any info on the seti team?

[DarthSideous]

I've been running seti for a couple of days now and I don't really know much about it.. Is there still a team? I'm not really familiar with this whole distributed computing thing, but it sounds interesting... can anyone fill me in?

 

[Fardringle]

Probably the best place to find out about SETI and about our Team is here since that site gives a basic outline of the SETI project and how to join our team, as well as links to other team sites for stats and helpful programs.

 

[DarthSideous]

when I try to put in my email address to get a password for seti, it tells me webpage missing..

 

[artemedes]

Well I am having similar problems Darth. I think they are doing some maintenence on the servers or something. I would give it a little bit of time and then you'll be able to join.

Welcome to the team. Be sure to check back here everyday once you get joined. Hellburner posts our team stats daily and weekly production reports. (Thanks Hellburner)

 

[DarthSideous]

oh ok thanks for the info..I'll try again later

 

[Robor]

Yep, I'm having problems looking at individual and team stats at the Berkeley site. Hopefully this will not carry over into tomorrow.

Rob

 

[DarthSideous]

anyway, is the seti and the rc5 the same team? Team Anandtech is for both or could you just be a memeber of seti or rc5?

 

[UnKnown3]

<< Team Anandtech is for both or could you just be a memeber of seti or rc5? >>



You can join just for seti or RC5, which ever floats your boat.

 

[DanC]

Some do both...

 

[Assimilator1]

Either way welcome Darth

 

[DarthSideous]

ok I joined the seti team..woohooo!!! uh now what? hehe, I'm not sure what to do..just run seti and what?

 

[Phiton]

<< just run seti and what? >>

-----Assimilate like crazy!!

Welcome to the team Darth I took a look a your rig, very nice.

Don't forget to check orange kid's &amp; nexus 9's sites, very cool stats.

 

[lane42]

Welcome to the team Darth

 

[DarthSideous]

thanks for the welcome guys..

 

[DarthSideous]

Hey guys check out my link for my system snapshots, made my little team anandtech logo on there..

 

[lane42]

Darth, you have some nice benchmarks there. How long does it take for a work unit.

 

[DarthSideous]

well since I only started it yet yesterdy..I'm not really sure yet, it says cpu time 26hours..I'm not really that familiar yet.

 

[Assimilator1]

Like the UFO ,but those benchmark pics are messe3d up to me ,too small
I use IE5.5 ,res is 1152x864

 

[DarthSideous]

those were thumbnails..click on em'

 

[DarthSideous]

it took me 29hrs 13 min to complete a wu... is this decent time?

 

[lane42]

Darth, that 1.2 i think should be in the 5 hour range.

 

[Fardringle]

Yes, 29 hours should be about right for you to finish five WU's!! What else do you have running on that system? Is there anything running in the background that you can close? Are you running the Command Line client or the Windows GUI client? If you are running the GUI, do you have it set to automatically blank the screen? If not, you definitely should! In the Windows Task Manager (I'm assuming you're running Win2K) does the SETI client show as using about 97-99% of the CPU? If not, what else is using CPU time?

 

[DarthSideous]

wow I can't imagine that I'd be that far off..29hrs vs 5 hrs. are we talking about the same thing? on the seti client where it says user info..its says data units completed 1, and it says total computer time 29 hrs 13 min..there should not be anything else running in the background.. and I have the screen blacked out..its been running all night and all day uninterrupted, right now it says 69% done, cpu time 17 hours 12 mins..also this is win me not 2000.. any ideas?

 

[ElFenix]

in the screensaver control panel hit settings then tell it to blank screen in less than 5 minutes. the really efficient way to do it is to use the CLI client. then you don't have any problems with graphics.

 

[Sukhoi]

So you're running the screensaver client with it set to go to blank screen mode real soon (0-5 mins)? 29 hours is way too long. You should be around 5-6 hours/WU I'd think. Do you have anything else on your system taking up lots of CPU time? Any viruses?

You'll need someone to post a link, but there's a program called ATM that will tell you what's running on your system and how much of the processor it's using.

Also, you might want to consider switching to the CLI client which is slightly faster than the GUI (screensaver), but there's no way the GUI should take 29 hours with the screen blanked in the first place.