Damn, how did this guy get so many APs?

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=5324902&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0

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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."

"I never get into an argument that I cannot win."

When you find out, let me know.

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Daddy, what's an Astropulse??

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I got just one right before the outage. I was away on vacation, and this was one of the few machines I kept on
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=569290171
Before this, it had to have been a couple months or so before I had one of these.
They always get end to the old systems to :-/

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Yep, about 1 in 100 of recent downloads for me are now AP's ... it used to be about 1 in 4000. Not sure what changed, but I like it.

I don't recall ever having one of the new astropulse tasks.

Dave

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typical - don't see a AP for months then out of the first 200 tasks I've downloaded since the outtage and I get three of them :-)

Hoping for more tomorrow

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Finally, I got one. It will be a few days before I get started on it but it's there. Giving me an estimated time of 52 hours. Yeah, good luck on that as slow as my cruncher is!

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Finally, I got one. It will be a few days before I get started on it but it's there. Giving me an estimated time of 52 hours. Yeah, good luck on that as slow as my cruncher is!

I think you'll find the estimate is slightly high for the r168 optimized AP build on your E1400 Celeron. I'm guessing based on its times for VLARs it might even do an AP WU in under 48 hours.

                                                             Joe

Thanks for the vote of confidence Joe. I forgot the new APs are faster than the last ones I had. I hope you're right about the 48 hours.

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The last AP WU's, I saw last year september or even before, took ~10-12 hours.
And I do have the latest app.'s for 5.05, installed. (Have to check this)
Didn't see them since, a pitty, cause I liked them, they run fast on Intel CPU's, specially CPU's with a large L2 cache.
~10 hours on a Q(X)9650 (12MByte L2 cache) and ~22-25 hours on Q6600's, first one @ 2.67GHz.(stepping 11), other stock (VISTA x86 & CPU Q6600 stepping 7).

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Ok, I've been running mine 18 hours and it is 55% done so I guesstimate about 34 or 35 hours to completion. Hmmm, BOINC is guesstimating just under 31 hours, hope it's right. Funny thing, I just noticed I have a second one waiting that has a guesstimate of 108 hours to completion. Wonder if that is including the time it will take me to get to it? :-)

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Don't recall ever having one of the new Asrtopulse WU's on either of my 2 main rigs.
I to have all the boxes ticked and have the required Apps installed in my app_info.xml.
Concidering Rig on a Bench goes through 5 to 6 hundredish WU's per day I am surprised it has not had any that I can tell.

Dave

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Don't recall ever having one of the new Asrtopulse WU's on either of my 2 main rigs.
I to have all the boxes ticked and have the required Apps installed in my app_info.xml.
Concidering Rig on a Bench goes through 5 to 6 hundredish WU's per day I am surprised it has not had any that I can tell.

Dave

I have had about a dozen in the past few weeks (since they started loading them again). I follow Joe Segur's advice and leave "seti_anhanced" unticked but have "use other ..." ticked. This means the APv505 and the Multibeam have equal priority under the "use other ..." for me.

F.

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I haven't changed anything. All three buttons are still checked. The APs just showed up.

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I haven't changed anything. All three buttons are still checked. The APs just showed up.

Which three?, since there's four buttons:

Run only the selected applications SETI@home Enhanced: no
Astropulse: yes
Astropulse v5: yes

If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? yes

Claggy

I haven't changed anything. All three buttons are still checked. The APs just showed up.

Some people are just plain lucky :-)

F.

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Some people are just plain lucky :-)

Doubtful. A ton of us are now finally getting AP's regularly (used to be about ~1 AP in 4000 MB for me, now it's ~1 in 100). The math is closer now to the expected ratio (noise & etc aside). Not sure who used to get them all, but the distribution seems much fairer now -- maybe an inside track was closed down.

Hey, don't pick on us old folk, our memory ain't what it usta be. All four are marked yes!!!

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Well, for anybody keeping track mine just -9d after 26 hours and 38 minutes and has claimed 653.68 credits. Now to wait and see what my wingman can do with it. :-)

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