200 Seti WU's a day???????!!!!!

[tomfowler]

:Q

I was browsing some of the stats pages to see how I stack up (newbi) and was shocked. Thought I was proud of my Three computers pumping out 4-5 WU's per day. Then I saw some consistent 150-200's! What gives? Are you guys runnung Crays in the closet? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or could be doing better?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Zim Hosein]

Tom, if I'm not mistaken, the TeAm members who produce such high WU's per day usually work for companies or schools and have permission to run SETI on those systems. Hope this helps

 

[Baldy18]

If you tell us what type of computers you are running SETI on we could let you know if your production is about right or if your production could be increased.

Zim Hosein is right that doing 150-200 WUs/day requires those members to be running SETI on 50-60 computers.

 

[IJump]

I did 5000 WUs from July 11 to July 25......(that would be about 357 WUs/day)

I just have a Pentium133with 32MB of RAM running at home, I just over clocked it a lot.....







OK, really, I am a network admin and have SETI running on 90 C 1GHZ, 25 P4 1.6s, And various other P3 or P4 machines. Then I have a Duron 950, an overclocked XP1600+, and an overclocked XP2000+ running SETI at my house...... That is how you turn out that type of WUs........ Use machines that someone else paid for (and I have another 5 P4 1.6s that were ordered this week!)

But, if you look at the composition of the TeAm, the real strength comes from the people producing the low numbers of WUs/day. I may be able to do a bunch in a day, but my output is less than 5% of the team as a whole....

 

[Robor]

I used to have 4 PC's at home but I'm down to just 2 now. I do about 11 WU's per day between them (P4 1.6a@2239 & P3-700@933). The majority if my production comes from about 65 clients at work. My clients are from a low of P2-350 to a high of a P4 Xeon 1.7. I get about 170 WU's per day from work and 10 per day from home total around 180/day.

 

[Engineer]

I've got about 7 PC's at home...from Celeron 400 to a Dual XP1800+ system. Added 2 XP1600 systems a couple of weeks ago and will be adding another this week along with fixing my Celeron 1000 (bad mobo). Have about 13 systems at work running various hours and ranging from PIII 933 down to PII 300 laptop.

Getting about 24 WU's per day from work....and 30ish from home. Did have access to 10 PIII Dual 700 XEON systems at work for a short while, but they have since moved on

Also, have several other TeAmmates crunching with me as part of THE FEDERATION - TEAM ANANDTECH. PeterN, Dantoo, HeavyIron are all working with me......as a mini-team!

more....more.....more! :Q

 

[networkman]

At one point, I was up to 70 WUs/day almost entirely from PCs in my basement, but then I'm a little nuts too. :Q

 

[Crazee]

I have 4 XP 1800s computers and a Dualie 1.2MP at home along with a 7 node XP 1800+ crack rack. I have four remotes that run it part time (1 XP 1700 and 3 T-Bird 1.3 GHz)

I guess thats why I am called Crazee

 

[tomfowler]

Well thanks for all the replies!

I don't feel so bad now. I have three machines running now. My computer is a P4 1.6 and my wife's is a P3-450. I also have an Athlon 750 that I just put back together yesterday for the sole purpose of running Seti. Setiwatch gives me the following data:

P4 1.6 - 20-27%/CPU Hr
Athlon - 12-15%/CPU Hr
P3450 - 7-8%/CPU Hr

I guess that makes sense if you look at clock speeds alone. That would give me (best case) about 12 WU per day to a more realistic 9 per day. I'll wait a few days and see how everything settles out. I've only got 4 yesterday.

Thanks again.

Tom
(yippie...post #3)

 

[Robor]

Tom: Can you overclock that P4-1.6a? Depending on your motherboard and RAM they are very overclock friendly. Like my post says, I'm running mine at 2239. I have had a few lockups while playing games but they are rare and I'm not sure if they're a result of my overclocked CPU or overclocked video card. I was running the 1.6a @ 2119 and never had lockups. I only bumped it up to compensate for all the America's Army: Operations I've been playing lately. Playing games does not help your SETI production.

