Posts by Grebuloner

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Seti@Home Newsletter , Donations (Message 1161114)
Posted 11 Oct 2011 by Profile Grebuloner
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Dear (Grebuloner),

Thank you for your gift to:

SETI@home

We received your gift of $15.00 via Visa on 10/09/2011. Your confirmation number is 79363.

Can't afford much, but gave what I could; given in memory of my recently passed pup.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX 1.2 Beta (Message 961901)
Posted 8 Jan 2010 by Profile Grebuloner
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Yes, the Network manager bugs and DHCP bugs are fixed in 1.2.
Are you use the Live CD mode on your systems, opr do you have a USB or HDD install ? - Normaly the fix for 1.1 must be done one times on USB/HDD installations, but at Live CD at each boot.


Excellent! I use the HDD installs.


No problem, I will PM you the link, and you can download it, when you have time. - If we release a stable release in the mean time, I will inform you and also made a post in this forum.


Thanks, sir!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Dotsch/UX 1.2 Beta (Message 961734)
Posted 8 Jan 2010 by Profile Grebuloner
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Glad to hear about the new release!

Couple questions for you on the new version:

I have /UX 1.1 on a couple of my machines and hope to add it to more. Will 1.2 automatically configure network connections so I don't have to edit the .conf files after each install? And will it include automatic wireless support as well? My goal is to be able to install it and have it ready to connect immediately without having to do all the mucking about over network access which takes some time for each machine.

Also, a more general question: though I am not a /UX CUDA user, I want to keep BOINC somewhat up to date. Can I run the installer in the BOINC folder and have it update all the files without breaking your auto-start implementations?

Wish I could be a beta tester for you, but don't have the extra time at the moment.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Post pictures of your seti farms/rigs (Message 908290)
Posted 17 Jun 2009 by Profile Grebuloner
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Here's mine to add to the pile:

This is where all my active crunchers are. From left to right: The laptop and desktop to the far left are my dad's and don't crunch (sadly). At the desk are my main rig (top black) Q6600/2 Cuda, next to it is my venerable PII-400, on the floor my P4, and standing on the floor is a Celeron laptop I got for free soon to be set up. A64 laptop behind the right monitor, an unused P3 550 below the keyboard and hidden under the cabinets is my whiny Celeron 800. Those stereos on top are each quads ;).


On the left is my dual P4HT server sitting on top of a soon to be homebrew NAS. The three servers on the right are ready to go once I move into my new house this summer, dual CPUs, P4HTs and P3s.


The grand stack. My 24 port switch and external raid sit on top, of all the servers here 7 are dual P3s (one's hidden on a shelf in the back), and 5 are dual UltraSPARC IIs...most waiting for my move to power up.

University of Washington surplus score! All those servers (plus 3 more hidden in a closet) cost $200 and hard drives for them (SCSI no less) came in at $40. Any Seattle cruncher can get pallets of working computers (mostly P4/A64 and older though) for chump change and a stack of drives to go with them for even less.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : GPUcrunch-rig,my experiences with 2*GTX260 &CUDA (Message 865015)
Posted 13 Feb 2009 by Profile Grebuloner
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Here

When he built his machine he got a 790FX mobo (MSI K9A2) that has 4 PCIe x16 slots on it evenly spaced, so there is one on the bottom rung. It may only be x8 width, but at 2.0 speeds, it's not a bottleneck.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : GPUcrunch-rig,my experiences with 2*GTX260 &CUDA (Message 864892)
Posted 13 Feb 2009 by Profile Grebuloner
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You could also go for a Thermaltake Armor+ (VH6000BWS), much cheaper than the Lian Li (at least here in the US). It's got 10 slots, and a large side fan blowing directly on top of the expansion slot area that would help with the airflow of 4 gpus crammed in there.

@OzzFan:

I think he's looking to put a GTX260 on the bottom slot of his motherboard which would cause it to overhang beyond the standard 7th slot cover.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows Users: How low can your OS go? (Message 843878)
Posted 23 Dec 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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I'll take you on Luke: my PII running XP SP3 is 144 MB crunching, 112 MB without Boinc running. And I could probably get it lower, but with it's delicate age, I'd rather not risk a crash.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : What is this? (Message 834918)
Posted 27 Nov 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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It's a 16 cpu system of dual-core Tulsa Xeon MPs. Family 15 Model 6 is NetBurst-based processors, 65 nm process.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Compare same CPU's: different results?? (Message 829425)
Posted 12 Nov 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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You are running an optimized app, which cuts times in half, pretty much. The first E8500 you're comparing to is also using an optimized app. The second one, the one you beat, is running the stock MB app. AK v8 really shows the codewizard abilities of the Lunatics team to make your little lappy processor crunch some 30% faster than the stock app on a far superior chip.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : New computer, but when? (Message 820507)
Posted 19 Oct 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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USB 3 is your limiter. It'll be out around 2010 in devices, and everything else is already out or will be coming out soon.

