Posts by Lord Xander
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Windows :
Swapped graphics requiring dumping of old Files via abort but they're still in task list so PC's now capped out on tasks help?
(Message 1011638)
Posted 4 Jul 2010 by  Lord Xander
Post: ty for info, it should be as can be seen they seem still associated with the PC also I'm not using any anonymouse platform apps (i think theyre those optimised apps) I'm only using stock apps, any idea where I can find this statistics file you mentioned I checked C:\Program Files\BOINC & C:\ProgramData\BOINC\Projects\setiathome.berkley.edu but it's missing from both locations, any ideas (Vista 64 bit OS) thanks in advance |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Swapped graphics requiring dumping of old Files via abort but they're still in task list so PC's now capped out on tasks help?
(Message 1011525)
Posted 4 Jul 2010 by Lord Xander
Post: Hey bit of an issue swapped from a 9800 GTX to a 480 GTX requiring the fermi client so had to abort all my unprocessed cuda tasks as they were erroring anyhow, alas now I have a huge load of aborted tasks in my pc's tasklist but they dont appear to be going anywhere... there just sitting there taking up space in the PC's tasklist... and it cant claim new tasks for my new gfx card because of this and is running short on CPU tasks, how can I dump the dud tasks off this pc's tasklist so I can get new processable tasks? or can a mod do this? thanks Xander |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Running SETI@home on an nVidia Fermi GPU
(Message 1009924)
Posted 30 Jun 2010 by Lord Xander
Post: I dont suppose theres any eta or info on when a beta might show up for the 480 that'll work on a regular ole non-optimised client? (the kind without an app_info) |
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Wish list :
GPU support for ATI cards
(Message 910138)
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: Additionally Ageless please don't give me the oh dear its open source so it ought to be lesser then proprietary software cos our poor overworked staff can't deal with it stuff. And where exactly did I say that? Or was it something you wanted to read into it where it wasn't needed to read that into it at all? -- You implied it by the tone and content of your previous reply, you dont need to say something for your words to mean it, its stated as clearly as if you said it directly with your previous reply And if by all accounts SETI project's own Dev's didn't actually make the CUDA client, then they're ought not to be as overworked as accounts have made out Oh, so all the project developers do is make apps and then sit around on their tush all day reaping the fruits of their work, right? Ever heard of the whole back-end, servers, databases, Nitpicker? Does that need no attention? Have you ever read the technical news on what these guys are busy with? Nothing said about them doing that here on a low salary. Lower than they could earn in a commercial environment. --I am well aware of such things so Obviously not, but it does mean that their work load was significantly reduced as apposed to them having to maintain that and develop the CUDA client, which mean should part of their duties be developing future clients (which it is to my understanding) it should noticable increase potential development time available for said project I also think you misunderstood the use of the open source code here at Seti in the first place. It's primarily there so you can port it over to platforms and operating systems that not natively have a Seti application. -- that may be its purpose, but hardly the limit of its potential You seem to think that Seti is a big business. They aren't. Check the project personnel and count with how many they are. --I was under the impression it has a grand total of one employee and the rest volunteer's, and no I didnt click the link I dont have time, however it is entirely and utterly the most irrelevant comment you could come up with as I pointed out, free volunteer dev's are available should sufficient work be put into collecting them, I walked into a few colleges and came out with a few volunteer dev's each and frankly more applicants for it then I need for a games design project happily each entirely working for free just for their name in the credits, I'm sure something of true scientific value that additionally holds such potential to captivate the human imagination as this must be capable of providing sufficient attraction to hoover up a fair number of programmer's currently out of work, or in low-end jobs looking for a challange. Take advantage of the current economic upheal to gain a volunteer force that is capable of acheiving things far faster, even if many stay purely for the duration of the CL development with a relative handful remaining afterwards for maintenance and minor updates, there is great potential. Windows 7 is in release candiate stage, moreover the final RC stage, as Technet Plus subscriber, MBCS and having beta'd windows 2000 and onwards I'm quite familar with the process, a release candiate's underlying architecture(short of a catastrophic issue discovered during the RC phase requiring some kind of re-design) is complete, anything designed to work with a final RC will work on the finished product, the main differrences between it and the released product are minor bug fixes and cosmetics. Windows 7 RTM will be out in July, the RTM is to all intense and purposes the released OS, and what will be found on your CD, and soon available to companies and to professionals, aiding quick development. Even were this not the case with Windows 7 however you can get away with designing something for vista, as at its heart Windows 7 is vista, with a few new bells and whistles some new graphical pizaze, a modified interface and the missing optimizations but otherwise comparitvly 7 is like the vista sp2 to vista in the manor of xp sp2's was vs xp, except frankly xp sp2 was much more of a change from original xp then windows 7 is to vista. Neverthless supporting ATI card's via OpenCL should boinc work with vista already(which it does) requires no special consideration for either dx11 or windows 7... just work on cl for vista/xp and as a bonus it'll work for windows 7. |
