Posts by Steve Cressman
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Number crunching :
Beta Site Down?
(Message 514775)
Posted 8 Feb 2007 by  Steve Cressman
Post: I already mentioned this in the 'no work from project' thread with a request for Papa to tell Eric that the scheduler was not restarted after todays maintenance. Hope word gets to him soon because I'm almost done my last beta wu. Steve |
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No work from project
(Message 514759)
Posted 8 Feb 2007 by Steve Cressman
Post: I think someone forgot to restart seti beta scheduler after the maintenance that was just done. Papa, if you are reading this could you tell Eric that the scheduler is still down? Wish I could telnet in and start it myself because i'm on my last wu ;) Steve |
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SETI@home Staff Blog :
Welcome to the SETI@home staff blog.
(Message 507905)
Posted 24 Jan 2007 by Steve Cressman
Post: I'm glad this idea came to fruition.  For the past year I have avoided the main seti forums because of all nonsense that took over the number crunching forum. Besides it was hard to sift through everything to find anything of actual importance. If it was not for the beta site and the work I do there I most likely would have stopped crunching seti units at that time. Since I don't check out that forum anymore I'm sort of left in the dark as to what is going on except for what little drifts over to the beta forum. So I would like to say again, thanks for providing a place where I'll be able to find out what is actually going on with the seti team/staff. And thanks Pappa for posting the link to the staff blog. Steve |
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SETI@home Staff Blog :
The Outsider's Inside View - post#001
(Message 507893)
Posted 24 Jan 2007 by Steve Cressman
Post: Hi Kevin, this proud Canadian is glad to see that there is a Canadian on staff. Nice first post too. I also would like to know the answers to kinhull's questions, sounds interesting. Steve |
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Forum code changes going on
(Message 402009)
Posted 20 Aug 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: I lost my avitar on 4 of the projects I,m with today, including here. Don't know what made the other 3 projects immune. :) |
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New 5.17??
(Message 376202)
Posted 24 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
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You can also just select the files you want in the zip file, then drag and drop them from the zip file to the seti folder. Why create more steps then you need to. This way they are moved and uncompressed in one step. :) |
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New To SETI
(Message 374233)
Posted 22 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Kevint, you should consider changing your stats graphic to the banner style since you have so many projects. :)  |
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KWSN Windows optimized science apps - Share your results and problems!
(Message 370772)
Posted 18 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: No - I just drag and drop the files I need from the zip file to the seti folder and never have a problem with subfolders being created. :) |
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Computer stats page question
(Message 369259)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Average CPU efficiency 0.99947 Result duration correction factor 0.475804 Can't get much more efficient than 99.947% :) |
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New cpu test/benchmark app...........
(Message 368712)
Posted 15 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Lol, nicely put :o) It had no problems timing the apps that ran. It just ran mmx then did the sse then when it tried to do any of the other apps it spit out the error box about illegal instruction. As soon as you click the button in the box it tries the next one but if it does not run it again spits out the error box. At the end of it all it shows in green what runs and in red what does not. In the message window of your app it stated the time of 158 sec for mmx, 83 sec for sse and stated that the others did not run. So like i said, not really a problem since it causes a complete pause of your app until you acknowledge the error. And as for the feedback, it's the least i can do to help you out. Also as i said to you in another thread, thanx for giving so freely of yourself. :) |
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New cpu test/benchmark app...........
(Message 368600)
Posted 15 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Interesting - As i was making my previous post i had a suspicion that it could be an affect of my old OS(98se) since i had not seen any other reports of this. And since it is such a minor issue, I would not worry to much about it Simon. It just makes your test app interactive, lol. :) |
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New cpu test/benchmark app...........
(Message 368492)
Posted 15 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: It's working good here Chicken of Angnor. One request though, could you make it trap the illegal instruction when it tries to test an app that won't run on the system. The way it is now it spits out a windows error box that has to be clicked on to continue with the next test phase. Did not really need to test my system as it is obvious that the sse already installed the other day is the fastest one for my xp2500+ but was curious to see if my .net install was still funtional. I have v2.0.40607 beta , but v1.0.3705 and v1.1.4322 are still on here too. :) |
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OK, Clarification Requested!
