1) Message boards : Nebula : Final update (Message 2120219) Posted 31 May 2023 by DanTheMan Post: Thank you for everything you have done for science and kickstarting Distributed Computing. I hope Seti@home, Breakthrough Listen, Einstein@Home, LHC and biological DC projects all yield tangible results for humanity

2) Message boards : News : Your chance to be famous. (Message 1210225) Posted 26 Mar 2012 by DanTheMan Post: I have always been a fan of distributed computing, seti@home and other projects as well. Everything can be simulated by a computer, it's a matter of creating the software simulation and how to code it so work is distributed to the huge number of CPUs & GPUs / APUS in server rooms, or to computers across the world. In that case, to provide different clients that are optimized for CPUs with different SSE instructions, and even ARM. I could see folding@home helping to cure a disease one of these days and I know that seti@Home provides a lot of good information about outer space. I don't have a huge amount of machines running, but I have always tried to get my whole family involved, everyone I know on Facebook, and once I converted a good amount of my college's computer to run them, without their permission. I did that many years ago with the distributed.net project, since the RC work units were short because the computers were restarted often. I wouldn't do something like that these days. My Asus G50VT laptop is a champ, I've been running Seti@home on the 9800gs GPU and the CPU constantly for years now with no hardware problems.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about how work units are formed (Message 1100758) Posted 26 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: 4 reference http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/about_seti_at_home_2.html

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about how work units are formed (Message 1100757) Posted 26 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: So, with seti@home classic, the audio recorded from Arecibo was broken down into 107 second portions, and then each of these were split into 256 pieces (across the frequency range). So, 256 work units for 107 seconds. Is this the same today? I see in my folder that both my CPU and my CUDA WUs are around 367KB What about Astropulse? I notice each work unit is something like 8MB instead of the usual ~0.35MB. I know it's a new algorithm but what about the data it is analyzing? If I calculate out how many work units are produced each day, if all 7 receiver things @ Arecibo are recording constantly;; 86,400 seconds in a day, 7 receivers so *7 = 604800seconds a day total recorded. Divide by 107 seconds = 5652 segments Times by 256 WUs per 107 second segment = 1.447 million work units per day? Thanks

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Crunching w/Internal GPU of Sandy Bridge!!? (Message 1100424) Posted 25 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: Is it possible to run the GPU client (stock or Lunatics) on the internal GPU of the Sandy Bridge CPUs? I feel it would make for incredably efficient use of power used vs. work done. Oh snap. Intel doesn't have CUDA or ATI stream so I guess a compatible seti@home client would need to access the GPU thru Directx DirectCompute. Hopefully AMD's APUs will be compatible with Seti@home.

6) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Have default clients be SSE optimized depending on client CPU.. (Message 1099805) Posted 22 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: Am I right that the current Astropulse and Seti@home Enhanced clients are still using straight x86 instructions? I just found out about "Win64 Lunatics' Unified Installer v0.37" and now at first glance, seems as though my work units are finishing in less than 2 hours vs usually 4 or more with the default client that BOINC downloads.Using the SSE 4.1 client. Why can't BOINC use the information it gathers about your CPU (SSE instruction sets) and download the most optimized client for your machine? Imagine all the more work everyone could do with less electricity.

7) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Nobody knows if seti@home has enough crunching computer or not... (Message 1099797) Posted 22 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: Wow so Astropulse is not keeping up with new data from Arecibo and seti@home Enhanced hasn't been run on tapes from the late '90s thru 2006? Since seti@home Enhanced started in May of 2006 (wikipedia. It would be awesome to get some details

8) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Nobody knows if seti@home has enough crunching computer or not... (Message 1099621) Posted 22 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: So, are the guys @ berkeley planning on running the Enhanced (more detailed analysis) seti@home client on all old tapes (like the original ones from the late 1990s on up, and compute Astropulse on all previous tapes as well? This I can see will take quite a bit of power to crunch through while keeping up with new data from Aricebo.

9) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Nobody knows if seti@home has enough crunching computer or not... (Message 1099619) Posted 22 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: Yes i totally agree with you about older machines crunching. 5 years from now I know my gaming laptop will be ridiculously inefficient at doing math compared to new laptops. Intel will probably be at 11nm by then.

10) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Nobody knows if seti@home has enough crunching computer or not... (Message 1099618) Posted 22 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: So does this mean that they are having to store away work units/tapes that haven't been processed yet because there is not enough computing power? I doubt it. I know that the project must be getting enough computing power for it's main project(seti), but Astropulse and other side projects? Not sure. Perhaps the extra computing power is going towards running Astropulse on old tapes? It would be VERY helpful to get some figures on the server status page about this..

11) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Nobody knows if seti@home has enough crunching computer or not... (Message 1099359) Posted 21 Apr 2011 by DanTheMan Post: Please, under Server Status or wherever you feel appropriate, let us users know if we are wasting electricity by doing work units redundantly (beyond the need for verification of correct computation) or if the project needs more computing power to keep up with radio telescope data. I find it unlikely that you have "just enough" computing power and you've never had too much (wasting electricity), or too little (not able to keep up with radio data). I have a feeling that you have far more computing power than you need because you have never sent out an email to everyone asking for more computing power, just emails asking for donations. Thank you. I've been a big fan since 2001 when my electronics teacher told me about this project and I've been running it ever since .. (and folding@home too)

12) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A definite, immediate way to download a certain # of seti WUs IMMEDIATELY upon request (Message 74805) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by DanTheMan Post: Still, I could not download the exact # of days of cached work that I want. I would have to connect every day, which I suppose isn't too bad, but until the client gets past DOWNLOADING: 4571 SECONDS OF WORK --at a time, I'm not changing from classic until I have to. Basically what I'm saying is that it is a pain. It will not do what I tell it to do, at the time I want it to do it. It's like an untrained dog. Please prove me wrong.

13) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A definite, immediate way to download a certain # of seti WUs IMMEDIATELY upon request (Message 74564) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by DanTheMan Post: I am really angry with BOINC because it will not cache as many work units as I want it to. There is no direct option to control this in an accurate manner.Yes, connect to network every X# of days, but that does jack, and is not accurate to my wishes by any stretch. I'm sorry but seti classic with Setidriver is a far easier choice right now, since I have dial-up and it does exactly what I tell it to, immediately to my EXACT specifications. I'm telling you right now to have an option either online, or in client to cache a definite amount of work units IMMEDIATELY, not over time or passively, but NOW! WHen I am on the INternet i want it to get down to business, and I need it to immediately cache a little over a week's worth of work, and it just won't do it! Top priority guys , this is why people with dial-up are sticking with classic thanks, and sorry for the HOT read but I'm frustrated as are many others with dial-up.

 
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