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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
GPU support for ATI cards
(Message 910126)
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: I have neither the contacts nor the necessary time, nor the necessary technical expertise or understanding of the SETI analysis app required to make any enquiry of a technical nature or relay any such information in professional manner. Additionally Ageless please don't give me the oh dear its open source so it ought to be lesser then proprietary software cos our poor overworked staff can't deal with it stuff. That's exactly the kinda crud I heard when I made the post about supporting GPU processing in the first place, along with the prize tidbit of information from someone claiming comptency saying SETI would run SLOWER on gpu's then cpu's "as its the wrong kind of processing for it" and be like a old 1ghz p4 per.... I did at least have technical understanding of the functions of it to know that was bupkis, but it seems being given a fully written app by nvidia turned out to be what was necessary to dissuade that opinion. And if by all accounts SETI project's own Dev's didn't actually make the CUDA client, then they're ought not to be as overworked as accounts have made out, open-source software should be superior to close-source not the other way around, the whole point of everyone being able to contribute, if you haven't got enough people maybe ya just not advertising the requirement for volunteer's enough, do so, given a plethora of newly work students with degree level comptency(well ok yes that means beginner with many students, but at least some have to be half-way competent) with nothing better to do I'm sure there are plenty of available, in the UK its expected 20% of the graduating class this year will be out of work, i certainly have heard no mention of recruiting, other then when requesting new features or more accurately information about them, given that creating them should be a given due to the obvious benefits... to spell it out... Why its simple enough, the vast majority of consumer PC users of xp (and vista)(given xp's no longer mainstream support) will be upgrading to Windows 7 within 6-12 months of release many in the first 6, either with new machines or upgrades, out of these a large proportion will be tempted and a hefty number purchase the new dx11 ati card's along with it, due to the no doubt the many gloating we have dx11 you don't advertising campaigns one can expect to be released from ATI closer to release. This means just like nvidia when it scooped ati on dx10 in early days, many will be buying ati this time around with ati nearing the next generation whilst nvidia finally produces a dx11 card in 6 months time, their dx10 and dx11 offerings will both be/are better value for money and generally superior in gaming that means ALLOT of dx11 ati card's can be expected to be in use. And any BOINC project that can capitalize on that will get a significant boost to the available processing power that can be brought to bear on it, which frankly the whole point of BOINC in the first place, to generate the maximum amount of processing power per project possible. Waiting until a technology is aged is not the way to go at this time, dev's should be trying to recruit as many volunteer folks as possible figure it out for themselves and get the darn thing running asap to capitalize on it in time for Windows 7 release. |
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Wish list :
GPU support for ATI cards
(Message 910118)
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: well given nvidia's support of OpenCL or Intel, all I can suggest is contact Nvidia about an OpenCL client or some example code at least and also contact Intel, who may be intrested in some extra PR about their forethcoming Larabee platform in 2010. |
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Wish list :
GPU support for ATI cards
(Message 909497)
Posted 20 Jun 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: You would need to ask the OpenCL consortium as to when they plan on finalizing the standard. Then its a matter of SETI affording the programming tools (assuming they are different) and the time needed to actually write the code for the program. By all accounts the standard was finalised December 8, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/specs/opencl-1.0.43.pdf I'm sure should SETI contact nvidia or ati, some example code can be arranged based on the fact any SETI client is good publicity. Though a quick scan of the website does make mention of examples in the below url with further information available on the last url, whilst none exist now watch the space. http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/ http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/ Though I cannot confirm things either way, even without any I'm sure should seti be enterprising enough in its contact with companies some will be provided. And either way a learning curve perhaps, but by all accounts one worth going through given the potential results, a standard which will span all 3 major graphics cards makers, ati, nvida and when larabee comes out from intel. |
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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
GPU support for ATI cards
(Message 909340)
Posted 20 Jun 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: Hey, given Dx11 ATI card's are expected to be out in September/October (given the october windows 7 release), and dx11 nvidia parts arent expected till next year q1 or q2 no update on which yet, it's likely I and many others will be getting ati card's, anyone got an update on upcoming OpenCL support like an eta, twould be nice to have support in place by end the of October, so seti doesnt miss out, else i'll have to run folding on it till ya get it released? (also all current CUDA or CAL compatible and future nvidia, ati and intel larabee when it comes out gfx cards will support OpenCL in response to DanielT's q's, both nvidia, ati and intel are supporting it) |
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GPU applications :
Is SETI still having scheduler problems?
