TAS-member thread: November 2005

[petrusbroder]

Today's news:

October 31, 2005: TAS will be running Seti@Home - BOINC in November.
November 1, 2005: The final stats for the October project "Rosetta@Home" are here!
November 3, 2005: 15 TAS-members crunching for Seti@Home - BOINC! The list is here.
November 5, 2005: The weekly project stats - Seti@Home BOINC Show some really nice results! TeAm climbes
________________1 step and passes Athlonmb.com Seti Team!
November 6, 2005: Time to build the teams for the December project:
________________the race between TAS and Folders in Folding@Home. Register in this thread, please!
November 12, 2005: Updated stats on DIMES (looks good!) and on Rosetta@Home and on Seti@Home classic .
November 14, 2005: The new seti@home-BOINC stats for the TAS-project are up! Take a look!
November 21, 2005: The updated seti@home-boinc stats have been compiled. Look here!
November 22, 2005: The poll seems to have settled:
..................................... 12 members (=85.71%) for a race with the Folders,
....................................... 2 members (14.29%) for choosing the project as usual.
....................................... If you have not voted, please do so here at the TAS-forum!



:thumbsup:
Edit: October 31, 2005
Edit: November 1 - 21, 2005
Edit: November 22, 2005

 

[petrusbroder]

In the TAS-poll for the november project 19 votes were collected.

Seti@Home - B_________11 votes (=57.895 %)
Rosetta@Home - B ______ 3 votes (=15.789 %)
Predictor@Home - B _____ 1 votes (= 5.263 %)
LHC@Home - B ________ 1 vote (= 5.263 %)
DHEP _________________ 1 vote (= 5.263 %)
DPAD _________________ 1 vote (= 5.263 %)
Euler __________________ 1 vote (= 5.263 %)

The TAS-project for November is Set@Home - BOINC.

The start-up stats are here!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Here we go ....

:beer::beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

I have already switched: it is so easy: change the resource share for rosetta@home from 400 to 50 and for seti@home from 50 to 400. That's it. I just love it!

 

[Ken g6]

Looks like TAS has definitely gone BOINCers!

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: Ken_g6
Looks like TAS has definitely gone BOINCers!

LOL Nice one

 

[petrusbroder]

For now ... but there may be a Folding@Home race in december - Please see this thread!

 

[mrwizer]

And when F@H goes BOINCers too, then what...

 

[petrusbroder]

Then good - but will it happen before December 1?

In the long run, I think that most projects, who want a broad base of crunchers - will go "BOINC-ers" - it makes the administration, the switching, the correction of problems so much easier - it is really a infrastructure for DC.

[slightly off topic]
However, we - the crunchers - have to beware of projects which are not serious, which want to make money for something that is given (i.e. our time, electricity, use of the comps). If there is an easy infrastructure, then all will use it -- good and bad... [End off topic]

 

[petrusbroder]

BTW: I will wait for a couple more days with the stats on Rosetta@home, so that pending credits from the monthly project will be non-pending. That takes 3 days at most (in my experience), often only ione or two days.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Is there actually something like pending credit in R@H? I thought that doesn't exist with R@H and all WUs are credited right away, as they're only sent out to one PC and only in case of deadline/error to another.

 

[rise]

i have to say, maybe its because i'm not used to it, but boinc is annoying the hell outta me.

i think i have it switched over to seti, only 2 cores, but whats with the keys? am i supposed to get a new one for every project i run?

 

[mrwizer]

Pending Credit is not turned on in Rosetta. All credit is instant.

The keys? Yes, a new one each project. Or with v. 5 a username/password. Just think if it was not BOINC, then it would be a new client along with the key.

 

[rise]

yeah i know, i'm just an ignoramus with this stuff

i dunno how i actually got it but it seems to be working alright now.

edit- ooh yeah, i detached from rosetta. is that the way to do it?

 

[amdxborg]

Seti in November.. sounds cool to me!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Did the WUs change from Classic to BOINC in a way that they contain more data and are longer? On my PIII 600 it looks like I need around 9 hours for a WU with BOINC but that one used to finish a SETI Classic WU much faster IIRC. Could that be?

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Did the WUs change from Classic to BOINC in a way that they contain more data and are longer? On my PIII 600 it looks like I need around 9 hours for a WU with BOINC but that one used to finish a SETI Classic WU much faster IIRC. Could that be?

The current "official" SETI@Home/BOINC-application is comparable speed-wise to v3.08-cmd. But, you can also download an optimized application, and these is 25%-50% faster than v3.03-cmd, depending on cpu.

The size of the wu is the same, but it's a different header under BOINC. Not sure if the client crunches the wu exactly the same way, but the end-result should atleast be the same, a spike is a spike is a spike...

But, this will "soon" change, when Seti_Enhanced is released, doing much more detailed crunching. Also, while speed-difference under v3.03-winnt-cmd is upto 50%, under Seti_Enhanced it's expected upto 15x difference between slowest at angle-range 0.226, and fastest at angle-range 1.14 or higher...

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Any idea where I can get one of these optimized clients from? I did a search around the net but only found optimized clients for BOINC 4.xx

 

[Rattledagger]

For optimized seti-applicatins for windows, look http://www.marisan.nl/seti/

The latest version doesn't neccesarily need to be the fastest on your computer...

 

[rise]

looking at my results, it appears to take ~ 2:15 minutes per result for me if that helps you guage yours Christian.

maybe i need an optimization too

 

[petrusbroder]

Hear, hear, all TAS-members and all TeAm-mates:

The final stats of the October project - Rosetta@Home - are here!

And the results look good!

Most importantly:
1. The TeAm rose from position 11 in the team list to position 6!
2. The TeAm crunched more tha 243 K cobblestones!
3. TAS crunched more than 172 K cobblestones!

We have crunching power! Well done team-mates! Well done TAS-mates!

 

[amdxborg]

Wow that is just awesome Peter!!
This is really great news and all TAS members can be very very proud! :beer:

 

[GLeeM]

OK, which team do I join?
There are like three teams "Anandtech"

EDIT:
I don't see an optimized client for LV Xeon. Can I use the one for P4?

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: GLeeM
OK, which team do I join?

There are like three teams "Anandtech"

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=30191

 

[rise]

lol, i had joined the wrong TeAm. brother GleeM :beer: for you