SETI: Welcome to our Newest Members - August 23, 2004

Smoke

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Welcome to Team AnandTech SETI!

Our Seti-Classic TeAm is now 3,268 members strong! :D

Our Seti-Boinc TeAm now has 121 producing members! :D

We have room for more ... come on and join the best bunch of Seti Searchers in the World! :D


I would like to introduce our newest members:

Seti-Classic

TAS_DRingdahl ---- Rank 3267 New ---- 0 Wus :sun: ---- Mentor: Smoke
Here is your Personal Stats Machine

SexyLady ---- Rank 1387 New ---- 431 Wus :sun: ---- Mentor: Lane42
Here is your Personal Stats Machine

Your mentor may not be able to contact you if you don?t have PMs enabled (Allow Private Messages) ? you can do that in your profile.

We hope you drop by often and say hello.


WARNING:

SETI WUs contain hidden rewards, and prolonged crunching can be addictive. TeAm members should guard against excessive computer building, parts hording, and stat checking. <Quote of recent new member, Pokey> :p :D

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SETI - CLASSIC

How to run SETI-Classic and Join TeAm AnandTech

How To configure your SetiDriver for SETI - CLASSIC to use a TeAm SetiQueue.

Once you have your SetiDriver setup and working properly it is recommended that you use one of the TeAm's SetiQueues.
This will insure you have WUs to crunch when the Seti Server is down.

Our Mentor TeAm for Seti-Classic <----- :wine:<clink>:wine: Kudos to our "Big Brothers"

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SETI - BOINC*

1a. If you are listed on the Seti-Classic Roster prior to 14 May 2004, use the following link to get Seti-BOINC running on your computer(s):

Activate your transferred Seti-Classic account

1b. If you are a new SETI participant, use the following link to get Seti-BOINC running on your computer(s):

Create an Account

2. You will receive a confirming email giving you the password you will need to complete the Seti-BOINC installation.

2a. Make sure you're using an active email-address, you must also activate the account before starting to crunch. Just paste the account-key from the email and hit "activate account".

3. Preferences: If you're already running another BOINC-project besides seti@home, choose the 2nd link. Otherwise, the 1st link "This is my first BOINC project". For most the default settings are good enough. After you "ok" the preferences, you're automagically transported to the... download page:

Download the BOINC software program suitable for your system <-- Here's the link in case you ever need it. ;)

4. Open the program and let it proceed automatically to install BOINC on your computer.

5. After the program has installed you should get a screen asking you which program you wish to attach to the BOINC program. The installation package is a little weak at this point and could lead to confusion on what to enter. Eventually there will be more and more PROJECTS that you can "attach" to your BOINC engine.

5a. If you are using a PROXY, navigate the BOINC interface to "Settings/Proxy Server ..." and follow the directions there. Make sure you do this before proceeding any further because otherwise you won't be able to connect to complete the installation.

5b. Since this instruction set is for the SETI project, enter the following for the projects web address:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu <---Copy and paste this url ... it shows up as a link in our forum but you should only copy and paste it in the appropriate spot.

5c. Obviously, you would enter the BOINC PASSWORD referred to in step #2.

6. Things should go automatically from this point on. If you are running a hyper-threaded CPU or a multiple CPU system you should check to see if in the WORK area (see the tab at the top of the BOINC INTERFACE) if there is a Work Unit being processed for each of your processors (2 for hyper-threaded CPU systems).

6a. The 1st connection will use client-defaults, so if you've changed the cache-settings you will be, in effect, immediately asking for more Work Units. You may not get enough Work Units for multi-cpus during this initial download. Just let the client run for about 10 minutes when it will automatically ask for more Work Units.

7. If everything is working as it should, you'll probably (on NT4 &amp; later) want to let BOINC run as service. To do this, exit the BOINC-gui and open up a cmd-prompt. Navigate to the boinc-directory. You could use the following string to get there more quickly:
cd "c:\program files\boinc" (if you installed BOINC in the default location)

Once there type in: boinc_cli.exe -install and hit the ENTER key.

If you're running XP, you probably also need to go into service-control and change the account BOINC to run as "localsystem".
Now start the service, or reboot.

v3.20 fixed the service-bug.

8. The last and most important step for our New TeAm Mates is to now Join TeAm AnandTech

*This is a work in progress and will be updated, amended, corrected at time goes by. If you think there are things to be corrected, added, or deleted please post right in this thread and I'll attempt to fix them ASAP. :)

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Here are a couple of nice stat links courtesy KSWN.

Top Seti-BOINC Teams

TeAm AnandTech Seti-BOINC

We need some programmers on our TeAm to come up with our own version. Any takers? :)
 

SNC

Platinum Member
Jan 14, 2001
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121 BOING!!!res is way to many!!!!!!

If each one does 8.25 a day that is 1000 SETI1 units aday.

Just the right amount to hold BBR back.

BOING!!! is doing the same work as SETI1. There is no good reason to run BOING!!!
 

RussianSensation

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Sep 5, 2003
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Just wondering if I should switch to BOINC or continue to use my old SETI account?

My P4 2.6@3.2ghz does 2 units in about 3 hours and 10 minutes or so....will BOINC run slower since I am using TextClient for old seti right now?

Also will I lose all my other workunits and have to start fresh?
 

Zim Hosein

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Welcome to the TeAm TAS_DRingdahl &amp; SexyLady :D

Thanks Smoke :beer:
 

Smoke

Distributed Computing Elite Member
Jan 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Just wondering if I should switch to BOINC or continue to use my old SETI account?

My P4 2.6@3.2ghz does 2 units in about 3 hours and 10 minutes or so....will BOINC run slower since I am using TextClient for old seti right now?

Also will I lose all my other workunits and have to start fresh?
In response to your first question, I'd like to refer you to the following thread:
This week's stat report!

BOINC is another game and YES, you will start over from zero (in BOINC).
 

wischeez

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Smoke,just so you know....... I put a couple of my machines back to crunching for the Seti TeAm :beer::D:beer: