BOINC: FYI for those signed up for Astropulse Beta, and for anyone else interested! **SCREENSHOTS!!**

[Confused]

I have finally got BOINC/Astropulse to connect and download properly and is doing some work

Obligatory Pics? of client and graphics!!!!

TeAm AnandTech stats and download BOINC Windows 1.04

For those who tried it, and couldn't get it to do anything, (ie it was downloading lots of WUs at once and all failing) here's what to do

1) Uninstall it, and delete the directory (this will ensure that it is empty and no existing crap is left)
2) Re-install
3) Log into project with Address http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/ and your account key as emailed to you.
4) It should now download the AP 1.04 client, a few (2-10 maybe, depending on your computer/speed - my 2.1GHz AXP got 8, my 2GHz P4 laptop got 2) work units WITHOUT FAILING!!


You should be able to get it to work on a unit now, and give us some credit!

If anyone wants to try it out, and didn't sign up before, PM me and i'll send you my account key, and you can try it out with that


Garry

 

[Intelligence3]

No CLI? It doesn;t feel geeky enough without a CLI.

 

[Confused]

You don't have to have the graphics showing all the time if you don't want, it will run just fine (and probably faster ) without the graphics showing So it is kind of a CLI. There's always the Linux client


Garry

 

[ElFenix]

any idea what processors are fastest at this?

(not that bang/$ won't most likely be heavily favoring the lower end athlons, just curious)

 

[Confused]

I'll be able to tell you how fast an Athlon XP @ 2400+ (166MHz FSB) when it completes the work units

As for other machines, others will have to provide that information


Garry

 

[titanmiller]

Got it working but I dont think I'll start up until either it becomes a final build or seti ends.

Judging by the low frame rates it doesnt appear like the graphics are being rendered on the video card. One would think by off loading the graphics to the video hardware a lesser performance hit would result along with higher frame rates. I wouldnt think it would be too hard to implement.

 

[Coolkid]

I had that problem with it not downloading wu's , but its fixed now

Thanks Confused

 

[HayHauler]

Originally posted by: Confused
You don't have to have the graphics showing all the time if you don't want, it will run just fine (and probably faster ) without the graphics showing So it is kind of a CLI. There's always the Linux client


Garry

Garry, You got it! The best B33R ever!
I really like it.... sorry, got waaay OT!!
hehe
:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

 

[BofRA]

OK I changed the server and once it downloaded the new client how long should I give it to "unfreeze"? It sat for about twenty minutes and when I clicked to change tabs it said NOT RESPONDING?!!? ANy help?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I think ImO wait until it's outa beta testing....besides I'm still running in a SETI race.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good info Garry

Can't say Im impressed with the graphics ,they are better on the current S@H GUI!

 

[deerslayer]

Thanks for the info Garry!

Looks interesting.

 

[BofRA]

Ok have it running now. looks like around 10 hours for a WU with Athlon XP 1600

Edit: Ok after further thought 10 hours isn't that bad. the WU's are 1MB while for SETI-1 they are about 350KB on SETI-1 this same computer takes around 3:45 to do 1 WU. Looks about the same pace.

 

[TAandy]

I've finished my first result and now it's not uploading
It's also 3.3 mb in size, maybe not the greatest for those on a dial-up connection.

 

[TAandy]

I had to restart the PC and now the units I had downloaded plus the ones I had finished/was working on have disappeared
Can't log back in now either.
<simmer>

 

[ThunderDawg]

~ Just over 9 hours on a P4 2.0 GHz

Are you guys ready to run against The Dogs ?

:beer: :beer: :beer:

 

[TAandy]

Anybody getting this ?

Astropulse Beta - 07/17/03 15:48:03 - Started download of 26fe99aa_05020_00083.wu
Astropulse Beta - 07/17/03 15:48:04 - Finished download of 26fe99aa_05020_00083.wu
Astropulse Beta - 07/17/03 15:48:04 - Checksum or signature error for 26fe99aa_05020_00083.wu
Astropulse Beta - 07/17/03 15:48:04 - Unrecoverable error for result 26fe99aa_05020_00083.wu_0
Astropulse Beta - 07/17/03 15:48:04 - Deferring communication with project for 60 seconds

And on and on it goes

 

[TAandy]

Astropulse seems to be back online.
Sucessfully downloaded 3 units and processing the first
Using BOINC 1.03

 

[TAandy]

Woo hoo!! Finally got a result uploaded

 

[Assimilator1]

 

[Bleep]

I put it on one of my machines for a couple of days and I dont think the beta version should even been let out of its box, this is really a pre beta edition, it is so buggy that it is not worth the time or effort let alone the wasted machine time.

Bleep

 

[SirUlli]

it is working by me

link

regards
Sir Ulli

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I think ImO wait until it's outa beta testing....besides I'm still running in a SETI race.

after I finish my last race, should I go ahead and switch to boinc? since seti is supposed to be ending sometime this year.

 

[SirUlli]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I think ImO wait until it's outa beta testing....besides I'm still running in a SETI race.

after I finish my last race, should I go ahead and switch to boinc? since seti is supposed to be ending sometime this year.

a good decision

regards
Sir Ulli

(but we have TA_andy in this forum, so wonderfull Work at TA_andy)

 

[TAandy]

BOINC 1.05 has been released. You can download it from http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/download.php