thank you, currently i use 0.5 days because of my pc can crunch about 6-11 hours a day (during the time iam at the university) but not on weekends and when iam at home. The 0.5 days are counted as 12 hours right? so boinc/seti will download enough for 1-2 real days right or does "day" refers to the amount of WUs done per day?

but i see i have to increase it anyway.

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BOINC learns how you use the computer
(% of time BOINC runs, how fast the computing go, etc...
(e.g. you play heavy games - the estimates will go up as the computer appear to be slower (less idle time which BOINC can use))
)

If you set it to get 10 days of work and BOINC is allowed to do computations only 1 hour a day
in fact it will get only 10 hours of work (total for all the projects that the computer is attached to)

So 10 days are real calendar days (not "computing days")

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thank you again for your patience. no questions left :)

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Screenshots (taken on Win XP, custom skin) from
Win32 Lunatics' Unified Installer v0.37

(release notes are at Message 1029244)

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Well, I have changed the count on my Fermi 460 1GB card now for a couple of days and am not sure whether my throughput has improved. Yes, I am now crunching 2 CUDA Wu's at a time but the completion duration for each task has now exactly doubled. So, I don't see the advantage to crunching more than one WU at a time. The daily production is the same. Have I missed somehow the correct optimizations?

Keith

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make sure you are comparing apples with apples. Ae the angle ranges the same on the WU's you are running now vs. the single run ones?

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OK, I did compare apples to apples. For a AR of .4 I crunched in about 1500 secs. Did a compare between the system at count 1 and count .5 and see that the validated result GPU times were about the same. I guess my confusion comes from the task elapsed times displayed which shows about 2.2 times longer for the count .5 configuration. There must be something wrong in how the Boinc Manager calculates times when processing multiple work units on the same GPU. So based on the actual validated results returned, I am doing twice as much work with the .5 GPU configuration.

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There must be something wrong in how the Boinc Manager calculates times when processing multiple work units on the same GPU.

It's called "support for this feature not included in the software".

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I have the regular flavor of SETI installed on a new computr I have added to my account. I have Lunatic's SETI on my Laptop, but I see I need to update to .37.
Anyway, if I install on the new computer am I going to loose what I have going on with the regular SETI app? I hope this makes sense.

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While it's usually advised to run down your cache before making changes, most times it will pick up the old work and start crunching with the opt_app where you left off with the regular SETI app. The installer has the type of unit included it just tells it to run with the opt_app. The reason for advising to run down your cache is in case you make a mistake you don't lose a bunch of work.

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Will the installer install to the directories i already have for SETI like what an update would do?

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Patrick M. O'Rourke

Will the installer install to the directories i already have for SETI like what an update would do?

Yes.

See the Screenshots:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=54288&nowrap=true#1066812

The screen #3 shows the directory, the installer gets the directory from the registry.

Example from another of my computers:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup]
"DATADIR"="H:\\BOINC-Data\\"

"DATADIR" is the BOINC Data directory, the Lunatics' Unified Installer adds "projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\" and (on this computer) will propose to Install in:
H:\BOINC-Data\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\


The directory will be different in your (anybody's) case.

The installer will not change anything until you press [Install]
You can change the directory manually or [Cancel] the installation (no changes will be made if you [Cancel])

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