Posts by marsinph

1) Message boards : News : Bryon Leigh Hatch and Arecibo have passed on. (Message 2062809)
Posted 3 Dec 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Condolences to the family.

I have dream : an Arecibo NG ( next generation) soon ?
2) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Arecibo again damaged on 12 august2020 (Message 2055671)
Posted 22 Aug 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Our biggest ear, already damaged by orcan again a secondary major damage !
One of the cable retaine receptor broke and falls on reflector.

Sources : a lot of !!!
Search Google Arecibo 12aug20 !
This time, i am afraid, it will never be repaired.
RIP Arecibo. Thanks to have give us so much work to crunch.
3) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2053424)
Posted 16 Jul 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Hi, after participating in SETI for twenty plus years and now in hibernation. I finally have a question I can't find the answer for. I can find the date I joined the original SETI classic project.
But is there some place that would tell me what position in joining. ie. How many joined before and how many after?





Hello,
very easy : look your user ID (2052093) : so there are 2052092 before you.
After you, search a recent user. I found one in my team who joined 19feb2020 , user ID : 10900511
At least there are 8848418 after you (on feb 19th 2020)
Have a nice day

I found a user ID 10926831 !
4) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI going away? (Message 2036056)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Like everyone, I am disappointed, sad.
Member from the first hours, when often problems occured, I stayed.
"Searching" a second WOW signal.
Be assured also the scientist team is sad. Look the very quiet post from Eric who very few posts.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275&postid=2035328#2035328
But so is it.
All of us wanted to help SETI. I am sure they knowns it.
So why not to send post to suport Eric, Dan, Jeff, Matt and David (the founder of BOINC who is used by everyone on Earth) )

Best sad regards to everyone
5) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : This hurts me as much as it hurts you. (Message 2036054)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Hello Eric,
I am , like you, also disappointed.
I think all your team is disappointed, sad....
I want to say thank you for the 20 past years of research, efforts,....
It would be nice if before end of march 2020, someone could find a WOW signal.
Take care, greetings to Jeff, David, Dan and Matt.
With hope to read in close future , you start again.
Best regards. Look only "my" team ID ! It says enough.





By now you've heard that we will be shutting down work distribution at the end of March and putting the SETI@home servers into a hibernation state. I'd imagine that there are some emotional responses. I'm certainly going through the stages of grief, even though I'm hoping that it won't be a permanent state.

The unemotional analysis is that it's always been a matter of resources. Not only money, but time and personnel. We've been aware from the beginning that the time we spent keeping the project up and running was time we weren't working on post-processing. Our fundraising goals, what we needed to do everything simultaneously without falling behind, was always around $1M per year. We never came close. And without that level of resources, decades of computer time weren't really resulting in candidate lists that we could reobserve. The last 18 months we've been devoting more of our time to the post-processing, but our remaining resources were running out faster than our science results were arriving. And that's what really prompted this decision, the fear that we would run out of resources before we got our results.

Even then, it's hard to put a halt to a process that you gave 20 years of your life. I certainly haven't achieved everything I wanted to with SETI@home. I've still got my plans for SETI@home version 10, there was just never time to implement them. Maybe when we've finished our results papers I'll dust them off, assuming I can find the resources.

I know some of you are upset that you donated only to see the public participation part of the project end. If you donated for the disk array, we'll still need that. Jeff is in the process of assembling it. If you gave money in the annual drive, we'll have bills to pay all the way to the end (including page charges for the papers).

As part of my grieving process, I'm planning to post more frequently. That's not hard since my last post was 3.5 years ago.
6) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2036045)
Posted 5 Mar 2020 by Profile marsinph
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Hello everyone.
Like all of you, I am sad. Very sad.
The "reference" world wide known project will sleep (only a little, I hope).
Let us hope that before end of march a second WOW signal would be found, or something else....
7) Message boards : News : New SETI Perspectives: "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image" (Message 2005313)
Posted 2 Aug 2019 by Profile marsinph
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Thank you for the link

Image is for me visible with both InternetExplorer and Firefox.
8) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Was Our Solar System “Probed” Last Year? (Message 1981992)
Posted 24 Feb 2019 by Profile marsinph
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Thank you and welcome
9) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : Introduction to SETI Perspectives (Message 1981991)
Posted 24 Feb 2019 by Profile marsinph
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Welcome !
Bienvenue !
Welkom !
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (114) Server Problems? (Message 1979352)
Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Profile marsinph
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No problems at all here. I just shut down my computer, and all download problems went away.
It works like magic, I tell you.....



What happy you are !
What is your secret ?
I also did the same, but ....no !!!
Have a nice day, evening, crunching, Wizard of SETI.
Perhaps the Aliens known you have THE wu, THE wu with a real wow signal.
And they (the aliens) want the wu be crunched as soon as possible.
Joke of course.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (114) Server Problems? (Message 1979349)
Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Profile marsinph
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Hello everyone,
The solution explained a long time ago should help ???
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_user_posts.php?userid=683206&offset=20
To make short : adding manually the IP adress in the host file.
Are the next adresses still valid ?
That workround is ONLY useful when there's a DNS failure, resulting in the message "can't resolve hostname" in the Event Log.

This breakdown is different, so please don't mess with the hosts file.



Hello Richard,
Thank you for answer.
But If I good remember a (very) long time ago, you published this add in host file.
And If I good remember, it worked.
But very long time ago, perhaps 10 (ten) years ago. All can fully change.
So I have reset the original host file.
By the way, the change in host file, not solve the problem. Amways "transient error"
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (114) Server Problems? (Message 1979313)
Posted 8 Feb 2019 by Profile marsinph
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Hello everyone,
The solution explained a long time ago should help ???
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_user_posts.php?userid=683206&offset=20
To make short : adding manually the IP adress in the host file.
Are the next adresses still valid ?

208.68.240.118 setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu # upload server Oct 2016
208.68.240.119 boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu # download server Oct 2016
208.68.240.126 setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu # scheduler Oct 2016
13) Message boards : News : Unexplained database slowness (Message 1927976)
Posted 4 Apr 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hello all of you.
I think everyone see the problems y differents ways. All of uou, experimented tester knwns much ore than me.
My only idea is only to stop producing work. Arecibo is out. So no new tasks at this time.
Stopping producing work will for sure be not apreiated to all of us. But.
A least, it will give time to server to absorbe all WU in queue.
Servers will be more able to give more power to all other application.
So I really thik, after a few days, all very late works will be resorbed, the bottlneck reduced.
Then staff can work more easily on DB.
DB try to work, but receive more and more WU ! It is never ending.
Why not to FULLY stop the project for a few days and so give fresh air to server to breaths (also to staff)
I think everyone become tired about all the problems.
We, normal cruncher as me, probably, we will lost CR and AVG due to longer outage. And then ????
We will not die !
It is my suggestion : stopping producing work. And let the time , the time to solve by self, with help from staff.
Sorry, I stay with my idea : stopping producing work, Disable up/down loas server. I know, some WU will be out of time.
Or perhaps, no any work sending to us, upload server active to let finish WU out in field, And then closing up/down
after one week. Then let the staff working. It need one week ? two weeks ? 3 weeks ? no problem.
As long staff give information.
Best regards from Belgium
14) Message boards : News : Unexplained database slowness (Message 1927795)
Posted 2 Apr 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Why not to fully stop producing work !!!
Why produce if all WU/results goes to DB, but system can not purge it.

The bottlenek effect make it more and more difficult !
"Bruno" is the less powerfull server, but with the most work !
So, I will leave SETI till it again normal works (I hope it will do, i!!).
Why so pessismist ? Because since november, it are more and more problems.
In fact, there are more days with problems than normal day.
DB problems, connections problems, some DNS problems,....
For sure because very few news from staff.

Thanks Grant for explanations.. By reading you, one solution is to stop producing work till DB normally works.
I repeat, why produce work if system can not manage the results.
15) Message boards : News : Unexplained database slowness (Message 1927732)
Posted 1 Apr 2018 by Profile marsinph
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hello everyone
Thanks Eric for update.
But ! I repeat : But !
Since a few months there are more problems than something else.
Problems to connect, server down, slow or unavailaible (due to DNS error)
Unaible to get enough WU. I have a mid rage computer and mid rage GPU,
I understand the limit on 100 WU / CPU / GPU to avoid nerver ending WU sent to inactive cruncher.
Like the most of us, after a few hours outage, we are without WU to crunch.
Why not to adapt this amount, based on the turnaround time ?

I am sure more and more cruncher go to other project.
I am on SETI from the begining. I try to crunch as much as possible, but now, I am tired about all
those problems.

Also create a team to collect as much as possible user. Often I send mail to team to ask to not give up.
But more and more, we are tired of all those problems.

I really do not kown what happen at SETI, but it started in november 2017.
More or less at same time with the change of credits / WU .
In only one month, I receive more credits on three projects together than in twenty years on SETI !!!

What really happens with SETI ???
16) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Perhaps stupid question ! Can I put 2 differents GPU card (Message 1923594)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hello everyone.
My host : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8380124
Mainboard : Asrock Z77 Extreme 4 (http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4/index.fr.asp )
Like you see it have a 3D Vision GeForce 570 (2GDDR5) .

I have a unused MSI GeForce 660Ti (2GDDR5)
Can I put it on MB ?
Of course no SLI between the card.
First essential question : Win7 will accept it ?
It are similar GPU, same drivers.
If yes, can I assign a project to one card and a other project on the second card
and lest SETI only run on CPU (it is already now on all my computers.
17) Message boards : Technical News : What next? (Mar 04 2018) (Message 1923122)
Posted 7 Mar 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hello Matt,
I also not find a good idea to post a forum on all other media.
Well advertising for SETI and BOINC.
I fully agree with all others remarks here below who have doubt and very good reasons about doubts.
Keeping it here, as subforum seem me the best. And by the way, it stay between Seti users.
No external unwanted person..
18) Questions and Answers : Web site : Team merge / fusion / absorption ! (Message 1917677)
Posted 8 Feb 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hi everyone.
I really do not know where to post this message. It is more a BOINC matter instead of SETI.

I see in my country very little team with one or two members. Always founder active.
My questions :
1. Is it possible to merge one team into a other. I repeat, "into", not create a new one by merging ???
2. If yes, how ???
Best regards from Belgium.
19) Message boards : News : Long outage... (Message 1914766)
Posted 24 Jan 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hello Grant what is the name of 208.68.240.127 ?
I know 119 : boinc2ssl.berkeley.edu (download server)
but not the 127 ! So what is the name ? I will add to my host file)


And now we're starting to pick up work, downloads are stilling.
Tried both 208.68.240.127 and 208.68.240.119 in my hosts file.
No joy.

EDIT- tried 208.68.240.119 again and stalled downloads cleared.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : 100 WU limit for GPUs is too low. (Message 1913768)
Posted 18 Jan 2018 by Profile marsinph
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Hello,
Like I wrote, why not a variable amount of WU based on computer average turnround time.
So to increase cache and also to not overload the system

Basic start : computer run 24/24 and 7/7
For beginner (RAC and/or credit : 0 ) : 50 WU (there are so much WU out in field waiting crunching)

Then
actually 100WU
divide by avg turnaround day
x 10 days work (or depending the settings)
/ 2 to let WU for evryone (unless splitter will never produce enough work for everyone
It will give in this case 500 WU

The same powerfull computer working 12 hours a day will also have a turnaround of 2 days
So it will receive 250 WU

With this easy calculation it not depend the power of computer.
A PC power 10 with avg 1 day will receive the same as a twice powerfull with avg 2 days (perhaps it works 6hr/day)
A PC 1/2 powerfull but avg 0.5 day also the same perhaps oy works 24/24.

With such calculation, everyone have the same cache time depending crunching, depending crunching. How more sent WU, how more cache.

Of course it not need a calculation to ten or twenty decimals. Only two decimal is enough.

For the one with super powerfull calculator, no problem. And if one of it crashes, there will be more results "out of time".
OK. BUT !!! I really think it will be less than thousand of computers with 100CPU and 100GPU, who have never run any tasks !!
For beginners, the turnaround will very fast increase depending crunching.

Advantage of such way of going : reduce amount of WU out in field or waiting validation. ( I have WU waiting calculation since october!!!)
I am sure a lot of you too.
It will also reduce the servers "waiting validation" about 3,000,000 WU !!!


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