All Things SETI

Well I meant to do this a long time ago and never got around to it.
I started a Seti team. It really was time to do it.

First go here and download the client

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html

After you get it running and have a username registered follow this link to join the team. You set up username when you set up the client.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=134625

Even though we are behind the others let's kick some butt.
After we get enough members I'll open a forum for seti members to kick back and relax.

Team page located at

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Extreme+Visual+Basic+Forum

Thanks.

I'm joining !

what is a Seti team?


oh I see... never mind.

Why hasn't someone set up a SITI (Search for Intra-Terrestrial
Intelligence.) Once I know it is here, I might be willing to look for
it elsewhere. ;)

The search was completed back in 1983 by some Extra Terrestrial life form, and they came to the conclusion that there is, was and will not be any intelligent life form on this planet ever. ;)

Do a google search for the Drake Equation, it's quite convincing.

I can't seem to connect to the server with the SETI software.. hmm.. anyone have this problem?

Give it time. Took me 2 hours to get 2 clients up and number 3 on the main server is still trying. On their website they say they are having network problems. It will connect just give it time.

I got in, I'm a member! Yay! :) This is cool...

join now!!

check out the -> competion! (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_type_0.html) <- we'll be at the top in no time :)

aha iam in iam in :D

i cant seem to signup and connect, is it some prob with my pc or the servers??? i cant wait to join :D

I have been running SETI for several months but have never heard of this groups thing before. Quite cool though.

Joining now.....

Just want to add that if you run the command line client it takes less time to process a unit. It also is unobtrusive.

I switched over to the command line version after seeing the Linux server do 4 units in 12 hours. It took my WinXP box 8 hours to do one unit so I should have cut the time down a lot.

first download the cli from here

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-3.03.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe

I created a folder on C called seti and downloaded it to that folder. I also renamed it to seti.exe.

Next download these 2 tools. SetiDriver and SetiSpy.

SetiDriver can be found here:

http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/

SetiSpy here:

http://personalwebs.myriad.net/roelof/setispy/

Download everyhting to the same folder that you created. C:\seti.

Once you have everything downloaded double click on setidriver and set the variables. I have mine set like this:

Maximum Processes 1
Desired Cache Size 4 this downloads the amount of work units so you can continue to crunch if the seti server goes down or you can't connect.
Select hide processing to hide the dos box.
The rest I left except to check the box at the bottom that says use setispy.
Now click new client. A dos box will pop up and after a couple seconds it will ask you whether you want to create a new user or use an existing user. If you had the graphical client running type 2 to use existing user and hit enter then it will ask for your email address. Use the email address you used wuth the graphical client. It will go on to download the work units. If will also pop up more dos boxes for each cache you set. If you set it to 4, 4 will pop up. Once that is all done an icon will show in your taskbar. Just minimize setidriver. If this is a new signup just select 1 when asked and use the email you want to sign up with.
Any questions post them here.

This really is going much faster now. :) Cool!

Bob,

When i...Now click new client. A dos box will pop up and after a couple seconds it will ask you whether you want to create a new user or use an existing user.


i get on opne dialog box, not the dos box?

not sure what to do.

Regan

Open dialog is what you'll get and it should say something about cleaning files or something along those lines.

Here is a screenshot of seti running on Linux. The app is called ksetiwatch.

http://extreme-vb.net/images/shots/seti.png

Yes I got the same thing.

Upon loading setidriver, it started by prompting me to select the cli exe I was using (seti.exe). I did this, filled in all the settings etc. Then clicked 'New Client' and up came the Open Dialog. I then selected the same seti.exe as before, and the dialog closed. No DOS box. I clicked 'New Client' again and same Open Dialog. Only this time, to my amazement the seti.exe had disappeared. I did a full HD search and didnt find it.....

Weird. :eek:

I'm not using SETIDriver.

I opened SetiSpy, then executed seti-cli.exe from the command prompt. That's it. SetiSpy just seems to know it's running, and it updates accordingly.

You have to have everything in the same folder. That's why the dialog popped up. It couldn't find the exe. If it was in the same folder it would have stsrted seti.

got it!

follow bobs intructions up to "New Client". Just close "exit" then run setispy.exe. then it comes up as a dos prompt.

[edit]

ignore that, not working

its looking for a "state.sah" file, hmmm

[edit]

regan

Got it working.
This is cool. :cool:

If the problems persist getting work units from S@H I'll set up a proxie that can server up the units for us. Let me know if you think it would be better to pull the units from this server.

hey Bob

that would be a good idea, however they can quickly occupy lots of space on the server. And could we prevent multiple users grabbing the same unit, or does that not matter?

