Answer to the request for more members in General forum

[Alkali]

Apologies for posting in wrong forum - I posted originally in general forum, cus thats where the request was!
The following is a direct copy for you...

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Hi there, its been a very long time since I played around with Seti@home. I used it back in the days of my 486DX2-66 with 4MB ram, and those days the completion times were measured in days, (or might as well have been at least lol

I cant ressurect my old 486-driven account (cus Ive lost the email account), but I've got back 4 old units done on an Athlon600, which still struggled to clock 33hr sessions. I hoping to knock off about 30 hours each cycle with my new XP2200 Good luck getting more members Anandtech

PS: I might be able to get my company to agree to let me deploy Seti over my workplace, 150 CAD workstations here, with 950 on the other sites, that would be useful eh So I'm just double checking - nothing wrong with using my seti account on all the PC's? I read the agreement, and it says Seti dont allow redistribution, it would be a pain in the butt having to download it on each PC...

Regards
Tim

 

[Smoke]

I read the agreement, and it says Seti dont allow redistribution

The meaning of that is they don't want other sites making it available. This would not apply in your case ... you (your company) would be the end user.

WoW!

150 CAD workstations here, with 950 on the other sites

I, and I'm sure the rest of the TeAm, would like to offer any help that you might need to assimilate those company computers. That would be an awesome fleet!



Alkali, why don't you turn on the PM (Private Message) option. Go to you PROFILE where you can activate it.

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: Smokeball

I read the agreement, and it says Seti dont allow redistribution

The meaning of that is they don't want other sites making it available. This would not apply in your case ... you (your company) would be the end user.

WoW!

150 CAD workstations here, with 950 on the other sites

I, and I'm sure the rest of the TeAm, would like to offer any help that you might need to assimilate those company computers. That would be an awesome fleet!

I agree. Your fleet would help us keep BBR behind us! Let us know if you need ANY help and we will do all we can!

 

[Baldy18]

I wish we had that little smilie who's jaw drops. Instead I'll just have to say welcome aboard and :Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q.

 

[lane42]

Welcome to the Team Alkali

Let us know what times you get with the 2200.

 

[Freewolf]

Welcome to the team and with that fleet you would really rack up the wus

 

[Engineer]

Welcome to the TeAm Alkali!

That 2200 will crunch em out just fine!

and...

That work fleet would ROCK! :Q

Welcome aboard!

 

[Rattledagger]

For the work-computers, just make sure to get in writing you'll allowed to run seti on them.

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: Rattledagger
For the work-computers, just make sure to get in writing you'll allowed to run seti on them.

This is very true. Once you get the OK and get it in writing to cover your A$$ let us know. If you are running WinNT, Win2K, or WinXP on any of those we can set you up with running Seti as a service so you dont have to worry about if someone signs off the computer and it makes things a whole lot easier!

 

[Robor]

Alkali: Great to have ya in the DC forum. As some others have said, if you have permission and rights to install the SETI client there's a bunch of us who'd be glad to assist!

 

[Actaeon]

Welcome! Glad to see more members running DC.

Right now, we are overtaking several teams head of us, but about to get overtaken by BBR, though we've been holding them off for a while, its going to happen soon. Hopefully, if you get access to those work computers, with your fleet, we will surely leave them behind, and start taking positions ahead of us in no time!

BTW: Any system specs on those computers? Just curious to see what you're running down there. I mean, if each of those can do 2 WUs a day, that'll be 2200 from you a day alone! Which is by far, incredible!

Once again, Welcome to the TeAm!

 

[Evadman]

PS: I might be able to get my company to agree to let me deploy Seti over my workplace, 150 CAD workstations here, with 950 on the other sites, that would be useful eh So I'm just double checking - nothing wrong with using my seti account on all the PC's? I read the agreement, and it says Seti dont allow redistribution, it would be a pain in the butt having to download it on each PC...

Welcome to the TeAm!!

I hate to say it, but running SETI on those machines would probably not be a good idea. For you and me, we will never notice, but on those machines, the cashe that SETI uses will slow down the model build time by 20% or more depending on CPU. Depends on the CAD prgram used as well. Are they running AutoCad...SolidWorks.... or what?

Maybe another DC program that does not use the cashe as much?

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I can never spell. Without my drivers licence, I would misspell Dave.

