AP is the original application and AP5 is a newer one. It may have to do with better blanking of the radar interference on the recordings and the way its handled. The original AP is not being created anymore, but there may still be some re-issued copies still being distributed to achieve validation.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

Hello.... I'm new at this too. I noticed yesterday that I had about 90% done on a wu..... so I look at it today thinking it finished, but i can't find it!

It's either completed or restarted over again? Because it's at 3% and looks like the same TASK!!!

I looked at my Pending credit and nothing there.. What should I be looking for? Where did all that time go?

It's either completed or restarted over again? Because it's at 3% and looks like the same TASK!!!

It's probably completed and the new one only looks very similar.

I looked at my Pending credit and nothing there.. What should I be looking for? Where did all that time go?

Look at the Server status page. When "Replica seconds behind master" is zero or low (below 1000), then you'll find your tasks and credits.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

It's either completed or restarted over again? Because it's at 3% and looks like the same TASK!!!

It's probably completed and the new one only looks very similar.

I looked at my Pending credit and nothing there.. What should I be looking for? Where did all that time go?

Look at the Server status page. When "Replica seconds behind master" is zero or low (below 1000), then you'll find your tasks and credits.

Gruß,
Gundolf

And it is currently offline (yet again).

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BOINC WIKI

Hi Chuck, it looks like you may be right about it restarting. Did you only have one task on your computer? The one running now is from when you joined. They are supposed to set up refresh points so that when you shut down or something else happens it will only go back to that last point. Sometimes though it doesn't catch and will start over. I believe it should go a lot faster the second time but I'm not sure about that. Even so, you should still have plenty of time to finish it.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Thanks guys for the info...

perryjay I think your right and it is going faster... I do believe it was only one wu task.

Lately we've been having unusual power outages, and again this morning a storm knocked it out! Maybe I should get a backup power supply... I guess there's still a chance it could start over again, though hopefully that want happen.

Thanks...

Seti Enhanced (Multibeam) deadline is anywhere from several days (for the really short ones) to 14 days (maybe even longer? I haven't seen any really long ones lately).

Astropulse is 1 month already. It's not a week, not 2 weeks, but 4 weeks.
As you perhaps can see on the one you aborted:

Created 22 May 2009 13:54:42 UTC
Report deadline 21 Jun 2009 13:54:47 UTC

That's a month in my book.

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I am also having a horrible time with Astropulse. I actually turn my machine off once in a while. $$$ The problem is the fact that the completion date is way to close as to when my machine can have it finished. A couple of months would be fine with me but just one week is way to soon. I also set the % to less than 100% since my laptop gets hot. I really like helping out, but when I spend lots of time and resources on something I would like to see it count for something. Sorry folks but one or two weeks is just not enough time for my machine and my own work to complete an astropulse file in the time you want it right now. Make it a month and I'll be glad to start working on those files again.

k*******@yahoo.com

Astropulse due date is a month from the time it is issued. You seem to have a fairly large cache (38 WU?) for someone with 10 projects. You might consider decreasing it. You may also want to look into using a third party optimized applications, see sticky in Number Crunching forum. They cut the processing time down to half.

I get the impression you only run Boinc is screensaver mode. With a dual processor system there is little reason to not have Boinc always running in background.

If you don't run your system enough to complete AP work by due date you can change your options in the Seti preferences to only accept the enhanced multibeam WU.

BTW I suggest that you edit your post to remove your email address. The internet is crawling with spam bots looking for valid addresses. You should always avoid posting your email in forums.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

I have a similar situation but don't see a way to configure it.

I have several computers participating in seti@home, and one of them is an oldish laptop, which, due general slowness and sporadic on-time, can in no way finish astropulse jobs within the month allocated to them. The last astropulse job I cancelled when it expired was only 30% done.

The other computers seem to do it fine. Is there a way to tell just *one* of my computers not to do astropulse? The type-of-work configuration looks like it is account-wide.

I suppose one option would be to split it off to a separate account.

(edit)
I found my own solution. Moved the laptop in to the 'school' location and then set the preferences for that location to not run astropulse. Not exactly intuitive, but it works.

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I have a similar situation but don't see a way to configure it.

I have several computers participating in seti@home, and one of them is an oldish laptop, which, due general slowness and sporadic on-time, can in no way finish astropulse jobs within the month allocated to them. The last astropulse job I cancelled when it expired was only 30% done.

The other computers seem to do it fine. Is there a way to tell just *one* of my computers not to do astropulse? The type-of-work configuration looks like it is account-wide.

I suppose one option would be to split it off to a separate account.

(edit)
I found my own solution. Moved the laptop in to the 'school' location and then set the preferences for that location to not run astropulse. Not exactly intuitive, but it works.

That is the exact purpose of having 4 venues. It allows users with several computers of various capabilities or running environment to have their own preference settings. Unfortunatly little of about Boinc is very intuitive. Projects are made by scientist and it isn't their forte.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

It doesnt hurt that they are sending out more MB at the present time.

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