Posts by Mr. Kevvy
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Cafe SETI :
SHGb02+14a
(Message 1348478)
Posted 64 days ago by  Mr. Kevvy
Google is your friend. :^) |
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SETI@home Science :
Where is THIS Seti's science ?
(Message 1348151)
Posted 65 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
At least one member doesn't even believe that life in any form exists off of Earth. Depending on your definition, I don't either (was I that one? I doubt it.) To "believe" it, is to be able to answer the question "Is there extraterrestrial life?" with a definite "Yes." Although it seems likely there is something else out there given the number of worlds, the isotropy of the universe and the confirmed uniformity of physical and chemical laws throughout, it's not scientific to pretend to information we don't have. So my honest answer would be that it's very possible, and I'm happy to help with the search, but we just don't know yet. Definite answers without evidence is the realm of religion, not science. And, being uncommitted to certainty avoids dogmatism and disappointment should we not find anything. I want to know, not believe. |
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Number crunching :
upgrading to 7.0.56
(Message 1347937)
Posted 66 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Richard, what benefits would 7.0.56 give over 7.0.28? There's a bug in 7.0.28 where it doesn't identify GPUs that are suitable for OpenCL AstroPulse. I have one box formerly on 7.0.28 that would consistently download an OpenCL unit, then report that there were no available compatible GPUs and abort it, then download it again, ad infinitum. 7.0.56 fixed this, so this is one reason to use it. Also 7.0.56 seems to have fixed the bug in earlier RCs where it would abort CUDA units after a few seconds indicating that they were taking too long! So far, it seems good. |
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SETI@home Science :
Where is THIS Seti's science ?
(Message 1347482)
Posted 67 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
eric's hydrogen project is about all the science getting done...but this is seti at home...not hydrogen clouds at home. the web page says the project is for looking for signals from et. that has been missing for a long long time. I can live with this, and with Astropulse (and I make sure to do as many Astropulse work units as I can by enabling CUDA AP on all the machines that support it) as these two projects are paying the bills and keeping the SETI part of the project going. It's always been difficult for SETI to obtain funding, so if "traditional" radio astronomy can be run on the same infrastructure, it will enable the SETI. Even if the results are just going in the database *for now* at least they are being recorded. Eventually one of us will win the lottery and then we get enough NTPCKR horsepower to run through the billion archived results as well as keeping up with the incoming. Either that or Paul Allen happens by. :^) |
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Science (non-SETI) :
God of the Gaps?
(Message 1346569)
Posted 69 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
You can lead an atheist to evidence, but you can't make him think... Yeah. Crick, Einstein, Feynman, Gates, Sagan, Weinberg... unthinking boneheads all. The reason you get banished isn't because "socialist don't understand free speech", but because you insult people... even in your signature. It's called ad hominem. I'm sure you already know that. |
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Science (non-SETI) :
God of the Gaps?
(Message 1346552)
Posted 69 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
impossible, they are millions and millions out there in the universe ! We don't know that. Given the number of possible inhabited worlds, it's unlikely, but we may be the first. Someone has to be first, right? It's more productive to search for evidence than speculate. Leads to fewer arguments too. ;^) |
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Science (non-SETI) :
God of the Gaps?
(Message 1346540)
Posted 69 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Over 40 years and no ET Over two thousand and no second coming either. Difference is, I can admit there may be nothing out there. |
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Number crunching :
Please rise the limits... just a little...
(Message 1346309)
Posted 70 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
For those of us who think visually... :^) 
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Number crunching :
Windows TCP Settings - Follow up - Help with server communication
(Message 1345315)
Posted 72 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Another happy customer for the Tcp1323Opts registry fix. Gave it a try and it seems to have fixed the download issues. Of course, I didn't get any AP units after I tried it but things were so bad even the 300Kb non-AP ones were timing out. Not one timeout after the fix, and the affected host has been getting two minute CUDA shorties so has been constantly downloading since then. |
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Number crunching :
Fingers gettin sore and calloused?
(Message 1343472)
Posted 77 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Read the thread - the whole thread. OK... this would explain why MTU wasn't affecting it. I will give it a read (when not so busy!) and thanks. :^) |
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Number crunching :
Fingers gettin sore and calloused?
