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Message 1267711 - Posted: 4 Aug 2012, 22:07:00 UTC

Why no Astro Pulses of late??
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Message 1267721 - Posted: 4 Aug 2012, 22:16:21 UTC - in response to Message 1267711.  
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The present tapes have already had Astropulse Wu's split from them, and are complete,

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Message 1267764 - Posted: 5 Aug 2012, 1:09:30 UTC

It's also evident by the fact that downloads are much, much faster than when Astropulse units are being sent out. (:
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Message 1267876 - Posted: 5 Aug 2012, 11:44:57 UTC - in response to Message 1267764.  
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It's also evident by the fact that downloads are much, much faster than when Astropulse units are being sent out. (:

Just because the Downloads are fast at the moment, doesn't mean the lack of Astropulse Wu's is totally responsible,
Having a large amount of Multibeam VLAR Wu's in the pipeline also makes downloads a lot faster (VLAR Wu's aren't sent to Nvidia GPUs, so they get less work, so less downloads occur),
While having a large amount of Multibeam VHAR Wu's also brings the download pipe to it's knee's, just like Astropulse,

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Message 1267880 - Posted: 5 Aug 2012, 12:11:14 UTC - in response to Message 1267764.  
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It's also evident by the fact that downloads are much, much faster than when Astropulse units are being sent out. (:


True, but O.T.O.H. AstroPulse WUs can be computated (on GPU) at the same speed
as MB work is done. I assume AstroPulse work units are compressed as well, although they still are quite big compaired to an MB WU.
AP WUs are 8MByte while MB is ~360KByte, IIRC.

Maybe they should look for other signal-types, as well, just as MB work.
And/or enhance resolution?!
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Message 1268033 - Posted: 5 Aug 2012, 17:52:26 UTC

AP WUs are not compressed - I remember someone raising the idea of compression a while back and the answer was that compression/decompression would cause too much extra server load. And you can read the downloaded WU in any text editor - it's just plain text.

I know having lots of MB WUs that can be processed quickly (colloquially known as 'shorties', I believe) can also high download demand, but all I know from experience of my little corner of the Internet (you two in Europe may have a different experience) is that whenever AP WUs are being sent out, the demand on the server far outweighs any mere so-called 'shorty storm' - every single day I have to supervise my hosts to ensure WU downloads are not 'stuck'. It's very painful. The only thing more painful is when a 'shorty storm' happens at the same time that AP WUs are being generated. Doubly painful. ):
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