Posts by The Gas Giant

21) Message boards : Politics : Facebook ban on Cyberstalkers (Message 1035758)
Posted 24 Sep 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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That's good to finally see cyberstalking is starting to be taken seriously by the authorities.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Admins: Please Skip The Outage This Week???? (Message 1029310)
Posted 28 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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As your wingmen return their wu's after an outrage your old pendings should become 'unpending' - but only if the wingman was going to return those wu's during the outrage. I don't think not having the outrage will speed this process up. Well maybe by a couple of days maximum - but all would be caught up by the Friday in any case.
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Extended Outage August 3 2010 Problems (Message 1025546)
Posted 16 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Pappa-this question was raised before and I don't remember seeing an answer (my bad if I missed it)...think it's a good one.

Any specific reason the staff can't turn on the servers before they leave on Thursday night?

So they can get some sleep Thursday night?


TGG-you missed the point...I said before they leave


In the past, many of the Berkely gang have come in after hours, or at least spent time on line after hours, when server problems arise. I suspect that part of the new 3 day outrage is giving them some predictable time off.

Yup. Server get's turned on befoe they leave...server goes kaput 2hrs later...evening check in means work to be done.

Server gets turned on Friday morning when they get in (hopefully a little earlier than usual), server goes kaput 2hrs later, already there to fix it - just another day in paradise.

ps. No need to make things bold - I got you the first time.

That is rediculous, If they turned them on Thursday and they went down it would be no different than if they didn't switch them on. They have gone many times with the servers down and no one racing in to fix them.

Fair call on that...
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Extended Outage August 3 2010 Problems (Message 1024960)
Posted 14 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Pappa-this question was raised before and I don't remember seeing an answer (my bad if I missed it)...think it's a good one.

Any specific reason the staff can't turn on the servers before they leave on Thursday night?


Going back to the original post. If a daemon grabs a chunk of data and start processing and is set to supend (not get more data) that will take x or x.xx plus hours, and it is running on Thurdsay. Or meaning it will complete at 6:30pm or maybe 9:30pm or maybe not until 3:30am while everyone is gone. It allows them to insure the last process completed successfully before turning on servers Friday morning. It also allows them to make final adjustments to server processes and reboot any machine that might be needed before unleshing the ungodly amount of traffic that is about to happen.

So everyone is well rested and has reasonable confidence that when everything is brought back up; there should be no problems.
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I'm pretty sure that's what I said... :p
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Catalyst 10.7...dammit! (Message 1024705)
Posted 14 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Back to 10.4...working again.

grumble..grumble...grumble..
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Catalyst 10.7...dammit! (Message 1024695)
Posted 13 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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I just installed catalyst 10.7 (uninstalled 10.4 first) and now BOINC doesn't recognise the GPUs (5970 and 4870). MSI Afterburner does. I've also rebooted the computer and stopped and re-started BOINC. Desktop is extended. Ideas?

14/08/2010 9:54:52 AM | | No usable GPUs found
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Extended Outage August 3 2010 Problems (Message 1024673)
Posted 13 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Pappa-this question was raised before and I don't remember seeing an answer (my bad if I missed it)...think it's a good one.

Any specific reason the staff can't turn on the servers before they leave on Thursday night?

So they can get some sleep Thursday night?


TGG-you missed the point...I said before they leave


In the past, many of the Berkely gang have come in after hours, or at least spent time on line after hours, when server problems arise. I suspect that part of the new 3 day outrage is giving them some predictable time off.

Yup. Server get's turned on befoe they leave...server goes kaput 2hrs later...evening check in means work to be done.

Server gets turned on Friday morning when they get in (hopefully a little earlier than usual), server goes kaput 2hrs later, already there to fix it - just another day in paradise.

ps. No need to make things bold - I got you the first time.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Extended Outage August 3 2010 Problems (Message 1024500)
Posted 13 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Pappa-this question was raised before and I don't remember seeing an answer (my bad if I missed it)...think it's a good one.

Any specific reason the staff can't turn on the servers before they leave on Thursday night?

