SETI top 95%

[Michael]

I reached the first of my personal goals tonight, by going over 335 WU I'm now in the top 95% overall. I want to be in the top 1%, so I'm no going to slow down.

Orange Kid will be happy to know that I got another stick of RAm so my spare c300a->450 should join the fray fairly soon. I do have one more MB sitting around that can take either a Celeron or a P3 so next month I'll toss yet another computer into the fray.

I'm going to make the new computer start booting off of a floppy and then finish booking via NFS, so you might see a post in a couple of days where I'm asking Cory for help.

Michael

 

[JWMiddleton]

Hi Michael,

Yeah, I'm also shooting for 95% also and am at 94.961, BUT there are still 114,000 people ahead of us!!!

As I've climbed from 275th place on TA I've noted how the upward progress has slowed. I just spent a week at 118th place, but I am starting to move again. My point is that progress is going to be very slow from this point and we can't let it disappoint us. It all still adds to the team!

 

[Assimilator1]

Congrats guys

Michael ,sounds your'll be accelerating then

 

[Sukhoi]

Keep going!

 

[Orange Kid]

All that overtime you worked payed off I see
It is an addiction isnt it
GREAT WORK

 

[Michael]

JWMiddleton - All the slower progress means is that I need more machines <grin>. I'm actually racing you to 400 right now. I wish my companies firewall wasn't so darned strong because I could add 10 Pentium II's no problem.

OrangeKid - If I was paid for OT, I'd be rich, rich, rich ..... The State of California has been making my wife jump through hoops to get her Doctor's license transfered from Kansas to here. Once she starts working fulltime again and starts making her loan payments instead of me, I'll have a bunch more fun money!!!! <big grin>.

As soon as I get to New Jersey, I'm going to set my dad's new computer up for SETI as well. I'll set it to screen saver, but that should give me an extra couple of WU's a week.

Michael

 

[DanStp]

Great progress guys Keep working your way up the ladder

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

You guys sure passed my ass up sitting down here with 317 WU's at 94.680% of all S@H users. I queried my office if anyone had a P166 or higher to replace my Cyrix processor with and one person said she had a couple of Celeron 233's (did they make them that slow) laying around she is interested in trading. For what? My Cyrix?!?! I'm like, sure! I haven't got a problem

I remember Celeron 266's I think but 233s? Did these exist? I guess PII-233's did so maybe Celeron 233's did too. Think this processor with no L2 cache will do ok? And are these OCable to 350 with 100MHz bus?

 

[Michael]

I think all the early Celerons were slot 1 with no cache. They overclocked pretty well but the lack of cache would make them better at Rc5 than SETI.

If you checked out the FS/FT forum here you might be able to get a P166 for a very reasonable price.

I wonder if I'll be able to hold JW off as his output seems to be slightly higher than mine (based on the last weekly stats). You're not that far behind, convince one friend with a PIII to join you and you'll jump up 2-3 WU's a day from that one computer alone.

Michael

ps - I think around 334/335 WU is the 95% mark so you're close.

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Well when I'm at work (just 40 hours a week) I run Seti on my PIII-450 which helps a bit

Even better on the weekends there is barely anyone else here so I logged into two other computers (same processor) and and running Seti on them as well. 3 PIII-450's for 16 hours this weekend should be nice

Can't see spending a bunch of money on just Seti though, like some people on here do. My hobby is my car. I've got a $500 ECU I'm trying to buy so I can finally bolt the turbo kit on my car!

But if I find a P166 or even a Celery CPU+mobo combo for real cheap I can see picking something like that up

 

[Sukhoi]

The first Celerons were the 266 MHz and 300 MHz models that had no L2 cache. IMHO they would be horrible at SETI, though they probably would run RC5 ok.

Then came the 300A, 333, etc. models, up through 533 MHz that all had 128 KB L2 cache.

Now we have the Coppermine based Celerons that range from 533A to 700 MHz (I think they're up to 700 MHz by now).

 

[Assimilator1]

Yep as Sukhoi said ,Celerons started at 266 with no L2 cache.

