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Message 1778382 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:04:28 UTC

Happy Yuri's Night #55, the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first space flight on April 12, 1961.

In celebration, we're starting distribution of Breakthrough Listen data from the Green Bank Telescope today. No intervention is necessary on your part. The main difference you will see is a change in your screen saver graphics, if you have them running. We'll still be distributing Arecibo data as well, so that won't change.

The Breakthrough Initiative is also distributing raw data in multiple formats, so you can write your own analysis code if you'd like.

You can read about it in this press release.
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Message 1778391 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:13:28 UTC

Fantastic news... thank you!

Is there any estimate on what volume of workload is going to be released in comparison to the current MB workload from Arecibo?
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Message 1778409 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:33:34 UTC - in response to Message 1778391.  

I'd expect about 50/50 for the time being.
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Message 1778415 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:42:52 UTC - in response to Message 1778409.  

I'd expect about 50/50 for the time being.


Unexpectedly large amount... excellent: doubled workload (hope the infrastructure can keep up.)

Also it was noted in NC that much of this may be VLAR due to being targeted so may be minimal(?) GPU involvement.
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Message 1778418 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:49:17 UTC

Great! Thanks for your efforts and kudos to those responsible for the additional funding. :)

Could someone please explain the information in the new file names on the SSP?
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Message 1778424 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 18:57:52 UTC
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Just out of curiosity. for Breakthrough - One day of listening what is now ongoing = how much data like on average ? ( what will be going through )
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Message 1778438 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 19:54:55 UTC - in response to Message 1778382.  

Happy Yuri's Night #55, the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first space flight on April 12, 1961.

In celebration, we're starting distribution of Breakthrough Listen data from the Green Bank Telescope today.


Two thumbs up for one of humanity's luckiest men, and two thumbs up for the eagerly awaited Green Bank data! :D

May we all live long and prosper :)
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Message 1778449 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 20:16:13 UTC - in response to Message 1778415.  

The VLARs go out to ATI GPUs, but are held back from NVIDIA. If I could find a way to send VLAR to only NVIDIA OpenCL and not NVIDIA CUDA, I would...
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Message 1778453 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 20:31:27 UTC - in response to Message 1778418.  


Could someone please explain the information in the new file names on the SSP?


blc3_2bit_guppi_57451_19304_HIP62472_0003

blc3:     Breakthrough Listen
2bit:     bits per real sample (4 bit per complex sample)
guppi:    File format (Greenbank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument)
57451:    Modified Julian Date
19304:    Seconds past midnight
HIP62472: Object Name
0003:     Observation sequence number

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Message 1778467 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 20:48:26 UTC - in response to Message 1778449.  

If I could find a way to send VLAR to only NVIDIA OpenCL and not NVIDIA CUDA, I would...



Here's to hoping someday someone can figure out a way to make that happen. In the meantime, looks like the need for some CPU heavy rig building.
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Message 1778502 - Posted: 12 Apr 2016, 22:15:05 UTC - in response to Message 1778467.  

We've got 120,000 GBT workunit waiting to go, but a few hundred thousand Arecibo units to chew through before they get to the front of the line.

You know what they say...
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Message 1778545 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 0:44:47 UTC - in response to Message 1778449.  

If I could find a way to send VLAR to only NVIDIA OpenCL and not NVIDIA CUDA, I would...

Not that I know how the BOINC system works, but isn't there some way to use "plan class" or some equivalent?
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Message 1778572 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 2:46:04 UTC - in response to Message 1778449.  
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The VLARs go out to ATI GPUs, but are held back from NVIDIA. If I could find a way to send VLAR to only NVIDIA OpenCL and not NVIDIA CUDA, I would...


What would be a possible workaround in the interim (until someone cracks the issue of why VLAR/VHAR(?) bogs CUDA pulse detection) is a default-off setting in SETI@Home Preferences ie "Accept VLAR work units on NVidia CUDA (warning: these units may complete very slowly and cause the computer to become unresponsive)"

(Those with both dedicated crunchers and workstation computers they actually use could prevent the ones they use from slowing down by adding "home"/"school"/"work" separate preferences, putting the dedicated crunchers in one "location" setting with accepting VLAR on CUDA on, and the workstations in another "location" setting with it off.)

Here's to hoping someday someone can figure out a way to make that happen. In the meantime, looks like the need for some CPU heavy rig building.


I'll have to look at it that if the work that my NVidia GPUs do frees up CPUs and AMDs to do the work to make The Great Discovery, it's still worth it... I'll be happy if anyone makes it. :^)
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Message 1778602 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 5:01:00 UTC
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To be able to run VLARs on my Nvidia GPUs I'd live with a "health warning" as suggested by Mr.Kevvy. Although I suspect some would just ignore the warning and moan like crazy.
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Message 1778656 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 7:59:55 UTC

Congrats on the advancement for the project, Eric.
Very pleased to see it finally underway.

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Message 1778706 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 10:45:24 UTC

Congratulations to you, Eric, and the entire team at Berkeley. It is a major milestone, worthy of a celebration.

I look forward to the day when data from the southern skies start being processed by the SETI@Home project.
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Message 1778737 - Posted: 13 Apr 2016, 14:26:09 UTC

Nice! Can't wait to crunch these WUs! :)
Good job guys!
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Message 1778905 - Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 3:45:11 UTC - in response to Message 1778656.  

I'm terribly sorry to read about your kitty. Surely ultra advanced aliens somewhere out there, don't have to live with such awful things happening. Maybe someday, we'll get really really really lucky, and such aliens will radio us an advanced science which yields immortality. I can wish anyways.
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Message 1778907 - Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 3:52:17 UTC

If you guys find one tiny crumb that you are certain is alien, you'll all be as famous as Einstein. Keep up the great work.
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Message 1778924 - Posted: 14 Apr 2016, 5:21:46 UTC

Looking at the file names they appear to be in pairs:
blc3_2bit_guppi_57451_21431_HIP63121_0009 	
blc3_2bit_guppi_57451_21774_HIP63121_OFF_0010


Does the "_OFF_" indicate an observation taken off-target to give an induction of the local background?
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