(Message 367040)
Posted 14 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: What is the maximum deferral interval BOINC will impose when communication fails? If it fails to get the master file list four times then it backs off for one week or 604800 sec as seen in message tab or 168 hours as seen under the projects tab. :) |
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SAH Firefox Extension
(Message 365397)
Posted 13 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Most of the time I also get a 'Data Unavailable' error enhanced as 'Error: TypeError: parsed has no properties' but if I click on it I am correctly linked to my account data. That's why 'SAH Firefox Extension' is not very useful to me... You could try this one http://boincstats.mozdev.org/ I have not seen the same problem using this one. Plus it can be used for multiple projects. :) |
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Are there any sites providing optimized clients? -- PART II
(Message 355899)
Posted 4 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post:  Simon, thanx for giving so freely of yourself to the community! |
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August 10, 2005 stuck wu's
(Message 353961)
Posted 1 Jul 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Some kind of server failure occurred on that date and many of us still have wu's from that date that have not been purged. I have 5 or 6. I have pointed this out many times on the forums here but it is apparently impossible to remove these rogue work units from the system. I made a similar post over a year ago about wanting to keep the couple i had. They where there for several months until my comment, then about 36 hours later they disappeared. lol |
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Eric has no backup...
(Message 330848)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Steve Cressman
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This should also include choice of operating systems/hardware, number of computers, amount of rac and/or credits. Including this would help stop flame bait! And IMO I don't need to say IMHO to show that it is my opinion. Since I posted this, it must be my opinion. Did I mention that this is my opinion. Had to clear that up because there have been times in the past where people got confused about whether what I typed was my opinion or someone elses opinion. Has anybody seen a post that has more opinions in it than this one, lol? :) |
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Resource share question
(Message 330834)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: The types of computer system can have a fairly big difference in performance when compared across projects. The P3 933 MHz, is good on Seti and poor on Einstein and the Celery 1100 MHz is excellent on Einstein and abysmal on Seti. And that goes along with what I tell people when I help them build systems or upgrade. Your computer can only go as fast as the slowest parts in the system. And since the everthing is connected to the motherboard that is one of the places where you can find some of the biggest differences in performance. :) |
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Granted credit doesn't = requested credit?
(Message 330413)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Steve Cressman
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I'll second that! :) |
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Time to decide your views...
(Message 330288)
Posted 7 Jun 2006 by Steve Cressman
Post: Sterling. you make a lot of good points but it is apparent that you do not understand what an optimized app is. I too could care less about the credits but I do like to see the numbers increase because it tells me that I am submitting valid results. Crunch3r's 5.11 app was intended for use on the seti beta site only and people where told that. It was even stated on his site if I can remember correctly. It was also on a seperate page from the 5.12 app. But it is/was not the end of the world because that app still produced the same results as the apps that came after it. And the quorum would have thrown out the high claim anyway. And the validater makes sure the work is correct before granting credit too. Think of the goals of the project first and formost!!! Optimization of the app is a good thing for us and the project. It gets more science done in the same time span - good for the project. Also an optimized app is good for the environment because it gets the work done using less energy - good for us and the air we breath. And Sandtiger you can stop calling people names. It does not matter if a person has a rac of 2 or 2,000,000, we all contribute to this project in what ever way we can. I could call you names too for not helping to test the new app at the beta test site but that would be childish. While you and those who think like you were greedily going after credits I was losing credits testing the beta app, but I did it because it needed doing so that you and the rest of us here would have an app to run. I'm also helping with some alpha projects because that needs doing. I feel better about myself when I don't put my needs first but think of others and what I can do for them! And don't ask me why there are errors in the app, I don't know. These errors that we are now seeing with the enhanced app did not appear during testing. I guess that is another reason why we needed more testers because not all computer/hardware combinations were being represented by the few testers that we had. And I ask, who is at fault for that. You (collective you) may have been the one that could have kept this from happening even if you only did just a few work units for the beta site. :) |
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