Posts by SoNic

1) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : nVidia drivers failing... (Message 1735675)
Posted 20 Oct 2015 by Profile SoNic
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I have Win10 x64, nVidia GPU (GTX960, 2GB memory) with the latest drivers and use Chrome with acceleration enabled.
No issues.
2) Questions and Answers : Web site : Error: "No such computer" (Message 1735528)
Posted 19 Oct 2015 by Profile SoNic
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I was kind of thinking the same way. Hope it will be corrected eventually.
Thanks!
3) Questions and Answers : Web site : Error: "No such computer" (Message 1735383)
Posted 19 Oct 2015 by Profile SoNic
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I just started yesterday a new worker PC and it submitted a few results already. On the web page called "Your Computers", that PC it shows up, with a name (T3500), average credit, total credit... The reported ID is 7800782.
However if I click on the "Details" or on the "Tasks" links on that page I get the error in the title: "No such computer" or respectively "No computer with ID 7800782 found".

Can anybody explain this?
4) Message boards : SETI@home Science : "Cloaked" object near Mercury? (Message 1176490)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by Profile SoNic
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Even some the digital cameras (that are on the market) have that function for long exposures noise cancelation. It is usually called dark-frame substraction or long time noise reduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-frame_subtraction
5) Message boards : SETI@home Science : No new data? (Message 1176488)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by Profile SoNic
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Ah, OK, I was worried about that.
Thanks.
6) Message boards : SETI@home Science : No new data? (Message 1175777)
Posted 5 Dec 2011 by Profile SoNic
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Is the receiver Alpha on Arecibo out of commission? From the stats, looks like last time that we got data from it was some 210 days ago.
Is the science behind this project just recycling old data?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : HE connection problems thread (Message 1142428)
Posted 19 Aug 2011 by Profile SoNic
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Cox.net in SE Virginia:

Tracing route to boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2     6 ms     7 ms     7 ms  10.13.120.1
  3     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  68.10.14.169
  4     9 ms     8 ms    10 ms  172.22.48.26
  5    10 ms     8 ms     8 ms  68.10.8.181
  6    16 ms    13 ms    17 ms  68.1.4.139
  7    87 ms    86 ms    87 ms  10gigabitethernet7-4.core1.pao1.he.net [184.105.
213.177]
  8    86 ms    86 ms    86 ms  64.71.140.42
  9    93 ms    92 ms    89 ms  208.68.243.254
 10   121 ms   161 ms   119 ms  boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu [208.68.240.13]

Trace complete.


Pinging 208.68.240.13 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.68.240.13: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.68.240.13: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.68.240.13: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=55
Reply from 208.68.240.13: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 208.68.240.13:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 90ms, Maximum = 96ms, Average = 93ms
8) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU life expectancy (Message 1057677)
Posted 19 Dec 2010 by Profile SoNic
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Just don't shoot the compressed air into free spinning blades - the resulting rpm's can be high enough to damage the bearings.

I did have a GT8800 die because of constant overheating - lifetime replacement gave me a GTS250 that now I don't use for crunching anymore.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : CUDA Cards (Message 963396)
Posted 15 Jan 2010 by Profile SoNic
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Even the modest ones can give some satisfacton :) After you grease that cheap sleeve bearings on the fan. As you see, is mandatory to have 512MB memory.