PII's started at 233 ,I have one of these overclocked &amp; it runs SETI surprisingly fast ,with 112MHz FSB,CAS2 &amp; a 2.5x multiplier on a BX board it averages around 10.5 hrs/WU .The cpu only cost £25 ,Chaintech BX board £35 ,64Mb PC133 RAM £49

The Klamath cpu's had lower latency L2 cache when compared to the Descheutes so that helps too

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Interesting, I've got two machines sitting doing nothing else here at work except SETI GUI 2.70 on NT4.0. One is a PII-450 and the other is a PIII-450. At 3 hours 10 minutes the PIII was at like 41% and the PII was at like 49% or something. So like Assimilator1 said, PII's are faster than equivalently clocked PIII's because of the L2 cache speed?

So for Seti processing, with everything else equal, is cache speed the most important aspect of a CPU?

 

[Assimilator1]

% times on GUI v2.70 vary wildly from WU to WU so you can't really compare them like that ,you need to do at least 5 WU's on each PC to get a better idea.

BTW I would expect a PII 450 &amp; a PIII 450 to do WU's in the same time.
I was comparing the old PII Klamath(233-300)2.8v to the PII Decheutes(266-450)2v ,not the PIII Katamai(450-600)2v..

IF everything else is equal then yes a faster cache will improve WU times.

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

Since we're on the topic of CPU's, I've found this as a possible CPU to replace both my lower processors with

Pentium Overdrive w/MMX (upgrades up to 166MHz) - Retail $24.00

Now I know the normal 166's are the same as 233's and that you can OC them to 262 or so, but how about the overdrive processors? Are they really any different from their everyday counterparts? Were they just a ploy to get ignorant people to buy them? Can I simply stick these bad boys in my motherboards with relative ease? I know one mobo is a FIC PA-2017 or whatever the best one was that Anandtech voted the best Super7 board a couple years ago.

 

[Michael]

Ben - Here lies the power of Anandtech. If you go to the General Hardware / CPU and Overclocking / or Motherboards forums and pose your question, you'll get responses from a much larger group of members than just the people who are interested in Distributed Computing.

Michael

 

[networkman]

Don't worry guys, I'm currently at 99.620%, and that's with ONLY 2,483 WUs. Imagine what it must be like for our TOP TA-Seti producers, the ones at over 10,000!?! Hey, ColinP, are you up to the 99.999% mark yet?

 

[JWMiddleton]

Ben: I see cache SIZE and RAM SPEED as the most important for SETI. I did some changing around recently, as I often do, and moved a Soyo 7VCA mobo and PIII-700 to an older system. I was using Micron PC133 CAS2 RAM on the Soyo board before and now it has Fry's non-branded PC133 CAS3 RAM. Well, my WU unit time went from 4.8 to 5.9 hours. Bummer! So, I'm going to replace the Micro stick with Infineon on my new ASUS CUSL2 and put the Micron back with the Soyo. Then all will be well. With the Micron RAM the ASUS board runs a WU in about 4.5 hours, but it will not run any faster then 129 MHz FSB at CAS2. The i815 is very pickey!!! Not like the bullet proof BX boards.

Michael: I work out of town all of the time and only get home every other weekend. My big problem is keeping geographical separated system working. The machine I'm on at home often has a box on the screen saying that it can't communicate that is due to my step-daughter being on the phone. Trying to get my wife to monitor my system just once a day is almost impossible. I am currnetly changing project locations: from Arlington, TX to Shreveport, LA. So both of my systems that I was doing most of my SETI work on are in storage in TX until this weekend I hope. So, while I am at home for a class I have recruited two systems to help me get by.

Good luck and keep cranking out the WUs.

 

[Michael]

JWMiddleton - Sounds like a job I had a few years ago, 100% travel. Sometime I went overseas and didn't come back for a month.

With SETIQ, I feel pretty good about the availability of WU's for my machines and my cable modem solves the busy phone problem. You pacing me pretty well, I bet you pass me when you get all your machines cracking.

Congrats on reaching the 95% mark, btw.

Michael