So they can get some sleep Thursday night?
29) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 6.12.26 released to public (Message 1024033)
Posted 9 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Or they can at least make it a fully functional separate window that can be minimised, so us 'advanced' users can do what we like with it.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : my upgrade (Message 1022184)
Posted 3 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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What you want to do? :-)

7x GTX480 on one mobo? What a monster machine this will be!

If 2+ WUs/GPU, then maybe a 2x CPU (8 (or 12) threads each) mobo or a 12 threads CPU for single socket mobo would be well for well performance/support?

You have maybe infos about the PCIe cable connectors/connection? To now I didn't found infos about.
All 16 lanes of a PCIe x16 slot are connected and will be transferred?
They have a speed limit? PCIe 2.0 is possible?

Slots: Seven PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (first, third, fifth and seventh slots working at x16 when up to four video cards are installed, and speed reduced to x8 when five or more video cards are installed)

That price in my link is Australian $. Average price in the US*: USD 595.00

Here is a link to more information about the board.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : my upgrade (Message 1022029)
Posted 2 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Oh my giddie aunt! Here's a replacement mobo for you.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Outage schedule change suggestion. (Message 1022024)
Posted 2 Aug 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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You seem to think this project is being run for the benefit of the crunchers. You have to move away from that paradigm and you'll see that the current outrage policy is best for the project.
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Stats for SETI@home only (Message 1019542)
Posted 25 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Weekly and monthly do it for me and maybe showing the info in a pie chart format may make it easier to understand the information being shown.
34) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The joke thread Part 3. (Message 1019397)
Posted 25 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Jack Daniels Fishing Story........

I went fishing this morning but after a short time I ran out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. Frogs are good bass bait.

Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.

Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit. So, I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. His eyes rolled back, he went limp. I released him into the lake without incident and carried on fishing using the frog.

A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot. There was that same snake with two more frogs in his mouth.

Life is good in the South.


ROFLMAO

Double ROFLMAO
35) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The "Something good Happened" Thread (Message 1019396)
Posted 25 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Getting A$2k back on my tax return!
36) Message boards : Number crunching : estimates of Wu STILL way off (Message 1018199)
Posted 21 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Thanks for the explanation Pappa. It's good to see that the issue has been recognised and a solution is being worked on. I know these things can take time so in the mean time we can just increase our cache sizes to suit the extended outrage - or just rely on a back up project.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 6.12.26 released to public (Message 1017146)
Posted 18 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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I'm so use to having the projects tab first that having 'Notices' first is painful. I'd rather have Notices down after the transfers tab. Also why get rid of the Log tab? Very painful having to go through the menu structure to get to it.
38) Message boards : Number crunching : more delay today it seems.... (Message 1016399)
Posted 16 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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Yup problems, ho hum - broaden horizons and just crunch another project. People will complain and threaten to quit, but that is all but a pimple on the butt of all the crunchers. SETI will still have too many volunteers.
39) Message boards : Number crunching : How dry I am............... (Message 1015971)
Posted 15 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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My old P4 (only comp I'm running SETI on) still has 5 wu's left in its 3 day cache. Pretty good estimate from BOINC - but is only for the CPU and using an optimised ap.
40) Message boards : Number crunching : estimates of Wu STILL way off (Message 1015277)
Posted 13 Jul 2010 by Profile The Gas Giant
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If a computer is completing CPU and GPU jobs for the same project where the same wu could be completed on both a CPU or a GPU then I can understand why the (faster) GPU jobs are way off. Due to the way BOINC calculates the DCF if a wu takes significantly longer than expected it immediately moves the DCF an appropriate amount to make the remaining wu's extimated time to equal the last calculated completion time. For subsequent wu's where the completed time is less then the DCF is only slowly reduced. This ensures you don't end up with too much work cached if a project 'forgets' to increase the estimated flops when changing the style of wu being sent out (seen that happen many times over the years) or jobs of varying lengths and there is no way to'forecast' the length of time a wu may take.

So if the same computer does both CPU and GPU work then the estimated completion times for the wu's are always going to be nearer the length of time the CPU takes versus the length of time the GPU takes - assuming the GPU is faster.


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