So, it stands to reason that it could be a very cheap machine. The Westmere shrink of Nehalem will be out, and Sandy Bridge could be on it's way so it stands to reason a good 8C/16T processor would run you in the $300 range or less by then. Much less if you'd settle for 4C/8T

Current graphics cards are good enough for GPGPU, so you could scrounge a used 1 TFlop card (today's high end) for pretty cheap. Or wait for the mainstream cards of 2010 which have a higher chance of being passively cooled, and probably similar performance.

SSD prices are already plummeting, DDR3 is dropping pretty fast...

I'd say an entire system would run you US$700 if you use multiple graphics cards.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending credit (Message 815185)
Posted 5 Oct 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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That's a normal level, really. Mine fluctuates between 7500 and 8500 on my OC Q6600. Some days it'll be up, and some days it'll be down.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Six Cores - first day (Message 808994)
Posted 17 Sep 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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7000-series Xeons are for true server hardware, 4+MP. There's no spot on the roadmap for 5000-series releases. And at nearly $10k for a set to fill an expensive mainboard, I doubt Apple would incorporate them anyway...we may have to wait until someone tests out their new server with Seti. Or has a disposable income that makes the rest of us cry.
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problems with 6.2.26 (Message 796138)
Posted 11 Aug 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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I have upgraded to v. 6.2.26 and can no longer locate the projects and slots folders for boinc; this is a problem because I need to remove an optimization app. that is located in one of the missing folders. Is there anything I can do to fix this or should I downgrade?

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The default directory where boinc will install the data files to is:
Windows 98/SE/ME: C:\Windows\All Users\boinc data\ or C:\Windows\Profiles\All Users\boinc data\
Windows 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application data\boinc data\
Windows vista: C:\Programdata\boinc data\



The active version of boinc is located in C:\Boinc on my computer; I cant find a programdata folder, Might this have a affect on this?


The folder is hidden by Windows. While you're in the C:\ folder, go to Tools>Folder Options>View Tab. Select "Show hidden files and folders". It will then appear.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : just thinking outloud..bear with me... (Message 794452)
Posted 8 Aug 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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Considering it takes nearly 2 days to complete a 74 credit MB with Crunch3r's optimized MMX app, I doubt it would finish an AP in a month's time if I had installed the apps and modded the app_info. Looks like my wingman on that one will be waiting a long time for his credit.


They just put the fix in place last night so that error is quite normal and you should not see any more of them.


Sweetness.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : just thinking outloud..bear with me... (Message 794313)
Posted 7 Aug 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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thinking that Astropulse is gonna be the last nail in the coffin for anything less than a dual core...
maybe a few dual processor server types might make it...
but probably the p3's and normal athlons are now dodo's
strickly thinking of the long crunch times...


Not quite...remember that "lesser" hosts are not supposed to be fetching AP WUs, thus will continue same as present on MB work.



Keyword "not supposed to be". I was scrolling through the log on my Pentium II this morning and found some lovely red text:

8/4/2008 3:09:06 AM|SETI@home|[error] State file error: missing application astropulse
8/4/2008 3:09:06 AM|SETI@home|[error] Can't handle task ap_03jn08aa_B3_P0_00059_20080804_10550.wu in scheduler reply
8/4/2008 3:09:06 AM|SETI@home|[error] State file error: missing task ap_03jn08aa_B3_P0_00059_20080804_10550.wu
8/4/2008 3:09:06 AM|SETI@home|[error] Can't handle task ap_03jn08aa_B3_P0_00059_20080804_10550.wu_1 in scheduler reply


Considering it takes nearly 2 days to complete a 74 credit MB with Crunch3r's optimized MMX app, I doubt it would finish an AP in a month's time if I had installed the apps and modded the app_info. Looks like my wingman on that one will be waiting a long time for his credit.
16) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Same computer, new HDD, can I use previously downloaded WU's? (Message 783723)
Posted 18 Jul 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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Unfortunately, Linux had crashed while I left it idle. The drive is failing fast enough that fsck rewritten inodes can't be read upon reboot so the whole thing is off, and I'm not going to try another hour-long fsck session.

Thanks for your help anyways!
17) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Same computer, new HDD, can I use previously downloaded WU's? (Message 783625)
Posted 18 Jul 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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The hard drive on my P4 is failing fast and I am replacing it tomorrow. This unfortunately must include an OS re-installation. For the moment, I still have access to my BOINC directory. Is it possible to copy over the 2 day's worth of uncrunched WUs so that the new BOINC/Seti installation sees them and will crunch them? If so, is there anything special that needs to be done (edit an xml file or whatever)? The OS is Linux.

Thanks for your insight!
18) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Same computer, new HDD, can I use previously downloaded WU's? (Message 783618)
Posted 18 Jul 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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My bad...wrong forum. Moving this to the Linux Q&A. Nothing to see here. Tech savvy, not forum savvy.
19) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Same computer, new HDD, can I use previously downloaded WU's? (Message 783610)
Posted 18 Jul 2008 by Profile Grebuloner
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The hard drive on my P4 is failing fast and I am replacing it tomorrow. For the moment, I still have access to my BOINC directory. Is it possible to copy over the 2 day's worth of WUs so that the new BOINC/Seti installation sees them and will crunch them? If so, is there anything special that needs to be done (edit an xml file or whatever)? The OS is Linux.

Thanks for your insight!





 
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