1) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : How do I kill Cuda? (Message 850043) Posted 6 Jan 2009 by Catsrusx3 Post: I do NOT want the USE of my graphic's card AT ALL

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Old CPU wanted (Message 771177) Posted 21 Jun 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: I am also looking to upgrade my processor. I have a Dell Dimension XPS T800r. I would like to find a 1gz processor for it. I believe that it uses a 100mz bus.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Any ideas why (Message 757167) Posted 23 May 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: If you want accurate views of your processor and memory config, then usee this program. It is free and useful. It is called Cpuz. You can find it here: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Finally: 100,000! (Message 750624) Posted 9 May 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Cool, I just hit 100,000 credits. It is about time as I have been a Seti@home member since 1999. I did however make 2 trips to jail and 1 trip to prison, so I have a reason for the slowdown. Next stop after my legal issues are finished, is to move to the Coos Bay, Oregon area. I am finished with California!!!

5) Message boards : Number crunching : IE8 beta? (Message 746469) Posted 1 May 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: I just got a fresh Ubuntu CD. As soon as I move to Oregon, in a month or 2, I'll install it on my old Dell XPS 800t. The XP stuff that I have on there now is way to slow. Besides, I want to learn Linux anyway.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 9 Year Club (Message 729254) Posted 22 Mar 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Member since 3 April 1999. I did take a few jail and prison breaks in the middle. Trying to catch up now. Started on a Dell P75, went to a Dell XPS T-800, now I have a Dell un-Inspiron 531s running a AMD 64 Athlon X2. Things are much faster now ... heheheheh. Catman

7) Message boards : Number crunching : IE8 beta? (Message 723963) Posted 9 Mar 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: I use IE 7.0.6000.16609, but only when I have to. I just did the acid test on IE7, and it looked like several blobs. Firefox would at least display Face and the words. IE couldn't display anything. I almost always use Firefox 2.0.0.12, mainly because I like the add-ons. The add-ons I like the best are ones that kill stuff in Firefox, like various ads. I love Firefox and won't ever depend on Microsoft. I am now learning to use Open Office, to prepare me to kill off some more MS products. I also use Yahoo, for the news and my email, however if Microsoft is successful at buying them, then I am going to gmail (accually I already have a gmail account). I am also killing my hotmail account as well.

8) Message boards : Cafe SETI : To the kitty people II (Message 723637) Posted 9 Mar 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Cool ... another Kittie place to hang out in. Bump Bump Purr Purr Meow Meow

9) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Da kitties be back.......... (Message 723635) Posted 9 Mar 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: This might be a good place for Da Big Kittie to hang out. Bump Bump Purr Purr Meow Meow.

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Hmm What happened to column sorting ? (Message 719815) Posted 29 Feb 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: I use grid view and it is indeed sortable. I love my kitties ... bump bump purr purr meow meow ... says the Catman

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Hmm What happened to column sorting ? (Message 719799) Posted 29 Feb 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Whenever I click on the tab/button at the top of a column, then an arrow appears. You can also adjust the width of the column by hoving over the lines that are between the column buttons and dragging the line to where ever you want them to be. I can sort by project, application, name, CPU time, progress, to completion, report deadline, and status, under the Tasks Tab. I run Seti 5.30 using boinc 5.10.30, which is an optimized client on this computer, but it also works on my other computer using seti 5.27 on boinc 5.10.30.

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Vista and BOINC (Message 717714) Posted 24 Feb 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: All ya gotta do is install boinc in the root directory (like "C"). If it is installed in "c\\program files\\boinc, then UAC becomes a issue. I tried installing it using the default directory and had problems. As soon as I installed it into the Root directory the problem went away and BOINC starts automaticly. I have it installed in "c\\boinc. no problems

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Remaining time going up (Message 700677) Posted 16 Jan 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Hi Everyone, Thanks for the reply's. Yes, you may be right about the checkpoint file content. It has seemed that the work units were restarting every few hours or so. Boinc seems to be working ok at the moment. If things start to go funky again, then I will set the "Leave applications in memory while suspended?" to 'yes', but for the moment I will leave things as they are. I'm not sure why things might get suspended, as I have Boinc set to run always, but I will try this fix, if things get bad again.