(Message 881624)
Posted 2 Apr 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: Detach and Re-attach to project I had same issue not a peep of cuda till I re-attached then it took two days of download allocation for 5 processing units(900 per day) to download 10 days in advance work for of em lol, alas, you'll then get no CPU units but ye'll probably crunch more points on a 260 then your CPU would,(my 280 gtx (xfx xxx factory oc'd edi) is doing currently 2780.65 GPU alone, also free's your CPU up for other projects so it doesnt go to waste (err gotto go and create a config file to set your boinc to 5 processor's and read it in first) I chose climateprediction.net, mostly cos i tried Astropulse but didnt get any work, and climate's got nice and fat units so not much downloadin lol(but still calculate average for ya mid-unit) (2x 450 hour, 2x 2100 hour) Hopefully they'll eventually release a recommended BOINC client complete with a scheduler capable of both CPU and GPU combined processing till then, this is working nicely. |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Is anybody getting Seti Enhanced for CUDA?
(Message 874452)
Posted 11 Mar 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: no there all cuda task's alas, though their right about the note on the release blurb, a 280 GTX (specially the XFX 280 GTX XXX factory oc'd one(cost me 430 pounds) is a real monster of a seti cruncher, every 15 mins it chews through a gpu task, looking forward to setting up two of these things on my server(this pc is kinda transitionary, the core's going to a media centre pc and being replaced within current case with i7 core, when dx11 cards come out i'll buy 3 of em for main, and along with a 2nd one of what i currently have for my server I'll be crunching a pretty nice avg score, specially when they sort out cpu) I was just gonna leave this one as is but when seti finally gained gpu crunching I figured i'd by a 2nd of the 280 to, the 285 at stock's slower then my 280 anywhoo, and as an added bonus I can run it in SLI as a secondary gaming pc to), seriously considering building an extra AMD PC with 4x PCI-E 2.0 slots, a couple of 1000W PSU's and getting 4 285 or whatver's out when I do card's running at some point. There's no cpu tasks period, it appears I'll have to wait till CPU client fix as I've received no new cpu tasks, on the plus side climate prediction tasks are quite fat (2x2109 hour tasks 2x493) ought to give my cpu something to do until there's a fix, and it let's me download 900 a day, so plenty of spare space for cpu tasks. Oh yeah for everyone not getting GPU tasks, no im not hogging them all, just detach from seti then re-attach, and ye'll start to get em, alas all your old seti cpu tasks will disappear so set your days ahead to 0 and get close to real time downloads before hand. |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Is anybody getting Seti Enhanced for CUDA?
(Message 874304)
Posted 10 Mar 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: update alas, after the units ran out it didn't download anymore, also AQUA@home still dead, currently running Climateprediction on the CPU's instead until seti sort out gpu + cpu processing. |
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Questions and Answers :
GPU applications :
Is anybody getting Seti Enhanced for CUDA?