(Message 1343461)
Posted 77 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Or read the adjacent Windows TCP settings thread. I know of the MTU issue but I'd rather not mess with TCP settings. I have complex networking things on the affected rig and I'd prefer not to break them. Also another rig with the same default MTU and same OS seems to download just fine for some reason. |
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Number crunching :
Fingers gettin sore and calloused?
(Message 1343458)
Posted 77 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
I use TinyTask. It's a simple mouse record/playback that can be configured in a few seconds. Only caveat is ensure the BOINC window is in the same place on playback. The recording can be saved. I just disable and enable network, let it sit for a minute and then stop the recording, choose 9999 reiterations and let it run. It will run once a minute and in a few hours all the downloads are usually done and I can turn it off. |
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Number crunching :
My American Friends !!!
(Message 1343271)
Posted 78 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Cool... Canadians not mentioned. The disable/enable of network connections shall continue, eh! |
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Number crunching :
SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!?
(Message 1342671)
Posted 80 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
I have been running SETI@home for over 13 years. I am unemployed. I have a hard time paying for my internet service. After what I have read here about donations, I amd quitting the project. The quote I linked was: "It is the greatest mistake to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can." --- Sidney Smith So, hope you can stick around and do what you can. Every little bit helps. |
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Number crunching :
SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!?
(Message 1342074)
Posted 82 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
I started my 84 cents a month fundraiser to appeal to folks that think they cannot make a difference by donating a small amount to the project. Something possibly sig-worthy along this line. :^) That whole site is sig-worthy. Hope they finally get back to me on what's needed for the next fundraiser... been waiting for months. |
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Number crunching :
Fundraising Ideas
(Message 1341651)
Posted 83 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
A quick read of GPUUG past projects will show that quite a lot has been done... one man show is better then none, right? :^) Also the current issues with failing downloads are due to bandwidth, so the new servers haven't helped. I can live with that. What I can't live with it all our results sitting unused and unanalyzed, so I think it's a high priority to get NTPCKR running constantly and the archived results looked at... who knows what's in those dozen years' of findings. |
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Number crunching :
Fundraising Ideas
(Message 1341437)
Posted 84 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
GPUUG (GPU Users' Group) is currently fundraising for a combination upload/download/NTPCKR server. It's currently over $19K away from goal, only just over $1K raised, so that would be ideal. It's also tax-deductible (for you at least... not me. I have to donate through the SAH page but I'm quite happy that that is a tax writeoff for Canadians.) If I can ever find out what's required for the Green Bank Project I'd like to have a fundraiser, probably a weekend for that. But if nothing needed, I might kick in for this server package... it's badly needed as the downloads are swamped and NTPCKR isn't being run enough, as you noted. |
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Number crunching :
SETI@HOME -- A Victim of it's Own Success?!?
(Message 1341322)
Posted 84 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Fourteen years later, I think we can trust 8-bit data ;). In theory, the MB application is fully compatible with the 8-bit binary data format used by AP files: some months ago, Eric put a test of this theory on his ever-lengthening Beta 'to-do' list. If that works out, a simple change to the splitter configuration will allow the generation of smaller (denser) data files, without any extra compression/decompression stages - that way, we get almost the same benefit as compression, practically for free. But we do have to find time to test it first... Nice... had no idea they were using 6-bit characters. If there is a time to make the change, this would be it: the AP units are apparently having a "shorty storm" that's plugging up the bandwidth and aborting downloads for everyone, and it doesn't seem to be going away. |
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Number crunching :
Transfers stalled and the click retry and there's instant BW, why is this...?
(Message 1340675)
Posted 87 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Seems that what's ruining it for me is the Astropulse work units. They are so large that they inevitably time out 1-2% in to the download. Their time is estimate is also ridiculous... for me they show 159 hours, but they take about 1-2% of that to complete! So, since the BOINC client thinks there's enough GPU work it won't request it for any other projects, and the GPUs sit idle. So much for my wanting to get GPU Astropulse running. :^p I've just babysat two GPU AP downloads turning off/on network connectivity about twenty times in twenty minutes to restart it and have yet to complete one... |
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Number crunching :
Lunatics NVidia OpenCL AstroPulse 6.04 not getting tasks
(Message 1339713)
Posted 91 days ago by Mr. Kevvy
Oh, I can misread just about anything. ;^) |
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