Are there any more AP WUs coming out of the hopper soon? It's feast or famine.

- Bill

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Once the current batch of tapes are done being split into MB tasks there will be.
See: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

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You can read this, Bill, posted by Rob Smith >> AP Availability

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Should be sooner than later now, anyway, judging by the server status.
MBs are drying out on the server and soon new tapes will have to be loaded on the system.

Better not too many rather than 500+ channels to avoid long periods without APs.
The more powerful your system, the lower number of tapes to be loaded at any time you would prefer (however neglecting possible problems of network congestion and AP WU production during the reloading periods by the clients).

From my observations, 300-350 channels at a time would best suit midrange crunchers as myself.
Bigger crunchers would prefer maybe 150 at a time (but I imagine this would require more work by the people at the lab).
Slower crunchers can do well with 500+ at a time.

Sleepy

And now we are in a major famine.

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Thanks Thomas and Hal. I thought it would be something like that. I've been trying to maximize my SETI productivity by gearing up with a new GTX670 and some other stuff in the quest to find ET. So I'm very much aware of the loss of AP units as they are direct indicators of what my machines can do when using the Lunatics optimized crunching applications. In trying to step up one of my machines I upgraded the power supply, but it didn't have a molex to ATX connector on it so I'm down a small cruncher until later this week when the connector comes in the mail.

Maybe by then we'll have some more APs to crunch.

- Bill

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With only a few observations it looks like we burn through enough MB tasks for 20-30 channels to be processes a day. Right now there are around 160 more channels to do. So if no new data was loaded then we still have about a weeks worth of data before the tape run out. They may load new data to be split before then, but they may not.

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I guess this is probably about the only good thing about using CPU only to crunch APs... a 10-day cache is ~60 APs for me. I've only run dry I think twice since building this machine two years + 3 months ago. I still have about 6 days of cache left. :p

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It would be nice if selecting a 10 day cache, you would actually get a 10 day cache....

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It would be nice if selecting a 10 day cache, you would actually get a 10 day cache....

Well BOINC will fill a 10 day cache if you have enough other projects that do not have task limits. As I run almost only CPU & have a lot of old hardware the 100 task limit is nearly a 10 day cache on most of my machines. Several of my machines that I allow AP work still have 20-30 AP to do. While my fastest only has 9 left. So the RAC on that system is a submarine... "Prepare to dive!" lol

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I think they're starting up again...

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Yes, and I just got 5 on 1 machine.

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Yes, and I just got 5 on 1 machine.

Yeah, I hadn't scrolled down far enough on the status page to see that a new "tape" had been mounted just before the hour; I was going on having just received two WUs, and a nascent uptick on the Cricket graph. I've now got four crunching on my two GPUs (along with 7 CPU jobs) so I've got 100 mins or so to get enough more to continue crunching when these are done. :-)

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Yeah. Full 10-day cache is ~60 WUs for me. I have tried once or twice before to bring my max CPUs up to 100% (normally at 50%) to stockpile a few more days worth (and then drop back down to 50%). In fact.. I did that before the move to to co-lo. I was sitting on 19 days of AP cache and the downtime only ended up being like..two days, maybe 3. That was not the expected result by basically anyone.

I haven't done that since though. Seems kind of like cheating/hoarding even though it really isn't.

Anyway.. I acquired 38 APs to top the 10-day cache off again. Filled to the brim.

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Filled to the brim.

That creates a good feeling.

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Aaaaaaand, there gone.....:(

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But they're back again!

-Bill

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-Bill

But they're back again!

-Bill

And they're gone again.

Splitting is finished, so when the current pile of them runs dry, that's it until 390 channels of MB finish.

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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Anybody else experiencing longer than usual crunch times on this batch of APs due possibly to high blanking?

Bad timing for me because I'm trying to determine if a blown power supply (SST-ST1500!) hurt a couple of my GTX780ti's.

All of the APs I have looked at so far are all 0.00 blanking. However I didn't really check out the pulse count on them

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