(Message 873728)
Posted 8 Mar 2009 by Lord Xander
Post: Hi, well When I first installed CUDA I had to detatch and re-attach to project to get cuda units, wheren all cpu units disappeared, been using it a few weeks now, (have a XFX 280 GTX (XXX factory overclocked edi)(this refer's to PC: Wintermute)) decided to make use of my cpu to and installed aqua@home seemed a worth cause alas, it refused to send me anything. So dismorning I detached it, figured its a dud or something on those lines and another project could get it, only to notice my cpu was working to for once (only 3 core's but i soon fixed that by cc_config.xml changing) and now I have all 4 cores + my GPU workin happily on seti, however, it only downloaded 20 or so cpu units, and it'll run out soon :( (AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition X4), I've tried updating it manually (usually set to once a day and 10 days additional work) but thus far it has'nt downloaded a single additional unit, I really hope seti sorts this soon as the CPU of my PC is just going to waste thusfar. It's worth noting I don't have a problem with CUDA units, infact, It's got so many in order to download 10 days worth I had to increase BOINC's hard drive allocation and it took several days due to the 900 unit limit's lol, on the plus side the PC's gone from around 900 avg credits (based on the amount of time I let it run) (I'd estimate it'd do around 1400 if i left it on 24/7 based on times I left it running longer etc)(tis my main pc so cant be running 24/7) to 2200 thanks to cuda. 08/03/2009 09:58:18|SETI@home|Starting task 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.94_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 608 08/03/2009 09:58:20|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.35_0_0 08/03/2009 09:58:26|SETI@home|Finished upload of 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.35_0_0 08/03/2009 09:59:08|SETI@home|Computation for task 13ja09ab.18059.18477.4.8.34_1 finished 08/03/2009 09:59:08|SETI@home|Starting 12ja09ah.25013.80282.16.8.42_0 08/03/2009 09:59:08|SETI@home|Starting task 12ja09ah.25013.80282.16.8.42_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 603 08/03/2009 09:59:10|SETI@home|Started upload of 13ja09ab.18059.18477.4.8.34_1_0 08/03/2009 09:59:15|SETI@home|Finished upload of 13ja09ab.18059.18477.4.8.34_1_0 08/03/2009 10:04:14|SETI@home|Computation for task 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.94_1 finished 08/03/2009 10:04:14|SETI@home|Starting 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.84_0 08/03/2009 10:04:14|SETI@home|Starting task 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.84_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 608 08/03/2009 10:04:16|SETI@home|Started upload of 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.94_1_0 08/03/2009 10:04:21|SETI@home|Finished upload of 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.94_1_0 08/03/2009 10:09:10|SETI@home|Computation for task 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.84_0 finished 08/03/2009 10:09:10|SETI@home|Starting 12ja09ag.26338.20522.13.8.111_1 A lone CPU(603) task surrounded by GPU Task's(608 - CUDA) :D to many to post em all by far. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Astropulse credit inbalance
(Message 812519)
Posted 27 Sep 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: tyvm, found it, didnt look hard it enough it seems. Xander |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Astropulse credit inbalance
(Message 812419)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: ty to the two sensible replies, might I enquire as to how one sets said preference, I was under the impression choice is not yet provided based on the page i read, and on a quick look of preference settings on my client and on site don't seem to reveal said option? Additionally its not to surprising that different types of processing works on different core's with varying degree's of success based on the design, nonetheless, taking 3000's worth of credit across 4 cores for one unit per core for those who are in essence trying to help, by trying it is, one might think, a little less then the ideal, especially given I was provided no choice in the actual download of said app's and only concious decision in the matter was not aborting them and can't in my opinion be described as remotely balanced. If there is a way to turn off astropulse units or at least reduce the number i'm forced to abort, I would certainly appreciate it, my main pc will be back on seti soon been undergoing some repairs in preparation for a future upgrade, and i'll try just one unit me thinks on it as oppose to all four(Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6700 w/c'd pc) but given my main pc is not seti enabled most of the day when I run intensive 3d applications(3d studoi max etc) or at the end of the day (running games and son), giving it only sleep times to run. In essence my 2nd pc (the AMD 9850 one(running under that mode now)) will be allowed to run up to max, which i've yet to have the opportunity to test so given it will no doubt form the bulk of my seti crunching due to my main being not available for seti more than half the day or more for a while at least until I begin constructing that intel based rack i've been planning, so its performance becomes quite important, so I hope the astropulse can be disabled entirely soon if not already(any word on that?) on a per pc basis as manually aborting files is frankly a waste of both the project's and my time. thanks in advance Xander |
