Posts by Enzeder

1) Message boards : News : Major Power Outage at SSL (Message 1239204)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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See the word "HOME" in the upper left. Press it. It will take you to the notice posted at 17:11:12 UTC that there was an outage in the works. That notice was up from then until the system was taken down. And it was up all the time the maintenance outage was going on.


Nope. There is no "HOME" button when the website is offline. I wasn't talking about maintenance, I was talking about the power outage yesterday and the day before. No power = no website (as the news item on the homepage states). And I don't have the time to hit the SETI homepage every hour in the hopes of catching updates like that. As such I didn't have a cached page to stare at either. Once I noticed work units stacking up I went to investigate, but found no website. Wondered if SETI@home went down the same path as the Allen Telescope Array. I stumbled upon the answer at BOINCstats - and they had used the Google cached page of SETI@home to get the update. Because the website was down. Because there was no power. Hence no "HOME" button.
2) Message boards : News : Major Power Outage at SSL (Message 1239055)
Posted 31 May 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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Updates were posted in the Technical News section & the front page.


Can you point us rookies to the updates you're referring to? I don't see any updates since the power went out (29th), and most of the time I tried to look, the website seemed to be down.

It would be nice if SETI/BOINC could simply mirror their homepage to another location. Those of us that missed that 90 min window could then satisfy our curiosity and know the problem isn't on our end. Perhaps another UC Berkeley server (on the other side of campus?), but in an ideal world something offsite would be nice.

I'm a little surprised that there weren't even any announcements on the news section of the UC Berkeley homepage (that I could find).
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : More Bandwidth? Downloads seem much faster... (Message 1230782)
Posted 12 May 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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New download servers; AstroPulse isn't being split and sent (8MB tasks); SETI@Home "shorties" aren't being sent out = good bandwidth.


Cool. Good to know. Thanks.

I'm not sure about the cache though, it has changed significantly since BOINC v7, but I was under the impression that it is total cache, not per CPU. So .5 + .5 = 1 full day (24 hours) of work, including what is currently running.


Hmmm. That's awkward, but also good to know. Pity they can't be tied to cores, or set per PC. I have some PC's with 2 cores, and others with 24...
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : More Bandwidth? Downloads seem much faster... (Message 1230517)
Posted 11 May 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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Downloads the last few days (maybe since the last maintenance) seem much faster. It's awesome. I've been afraid to mention it in case I jinx things.

But why do so few tasks download? I have the following set in preferences:
Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for at least: 0.5 days
(max 10 days).
... and up to an additional: 0.5 days


On a 2nd gen i7 I end up with only 2 tasks waiting in the queue (in addition to the 8 running). Regular 6.03 tasks take about 4 hours, so I don't see how that equals ½ to 1 days worth of work. Shouldn't there be between 96 and 192 hours of work either running or waiting to run?

PS: In case it makes a difference, the PC is only running SETI.
5) Message boards : Politics : My take on the US presidential election. (Message 1229551)
Posted 9 May 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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Looks like a moot point as to who wins the Whitehouse because the climate in congress seems headed towards partisanship. Just look at the latest race between a centrist Republican and a Teanderthal in Indiana.

I must have missed the part of the Constitution about insuring domestic tranquility and promoting the general welfare - of the 1%.

Besides the fact that Dullnando doesn't understand the meaning of socialism, let's use his uninformed definition. So, socialist or anarchist? I'd rather be a socialist - I like the idea of a functioning society. I'm honestly surprised at how many "Christians" become atheist as soon as money or society is mentioned. Paul Ryan might be a perfect example - purports to be Christian, yet espouses the views of Ayn Rand as reflected in his budget.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : DOWNLOADING WORK FROM SERVER (Message 1228528)
Posted 7 May 2012 by Profile Enzeder
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1) Add a few other BOINC projects.
This is what I did... I currently have SETI set to 75%, but it's currently returning about 35%.

2) Increase the size of your queue. (Helps a bit next time.)
Tried this. Mostly unsuccessfully. On this PC (quad core), I currently have 1 SETI unit running and none "ready to run". Under SETI@Home computing preferences...
Network usage
Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for at least: 0.5 days
(max 10 days).

Default is 0.1 days.
... and up to an additional: 0.5 days
Default is 0.2 days (IIRC).

3) Just wait it out.
Yup. See suggestion #1 so your PC can continue crunching...

Good luck,
Arryn





 
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