Regan

Yay! I'm in! Let's kick some ET butt!

Well, I have 72% of the first work unit completed, and it's been going for 12 hours! Sllloooowww... I need a faster computer.

CPU time: 12:44:26
Speed: 56.42 Mflops
Rate: 5.73 % / hour
Efficiency: 11.84 CpF
Estimated total time: 17:27:21
Estimated time left: 4:42:54
Est. time done: 2:01 PM
Completed: 72.99%
Drift rate: -10.7824 Hz/s
FFT number: 23561

sounds great!! love to join up soon. I am moving house at the moment - no internet connection. I am at work at the moment, which brings me to my point, if you are going to use your PC at work for this sort of thing, get permission first, I was reading an article on this site http://www.theregister.co.uk about a guy in the States who was prosecuted by the university or company he worked for for stealing computer space after joining SETI or Cancerbusters. Just a word of warning!.

BTW

for every one the other side of the pond

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/31/24195.html

I would be interested, since I like coming here to learn new things everyday, and think I could benefit from it, but I don't know what IT is, could someone explain this to me? Thanks
Ed

SETI = Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
ET = Extra Terrestrial (alien)
IT = Information Technology

Well, Squirm, of those 3 lines you gave me, I knew 1, so I'm slightly on the ball, lol

what do aliens and computers have to do?? iam running the seti server and sending in details everyday but i still dont know what it is all about :D

Just joined and was pleased to read that all my past work units are going to be credited to Extreme Visual Basic... thats around 1300 work units. (My PC at work runs all the time I'm not there and averages a work unit every 12 hrs)

We needed a boost like that. Thanks for joining.
BTW is n6jah your ham callsign?
If it is de n9kn.
Never mind. Answered my own question by looking at your sig.
HI HI
The telegraphers laugh.

SETI Info (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/learnmore.html)
SETI FAQ (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html)

Basically SETI downloads raw data which has been received by space telescopes. Your PC then analyses the data looking for certain patterns, called Spikes, Gausians, Triplets, and Pulses. It is looking for anything interesting in the data which would warrant further investigation.

cq cq cq n9kn de n6jah bt
qth san dimas ca bt
u r 599 hr hi hi bt
sri but seti work units only 1208 as of this am not 1300 i thought last nite bt my bad bt
hp to cul
73
jim
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Ok Ham speak guys ;) Need an interpeter for that post. Have to dig out my morse code decoder for the sig too. :-\

edit/ Was it SISI? /edit

See that, I thought they were analyzing radio waves ;)

Orbity

<---- picture of a very confused little programmer. :-\

Ok, so I got the command line version going quite well and I am finally catching up to Squirm ;). Here is the question, I have un-installed the graphical version and realized that it was half way through with the unit it was working on. Is there a way to copy and paste the data that is still in the directory where the graphical program was installed to somewhere that the command line version can finish the processing?

Probably a dumb question but I have everything setup already to do what it needs to do much the same way as Bob does above. When using seti driver to return my results can I then stop it when it is transfered and then just paste the data I still have to the hopefully now empty directory where the one that was just finished was. Now have seti just finish this one!

Orbity :-\

So I answered my own question, but if anyone else was wondering, just use seti driver and un-check auto transmit then increse your desired cache size and move all the files left from the graphical version into the new directory excluding "config.bin" (I assume this was for the configuration of the graphical client) that seti driver just created. Now go back into seti driver which shows 1 to fill and click in the desired cache size box press enter and presto it says none to fill :) Now you can change the desired cache size back to it's original value and I assume after it finishes the new one it will remove that directory and be back to normal.

If for some reason this doesn't work, I will let you know. It is working on one now and should hopefully pickup what's left from the graphical version when it is done.

Orbity

"sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin

OK, why does it delete the client exe when I click New Client? Is there a way to prevent this?

Also, has anyone figured out how to make it auto-start , so that I can put it in the startup group or Run key because its getting really annoying having to remember to restart it everytime I logon.

To answer the first question, I started the command line client first and then SetiDriver and that seemed to do it.

Second question, I have placed a shortcut to both the client and the SetiDriver in my startup folder and selected AutoTransmit in SetiDriver and it seems to be doing it for me. I only look at it once in a while to see how the progress is going.