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Number crunching :
Astropulse credit inbalance
(Message 812249)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: huh... me ne comprede da crudy vou comes to mind. |
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Number crunching :
AMD Phenom 9850BE & MSI K9A2 Platinum OC settings
(Message 812233)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: nowadays, the average user desiring 4gb of ram, requires a 64 bit OS, with card's like ATI 4870 X2 requiring 2GB of graphics ram, and even some sound card's sapping your ram supply, on a 32 bit machine frankly you'll end up with less than a usable amount of ram if you stick with it and go forgold on other components, bear in mind in a 32 bit machine 4gb is the absolute max, of the entire system, so every bit beyond that means you loose ram, say you have an average today 512mb graphics card, well that's 3.5gb straight away, add a 2nd one in an upgrade to extend its life , and ooops theres 3gb if ye wanted 4gb its already to late, ye might as well stick with 3gb or go 64 bit which is the wave of the future anyhow. I've used 64 bit vista on 2 pc's one for closing on a couple of years now and the other for 6 months and frankly by this point 99% of things run just as fine as on 32 bit(which i also run on other pc's) and frankly the less than 1% of stuff that doesn't is invariably crud which isnt worth running, so going 64 bit really is highly unlikely to inconvenience you, secondly frankly 8gb is hardly expensive and the average mobo supports it, if you go 64 bit you can happily spend 100 quid buying 8gb ddr2-667 (4x2GB) OCZ and still use every last bit of it plus everything else in the system even if you decided on a fat 4way crossfire x of two 4870 x2's or 4 4870's it'll use every last bit, and with 8gb most users cases ye can disable pagefile all together practically, good performance boost. True most individual applications can't support 64 bit or even multi-core's cpu's but... the os does so it can assign different programs to use pools of ram it splits your main ram up into and assigns it each a single or dual core or whatever and still leave all the other applications or processes their own areas of ram and so on, and whilst most app's wont really benefit much from native 64 bit support, anything intensive will, which is another reason. That bit ahead is really in rely to someones post on 32 bit os, this section is for the o/c I recommend the easiest solution to heat issues is to upgrade to a Artic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro (v2) (the v2 is unofficial but it is version 2 if you get the right one) easy to fit and incredible air cooling, secondly alas the motherboard just isnt a happy overclocker, yes I managed to get it boot and run for a while (same setup as you on this pc) at around 2.9 ghz semi-stably, I say semi because whilst running most app's it works fine but running something intensive like say games or seti crunching (ie the very reason to overclock) it develops error' showing its not truly stable, I tried dozens and dozens of voltage settings, memory:fsb ratio settings and dozens of others and even tried the stupid auto-overclock options all of them seemed to leave the os with underlying instability despite running extensive tests to ensure every component is individually capable of being taxed to its limit stably(such as memtest86, and so). It mostly evens out at a modest .6 to .7 (as in to 2.6 and 2.7)overclock but it still crashes to much for comfort and frankly for ultimate stability dont bother oc'ing at all your likely to get less credit from all the times it crashes then you'll make up for in the extra boost of speed unless you get another motherboard which is more suitable, i recommend waiting and buying the next 45nm part:(see details below) frankly i suspect the 2.8 will be a great deal o/c wise, no doubt some have had more success the I but given my main is a 2.66 quad intel extreme edition oc/d to 3.7ghz stably and i still have a pc with a 1.1ghz athlon thunderbird oc'd to 1.2ghz running smoothly since year 2000 I was hoping for more out of my new amd box, specially given the equally dismal performance o the Opteron 180 x2 box i have, given what was read about the cpu, i suspect its the mobo and will probably be getting a new one at some point. And yes i have same cpu and mobo as you on said box :D Xander (from wiki): "Deneb" (45 nm, C2, quad core) * All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64 (AMD's x86-64 implementation), Cool'n'Quiet, ... Model number Stepping Frequency L2-cache L3-cache HT Mult 1 Voltage TDP Socket Release date Part number(s) Phenom X4 20350 C2 2.8GHz 4×512 KiB 6 MiB 4000MHz 125W Socket AM2+ ~ January 08, 2009 Phenom X4 20550 C2 3.0GHz 4×512 KiB 6 MiB 4000MHz 125W Socket AM2+ ~ January 08, 2009 |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Astropulse credit inbalance
