Posts by Arvid Almstrom
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Upgrading SETI@Home: Current Hardware Fundraising Projects
(Message 1228162)
Posted 6 May 2012 by  Arvid Almstrom
Post: Quick bit of news: The only thing that sticks out to me are the $2 speakers from 10-years ago. I had about three boxes of these un-opened, which I tossed out during my last office clean up. The sound that you get from these are worse than terrible. Arvid |
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perhaps two cuda cards
(Message 1226496)
Posted 3 May 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: In my case it was a matter of happening to be on the phone right when the truck came in. I wish I was that lucky. I am in almost daily contact with my whole seller, but I still cannot get a card or two for myself. Last week I was told 'End of the Week', this week I am also told 'End of the Week'. I wonder how long this will go on for? Maybe I should give up and just wait for the 690, ha ha ha. I don't this it will be in stock, at least here in Australia, till x-mas. The other issue is the new i7-3770K, which also is not in stock. It it the only new desktop CPU form Intel that is not in stock, and the only one I am looking at, sigh. Arvid[/quote] |
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perhaps two cuda cards
(Message 1226006)
Posted 2 May 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: What is your budget for the cards? The GTX 680 are good on power compared to the older GTX 5XX series, but they do come at a hefty price. Maybe look at getting one GTX 680 and run 3 WU on the one card. Arvid |
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Panic Mode On (74) Server problems?
(Message 1225196)
Posted 30 Apr 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: When I checked the Results ready to send and hour or two ago I thought it was around 150k, now down to 480. However, I have never had downloads this fast ever, I am getting over 100kbps, with normal state being around 10kbps. I don't know if this is an issue with the overseas connection or if someone flipped a switch on the server at Berkeley. I am loving these fast downloads rather than getting stuck with download like I have for the last year or more. Arvid |
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Here's one for the overclockers.
(Message 1221870)
Posted 22 Apr 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: I didn't like the idea of cooling the CPU with hot air from inside the case so I put mine on the outside. It possibly was not the best option but it does job. I only use one fan but cleaning out the dust is a bugger. And I should add, it doesn't look too good either. Arvid  [/img] 
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A Modest Suggestion for Tasks Button
(Message 1217413)
Posted 12 Apr 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: If we are going to ask for changes to the Tasks screen I would also like to see an option to be able to sort the tasks based on Time Reported. When you make changes to your computer and just want to quickly compare your new setup against the previous one this would be very handy, rather than trying to scroll through lots and lots of pages trying to find the latest results. Arvid |
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One CPU Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz with 1579 tasks in progess!
(Message 1206273)
Posted 15 Mar 2012 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: It is a bit frustrating to see a computer with an RAC of say 300 having more tasks on hand than I can get for my 30k RAC computer. I just hope the new servers will allow us to get a few more WU's per computer. |
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Idea for Boinc.....
(Message 1159981)
Posted 7 Oct 2011 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: As the data that we process is more or less random data compression will do little to improve this. Have a look at compressing an MP3 or JPG file and you will find virtually no compression is achievable. It is not quite the same but similar enough I think. |
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May/June Fund Drive
(Message 1111833)
Posted 31 May 2011 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: Dear Arvid Almstrom, Thank you for your gift of $50.00 via Mastercard on 05/31/2011. Your gift was assigned to the following areas: SETI@home - $50.00 Your confirmation number is: 74922 |
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SETI@home v7 Beta is coming
(Message 1080434)
Posted 22 Feb 2011 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: Is it too late to to ask for an over looked feature to be added in? The problem I have, and I guess others as well, is that the newer versions of Boinc wont run on a domain controller. I know that this is not related to Seti@Home per say, but the dev team is the same, isn't it. I can remember reading that this would be solved, but that was a very long time ago. I am running version 5.x, but I have, somehow gotten 6.6.36 to work on my home server without being able to quite explain this. Arvid |
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Message from server: (reached daily quota of 100 tasks)
(Message 1005974)
Posted 19 Jun 2010 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: Something is happening! I just got 20 MB tasks out of the blue! :) Actually, the current time 00:30:00 UTC. So the status page is up to date and should be sending out the WU's. But I am of the strong belief that the back-end is just the same with only the status message having been changed as to not upset people but not sending out work units. If you have a look at the network graph, it would indicate that the amount of data going out is shrinking, inline with people not being able to download work units. Arvid |
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Message from server: (reached daily quota of 100 tasks)
(Message 1005946)
Posted 19 Jun 2010 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: Something is happening! I just got 20 MB tasks out of the blue! :) Status page shows that there are 60k WU's to go out, but I keep getting 'Project has no tasks available'. I don't get the 'Quota Reached' error message any more. I think they have just removed the status message going back to the client, but still running the quota system in the back ground. I guess that was the update an hour ago when they restarted the servers. I did get some work units a couple of hours ago but nothing since, and I didn't get any CUDA tasks at all. Has anyone gotten any CUDA tasks? Arvid |
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Message from server: (reached daily quota of 100 tasks)
(Message 1005863)
Posted 18 Jun 2010 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: I have just gotten up after a nights sleep only to find that now all the splitters are dead, and I was hoping that after a few more hours had passed, that I might actually get some new WU's, but no. I guess I have 4-5 hours of work left before my main machine is dry of all work and I haven't seen many CUDA WU's over the last week or so. Has anyone heard anything about the splitters, are they likely to be down for the whole weekend? Arvid |
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Message from server: (reached daily quota of 100 tasks)
(Message 1005603)
Posted 18 Jun 2010 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: From server status page queries on database now at 1100+. I guess that all the heavy crunchers are being denied work units and slowly grinding to a halt. The status page now shows that there are over 105k tasks ready to be sent, yet my status page in Bonic keeps telling me that 'Project has no jobs available'. For every new task that gets uploaded my daily quote goes up. I thought it would only count the tasks that were in progress and not the once that are completed and returned to Seti. Arvid |
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Technical News :
Oopsie (Oct 06 2009)
(Message 938053)
Posted 7 Oct 2009 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: I do like the 35,000 e-mails, no doubt causing all sorts of problems for the administrators, maybe your were not the only once dragged back to work over the weekend. One another note, the main page for technical notes is getting quite large. I was on a slow wireless broadband link stuck on 2G, when I discovered that this page is huge on a slow connection. Any chance of truncating say the first couple years. If anyone would like access to the older stuff maybe a second page which includes the removed comments. Arvid |
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Cuda & Seti@ Home
(Message 842382)
Posted 20 Dec 2008 by Arvid Almstrom
Post: With the help of previous post I have gotten Boinc to work with the optimized Astropulse (ap_5.00r69_SSE.exe) client and CUDA 6.05 with the following app_into.xml file: <app_info> <app> <name>setiathome_enhanced</name> </app> <file_info> <name>setiathome_6.05_windows_intelx86__cuda.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>cudart.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>cufft.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name> <version_num>605</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>setiathome_6.05_windows_intelx86__cuda.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>cudart.dll</file_name> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>cufft.dll</file_name> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</file_name> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>astropulse</name> </app> <file_info> <name>ap_5.00r69_SSE3.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astropulse</app_name> <version_num>500</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>ap_5.00r69_SSE3.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll</file_name> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> |
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