Technical News, and SETI@home daily stats for 03.01.2008.

[Rattledagger]

Happy 2454466.5! (Jan 02 2008)

Happy new year! Actually, being that every moment is the beginning of some arbitrarily defined era, I should be more clear: Happy new calendar year number 2008, whoever uses this particular calendar system which I usually do!

The weekend was busy with the more-and-more-common fast workunits. Discussions today at the lab brought up the fact that about a third of our data will translate into these fast runners, so we better turn our attention back towards improving the data pipeline. We picked two low hanging fruits today: convert server bane from a redundant web server to a secondary download server. This will help determine if that bottleneck is the server or the storage. I also added a flag to the splitter scripts to select files in beam/polarization pair order, not filename order. This will help pseudo-randomize the creation of work, and hopefully spread the pain of fast workunit periods so we aren't so overwhelmed at times.

Nevertheless, we have Astropulse coming down the pike, and have a lot of SETI@home data to go through (and we're starting to collect new data again!). So we need to upgrade the network/servers in a big way. And acquire more participants. Not sure how this will all happen yet, but it has to happen.

Meanwhile, we might try another science database index build tomorrow (or soon thereafter). Bob found a way to do so while the database is up and inserting rows, so we might not have to shut down splitters/assimilators during the long build. Cool.

- Matt

#____Total Work Done____Todays WD_______AWD________overtake________Team-name
01______390.124.158______444.698______541.061______impossible______SETI.USA
02______321.285.890______550.786______641.422______impossible______SETI.Germany
03______135.565.740______138.501______160.632______impossible______L'Alliance Francophone
04______115.497.968_______69.518_______61.981______impossible______BroadbandReports.com Team Starfire
05______113.247.100______127.432______141.941______impossible______BOINC Synergy
06_______97.200.401_______51.332_______46.128______impossible______Czech National Team
07_______90.788.119_______83.424_______89.302______impossible______SETI@Netherlands
08_______80.547.211______104.472______118.311______impossible______The Knights Who Say Ni!
09_______42.888.546_______50.271_______45.650______impossible______Overclockers.com
10_______40.671.657______-31.129______-46.488________875 days______OcUK - Overclockers UK
11_______40.179.363_______38.984_______35.386______impossible______Team Art Bell
12_______33.569.267_______10.181_______11.549______impossible______Team 2ch
13_______28.848.690_______32.076________6.846______impossible______The Planetary Society
14_______28.452.588_______24.144_______33.191______impossible______Team MacNN
15_______23.408.806______-61.512______-83.138________282 days______BOINC.Italy
16_______12.660.963______-11.563______-43.669________290 days______Ars Technica
17__________411.204_______53.930_______46.960______impossible______Team China
18_______73.776.059______102.943______148.217______notanoption_____TeAm AnandTech
19__________-47.596_______29.494________1.485_________32 days______SETI@Taiwan
20_______-1.167.420______-20.353______-47.044______impossible______Universe Examiners
21_______-2.236.016______-16.433______-31.877______impossible______Phoenix Rising
22_______-3.614.030_______90.368_______60.452_________60 days______Team Starfire World BOINC
23______-14.402.488_______-7.221______-28.333______impossible______Canada
24______-15.059.775______-30.855______-57.840______impossible______Dutch Power Cows
25______-16.821.118______-27.682______-56.691______impossible______Amateur Radio Operators
26______-17.195.113______-46.965______-70.096______impossible______PC Perspective Killer Frogs
27______-17.410.195______-56.939______-92.017______impossible______Hewlett-Packard
28______-21.049.352______-10.664______-23.158______impossible______UK BOINC Team
29______-23.304.788______-31.354______-54.875______impossible______Team NIPPON
30______-23.616.240______-48.199______-77.319______impossible______Team MacAddict
31______-23.651.570_______-5.715______-21.633______impossible______US NAVY
32______-23.727.670_______24.977_______22.182______1.070 days______AUSTRIA - NATIONAL - TEAM
33______-24.050.808______-32.739______-43.635______impossible______BOINC SETI@home RUSSIA
34______-24.565.881______-21.843______-45.127______impossible______BOINC@AUSTRALIA
35______-25.745.858______-27.728______-53.403______impossible______BOINC@Denmark
36______-26.291.067______-34.435______-65.637______impossible______Hungary
37______-26.674.886______-68.897______-99.683______impossible______2CPU.com
38______-27.267.100_______-5.106______-28.898______impossible______U.S.Air Force
39______-27.363.658______-76.323_____-112.902______impossible______Planet 3DNow!
40______-32.518.525______-71.298_____-104.156______impossible______Portugal@Home
41______-33.844.008______-49.603______-83.234______impossible______SETI.hr
42______-34.495.421______-53.584______-79.390______impossible______SETI@klamm.de
43______-38.001.029______-66.372_____-103.788______impossible______Team EDGE
44______-38.104.376______-68.276_____-101.231______impossible______HispaSeti & BOINC
45______-38.369.588______-62.567______-90.161______impossible______BOINC.SK
46______-38.910.844______-88.459_____-128.329______impossible______Picard
47______-39.279.394______-62.508______-92.291______impossible______SETI Sverige [Sweden]
48______-39.795.144______-88.428_____-131.744______impossible______LittleWhiteDog
49______-40.902.267______-25.572______-54.903______impossible______BOINC@Poland
50______-42.815.515______-69.827_____-106.943______impossible______BOINC UK

Appart for Anandtech's stats, it shows how much more/less than Anandtech.
Also shows based on Average Work Done how many days for Anandtech to overtake the team, or be overtaken by a team behind...

 

[Assimilator1]

1st (to replie)

lol @ 1st paragraph!

Yikes! low output! ,from the fast WUs I guess?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Thanks for the SETI@home daily stats & tech news Rattledagger! :beer:

 

[Alyx]

The work units are faster! I just put my brand new quad on Seti to test outs its ppd, I got my Q6600 to 3.6!

Then after a few days I'll probably move it over to enigma too...

 

[bryanW1995]

102k isn't so bad when everyone else is down, too, but taiwan beat us by 29k. that's not good!!

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the info and the numbers, Rattledagger!

Low output yeah, but lets hope it was just a fluke ...

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Alyx
The work units are faster! I just put my brand new quad on Seti to test outs its ppd, I got my Q6600 to 3.6!

Then after a few days I'll probably move it over to enigma too...

Awesome overclock! ,what vcore & cooler?