(Message 812217)
Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: In essense I happily ran the first 4 astropulse units with curiosity on one of my main pc's only to discover, instead of matching credit given in ordinary units as described in said page about it, it actually gave you allot less, i got 750 credit for a astropulse work unit which took the same cpu time to process as a combined ordinary seti work units would gave gained in excess of 1550 credit min. spread out over a quad core machine with 4 units that a pretty hefty loss of credit. So from there on after i've not been willing to run them, period, tell me when they fix it, as I refuse to run them until such time until they're actually equal and frankly should give you a bonus for being able to process such a fat unit in reasonable time frame, not give you less then half ordinary units work and call it equal. Xander |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Seti screensaver feeze
(Message 779025)
Posted 5 Jul 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: This card runs relatively chilly, so not an issue, it can run Age of Conan on medium with some settings at high for 10 hours straight but cant run the seti screen saver for 4? pretty sure that's not the issue, any chance of getting a debug version of the screensaver with debug logging so maybe a fix could be worked on? Xander |
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Windows :
Seti screensaver feeze
(Message 774278)
Posted 27 Jun 2008 by Lord Xander
Post: Hi, got a bit of a problem often after a while of operation (tho not always) the seti screensaver will freeze just stop working, the only way to quit it then becomes to hit ctrl+alt+del which seems to quit it without having to end task. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I realise theres a previous post of the issue but possible problem cited in answer is incorrect, I disabled superfetch(vista swaps back to the xp level pre-fetcher when you do) and the issue still exist's, ReadyBoost is not active, this means it has to be some other issue, something which more than likely would effect xp in the same enviroment to, any chance on someone working on a fix for this getting rather annoying. thanks in advance |
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Wish list :
a few things to consider...
(Message 688991)
Posted 5 Dec 2007 by Lord Xander
Post: SETI is Open source, and people can adjust it as they wish. The people at SETI are overworked, underpaid, and work part time to keep the project going. There is just a handful of them. They rely on donations to keep SETI alive, as there is no government or school funding. I'm just don't that doesn't make all to much logical sense, obvious pre-steam processor's they weren't much use but steam processor's ought to if programmed correctly be quite capable of performing well anything and i can't see how running 256 steam processor's to go with my quad-core processor would if properly programmed slow down the process as they can run independently without taxing the CPU is my understanding, not to mention having their own memory. And being well aware of the funding issues it is however rather irrelevant I doubt every progressive @home project are full of government funded fat cat's with a full-time dev teams ... ? And open-source should not be used as a derogatory term when it comes to programming projects like jeez it means more folks can contribute to the work not less, and I can't see there not being a good bunch of programmers contributing to seti. And I have looked and done my research and whilst thanks for bothering to reply I'd much rather have a reply from someone with a technical standpoint within the project... hell frankly I don't really need or require reply I just hope the message trickles through to the right folks as from my a long-term seti contributer who's electricity bill is never low thanks to seti processing in comparison with other @home project it beginning to seen as seti is falling behind, there is a ps3 port of seti, in a pre-release phase but it runs on a version of linux which to my understanding only runs as one instance and is not even slightly optimized meaning instead of full use of the ps3's power ... it treats it like an old pentium iv, and as the cell processor in ps3's are 8 way processor's designed for high-end servers with one failed core (so 7) but (btw despite what im saying don't get me wrong im not a sony fanboy i'm a hardcore gamer so i'm kinda have to buy all the consoles mainly a pc gamer and my preferred console is x360) Like that project need's some help me thinks, and yes i'd like to see some serious attempts at using everything that could potentially maximize the use of the hardware I dedicate to the project, and others like me can't possibly disagree, whilst somewhat competent in a couple of programming languages i don't have the time to donate to seti, and frankly with power of the hardware I do run seti on most of the time I've done the best I can. |
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