Thank Jord and Wiggo!

I just did that. I clearly over looked the implications for customizing preferences!

I now have my two slowest machines moved into "school" where Astropulse is turned off and so is "other applications." One of those may move out once the cpu upgrade takes place. But the C-60 will no longer process Astropulses... forever! :) (at least once it gets done with the two it is valiantly trying to process).

Thanks,
Tom

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Thank you Jord.

It is my understanding there is no easy way to persuade the Seti scheduler to not send Astropulse to a specific machine.

You have four Locations/Venues, so you can set four sets of different preferences, ie default, home, school and work, just move each host to their preferred location/venue.

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Thank you Jord.

It is my understanding there is no easy way to persuade the Seti scheduler to not send Astropulse to a specific machine.

Worst case, I think would be to setup a 2nd e-mail id and enroll the machine(s) you didn't want to run Astropulse under that id. That is way to much work. I have the necessary e-mail id but I have trouble remembering to login to it to see what I have been sent.

So what I have done is "turned off Astropulse" so that my dinky little netbook won't get blessed again. If I decide to take the netbook out of the calculating arena I can turn astropulse on again. Apparently I am not getting very many anyway (at least I haven't noticed them constantly parking on a cpu or a gpu on my other more robust machines.

Thanks,

Tom

Assign your netbook to a separate venue in your preferences and that way your other rigs can still do AP's. ;-)

Cheers.

Thank you Jord.

It is my understanding there is no easy way to persuade the Seti scheduler to not send Astropulse to a specific machine.

Worst case, I think would be to setup a 2nd e-mail id and enroll the machine(s) you didn't want to run Astropulse under that id. That is way to much work. I have the necessary e-mail id but I have trouble remembering to login to it to see what I have been sent.

So what I have done is "turned off Astropulse" so that my dinky little netbook won't get blessed again. If I decide to take the netbook out of the calculating arena I can turn astropulse on again. Apparently I am not getting very many anyway (at least I haven't noticed them constantly parking on a cpu or a gpu on my other more robust machines.

Thanks,

Tom

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Recently I have been "blessed" with having a couple of work units for astropulse download onto a couple of my machines. These are all stock Seti setups all though I have looked/read some of the text/setup directions on the Lunatics distribution.

Up to that point I had thought that Astropulse was chiefly a GPU-based process like the CUDAxx and opencl_at5_nocal/cat132 were. But when I look at the Bonic Gui Astropulse displays like a stock seti work unit running on one cpu per work unit.

I remember reading someplace in the Lunatics .41 setup that there was a version of Astropulse that ran 80% on the cpu and 20% on the GPU. And I remember another discussion where they had the cpu set very high in app_config.xml so that Astropulse wouldn't be "starved" for cpu cycles.

So are there multiple versions of the Astropulse exe? Or is the stock version really mostly/only running on the cpu not the gpu?

Thanks,
Tom

You can see what hardware is supported for each type of app on the Applications page.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php
AP on GPU is a more recent addition than MB on GPU. Previously it was only on CPU.
Also if you look at the task list for a given machines you can see if the tasks are CPU or GPU. Such as your machine 7327799. Which has 2 CPU and 1 NVIDIA GPU AP task to do.

The lunatics app that ran 80/20 CPU/GPU was created for ATI CAL before OpenCL apps were created. ATI cards prior to the HD4000 series did not support OpenCL. I am not sure if the hybrid app is being set out along with the other stock applications or if you can only get it from the lunatics package.

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So are there multiple versions of the Astropulse exe? Or is the stock version really mostly/only running on the cpu not the gpu?

Tom, I assume that when you installed Lunatics you told it not to install the CPU version. I mean... AstroPulse will run on the CPU if you tell it to.


EDIT: My bad. "These are all stock Seti setups all though I have looked/read some of the text/setup directions on the Lunatics distribution."

So in your computing preferences are you allowing CPU work?

There is a thing called "radar blanking." If you are interested, from the homepage somewhere you can find the method they use, but they don't just "wipe out the noise," instead injecting something-or-other. I don't know why because it is so out of my control that I don't care.

The practical effect of this is that when a "heavily blanked" GPU work unit is being crunched it spends A LOT of time on the CPU doing things the GPU can't do.

The run-times become long and the GPU just sort of sits there waiting for the CPU to tell it to do something.

So you are either accidentally running a CPU work unit, or you have a heavily blanked GPU work unit that is mostly being done on the CPU.

They run on cpu and gpu. However, since I run Lunatics application, I have edited the app_info.xml file so that I run Astropulse only on gpu.

If you run stock application, you will get both, Astropulse for cpu and Astropulse for gpu, if I remember my stock application days correctly.

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Recently I have been "blessed" with having a couple of work units for astropulse download onto a couple of my machines. These are all stock Seti setups all though I have looked/read some of the text/setup directions on the Lunatics distribution.

Up to that point I had thought that Astropulse was chiefly a GPU-based process like the CUDAxx and opencl_at5_nocal/cat132 were. But when I look at the Bonic Gui Astropulse displays like a stock seti work unit running on one cpu per work unit.

I remember reading someplace in the Lunatics .41 setup that there was a version of Astropulse that ran 80% on the cpu and 20% on the GPU. And I remember another discussion where they had the cpu set very high in app_config.xml so that Astropulse wouldn't be "starved" for cpu cycles.

So are there multiple versions of the Astropulse exe? Or is the stock version really mostly/only running on the cpu not the gpu?

Thanks,
Tom

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