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tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
Easy Does It, Matt. Just a Normal Day. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Id say this theme is Supertramp. Great band with some awesome tunes. Back in my day of course:) [/quote] Old James |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
[snip] What's most likely to happen is that the Einstein WU's will go into "High priority" (AKA EDF [Earliest Deadline First] or "panic mode") and will finish on-time - at the expense of SETI, of course! . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Konstantin Iliev Send message Joined: 26 May 00 Posts: 1 Credit: 47,517,893 RAC: 3 |
Hey, stick to the great job! I'm back to the SETI computations after 5 years with Rosetta and I'm happy things are running good here. |
RottenMutt Send message Joined: 15 Mar 01 Posts: 1011 Credit: 230,314,058 RAC: 0 |
great job, my queue is full. i've never seen so much work so quickly! |
Christian Coryell Send message Joined: 23 Apr 06 Posts: 66 Credit: 22,696,660 RAC: 0 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. 1.) Servers go down for a couple of days. 2.) My machine sits idle for a while. 3.) Servers come back up and are so jammed that I can't get any work units. 4.) Things mostly stabilize. 5.) Go to 1 and repeat. I have crunched a whole ton of data for this project and would like to continue to do so. Unfortunately, I can never keep my machine continuously loaded. Right now, I am adding more capacity with the addition of 2 more GPUs, but I know they will sit idle much of the time. What do we need here in order to keep things running smoothly? How much money would "fully fund" this project? |
B-Man Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 0 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. I think a fully funded budget is around $500,000+ actual budget for the last few years was around $350,000 so only around $150,000 more per year. |
Olli Send message Joined: 25 Apr 07 Posts: 143 Credit: 2,089,162 RAC: 0 |
Have you tried setting Boinc's preferences / network usage / Connect about [7 days] / Keep additional work [10 days]. That should help keep your machines crunching. |
John Neale Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 634 Credit: 7,246,513 RAC: 9 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. SETI@home Budget - Fall 2010: $548,000. |
Dave Send message Joined: 29 Mar 02 Posts: 778 Credit: 25,001,396 RAC: 0 |
Same for everyone Christian. |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
That was the projected budget if they got that much money to spend. I don't think they got the money. |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. I'm still crunching units from before the last outage. What are you doing wrong? A cool million a year would be a nice start. |
Christian Coryell Send message Joined: 23 Apr 06 Posts: 66 Credit: 22,696,660 RAC: 0 |
Yeah, I already did that, I also have a ton of WUs on "Download Pending". I just rejoined this project after helping out FAH for a few months, so I probably don't have a high enough average completed for the scheduler to assign me more units. Also, have 1 machine with 6 cores and 4 GPUs (Soon to be 6), so it chews through WUs pretty quick. However, I had all of the aforementioned problems when I was very active before and it appears that nothing has really changed. I restarted the other day and now have 13,000 pending, so hopefully some of that will clear and the scheduler will give me a larger number of work units. |
B-Man Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 0 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. From this post by Erik I got the impresion the wish for it budget was $500k+ and they get significantly less for the last several years. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=63148&nowrap=true#1078044 I thought the shortfall was in the $100k + range. |
John Neale Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 634 Credit: 7,246,513 RAC: 9 |
I appreciate all the hard work you guys have been doing on a shoestring budget. However, I am always stuck in the same cycle with this project. I am aware of Eric's post, and the fact that the published budget is "what they would like". Based on Eric's statement that "$279k ... (is) more than our entire expenditures last year", I surmise that the current shortfall may be a bit larger than $100k-$150k. The previous published budget (Fall 2007) showed annual expenditure of $424,500, against a "predicted" total of $476,000. But that was a few years ago, and grants and donations have clearly declined since then. All of this gives the best available answer to the question "How much money would "fully fund" this project?" |
Christian Coryell Send message Joined: 23 Apr 06 Posts: 66 Credit: 22,696,660 RAC: 0 |
Well, it does appear that the project is running considerably better than a few months ago. Apparently you folks really fixed some things during that last outage. My backlog of work is filling up nicely. I imagine in a couple of days, it will be large enough that i can go a day our two without new WUs. Pending work sitting at about 40k, and I expect that to go up to about 80 or so. Maybe over 100k after the addition of the next two GPU cores. Perhaps we can get some organized fundraising going on to help deal with project funding shortfalls? |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Perhaps we can get some organized fundraising going on to help deal with project funding shortfalls? There are already several fund-raising campaign threads going in the Number Crunching section. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
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