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Could BOINC app be written for Iphones? (Message 936874)
Posted 30 Sep 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Port on iPod? You need a real multitasking SO first :)
11) Message boards : Number crunching : - POLL - : SETI@home on ATI GPU.. (Message 936873)
Posted 30 Sep 2009 by Profile SoNic
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IV. No, I won't buy ATI anymore. I was using exclusive ATI till I realised that nVidia has a more user oriented policy with CUDA/Physics. I did the switch to nVidia and I have no reasons to switch back. ATI is doing this just because was forced by nVidia, not because they belive in it...
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (14) Server problems (Message 887540)
Posted 23 Apr 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Narrow band signals have the ability to travel farther and are easy to discern from the background noise.
Wide band signals are used more when you need a higher density (and low power) of users like in our phone systems. CDMA uses something like that. Military spread-spectrum uses something like that.
Those evolved transmissions will look like noise anyway to our software, I don't think we have the capability to find ET thru that. AP it is not looking for ET in my opinion.
I really think that something else it is going on here...
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (14) Server problems (Message 886739)
Posted 20 Apr 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Back to the subject:
I think the Astropulse WU are "pushed" in front because... they don't care to much about seti original ideea - finding ET, but more about the distribuited computing and finding other usefull (in their wiev) uses for the computer base.

Well, I won't do anymore AP WU, I have started to give time to seti for the original ideea and I stick to that. Sorry...
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel Atom 330 - 4 thread CPU (Message 885959)
Posted 17 Apr 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Well, maybe wait for this baby:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3509
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel Atom 330 - 4 thread CPU (Message 885952)
Posted 17 Apr 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Intel Atom procesors are NOT doing code out-of-order like the other processors since Pentium. So, it looks like it is a great deal, but actually is not that good today, when almost all the software it is optimized for out-of-order code execution. Performance is below a dual core Celeron.
And, yes it is avail only on a combo with an Intel MoBo. For now.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,661196/PCGH-Review-Intel-Atom-330-dual-core/Reviews/
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Vista 64 - enabling Remote Desktop (Message 880795)
Posted 30 Mar 2009 by Profile SoNic
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[quote]I am using successfully UltraVNC - it has a client/server for Vista x64, works as a service (I can reset the PC and I can type in the logon password if I need to).


I'm also using UltraVNC on my Vista HP 64 system, but I have one issue - when I get the pop-up "admin" prompts (like when starting services) I get booted and can't get back in, have to walk over to the PC and click the continue. Anyone know a way to fix that?

-Dave

I forgot to tell you to check on the server to disable the AERO interface when you are connecting with the client...
17) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI mentioned on nVidia CUDA page now (Message 880744)
Posted 30 Mar 2009 by Profile SoNic
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True, that statement is vague enough that it could be eventually true. Like pinning the cheapest CPU against the most expensive CUDA card.
But that kind of verbage it is characteristic usually for deceiving marketing. It is sad that an scientific endeavour got mixed-up in such advertising.
Why? Because some of the new commers might feel that where scammed or someting and a negative effect of this will affect Seti credibility as a whole.
I guess it was a part of the deal... I don't know.

And it doesn't matter to much when "no work is available for SETI@home Enhanced"...
18) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI mentioned on nVidia CUDA page now (Message 880703)
Posted 30 Mar 2009 by Profile SoNic
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Unfortunately they are using the same 10x marketing scam... There is no 10x speed up, more like another core added when we are comparing equal amounts of money spend.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Vista 64 - enabling Remote Desktop (Message 880318)
Posted 29 Mar 2009 by Profile SoNic
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I am using successfully UltraVNC - it has a client/server for Vista x64, works as a service (I can reset the PC and I can type in the logon password if I need to).


I'm also using UltraVNC on my Vista HP 64 system, but I have one issue - when I get the pop-up "admin" prompts (like when starting services) I get booted and can't get back in, have to walk over to the PC and click the continue. Anyone know a way to fix that?

-Dave


I am using the x64 version that it is beta-RC1. As I said I can reboot the machine and type in the password if I need to.
Ah, use the MSRC4 plugin (the other one didn't work for me) and also I had to install manually the supplemental video driver for Vista (Add/Remove Hardware...) - it works faster with it.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Vista 64 - enabling Remote Desktop (Message 879975)
Posted 28 Mar 2009 by Profile SoNic
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I am using successfully UltraVNC - it has a client/server for Vista x64, works as a service (I can reset the PC and I can type in the logon password if I need to).


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