Switched to Einstine

Ok, been putting up with this B---S---t for too long, I have been with SETI for years and although I understand that computers and programming have issues at times my computers are not gettng any work and I have to do the NNT all the time to send work (only GPU units, nothing else)
I've gone to Einstine for now. When you guys get this problem figured out let me know and I'll come back.

<<Jim >>

I can't say I am happy with the current state of things here on my favorite project, but I do know that they shall get better. After all, with over 13 years under my belt here, I have seen a lot of ups and downs.

Jim, all you have to do is what I do.
Set Einstein to a zero percent workshare, and leave Seti at 100%.
Boinc will fall back and fetch Einstein work when Seti work runs dry.

But....it will keep 'testing the waters' and continue to make work requests from Seti. When Seti work arrives, Boinc will finish up whatever Einstein it has downloaded and then switch back to Seti.
No babysitting required. No muss, no fuss. Back in the saddle.

Two of my rigs are doing Einstein on their GPUs now, and all 9 will be if more Seti work does not flow soon.

But they shall keep kitty sniffing for more Seti work, and will grab whatever can be had.

Better days ARE coming. Trust the ol' kittyman.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

I can't say I am happy with the current state of things here on my favorite project, but I do know that they shall get better. After all, with over 13 years under my belt here, I have seen a lot of ups and downs.

I can't say I am happy with the current state of things here on my favorite project, but I do know that they shall get better. After all, with over 13 years under my belt here, I have seen a lot of ups and downs.

Helps is on its way, the simple trick. Make the workunits a lot longer to process, by a factor of 4 or so.
This will give us a year or so.......

Thank you. Your switch to Einstein has help alleviate the problem. In case you didn't know the problem is to many crunchers with too many fast crunch cards. Every user that switches makes the problem a little less.

discussed once or twice in the past, and it was noted that we were starting to approach the limits of mysql.

It will be interesting to see how would Einstein handle load IF heavyweight crunchers like msattler and Juan decides to switch to Einstein with full capacity until Seti is back up.
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Thank you. Your switch to Einstein has help alleviate the problem. In case you didn't know the problem is to many crunchers with too many fast crunch cards. Every user that switches makes the problem a little less.

You could count with my help with 7 hungry hosts. :(

To avoid the dissease they are killing the patient... something cleary out off maind!

Matt please, please... I beg you, welcome soon as you can...

It will be interesting to see how would Einstein handle load IF heavyweight crunchers like msattler and Juan decides to switch to Einstein with full capacity until Seti is back up.

Follow the kitties, my friend. Follow the kitties.

A little factlet for consideration

The top 20 machines of SETI@Home have between them

172 CPU's, mostly i7's and i5's

89 GPU's most probably high end NVIDIA

With a combined RAC of over 2 million

That's just 20 machines. Makes you think!!
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172 CPU's, mostly i7's and i5's
89 GPU's most probably high end NVIDIA
With a combined RAC of over 2 million
That's just 20 machines. Makes you think!!

Makes Me think : I have alot of work to do if I plan on surpassing them. mwuahahaha!

I'll reiterate my previous advice.
Set Einstein to zero workshare, and leave Seti as is. Your computers will automagically return to Seti when work is available.
Follow the kitties, my friend. Follow the kitties.

Einstein tends to eat up a lot more disk space and setting Einstein to 0 workshare will control the number of work units requested. I had hundreds of systems almost run out of diskspace the last time SETI had a prolonged outage and all my machines started trying to keep 10 day caches of Einstein work units.

Follow the kitties advice and all will be right with the world....

As allways, Richard is right.

I just put 0 resources to start all the hosts because i belive if i put them all together could be a problem to get all the WU they need. I don´t want to be the origin in any trouble with Einstein, as people think we are the source of the SETI problem.

Will increase slowly the buffer on my hosts, one at a time to avoid any issue. On other hand even if i have diferent 3 ISP with 10MBps from each, is wise to avoid any problem with the DL because i know the Einstein WU are very big.

Regards the disk space, don´t worry i have a lot of Terabytes space avaiable in our servers, diferent from the lab, here i never allow our systems using more than 50% of the avaiable resources at anytime, exactly because that we could run on a 24/7 cicle, without any interruption, or i loose my job...
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