Posts by Fred E.
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Cafe SETI :
Devastation in West, Texas
(Message 1358508)
Posted 36 days ago by  Fred E.
Here's a story about a guy who witnessed the fertilizer plant explosion from Interstate 35. Two days earlier, he had just crossed the finish line in Boston when those explosions occurred. Wierd. |
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Cafe SETI :
Bombing at the Boston Marathon
(Message 1358466)
Posted 36 days ago by Fred E.
One reportedly escaped capture, and another was shot by police and taken to a local hospital. Another man was seen sprawled on the ground in footage shown on WHDH-TV.A second police officer was wounded in that shootout and is in critical condition. Perhaps that's who was on the ground in the above quote. No confirmation of a second arrest and current reports say he's still at large. |
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Cafe SETI :
Bombing at the Boston Marathon
(Message 1358457)
Posted 36 days ago by Fred E.
From The Lookout; The FBI has not confirmed a connection between the events in Watertown to the twin explosions that killed 3 people and injured 170 others at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to an alert sent issued to fellow officers, the suspect who remained at large was referred to as the "one with the white hat" seen in the photos released by the bureau on Thursday.Fox News has reported that suspect died at the hospital. And they are now reporting another arrest by local police. Stay tuned.... Edit: I omittted part of the quote - sorry
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Number crunching :
No GPU... scheduler still requesting jobs for GPU
(Message 1358322)
Posted 36 days ago by Fred E.
From website account page, go to Seti@Home preferences and turn off "Use ATI GPU". That will pass to BOINC on the next update and BOINC will stop asking for gpu tasks. |
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SETI Hardware Fundraisers: 2013 The Year of the Servers
(Message 1357816)
Posted 38 days ago by Fred E.
It's OK, Slavac, why you cannot help any longer.+1 Someone got some recent donation data to the project. My Feb 16 donation now shows in my SETI account, and I see a few new green stars in the donation threads for those that donate general purpose money via PayPal on the GPUUG site. |
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Panic Mode On (83) Server Problems?
(Message 1357658)
Posted 38 days ago by Fred E.
I doubt if it is related to the current problems, but there are large artifacts on the cricket graph for bits out that I have not seen before the relocation. Is this getting data from the 'tapes' to the splitters or something?That's the current guess, geting the data from the Lab to the colo site. I'm starting to connect now and getting quicker scheduler responses. Back to limits on CPU, trying for some gpu work although I've got some from Beta and Einstein. Website seems okay now. |
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Panic Mode On (83) Server Problems?
(Message 1357611)
Posted 38 days ago by Fred E.
Work requests have been hit or miss after the maintenance period. Lots of "can't connect" messages, and when I connect it's the empty feeder message of "no tasks available." Ran out of gpu work and have only picked up 7, and those were lost tasks after a timeout. Am I the only one? Cricket spiked when things resumed, but download traffic has fallen off again. Also having intermittent trouble getting to my task page. |
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Number crunching :
New guy on the block
(Message 1357501)
Posted 39 days ago by Fred E.
Hi All, Welcome to the project and the forums! Glad to hear that WCG has made some progress on that project - I haven't crunched WCG lately so I'm out of touch. You must have some questions so let us know if we can help. You're running a version of BOINC that supports multiple instances on that gpu without anonymous platform - you probaboly learned how to do that at WCG, but let us know if you need info. |
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Trying to get more out of my computer...
(Message 1357204)
Posted 40 days ago by Fred E.
One thing I noticed is that some of my valids have the same report of 30 spikes and -9 result_overflow. One example is valid work unit 2924695339 at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2924695339. I would hate to see invalid work slipping by if that is the case. Please let me know what you think about this.That result was purged before I looked for it, but some of your inconclusives will validate and receive credit if they are "close enough" to the results reported by the wingmen. How close? I don't understand that definition well enough to explain it. However, if it is very far from the others, it seems unlikely that it would be the result that is selected as the canonical result that goes forward to the science database. It turns out the video card is a PNY GTX 560TI O2 (for overclocked). I will be pulling the card, cleaning it, and trying to test the voltage, along with trying to find the PNY utility for stepping it down. I did use the 64 bit version of 314.22 straight from PNY. I will let you know if there is improvement. If it is factory overclocked, that should be okay. And, it seemed to be okay before the recent OS upgrade, which is why I asked about the driver. Any of the utilities mentioned will tell you what voltage it is pulling. I'm not suggesting adjusting voltage unless it's not up to spec. There are some people in this forum that know this issue better than I, so wait for their advice. Those utilities will also show a snapshot of temperatures. I prefer Tthrottle, which will monitor and control cpu and gpu temperatures. It is widely used here at SETI. |
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Trying to get more out of my computer...
(Message 1356969)
Posted 40 days ago by Fred E.
One more thought: looks like you installed the 314.22 video driver while you were still on XP Professional x86 Edition. I think that's a 32 bit os. Did you install the 64 bit version of 314.22 when you went to Win 7 64 bit? You are getting a lot of -9 results overflow (finding 30 spikes) in many of the stderr reports. |
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Trying to get more out of my computer...
