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New Seti user question

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Kris

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Okay, the recruiting threads worked, good job Engineer and everybody else.

I haven't run seti, so I have no familiarity with it.
I have perused some pages on the topic, and I think I can get it running on my main machines with internet connections.

However, I have access to a small (10) celeron 400 network.
It has no internet connection.
What steps would I take to easily administer such an arrangement if it can be done?

Thanks for your consideration in advance.
Kris

 
Welcome Kris! 😀

You will have no problems getting answers to your questions in this forum. 🙂 I'm a perfect example, and your situation sounds much easier than the Seti Farm assimilation. 🙂

Bump for some help for a new member! 😀
 
Welcome Kris!

Electrode, will your method that you posted first not work? I was making notes from it unless somebody asked again!

 
Hey guys, couldn't he run Shux's network install with SetiQueue on one of the boxes, and run sneakernet from just that one machine?
 
IndyJaws i think that would work. Kris do you have any form of internet access or CDRW/zip disk on any of those computers? If so i think sneekerneting would work well. Feel free to PM me or post here until we get i sorted out 😀


Alex 😀
 
You main machine and these networked computers, how far are they apart?

Do you have a CD writer in your main machine?

If you have a CD writer, then you can download workunits from your main machine then copy them over to the network computers. (There are good ways to do this method - we'll ellaborate later)

If you don't have a CD writer, let us know how far is your main machine from these computers.
 
I can use a laptop to get work units to the network, I think. Or a cdrw if necessary. The laptop seems like it might be easier...
Still undecided on this part.

The part I am concerned about is the distribution of workunits when needed to the other nodes of this network from the one to which I feed the work units originally. I don't really want to download workunits and then supply each machine on the network individually with a stock if it can be avoided. Call me lazy, but in the heat of the workweek, I know I won't have time to do that.
 
This is what I am thinking....
Set up a SetiQ on the laptop....
get it to download a whole bunch of wu's
also set up a SetiQ one of the one the machines from the network
set all the machines on the network to use the SetiQ machine as the proxy
so the setiq on the network will have tons of wu's and the other machines will feed from it. when you bring the laptop in each day, hook it to the network and have the network's setiq download and upload from the laptop
take the laptop to the network connection, and let it upload and download from berkeley or orange kid's setiq

I think this would work... but how to set up the setiq's....is something I dont know how to do so I can't help ya with it. someone else will step up to the plate, I'm sure.
 
Allright.
While you guys consider this, I will d/l the recommended seti client and get a copy on each machine.
By the way, which seti client is recommended?
 
Oh, another question. All these machines have 64mb ram which is okay for their day-to-day Word Perfect duties. It seems I read somewhere that seti benefits from more than mhz alone. Would it be worth the time necessary to put 128mb in each? Be honest, this won't be an insignificant undertaking...
 
According to the Seti@Home FAQ:

Will Seti@home run faster with more RAM? (e.g. 256 MB rather than 128 MB)
Seti@home uses about 16 MB of RAM while it's running. Beyond a certain point (typically 64MB, more if you run memory-intensive applications) more RAM won't make it run faster.

Save yourself the time. 🙂




Edit: Stupid html tags when cutting and pasting... 🙁
 
What zeruty said. That sounds like a good plan.

That is going to be one big "Sneaker Network". 😀 LOL
 
With celeron 400's my experience was that they didn't get much of a bump when I increased the amount of ram from 64 to 128.
If you run those 10 machines 24/7 you should get 15 to 17 WU's a day out of them - maybe a bit more.
Make sure they all have good cooling - at least that the cpu fans are all working, hopefully they have an air intake fan too but that is probably too much to ask.
Seti does make the cpu work at near 100% so that will generate a tad more heat than normal use.

You should run the Cli version, go here and see method #2.
 
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