Battle Plans for the Great Feeding Frenzy

Author	Message
Allie in Vancouver Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0	Message 1052547 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 20:14:20 UTC Last modified: 2 Dec 2010, 20:14:44 UTC I am wondering what people's plans are for the first day or two after SAH's return. Will those of you with farms stagger your computers' return or will you switch them all on at once? Any plans to use a smaller cache to ease the bandwidth bottleneck that is bound to ensue for the first 48 hours or so? Though I operate at a much smaller scale than most in this forum (one computer, no GPU) my plan is to maintain NNT for the first 48 hours. I don't want to get trampled by the thundering herd. I'll also set my cache lower than normal (normal is 4 days so I'll cut it to 1 or 2). Then, when I allow new tasks, I'll keep Einstein going for a week or so as well. It ought to be an interesting week or so after the gates open. How do you plan to deal with the Great 2010 Feeding Frenzy? Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein ID: 1052547 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1052550 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 20:36:15 UTC I offered the staff some suggestions for the server side.. On the local side, Einstein has tied my CPU's up in knots until 12/13. GPU, just going to let it grab. It seems to poll about once per day at the moment. Cache size down to 1 day. I am concerned about Jocelyn. Time will tell. Janice ID: 1052550 ·

Blake Bonkofsky Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 617 Credit: 46,383,149 RAC: 0	Message 1052552 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 20:49:11 UTC - in response to Message 1052550. I've got AQUA running on my 4 machines, with WU times anywhere from 8 hours to several days. I'll likely just set Aqua to NNT within a day or so of SETI comingback online and let BOINC work it out. A couple of my machines likely won't even request SETI work for a day or so after I set NNT. ID: 1052552 ·

dnolan Send message Joined: 30 Aug 01 Posts: 1228 Credit: 47,779,411 RAC: 32	Message 1052559 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 20:59:12 UTC I plan to allow new work on all my computers (there are only 4) but not limit other projects, so I don't expect much work to be requested any time soon - no Nvidia GPUs and CPUs are tied up with Einstein for at least several days (cache is 2.5 days). -Dave ID: 1052559 ·

Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0	Message 1052560 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 20:59:15 UTC I intend to sit back and watch. Not that my two little machines will make much difference either way. One could argue that if everybody did this it would be an interesting and realistic test of both S@H and BOINC hardware and software when faced with a glut of demand like this. Any personal messing with settings at the user level might slew the results. That's the test engineer in me speaking - you don't know what to fix until it breaks. ID: 1052560 ·

Ghery S. Pettit Send message Joined: 7 Nov 99 Posts: 325 Credit: 28,109,066 RAC: 82	Message 1052563 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 21:06:54 UTC Machines are set to download SETI WUs as available. So much PrimeGrid work going on that I probably won't notice for a while. RAC will certainly drop as PrimeGrid is still climbing and insanely higher than SETI ever was. ID: 1052563 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34754 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1052564 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 21:07:07 UTC I'm going to wait until the new year before asking for new tasks as by that time the demand should've quietened down a lot by then (so long as the new server setup can stand up to the punishment it'll get). Cheers. ID: 1052564 ·

SciManStev Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0	Message 1052568 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 21:14:44 UTC I hope to switch back to SETI full tilt. Lets test the servers, and see what they can do. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website ID: 1052568 ·

Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0	Message 1052569 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 21:14:46 UTC I have NNT on Einstein & as they're done they'll gradually be replaced with SAH units. I intend to let BOINC do the work, boosting up the higher quorums as I do. Jst kicked a _4 into action, then paused it & let the EAH continue, so the _4 SAH will be continued sooner than otherwise. ID: 1052569 ·

andybutt Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 262 Credit: 164,205,187 RAC: 516	Message 1052601 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 23:30:33 UTC - in response to Message 1052568. Agree with Steve. Testing time!! ID: 1052601 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13	Message 1052603 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 23:36:34 UTC Auto-pilot for my two meager machines. It's what the BOINC client was designed for. Leave it alone and it will take care of everything in due time. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 1052603 ·

.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69	Message 1052604 - Posted: 2 Dec 2010, 23:37:27 UTC A feeding frenzy of work units ! ! Shal i bring some cans or is wine prefered :) ID: 1052604 ·

zoom3+1=4 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65747 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49	Message 1052626 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 1:43:00 UTC I'll be busy crunching a Mouses house, If It happens on Monday, If not I'll wait til their is a break in the tide. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's ID: 1052626 ·

MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0	Message 1052627 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 1:46:54 UTC yeeeeeeah ...just got new work...are up for good? ID: 1052627 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1052628 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 1:50:09 UTC - in response to Message 1052627. yeeeeeeah ...just got new work...are up for good? nope. ghost resends. See technical news. Janice ID: 1052628 ·

MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0	Message 1052629 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 2:04:14 UTC awwwwwwww crap..yup resends ID: 1052629 ·

SciManStev Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0	Message 1052630 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 2:07:04 UTC The good news is that we will only have to wait days, not weeks. I have a very good feeling at what is about to be unleashed. Maximim bandwidth shouldn't even warm these servers up. I think they were very well speced out for the tasks at hand. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website ID: 1052630 ·

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 1052632 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 2:36:46 UTC - in response to Message 1052629. awwwwwwww crap..yup resends Good, someone can play wingman for the pile I've got in limbo! ID: 1052632 ·

razamatraz Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 142 Credit: 27,815,748 RAC: 0	Message 1052635 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 3:33:13 UTC My queues are all full of Collatz so it might grab a few units at a time, but no mad rush to grab 10 days worth of units. ID: 1052635 ·

Lionel Send message Joined: 25 Mar 00 Posts: 680 Credit: 563,640,304 RAC: 597	Message 1052649 - Posted: 3 Dec 2010, 5:23:22 UTC - in response to Message 1052635. All on, all empty and waiting ... ID: 1052649 ·

©2024 University of California

SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.