 

[Crazee]

Actually if they keep the machines on setting them so that they run during the night like Indy did would work

Welcome to the TeAm

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Forget SETI and other DC projects If you have 150 CAD stations....are there any job openings? J/K(i'm relatively happy were I'm at )

As for the cache problem on the CAD station I don't think it'd be a probelm if you are using AutoCAD since until recently I ran SETI on my CAD station 24/7 and never had a problem. I suppose if you were doing graphic intensive work it might be noticed but most of the rendering is done on the GPUs now anyway.


Welcome aboard

WU!!WU!!WU!!

CADkindaGUY

 

[Evadman]

that's why I was asking the program CADkindaGUY. I know autocad plays well, but Solidworks does not. Same goes for Brice 4 (sp? adn not CAD, but high end modeling) I have heard many complaints from owners of those 2 programs on their model build times increasing by a substansial margin.

 

[Assimilator1]

Welcome to the team Alkali

I hope you manage to get some of those CAD stations crunching ,you would have an awesome fleet!
Btw an Athlon 600 ought to do WU's in well under 33hrs ,I guess you had the graphics showing ,12hrs would be nearer the normal
I recently assimilated an XP2200 from a work colleage ,it manages about 3.5hrs/WU

 

[Alkali]

Thanks for your kind welcomes guys

My personal machine is sure taking its time, using the GUI screensaver program, at first I calculated it would take just over 200 minutes for 1wu, but when I checked after an overnight run, it has already taken over 5 hours and only on 24%, which is very very strange.

As for work, I will go and ask the Head Designer what CAD programs they use specifically (think I can get him after 21st this month), as for the specs I'll give you an idea when I've had time to search through all the profiles.

I dont want to mess up any performance on the workstations at all during the day, (except as a screensaver?), I'm sure they would not stand for anything that reduces performance, so I'm interested on this 'running seti as a service' idea - which I know nothing about (linkage?). All the workstations run a mixture of nt4, win2k and winxp.

 

[Assimilator1]

To get the GUI version to run at its fastest you musn't have the graphics showing ,so the window needs to be minimised or if in screensaver mode 'blank screen' needs to be enabled in screensaver settings.Even so the CLi is about 25% faster than that ,for more info go here

Btw SETIHide can be used to pause SETI when a predefined program starts running.
Goodluck (give him lots of Beer on his 21sthehe)

 

[Alkali]

Thanks Assimilator - the CLI method does look rather laborious, but I'll give it a shot after the present wu, which has so far gone 67% over 10 hours [[ on an XP2200+ with 1GB PC2700 DDR !!!!!! ]]... :disgust: urgh, this GUI really sucks - still I have been using the processor quite a bit with other programs, never mind.

 

[lane42]

I just downloaded setihide to my son's computer, He's leaving for college this week and tends to turn off seti driver. This was my first install with setihide and it works Great. It does so much more then setidriver

 

[Assimilator1]

No probs

which has so far gone 67% over 10 hours

Blimey!:Q ,even for GUI that is too slow (unless you have other cpu intensive progs running) ,did you minimise the SETI window(or set 'blank screen')?

 

[Alkali]

Well I tried both the screensaver way, and the 'running constantly' options, neither seemed to get an advantage...

The setting I have got on screensaver is 'Seti@Home' rather than blank, is this whats going wrong?

 

[Assimilator1]

Probably best to leave it 'always running' & minimse the window ,if you don't minimise you'll double the WU times! ,if you do leave it as a screensaver too ,go to ,display properties,screensaver,screen saver settings,check 'blank screen' & set it to less than 6mins.Again if you don't 'turn off' the graphics in this way you'll double your WU times.

Good luck

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: Alkali
Well I tried both the screensaver way, and the 'running constantly' options, neither seemed to get an advantage...

The setting I have got on screensaver is 'Seti@Home' rather than blank, is this whats going wrong?

Yes. If there is an option in your screensaver choises for "none" or "blank screen", choose that. If you choose "none", you'll want to set your moniter to power off after "X" amount of minutes.
Running the SETI screensaver(or any screensaver) takes CPU resources away from SETI processing.

Part of your problem could be the version of SETI you're running. By chance is it v3.07?
Although SETI says there's no difference, lots of people complain it takes way longer to process than earlier versions.

Good luck & welcome to the TeAm!

 

[Alkali]

Yeah running version 3.07

Thanks for the help guys, hopefully next wu will be a lot faster