How much bandwidth (in KB, MB,etc) per month does SETI@ home use? I stopped running Astropulse tasks, so just the SETI ones. I know it wont be the same for everyone, but just an estimate maby. [/list]

How much bandwidth (in KB, MB,etc) per month does SETI@ home use? I stopped running Astropulse tasks, so just the SETI ones. I know it wont be the same for everyone, but just an estimate maby. [/list]

I have a flat rate ADSL connection at 20 MBit/s, so I don't care . It costs me about 25 euro/month, plus another 16 for the landline telephone.
Tullio

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if you calculate running time the Astropulse and Multibeam typically run the same amount of time for amount of data downloaded.

AP WU's are 8 Mb d/l and about 35kb upload
MB are 365kb d/l and about 30 u/l
ZJust multiply out how many WU's you complete in a day by the number of days in the month and you'll have an idea how many Wu's on average you'll d/l and u/l per month multiply out by about 400 kb and you have your number

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How much bandwidth (in KB, MB,etc) per month does SETI@ home use? I stopped running Astropulse tasks, so just the SETI ones. I know it wont be the same for everyone, but just an estimate maby. [/list]

Checking the reports on my ISA server for all Berkeley traffic the past few months and dividing by the number of machines. I get an average of around 110MB per machine per month. That includes data traffic for AP, forum, & MB tasks.

For a rough estimate you can use 400KB for MultiBeam tasks. Which 1 tasks a day over 30 days comes to ~12MB. So take your daily number of tasks and multiply it by 12MB. Processing 10 tasks a day comes to about 120MB a month.

The newest versions of BOINC let you set a monthly data transfer limit if you have bandwidth limitations.

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It really depends on how many WU you are going to get through.
A single MB WU represents a total of about 400kb transfered.
A single AP WU represents a total of about 8Mb transferred.

Now, how many of each can your system get through in a day?
Taking my main rig as an example.
A "normal" MB takes a couple of hours on the CPU, or about 20 minutes on the GPU
Shorties about an hour on the CPU, or about 5 minutes on the GPU
A "normal" AP takes about a day on the CPU, or about 3 hours on the GPU.
I'm running optimised applications for both CPU & GPU.
I have a six core CPU
and run 2 WU at time on the single GPU.

(The system is a 6 core Phenom, with a single GTX460, both running at stock speeds)

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On my mediocre machine, I churn through ~6 APs per day (24MB). Extrapolated, that's about 725MB (rounded up to account for uploaded results).

Of course I don't download 24MB every day. In fact, one day last week I downloaded about 300MB to refill the cache, and then it was several days before getting any new APs assigned, so the averages seem to settle out around 25MB/day for me.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

On my mediocre machine, I churn through ~6 APs per day (24MB). Extrapolated, that's about 725MB (rounded up to account for uploaded results).

Of course I don't download 24MB every day. In fact, one day last week I downloaded about 300MB to refill the cache, and then it was several days before getting any new APs assigned, so the averages seem to settle out around 25MB/day for me.

actually you might want to recheck your math. 6X8=48MB x30 days is about 1.44Gb
minimum usage just for Seti. This doesn't include any queries that BOINC makes which ar obviously not going to be very much but do add up.

Colin appears to run 2 WU's at a time that average from 5-8 hours each WU.

Assuming he received all shorter WU's at 5 hours each thats about 12 WU's a day. Which is 4.8Mb per day or 144Mb per month if he only runs short MB WU's.
If he chooses to upgrade his apps to the optimized apps then this would create a whole new set of numbers and would most likely double the u/l d/l numbers to about 288Mb per month just for seti

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