hi, my seti at home got it's first astopulse workunit.
In order to start this work unit i seem to need the file in the ttle.
However, it fails to download giving the following error: 14/10/2009 11:57:42 SETI@home Backing off 1 hr 50 min 28 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe

This has been going on for 36 hrs.
I have tried to dowload manualy from http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/
but this times out too.
Any ideas how to work around this? 200 hours of work depend on it
Hope to hear from you soon

Mike Bate

hi, my seti at home got it's first astopulse workunit.
In order to start this work unit i seem to need the file in the ttle.
However, it fails to download giving the following error: 14/10/2009 11:57:42 SETI@home Backing off 1 hr 50 min 28 sec on download of astropulse_5.05_windows_intelx86.exe

This has been going on for 36 hrs.
I have tried to dowload manualy from http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/
but this times out too.
Any ideas how to work around this? 200 hours of work depend on it
Hope to hear from you soon

Mike Bate

You can copy the file from some other machine.

You can install one of the optimized applications (look for the lunatics unified installer). Note that this is not for everyone as you have to install new versions by hand as they come out.

You can wait until the pipes unclog.

You can attach to a second (or third or fourth or ...) BOINC project to keep your CPUs busy while you wait for the executable to finish downloading.

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Thanks i have already done the einstein project, and will try the 3rd party stuff. is this a usual thing? and if i can download manually how do i install just the file?

thanks for thinking of me

mike bate

...and if i can download manually how do i install just the file?

Just copy it into the BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu directory. That's beneath the BOINC data directory, as mentioned in the Messages tab after a restart of the BOINC client.

Gruß,
Gundolf
PS: You should copy it, not move, since BOINC will delete it again if it doesn't agree with the file signature.

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

thanks guys for the respones. i don't have another pc to copy it from put will keep trying. havea great day.

Mike Bate

Third party option would be this one.

http://www.arkayn.us/seti/Lunatics_Win32v0.2_AP505r168_AKv8b_CudaV12.exe

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thanks once again guys, i wiil use the lunatic option!!!
not sure what that saysabout me!!!!
Thanks for the help.
i'll mark this as closed now.

mike bate

it says you are willing to do a bit of leg work to accomplish your goals. Keep on Crunching

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