A newbie question concerning AstroPulse v6 work units
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meijin Send message Joined: 24 Mar 12 Posts: 8 Credit: 2,097,274 RAC: 0 
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Hello! First post and I really don't know much about the whole Seti@Home process. I had things running on one computer for a while and then a team mate of my (who I hope is not now banished for life from here) got me into the Lunatic apps and I now have 4 machines running and crunching. Anyway, my main box with an i7 and Nvidia card just suddenly got 5 AstroPulse 6.0 work units to crunch on. Is it normal to get 5 at once? Also, these are the work units that you accumulate a large number of "credits" for processing, right? Just curious...thanks for your insights! ID: 1242439 ·  |
 HAL9000  Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57
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Hello! First post and I really don't know much about the whole Seti@Home process. I had things running on one computer for a while and then a team mate of my (who I hope is not now banished for life from here) got me into the Lunatic apps and I now have 4 machines running and crunching. The BOINC client will ask for however many days of work you set it to. If you just started running AP6 on that machine the estimates will be high. So later you will get many more than 5 at once most likely.I have had a whole screen full of AP tasks on some of my machines in the past. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours  Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[
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JohnDK    Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127 
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Since AP6 came I turned my notebook into AP only, and I don't think I've gotten more than 2 at once. Before with v5 I often got more, 10 sometimes, and that was not on a AP only machine. I've had 12 APs in all today, which I don't think is even enough for a whole day. ID: 1242492 · |
Fred J. Verster  Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 
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The LUNATICs have made an excellent OpenCL app. rev.555 for AstroPulse, on ATI GPUs . Included in 0.41 Installer. In this case an older 5870 GPUs, but I can recomment this, if you happen to have an ATI GPU, this saves a lot of time. Enough load (15 - 80%), running 1 AP per GPU. They can't send me enough AstroPulse work ;-) I already, like them a lot. And you get more credit compaired to an average 0.4 AR MB WU. 
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57
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Since AP6 came I turned my notebook into AP only, and I don't think I've gotten more than 2 at once. Before with v5 I often got more, 10 sometimes, and that was not on a AP only machine. AP normally go fast, but if you are lucky you can get several. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[
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LadyL  Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
Included in 0.41 Installer. Can you tell me where to find that one, Fred? It would save me all the work of having to do it! NB the installer is at v0.40. v0.41 is at the pre planning stage with an ETA of late August, if all goes well. I'm probably being very optimistic there... I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! ID: 1242697 · |
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LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
Hello! First post and I really don't know much about the whole Seti@Home process. I had things running on one computer for a while and then a team mate of my (who I hope is not now banished for life from here) got me into the Lunatic apps and I now have 4 machines running and crunching. You are on BOINC 7 - if you have upgraded from boinc 6 you need to swap your cache settings around (e.g. if you were set for 0.5/10 you need 10/0.5 now) - you probably asked for something like 10 days in one request, so you got a whole bunch of overestimated AP in one go. I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! ID: 1242700 · |
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ralphw Send message Joined: 7 May 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 18,032,718 RAC: 38
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Is BOINC 7 needed for astropulse 6 workunits? 
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Mark Wyzenbeek  Send message Joined: 28 Jun 99 Posts: 134 Credit: 6,203,079 RAC: 0
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Is BOINC 7 needed for astropulse 6 workunits? No. The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine. SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours 
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Cosmic_Ocean  Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13
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Getting more than 2 in one work request is amazing. I envy you. Since the launch of AP v6, I have never once gotten more than 2 in one request. As stated already, back in the v505 days, my record is 22 in one request. But now these days, 90% of the time it is "no work available," 7% of the time it is 1 AP, and the remaining 3% is 2 APs. The perils of AP-only. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 1243851 · |
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