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Message 917179 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 16:47:45 UTC - in response to Message 916916.  

True, but you'd just have to build it to be gamma ray burst and solar flare resistant. :)

What happens if ET aims a gamma ray burst at it - do you get the detection, or harden against it? :-)


You run like hell because they are trying to destroy us with their gamma rays! LOL
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Message 917222 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 19:23:57 UTC

My own little bottleneck. When Astropulse units were widely available my four machines reached RAC 28,000+. Since Astropulse WU became scarce my RAC has receded to about 15,000. The same machines (3xQuad, 1xcore2duo), the same GPUs, the same hours per day of crunching (7/24), the same KWSN apps. Output has stabilized over the past week in that 15K RAC area.

Now I get the occasional Astropulse WU but 99% are SETI enhanced CPU and GPU WU. The loss of Astropulse WU could be coincidental but the timing is suspicious.

Would the experts call this 'normal' or should I be looking at some error?

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Message 917225 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 19:46:37 UTC - in response to Message 917222.  


Now I get the occasional Astropulse WU but 99% are SETI enhanced CPU and GPU WU. The loss of Astropulse WU could be coincidental but the timing is suspicious.

Would the experts call this 'normal' or should I be looking at some error?

Thanks, Art

It suggests that your computer is better at Astropulse than multibeam.

It is a well-known fact that different "angle-range" work units are "high paying" and "low paying" -- and RAC varies depending on the current mix.

It could also be due to a backlog of work to be validated (with a matching "bump" when everything gets caught up).
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Message 917251 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 22:28:16 UTC - in response to Message 917222.  

My own little bottleneck. When Astropulse units were widely available my four machines reached RAC 28,000+. Since Astropulse WU became scarce my RAC has receded to about 15,000. The same machines (3xQuad, 1xcore2duo), the same GPUs, the same hours per day of crunching (7/24), the same KWSN apps. Output has stabilized over the past week in that 15K RAC area.

Now I get the occasional Astropulse WU but 99% are SETI enhanced CPU and GPU WU. The loss of Astropulse WU could be coincidental but the timing is suspicious.

Would the experts call this 'normal' or should I be looking at some error?

Thanks, Art

For Astropulse and Astropulse v5, the optimized apps were maybe 4 times as fast as the stock apps. Since the credit rates adjust based on stock apps, there was a huge credit rate bonus for running optimized AP. The stock Astropulse v505 has some optimizations, so the bonus will be less in future. The server side credit adjustment has reduced the credits for a completed WU to 869.19 for AP_v505 tasks sent July 10, as compared to around 1225 for AP_v5 shortly before the AP_v505 release.

For much of the time before the AP_v505 release the project had an equal number of slots in the Feeder to Scheduler interface for MB and AP work, that made it quite easy to get AP work if you wanted it. But the ap_splitter processes got seriously ahead of the mb_splitter processes, so they switched to a 97:3 balance which approximates the 15872:400 ratio of the number of MB:AP WUs produced by one channel of a 50.2 GB 'tape' file. Until they update the project preferences so Astropulse v505 can be specifically selected, it won't be possible to get many AP WUs.

In short, I call what you're seeing 'normal'.
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Message 917253 - Posted: 12 Jul 2009, 22:37:10 UTC

What might help reduce it somewhat further is if we could get telescopes on the far side of the moon. I'm guessing that the lack of atmosphere there may ease the computational algorithms...(?)

Wouldn't help the computational algorithms, but it would sure help to block the interference from all those cellphones and "I love Lucy".

Which would in turn help ease the work that the algorithm has to do as a guess? Less noise = allowing coarser analysis of the signal for a given quality etc....
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Message 917294 - Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 4:48:53 UTC - in response to Message 917251.  

Until they update the project preferences so Astropulse v505 can be specifically selected, it won't be possible to get many AP WUs.

In short, I call what you're seeing 'normal'.
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Josef thank you for the current WU distribution details. Very true about AP WU, I am getting maybe one or two per PC per week at best. Even with credit per AP WU cut in half I still should be running a bit over 20K RAC. But of course that assumes I get some AP WU -- which I ain't!

I saw a thread comment about a script that would somehow get more AP WU through essentially begging (repeated requests) but didn't pursue it, don't know if it works.

Finally, food for (my) thought. I note my group brethren are humming along at about the same RAC they were running a few months ago. Meaning my 50% reduction is unique in the group. It is unknown but statistically improbable that they all decided suddenly to compensate with an upgrade. Sadly I don't know where to go looking. In the spirit of placing telescopes on the far side of the moon, maybe its just my radio station cosmically interfering at HF with the processors!
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Message 917365 - Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 15:18:14 UTC - in response to Message 917294.  

I note my group brethren are humming along at about the same RAC they were running a few months ago. Meaning my 50% reduction is unique in the group.

Art


Do you know how many of the others in your group were running optimized aps? My understanding is that stock AP and stock MB give roughly the same credits per hour.

In my case, running optimized aps for AP and MB, I've gone from RAC of 1100 to 1200 a few months ago, when I got almost all AP, down to about 700 with all MB today.

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Message 917392 - Posted: 13 Jul 2009, 17:50:31 UTC

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