(Message 1356907)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
How would I check what voltage it is drawing and what should it draw?Check manufacturer's site for specs and try MSI Afterburner http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/to get a reading and graph. It or EVGA's Precision are reported to work on other brand cards (most features). Or PNY may have something like that. Would normally recommend GPU-Z from TechPowerUp, but it just blue screened me for the first time ever when I tried to get the url. Probably my problem. Other thoughts - watch temps on that gpu and check for dust build up periodicaly. |
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Panic Mode On (83) Server Problems?
(Message 1356886)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
I seem to have misplaced the link for the server stats graphs that somebody posted a while back....that might confirm the trend.This one? http://setistats.haveland.com/#seti@home |
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Trying to get more out of my computer...
(Message 1356884)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
notice a lot of Seti computers that have the same exact computer setup as me getting a Recent Average Credit (RAC) well over 20 times the RAC that I get. I have tried looking into the Lunitics optimized information, but it appears there is now nothing for Multi-beam Intel based, as it was taken down a year ago. I feel like I could be doing A LOT more, but need a little extra guidance. I do know a bit about computers, if that helps. My computer number is 6966744 or paste http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6966744. Any help would be great! Thanks. I assume there's just one computer and you got a new host number when you upgraded to Win 7 a few weeks ago. Not sure why xxxx680 shows tasks in progress. Did you change locations for the data directory? The low RAC seems to be because your gpu tasks on xxxx744 are not validating - They are going inconclusive and then invalid. Are you overclocking that 560TI? That model has had voltage issues in the past, might want to check what it is drawing. And how many hours a day do you crunch? You may be comparing to someone with longer hours. |
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What exactly am I looking for in a GPU?
(Message 1356800)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
Fred this is realy important I just payed 145 bucks for a gtx 650 and I have just bought some upgrades I will be installing over the next few days but this info needs to be made a separate thread all by it's self i'm on a tight buget and every penny I can save is a better card or ram or m/b I can buy and donateing money in this way ,Seti@home getting some sort of payment is fantasicThere's some background in old threads such as the initial News thread and msattler's thread. Probably is time for a fresh update on this funding source. |
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Number crunching :
Validation pending
(Message 1356798)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
Those pendings are money on the way to the bank. Something's wrong with the forum. This thread now shows more posts than it has and a different thread owner??? Or is it at my end? |
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Number crunching :
Validation pending
(Message 1356760)
Posted 41 days ago by Fred E.
At what point should I get concerned about validateing pending units as it seems to be going up yesterday 65 today 77 wondering if something has gone array . 77 valid 34 errors(not worried about new gpu installed and I hadn't made environment verible changes) and 2 inconculesive , 150 in progress 34* total or is that normal for the amount of units i'm doing ? Watch the inconclusives and errors and don't worry about the pendings. Those pendings are just waiting for wingmen and that's out of your control. The pendings will rise when there are a) few astropulse tasks and b) lots of shorties. That's been the case the past few days. I'm up to 500 pendings, a little higher than a few days ago. |
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Problem can't download cpu wu's, gpu's wu's are fine though[solved]
(Message 1356365)
Posted 42 days ago by Fred E.
You might want to run with <sched_op_debug> Details of scheduler RPCs; also shows deferral intervals and other low info. New in 5.10.24 Syntax is: <sched_op_debug>1</sched_op_debug> (1 is on, 0 is off) This flag is more useful to me than the work fetch debug one which you tried. I run with it all the time - shows just how much work is being requested. |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (82) Server Problems?
(Message 1356304)
Posted 43 days ago by Fred E.
Add to your cc_config file. Actually it is: <work_fetch_debug>1</work_fetch_debug> and it goes in the flags section, not the options section. There are some other debug flags that might help, but the output can be verbose and hard to interpret. http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=91&sessionID=2e1173778d098ab83bdf76903021b47d |
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Number crunching :
What exactly am I looking for in a GPU?
(Message 1356170)
Posted 43 days ago by Fred E.
You mentioned Tiger Direct, and it is a participating vendor for GoodShop. So, if you are registered for GoodSearch, SETI can get from 1.5 to 5% of your purchase if you use the GoodShop site or toolbar to initiate the purchase. Other participating vendors for computer hardware and coupons are here. We've raised $2,252.67 for SETI this way, and that could be a lot more if people just took the time - seems like someone is buying something for their computer almost everyday in this forum. The Korpelas have raised more than 10% of that, and I doubt that is all from searches. Most of my modest amount is from purchases. |
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Number crunching :
Win 7 update bomb...
(Message 1356075)
Posted 43 days ago by Fred E.
Same way as with all updates: Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update\Change settings and set 'Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them'. Fixes more than Windows can break. :) Similar path for XP: Control Panel/System/Automatic Updates and set "Notify me but don't automatically download or install them." I always review the list before I let it proceed. |
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