Wow during the outage I acquired an optimized SETI client. I have been itchin to try it out to see the improvement. When the scheduler came back on I immediately downloaded a WU (took a few tries but I got one in 5 minutes). In 47 minutes my WU is now 77.4% done. HOLY CRAP! That is twice as fast as it was before I got the optimzed client. My WUs took about 2 hours, this new one will finish with a total time around a hour. HOLY CRAP!

-matt

EDIT: here's the link to the website I got the client from
http://www.marisan.nl/seti/

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

Wow during the outage I acquired an optimized SETI client. I have been itchin to try it out to see the improvement. When the scheduler came back on I immediately downloaded a WU (took a few tries but I got one in 5 minutes). In 47 minutes my WU is now 77.4% done. HOLY CRAP! That is twice as fast as it was before I got the optimzed client. My WUs took about 2 hours, this new one will finish with a total time around a hour. HOLY CRAP!

-matt

EDIT: here's the link to the website I got the client from
http://www.marisan.nl/seti/

Don't dance until you see if it gets validated!

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I've downloaded the one I need but I haven't been able to download any WU yet.. I'll let you know how it goes ;)

Thanks for the link.

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Wow during the outage I acquired an optimized SETI client. I have been itchin to try it out to see the improvement. When the scheduler came back on I immediately downloaded a WU (took a few tries but I got one in 5 minutes). In 47 minutes my WU is now 77.4% done. HOLY CRAP! That is twice as fast as it was before I got the optimzed client. My WUs took about 2 hours, this new one will finish with a total time around a hour. HOLY CRAP!

-matt

Matt,
Looks like you also upgraded to:
Microsoft Windows 2003 Professional Edition

This might also of had an effect in speeding up your WU?
Chad

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Actually I upgraded to WinXP Pro 64-bit. I don't think BOINC knows the difference. I acted on your thought and checked out one of my other comps running this, the older computer usually takes about 10 hours to complete a WU. I set up the optimized client on that one as well, which knocked it down to about 6 and a half hours.

-matt

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

Actually I upgraded to WinXP Pro 64-bit. I don't think BOINC knows the difference. I acted on your thought and checked out one of my other comps running this, the older computer usually takes about 10 hours to complete a WU. I set up the optimized client on that one as well, which knocked it down to about 6 and a half hours.

-matt

Thats great... Sounds like good numbers with the new client! I would be intrested to see if just going to XP64 helped any?

Chad

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Actually I upgraded to WinXP Pro 64-bit. I don't think BOINC knows the difference. I acted on your thought and checked out one of my other comps running this, the older computer usually takes about 10 hours to complete a WU. I set up the optimized client on that one as well, which knocked it down to about 6 and a half hours.

-matt

Thats great... Sounds like good numbers with the new client! I would be intrested to see if just going to XP64 helped any?

Chad

Alright here is whatv I did: I reverted back to the old client to run a WU. I suspended EINSTEIN and suspended the current Optimized client WU so I can start fresh with a new WU and the original client. I will update either later tonight or tomorrow with the total time on that WU

-matt

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

OK I believe I can already give an educated update. I have watching the numbers the past few mins. The % complete steadily increasing, the time spent steadily increasing, and the time left steadily decreasing. For every 5 seconds spent, my time left decreases by around 2-3 seconds. Right now the client is 11% done with 11:45 spent and 1:35:56 left. Going by the numbers now and how they have been increasing/decreasing, I would guess the WU total time to be around 1 hour and 45 minutes. +-10 mins

So it would seem to me the XP upgrade helped a little bit, but not much in the short run. In long run, 10-15 minutes is a lot of time

-matt

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin,
Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

Alright here is whatv I did: I reverted back to the old client to run a WU. I suspended EINSTEIN and suspended the current Optimized client WU so I can start fresh with a new WU and the original client. I will update either later tonight or tomorrow with the total time on that WU

-matt

Cool thanks for checking it out Matt... This will let the rest of us know if we get any type of performance boost from XP64!

Sure wish I had a Athlon 64 3700+ :)

I am just stuck with a dual 450Mhz and a XP2600+!

Chad

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Wow during the outage I acquired an optimized SETI client. I have been itchin to try it out to see the improvement. When the scheduler came back on I immediately downloaded a WU (took a few tries but I got one in 5 minutes). In 47 minutes my WU is now 77.4% done. HOLY CRAP! That is twice as fast as it was before I got the optimzed client. My WUs took about 2 hours, this new one will finish with a total time around a hour. HOLY CRAP!

-matt

EDIT: here's the link to the website I got the client from
http://www.marisan.nl/seti/

Don't dance until you see if it gets validated!

I have been using the optomized SETI since mid July, all were calidated as before, no problems.
Ray

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