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Wesley Johnston Send message Joined: 4 Jun 99 Posts: 44 Credit: 5,494,065 RAC: 0 
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Is there any way to disable the downloading of astropulse units to specifc computers? Two of the computers that I am running will almost certainly NEVER finish an astropulse unit within the deadline, since they are often turned off for extended periods. So it is a complete waste of SETI's and my PC's time to download and start astropulse units on those computers. ID: 868732 ·  |
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Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 
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Yes, set the computers that you don't want to do AP to a different location, ie home, school or work, then make setiathome preferences for that location to not do AP, make sure you leave the 'If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?' set to no. you'll need to click update for the computers to know that their location and preferences have changed. Claggy 
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Ingleside Send message Joined: 4 Feb 03 Posts: 1546 Credit: 15,832,022 RAC: 13 
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Is there any way to disable the downloading of astropulse units to specifc computers? Yes, you can goto SETI@home preferences and use upto 4 different venues, and you can specify which venue should/should not get Astropulse. Individual computers can be assigned to a venue. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." ID: 868746 · |
 perryjay  Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0
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Under your SETI at Home preferences you can set up separate preferences for three different venues. Home, Work, and School. It defaults to Home. If you set the slower machines to one of the other venues you can adjust the preferences for them.  PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC ID: 868747 · |
Greg Hogan  Send message Joined: 3 Mar 04 Posts: 28 Credit: 9,235,626 RAC: 0 
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I think the Preferences are not working, as I have Astropulse set to NO and Im still getting them. ID: 868967 · |
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Piotr Kunkel Send message Joined: 7 Apr 00 Posts: 18 Credit: 19,385,083 RAC: 0 
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Astropulse - no If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? - no Couple days ago it worked. " Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." Martin Niemöller ID: 868972 · |
Richard Haselgrove  Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14690 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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There's certainly still something incomplete about the transition from Astropulse to Astropulse_v5 I got this overnight: 24/02/2009 04:49:25|SETI@home|Message from server: No work can be sent for the applications you have selected The work I got was Astropulse_v5 (503). ID: 868979 · |
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Greg Hogan Send message Joined: 3 Mar 04 Posts: 28 Credit: 9,235,626 RAC: 0
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I'll give that a go. Cheers ID: 868980 · |
Chelski  Send message Joined: 3 Jan 00 Posts: 121 Credit: 8,979,050 RAC: 0 
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Astropulse - no Its still working- at least the reverse version (e.g. AP only). Reason to go AP exclusive (except on CUDA client) is to both reduce the upstream bandwidth required until things settle down and a few good men will be required to clean up also the remaining old Astropulse unit and as wingman for some WUs with already errored out WU ID: 868988 · |
Cosmic_Ocean  Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13
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There's certainly still something incomplete about the transition from Astropulse to Astropulse_v5 I wish mine would do that. Mine tells me there's no work available for AP500 and gives me 20-40 MBs. I'm still waiting on just one ap503. I just want one. [edit: figures.. I'm at work and changed he venue for one of the crunchers here, and it picked up two 503s instantly. My main cruncher at home just will not do it.] [edit2: got it. used remote desktop and allowed new tasks again. requested half a million seconds of work, got two ap503's.] Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 869043 · |
mr.kjellen  Send message Joined: 4 Jan 01 Posts: 195 Credit: 71,324,196 RAC: 0 
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There's certainly still something incomplete about the transition from Astropulse to Astropulse_v5 I made the same observation. The checkbox on the preferences page must still refer to AP 5.0, not to V5...It was a similar way with the server status, it used to only show AP 5.0 as 'ready to send'. ID: 869053 · |
jason_gee  Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 
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Yup, 3 applications at the moment: - 'setiathome_enhanced' (MultiBeam 6.03 cpu &/or 6.08 cuda) - 'astropulse' (astropulse 5.00 tasks only, all resends these days) - 'Other Applications' (astropulse_v5 5.03 tasks & both other kinds of work too) So you'll only get AP5.03 if you tick that third box in preferences. To get a 'semi-balanced' mix of all three, you'd need to untick the first two boxes, and tick 'Accept work from other applications' Not sure if, when they get around to it, astropulse_v5(5.03) will get its own tick box, or inherit the old 'Astropulse' one when that is shut down completely. Jason "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. ID: 869063 · |
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Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13
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Yup, I tried unchecking the first two, but instead of saying: SETI@home Enhanced: yes/no Astropulse: yes/no receive for others: yes/no It collapses those three into "(allow for all applications)" or worded very similarly to that. I seem to have decent luck getting ap503's by doing no MB, yes ap, yes other, and waiting until I have approximately 400,000+ seconds of work in a request. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 869066 · |
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jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0
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I tried unchecking the first two, but instead of saying: Yes, that's combination that should give you all three kinds of work, so it collapses into 'all applications'. I've also been getting plenty of AP5.03 just recently, and no MB at all, without changing my settings. Switching on work_fetch_debug , I see there is some kind of backoff with the cuda requests occurring. I'm not sure completely why it has started doing this, or what triggered that backoff. Assuming nothing changed with those options, probably related to congestion post-outage, but that's just a guess. Jason "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. ID: 869125 · |
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mr.kjellen Send message Joined: 4 Jan 01 Posts: 195 Credit: 71,324,196 RAC: 0
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Yup, Astropulse V5 has its own tick box now... ID: 869621 · |
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Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0
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... My thanks to David Anderson for very promptly fulfilling my request. Joe ID: 869637 · |
Byron S Goodgame  Send message Joined: 16 Jan 06 Posts: 1145 Credit: 3,936,993 RAC: 0
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Thanks, I wondered why all I was getting was 5.0. I had just checked there recently and didn't notice the option, but I'm glad to know it's there now. ID: 869640 · |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14690 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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... On my account, the new 'Astropulse_v5' checkbox was set to 'no' on all venues, although three out of four already had 'Astropulse' set to yes. Perhaps somebody could check what the value is on an account where none of the 'selected applications' have ever been changed from default? If those are 'no' too, either we're going to lose a lot of crunching power or David is trying to tell us something about Astropulse..... Seriously, wouldn't a good first default setting be to make it the same as the user's existing Astropulse choice? ID: 869642 · |
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Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0
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On my account, the new 'Astropulse_v5' checkbox was set to 'no' on all venues, although three out of four already had 'Astropulse' set to yes. All three are checked for a venue which hasn't previously changed project preference settings, so the non-interactive participants will get whatever their hosts can handle. Seriously, wouldn't a good first default setting be to make it the same as the user's existing Astropulse choice? I agree in principle, but of course that would involve developing and running a script to adjust each venue for all users. Joe ID: 869788 · |
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