Posts by CLYDE

A big *Thank you!* that SETI@home exist!

I'm pleased that my PC can support SETI@home.

I donated for a few minutes a few dollars (my yearly donation ;-).

A big *Thank you!* to the whole SETI@home crew for everything!


* Best regards! :-) * Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. * Optimize your PC for higher RAC. * SETI@home needs your help. *

OK, but I still can not send my calculations back.

The scheduler will be down until someone can get to the lab to reboot it. I'll try to convince Angela to let me go in once the turkey is in the oven.

Matt; Some of the previous posts recommended doing other projects while waiting and waiting for Seti. That may have been a strategy to get users to use Seti less and maybe ultimately leave Seti and have more of Seti to themselves. Whatever the reason As of now SETI community, I have taken the dedicated (Intel(R) Xeon(R)CPU X5650@ 2.67GHz[Family6 Model 44 Stepping 2](24 processors)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 (1023MB) driver: 301.42) away from the SETI Project because of inadequate Server Bandwidth and several Programing issues that impact overall Reliability and Functionally. All that has significantly diminished my sense of any doing any meaningful scientific contribution with Seti@Home. I started with SETI in June of 1999. I currently rank 9,667 out of 2,488,900 (99.6116 percentile)
I will keep the laptop,(Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5](8 processors)NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M (1535MB) driver: 306.23) with only 4 0f the 8 processors running because of heat issues. Token effort only to SETI.
I would say to the rest of the Seti Community "Good Luck" but think it will take more than that. Maybe with me not trying to get wu's or taking up Bandwidth it will be minimally better for the rest of you.

I have also sent you a PM, Clyde.

As I told Harry62, I sincerely hope that you will not decide to leave the SETI project.

Regardless, I wish to thank you, too, for all the time and effort you have given us!

I started in the pioneer year of 1999, and I am starting to question this effort.

The problem, as I see it, is not the present problem(s), but LACK of communication from the people running this. THERE IS NONE!!!

I hear "Matt is on vacation" and we have to await his return to fix whatever the problem is! This project is over 13 years old, employing thousands of volunteers, utilizing many thousands of computers, large electrical usage, accepting our donations, and it depends on one person? Berkeley should be ashamed.

I am beginning to smell a scam. If it is not, perhaps we should think of this effort as nothing more than a glorified High School Project.

I hope my many years of effort, not to mention money, have not gone to waste.

Just to correct you Matt is not on vacation, he is only a part time employee and as I understand his hours have been cut back, so he is pursuing his musical career with this band

Secret Chiefs 3

As funding has been restricted there are few people in the lab able to deal with problems at the moment.

Why I’m leaving Seti@Home

I first joined Seti@Home in 1999. I believed in the project, and was glad to let Seti@Home use my computer. All was good in the world. I was using the OLD (original ) Seti interface, and I downloaded several User Certificates, the Last being for 750 work Units. THEN . . . . the did away with the old interface. They said it wasn’t providing them with the data they needed, and they introduced a NEW SETI@ HOME INTERFACE, the BOINC. I hated it, it never ( at least for me ) worked correctly, would constantly hang, not upload completed tasks, not download any new tasks. ( Sound familiar anyone?)

I and a whole lot of other original users complained, and we were told sorry but this gives us mush more useful data and is here to stay. So I left. No more SET@HOME for me, in fact NO more any program that used BOINC.

In 2009 and friend told me he had discovered a new site called SETi@Home . . . and when I queried him about it he told me that the interface worked fine. So I again joined, tried it for a while and discovered it was the same intermittent sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, interface. So then I left again.
2012 and again a friend told me that most of the bugs were gone and the interface was reliable. So for the LAST time, I dusted off my user account, and started processing Seti data again. At first I will admit I was pleasantly surprised. Yea it would hang or crash but not nearly as often. But then it started all over again, in the past few weeks, I have seen the old problems return. First I went 7 days with only getting GPU data to process, then now for the past three days, I’ve been trying to upload 90 Plus completed work files ( with NO LUCK, nor have I been able to down load an new work files.)

OK, guys, you got me . . . you actually made me comeback to the same problems with this interface 3 times. SHAME ON ME ! ! there will be NO forth time ! you can take my 873823.19 work units and my 15,491 average work units, and do with them what you will. ( yea I know, I’m NOT a power user, and those numbers aren’t the greatest, but I was letting you use my computer, when I could )

“ET . . . could you please hold the line, our data base crashed”

PS: I am a US Citizen, the senior Network administrator for a medium size company here in Germany, and I’ve had enough of SETI and BOINC !

Frankly, I don't know why you don't just buy a cheap system. I wouldn't normally recommend an AMD system but in this case you could save yourself a lot of grief.

I'm not causing myself any grief. I'm upgrading my system for <200$, and the added plus is having some CUDA cores. :-)

I have several other better systems already. This is just one final upgrade for my oldest machine. But it will also be the first CUDA card I've had, period. Hence my line of questioning.

As far as buying a cheap system? meh, I build my own. That extra money saved can go towards my next build, which will also probably be my last desktop machine anyways. I get by fine these days with my server and laptops.

As far as the results... We shall see, I almost never run anything at 100% but I may run boinc at about 50% on just the GPU. I am not too interested in crunching with the core2 quad, as I have a Xeon running in my server that can outperform that by leaps and bounds if I want. (most of my RAC is from roughly 7% use on the Xeon)

Frankly, I don't know why you don't just buy a cheap system. I wouldn't normally recommend an AMD system but in this case you could save yourself a lot of grief.

If the MB is from 2002 will it even have a PCIe slot?

I was kinda hoping someone might have a previous version stashed away in a dark hard drive sector somewhere :)

Previous versions have the same license issues.

The software is distributed under the GPLv2 license, which gives end users more or less full freedom to do anything with it on their own systems. Anyone becoming a redistributor by sending it to someone else would be taking on many additional legal obligations, I strongly discourage it.

Joe

Fine Sten-Arne. I have no argument with that but perhaps a published smack on the wrist from the mods would/should have stopped this. Would have saved me some two finger typing anyway lol.

"Openly instigating license infringement, when there is an ongoing issue, is Not what we should be spreading on the board, is it?"
Thanks for bringing this to Our Attention *****!. I Owe Ya for a Quote.
And CERTAINLY NOT Endorsed by UCB.

Just who is "instigating license infringement"? I have seen nothing to prevent continuing use of the lunatics apps just cannot download them until the issue is resolved. I have had the installation files sitting in my downloads folder for ages, as has everyone else who uses them unless they deliberately deleted. No offers have been made to send the files on as far as I am aware. Where's the high moral issue guys?