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Remaining time going up (Message 700408) Posted 16 Jan 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Hi Everyone, This is what the Resource Share and Graphics Preferences page says: Resource share If you participate in multiple BOINC projects, this is the proportion of your resources used by SETI@home 100 Is it OK for SETI@home and your team (if any) to email you? Emails will be sent from setiadm@ssl.berkeley.edu; make sure your spam filter accepts this address. yes Should SETI@home show your computers on its web site? yes *** I take this to mean that the computers are not hidden, I think that I did remove this info from my earlier post though.*** Default computer location home Graphics preferences Select Custom to edit individual parameters SETI@home classic Color preferences: Select Custom to edit individual parameters Water World URL of background image This image (JPEG, Targa, BMP or PPM format) will be displayed in the background. none URL of logo image This image (JPEG, Targa, BMP or PPM format) will be displayed in the lower corner. none Oh I forgot to add this before, the user account control is OFF OFF OFF, as I hate popups of any kind. Here are my computers: 4106670 dabigkittie2 154.40 8,816 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ [x86 Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2] Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition, Service Pack 1, v.668, (06.00.6001.00) 73 16 Jan 2008 6:31:31 UTC 4032922 DABIGKITTIE 0.68 117 GenuineIntel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 798MHz [x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3] Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 1 29 Dec 2007 5:34:21 UTC I also installed Crunch3r's 2.4v mods for both Boinc and Seti on my Dell 800 XPS Dimension, 512 ram, to try and help work unit competion time. At the moment the 800 takes about a week to complete 1 work unit, at 100% CPU utilization, so I stopped running the computer. I have all user programs stopped on that computer. Seti was my only reason to run the computer. I did have problems running the Crunch3r's mods on this computer, the AMD one, after a while, in December. I can't remember what the problem was at this time, but I uninstalled Boinc with the mods and reinstalled Boinc clean, and have done at least 40-50 successful work units until I got into the "28's, then the time increase problem started, I ended up aborting all of the "28's. Now I get, what seems to be, every other one having to be aborted. Thanks for the help, Catman

15) Message boards : Number crunching : Remaining time going up (Message 700399) Posted 16 Jan 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Hi Everyone, Here are my CPU Benchmarks at 75%: 1/15/2008 10:23:44 PM||Running CPU benchmarks 1/15/2008 10:24:16 PM||Benchmark results: 1/15/2008 10:24:16 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 1/15/2008 10:24:16 PM|| 1994 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 1/15/2008 10:24:16 PM|| 3682 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 1/15/2008 10:24:17 PM||Resuming computation Here are the results from Task Manager: Boinc Client: 3,716k Boinc manager for Windows: 3,328k setiathome_enhanced: 74,204k setiathome_enhanced: 74,528k Now I set Bonic to run at 100% CPU Benchmarks: 1/15/2008 10:28:10 PM||Running CPU benchmarks 1/15/2008 10:28:10 PM||Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks 1/15/2008 10:28:41 PM||Benchmark results: 1/15/2008 10:28:41 PM|| Number of CPUs: 2 1/15/2008 10:28:41 PM|| 1972 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 1/15/2008 10:28:41 PM|| 3674 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 1/15/2008 10:28:43 PM||Resuming computation Here are the results from task manager: Boinc Client: 3,716k Boinc manager for Windows: 3,352k steiathome_enhanced: 40,964k setiathome_enhanced: 40,808k under the cpu tab it says: 48 and 48 how do I un-hide my computer? oh by the way my Computer and Boinc never gets shut down, but it does get re-started every several days or so, to clean out the garbage. Boinc is set to run always. I have Boinc installed in the C:\\seti\\boinc folder, not in program files, as suggested in these forums. Thanks for the help, Catman

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Remaining time going up (Message 700159) Posted 15 Jan 2008 by Catsrusx3 Post: Hi everyone, The problem that I am having is that work units are getting to last way to long to complete, if they complete at all. I have a AMD 64 X2 - 3800, running at 2ghz, with 4 gigs of ram. I run only Seti with Boinc 5.10.30. I was using crunch3r's newest mods including both the Seti and Boinc mods, but stopped using them in Dec when I started having problems. I removed the mods, as well as completely re-installing Boinc. I was successful at running 40 or so work units, since then, that were smaller, but now I am getting longer work units that went from lasting 4 hours to ones that last 22 hours plus, if they complete at all. I am now aborting work units that start to rise in remaining time, after about 4 hours of running time. In all I have aborted around 30-40 work units, because they just don't complete. I have Boinc installed in the root directory of "C" drive as per instrutions to get Bonic to work on Windows Vista. I am debating deleting Boinc from my computer and stopping working for Seti because of these problems. The work units should complete in less than 12 hours on my machine, if not I will just not run Seti anymore. 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.30 for windows_intelx86 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Data directory: C:\\Seti\\Boinc 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ [x86 Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2] 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni 3dnow mmx 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Edition, Service Pack 1, v.668, (06.00.6001.00) 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Memory: 3.50 GB physical, 7.16 GB virtual 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Disk: 298.04 GB total, 248.35 GB free 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Local time is UTC -8 hours (Pacific time- USA) 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: "deleted for this message"; location: home; project prefs: default 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 27-Nov-2007 22:35:44) 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Host location: home 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Reading preferences override file 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1790.79MB 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3223.41MB 1/14/2008 1:25:49 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB I had Seti (Bonic),set to run at 50% of processor time, but I now have it set to run 75% of the time. I see no need to run it at 100% of the time with a 2gig processor, however I could be wrong. Still it seems to be taking longer and longer to complete work units, if they complete at all. I did not have any problem doing the 40 or so work units, that I have completed since I re-installed Boinc in December. Time remaining has changed form 4 hours per work unit, to a bottom of 10 hours and a top of 22 hours. Is this normal for a machine as fast as mine? If not, how do I fix it? Oh, the first thing I do is try to restart Boinc, and this has had no effect. I then restart the computer, also to no effect. Catman

 
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