 

[Swanny]

You'll find that as you stay here longer your production will pick up. You'll probably upgrade your home computers and also get a few of your friends to run it for you. I also have about 8 P3 500's running it at my dad's office. Right now I average about 20 WU per day. I'd bet that you'll find yourself there sooner than you think

 

[IJump]

Originally posted by: Swanny
You'll find that as you stay here longer your production will pick up. You'll probably upgrade your home computers and also get a few of your friends to run it for you. I also have about 8 P3 500's running it at my dad's office. Right now I average about 20 WU per day. I'd bet that you'll find yourself there sooner than you think

I've also found that since I have been running DC projects, I never get rid of computer stuff that is cracking unless it is to upgrade that system. ie: I had a duron 650 crunching away and didn't get rid of it until I was able to get a Duron 1.1. I kept that Duron 1.1 crunching until I was able to get a XP2000+. I can't bring my self to get rid of something without replacing it.... I guess that is why I am up to 5 systems (6 processors) at my house.......

 

[Baldy18]

Yeah I woudl expect 9-12 WU/day out of those machines if they are running 24/7.

 

[rewobo]

We are a bunch of friends running seti. One of the guys on our team did an amazing stat page for our mini-team...http://aliens.blueorbb.com. Our avg goes up and down all week, but a lot of the computers are 24/7. We are still recuriting individual computers, like friends and families. So yeah, it's quite awsome.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: rewobo
We are a bunch of friends running seti. One of the guys on our team did an amazing stat page for our mini-team...http://aliens.blueorbb.com. Our avg goes up and down all week, but a lot of the computers are 24/7. We are still recuriting individual computers, like friends and families. So yeah, it's quite awsome.

W:QW!!!! Those stats are AMAZING! That really is cool!

How do these stats work! I mean, they rule!

OK, me is starting new thread on this!

 

[tomfowler]

Actually, the P4 1.6 is a Wilamette. I have had only limited success in overclocking. The P4 is on an MSI 6398 (845UltraARU). So, I might try some, but it doesn't have the potential that the Northwood cores have. By the way, I've set up a SetiQ for my local machines, can you guys see it from the outside? I'm on cable, so there no dial-up to establish.

Thanks for all the help, everyone is very friendly. Just what I would expect from Anandtech.

Tom F.

Tom's SetiQ server

 

[Assimilator1]

Yep I can see your Q no probs
Inccidently if you enable '3.03 VLAR routing' here (you'll need to be logged in) the 'slow' VLAR WU's (AR of less than about 0.2) won't go to 'IRIS' which is running Win 9x/ME ,these OS's are far slower at VLAR WU's ,Win2k(&XP?) process them at almost the same rate as a normal WU.

Btw seeing as I haven't said it yet....welcome to The team

 

[IJump]

I have no problem seeing your queue either.......

 

[CraigRT]

I have about 20 computers in total with the client installed on them.
good for an average of well over 30/day. lately it's been around 50/day on a good day, normally between 35-45. weekends are less, some PC's are shutdown, and I cannot help it.

 

[Baldy18]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Yep I can see your Q no probs
Inccidently if you enable '3.03 VLAR routing' here (you'll need to be logged in) the 'slow' VLAR WU's (AR of less than about 0.2) won't go to 'IRIS' which is running Win 9x/ME ,these OS's are far slower at VLAR WU's ,Win2k(&XP?) process them at almost the same rate as a normal WU.

Btw seeing as I haven't said it yet....welcome to The team

I would deffinetly take this advise. Welcome to the team from me also.

 

[tomfowler]

VLAR setting has been enabled. I browsed through my "q" and found one lurking in there waiting to be processed:frown:. This is reason for me to put Linux on my spare Athlon 750 that I put together. Certainly a command line only install of Linux with the CLI Seti would be faster than a bloated install of XP (even though both OS's are doing nothing)

Oh well, another weekend project.

Thanks,

Tom