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Somebody who doesn't support SETI anymore Send message Joined: 29 Apr 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 949,350 RAC: 0 |
How do you guys get so many of them? At max I get eight in a week. |
WezH Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 576 Credit: 67,033,957 RAC: 95 |
How do you guys get so many of them? At max I get eight in a week. You have one (plus two androids) active host trying to get them, I do have eleven (with 9 GPU's) to catch them. More computers with GPU -> more AP's We (AP hunters) are talking total amount of AP's in progress in our all host. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
The drought has started |
Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀 Send message Joined: 30 Aug 08 Posts: 15399 Credit: 7,423,413 RAC: 1 |
How do you guys get so many of them? At max I get eight in a week. On my astro only host I have an auto clicker that clicks the update button every 15mins. Currently got one crunching and six yet to start. Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Sten I am totally prepared to get a lot of APs now we will have to see if the project chooses to cooperate. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Sten you are a lucky devil, I got 6 on one machine nothing on the other. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Sten you are a lucky devil, I got 6 on one machine nothing on the other. LOL...you're sounding like the ol' kittyman some weekends. Meow and away! "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
This is among the best haul of APs I've gotten in a long while. I've got 9 so far. One of them was a 100% blanked B3_P1, but there's still more channels to be split, and the feeder/scheduler seems to like me more than it usually does. Sure, there are a lot of "received 0 new tasks" in there, but in one request, I got four! Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The kitties snagged 88 so far.... Mind you, that's across 9 rigs. But, better than no kibbles at all! Meow! "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Jeanette Send message Joined: 25 Apr 15 Posts: 55 Credit: 7,827,469 RAC: 0 |
My I-5 desktop got 11 and my I-7 laptop got 8 - that's 19 so far on 2 rigs. :o) |
Somebody who doesn't support SETI anymore Send message Joined: 29 Apr 07 Posts: 15 Credit: 949,350 RAC: 0 |
This is crap, and on top of that the credit since GBT, is dropping like a stone. So, you just run BOINC for the credit? |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
Well, rant indeed, but lets classify all the blame and try to find rationale. First of all: Let the Russian billionaire play with SETI, I'm getting tired of it. Being mentioned once it's a joke, but twice or more - huh? You have some issues that no one but Russian give financial helping hand to SETI? If not then quite a strange way to show gratitude IMHO.
Yep, indeed RAC as performance measurement tool is easy one. But not too good one. Its limitations as such tool known for... decade? already. So it's just indirect indicator of performance "at all other equal conditions" no more than that. To assess host performance in SETI terms there are offline benchmarks with specially selected sets of tasks. For example, Clean20 task for AP and PGv8 set for MB. They are not ideal too of course. So one can develop statistical approach or smth else. But RAC as performance measurement tool is bad one, easy, but bad one.
Well, to use available compute resources at its best isn't "cherry picking". To abort some tasks is, but to do VLAR on CPU and AstroPulse on ATi GPU (when available) - nothing bad in that. Yep, indeed, it could break in some extent work of another far from perfection tool called CreditScrew. But that tool screwed enough to bear another screwdriver :)
Papers about SETI@home science and computing: Status of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts (Korpela, et al. 2011) New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses (Siemion, et al. 2008) Statistics of One: What Earth can and can't tell us about life in the universe. (Korpela, 2004) SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing (Anderson, et al. 2002) SETI@home-Massively distributed computing for SETI (Korpela, et al. 2001) A new major SETI project based on Project Serendip data and 100,000 personal computers (Sullivan, et al. 1997) Yep, quite outdated list. I personally would like to have more or even much more too. But nevertheless, it's 1) not zero. 2) that non-zero is peer-reviewed. NTPCkr could be not a single tool for post-processing of collected data. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
People may leave in droves, or in whatever other vehicle they may choose...... But the kitties shall remain. They like their kibble creds, but that is not the main reason they are here. Have a wonderful crunching day. Meow. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
I only got 1 so far and I don't care. I shall continue to crunch and watch in morbid fascination as my RAC drops. I want to see how low it will go. |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
I'm still here and I don't plan on leaving. I know that someday, APs will come back into being available. I'm just riding out the drought, like we have done several times in the past...due to other reasons those times though. But still. IDGAF about credits to be perfectly honest. I just like doing APs because I think they have better luck of finding what we're looking for, and since they take longer to crunch, there's less WUs to keep an eye on (because I'm nosy and I look at the stderr for all of the ones I complete). Granted, I do miss the glory days when APs gave out 1237cr each no matter what, but back in those days, they took 45+ hours each. That was back in the v5 days.. ancient history in computer terms. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
In the last 4 1/2 hours I got another one. |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
So, you just run BOINC for the credit? Lat's face it. People are competitive by nature. Naturally that will extend to this realm, no matter how altruistic folks otherwise are. To deny or ignore that aspect of motivation would be absurd. But what's the difference? The whole point is to crunch data to the max. Why care what an individual uses as motivation?? |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51469 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
And let's remember that Eric has indicated that AP work will be split from GBT data. It may be a little bit yet, but it will come. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
They are being split again and I hope to get more than the 2 like I got last week. |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
Must have been a short run ... |
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