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Possible 21 PC's to Add to TA Seti

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compudog

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I administer the PC's at my workplace. We have 15 1.6/1.7GHz P4's and another 6 P3's. I'd like to run the CLI Seti on these 21 PC's but can't come up with a tried and true method for getting the WU's to and from the PC's. Here's the problem; 10 PC's on one lan connect to the net through 1 dial-up modem and the balance on a different LAN connect the same way. It is not possible for me to download the WU's and transmit the results using the dial-ups. I am desperately trying to get broadband but the options are very limited due to geographical and political constraints. The industrial park my company is in is practically empty of businesses and no broadband provider is willing to string lines at a reasonable price. I can get an "Etherlink" connection for $12K US and $1100/mo. Management will not fork out the dough when we are paying just $87.00/mo for our dial-ups. Is there any way I can get WU's from my broadband connection @ home onto CD/ZIP and get them to the PC's at work, when they are done crunching, take the completed WU's home and transmit?
 
I'm pretty sure that there is a way to do that, but i don't know how. One of the more experienced SETI people should know. Man, that would be great😀 21 PC's could pump out a lot of WU's😀
 
The thing is, all but two of the PC's run 24/7. I could get a good deal of production from them. When the PC's are in use they are only running some Excel, a custom DB app, and OE. Not much utilization there. All the PC's have 128MB or more. Most have 256MB and a couple have 512. 90% of the P4's are running on Intel boards with 256 PC800 RDRAM. I assimilated one during the DSLR race and it did 10 WU's in 23 hours.
 
This has been discussed a number of times, but here are some suggestions.

A laptop with an ethernet card is the easiest way.

second choice I guess would be a zip drive.

Run SetiDriver on all the machines and at home, move the work unit folders onto the storage medium and do the same at work. Rename the folders to keep them sequential on each machine.

Or if you have a cell phone, you could use that and a laptop to set up a server for all the others.

There are several ways and I am sure that others will post more ideas soon. 😀

 
I just had an idea. Get a laptop of some sort (doesn't have to be fancy) and put SETI Queue on it. Then put SETI Driver on all the machines with about 2 days worth of WUs on each. The SETI driver would be directed to whatever static IP you could set up for your laptop to have on the network. Then put SETI Driver on auto transmit. That way it'll try to transmit once every hour if it has a WU to flush. Then all you'd have to do is have that laptop plugged into each network for 1 hour per day. That way it should collect all the day's waiting WUs. Then take the laptop home at night, plug it into your network, and flush the WUs out on your broadband.


Is that complicated enough? All in all though it seems simpler than dealing with all the WUs and machines individually. PM me if I explained my concept poorly😱



Swan
 
can you set setiqueue up to transmit only when the office isn't in use? or would there not be enough time? have it xfer to one of the public queues so it doesn't get held up by berkeley bandwidth woes.
 
That would be a nice assimilation. Just one thing to note, please be sure to get permission, written preferably. No person's job is worth losing over a few WUs. 🙂
 
Thanks Swanny. I think that may be the ticket. Ray, I did pass it buy the GM of the company. Initially I can utilize the smaller LAN (10 PC's.) Where I think I think i will have the most grief is with Novell. My laptop (Dell 1.13 GHz with XP Home) can do what I need but in order to get it to work I will have to put setiQue on a shared drive on the Novell server. That way all PC's on the lan can get the WU's. Crunch then and then. Hmmm. I think I may be missing something. I can download the WU's to the lappy @ home, put them from the lappy to a network drive, then have each PC on the lan get the WU's from the network drive. I don't think I can get setiQue to work from Novell. For security reasons there is no TCP/IP traffic on the LAN except to the LAN modem all PC's share. I think I can pull it off but it will require me to set up each PC's CLI to go to a mapped network drive. Each PC would get the WU's from a special folder and put the completed data back in that folder. Then, at the end of the run, I'll empty the folder to my lappy and transmit from home. Next day, repeat the process. Right????
 
Yep...Swanny punched the right ticket! 🙂

I have a Queue on my work PC....which all the PC's in the plant flush to. I also have another Queue on my laptop that the main PC Queue flushes to...when I get around to it. I then bring the WU's home on the laptop every now and then...flush them to my home Queue (The Federation)...then take WU's back to work....🙂

Works great! Set the limit high on the queue...i.e...# of days = 14 or so worth of WU's....and go at it! 🙂

You get a nice large flush once and a while too! 😉

 
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