Not sure if any of this will help you with your situtation, but it seems to be doing the trick for me ;)

HTH,
Orbity

Right, I had a lot of trouble with this, here is how I did it:

Load up SETI Driver. If it DOES promt you for the EXE straight away, then when you get into Driver, uncheck 'Hide Processing' for a moment to see that the app is actually running. If the client is running, then set your options and be done. If it does not then read below.

If it does not IMMEDIATELY ask you to select the exe file then:


Close Driver
Start SETI.exe on its own. It should either start downloading or processing
Load up SETI Driver, it may prompt you to select the EXE, in which case do so.
Make sure 'Hide Processing' is unchecked, change all your settings and click 'New Client', select the SETI.exe
You will now have 2 SETI apps running
Close the first one you started manually
Check that only 1 seti is still running, then click 'Hide Processing' and let Driver do its job


You only need to do this once. Next time you start up your PC, just go straight into SETI Driver. It should detect that no client is running and then prompt you to select the EXE. The client then starts.

You can tell that more than one SETI is running if it is taking a long time and SETI Spy keeps fluctuating the progressbar.

{QUOTE]You only need to do this once. Next time you start up your PC, just go straight into SETI Driver. It should detect that no client is running and then prompt you to select the EXE. The client then starts. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to avoid. I just want to run in the background, no questions asked. I'll try Orbity's method of running the client first and then the driver and see if that does it. If not, I'll come backto you.

tell me one thing, if i run the seti thingy on two diff pcs, and send in resukts diffreently, can i login as one user and have the points credited under one name??? coz i have two pcs running, and the seti is installed on both

yes
i run seti at home & work no problems...

Originally posted by Thinker
Why hasn't someone set up a SITI (Search for Intra-Terrestrial
Intelligence.) Once I know it is here, I might be willing to look for
it elsewhere. ;)

****

Originally posted by Squirm
<---- picture of a very confused little programmer. :-\

Squirm -- you look exactly like Harry Potter!!!

lol squirm u got a new identity now, hi harry poter :D

Here's my latest stats:

Results Received 1581
Total CPU Time 1.684 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 9 hr 20 min 19.5 sec
Average results received per day 1.89
Last result returned: Sun Mar 3 16:00:32 2002 UTC
Registered on: Sat Nov 20 18:03:22 1999 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.303 years
Your rank out of 3575168 total users is: 59307th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 38
You have completed more work units than 98.340% of our users.

Another big hitter joins the team. Thanks for joining.

Was chatting with Bob earlier and he told me he had set up a server to cache work units for those of us using the CLI version.

To use it open the SETI Driver app and in the Proxy Server enter SETI.RESOURCE-ZONE.COM in the port setting enter 8000

Click save config then transmit. It may take a few tries to get it to synch with his server, but once it does you are good to go. You get all your work units from his store and no waiting on SETI to be up or down. He said he is keeping 500 units on hand so that should tide us over nicely :D

There is a cache server set up to upload and download your work units. The Seti@Home server is down a lot and when it is up it is slow. They have bandwidth problems. To combat this and make sure we all have plenty of work units I set up a cache server. The software is called SetiQueue and seems to work well.
At this time it has 350 work units waiting for you to download. The more users that use it the bigger the queue will get. It uploads completed work units 6 times a day.
This should combat the problems we have getting work units when Seti@Home is down.

More info on how to set up your client to use the queue server can be found at:

http://seti.resource-zone.com:8000

Also on that site are detailed statistics about the clients that are using the server.

If you haven't already joined the Extreme Visual Basic Seti team we could use you. So go and join now.;)
We started out late, but, we can catch up.

So I'm just going to run this thing and look for Intelligence even when I'm not here? And what are the units that take 12 hours? If the unit time has anything to do with modems, you oughta just count me out, since I just have a 56k, and a poor ISP. But if someone could explain a bit more of what's going on, please do.
Ed

PS: I remember the WebMaster saying something about how a Machine with XP does units slower that Linux / Unix, I have XP, so I'm probably even less useful.

Check out the thread about setting up the commandline client and set it up to use the team proxy server. The info on that is in the cache thread that is also marked important.
The only time it needs to be connected to the net is when it downloads a work unit and when it finish it has to connect to upload it. So total connect time is maybe 5 minutes 2 or 3 times a day.
The client runs in the background and you don't even notice it. OS doesn't mean anything.
join up we could use you.

Well, as soon as everything has been downloaded, Computer_Guy will have joined the team, though I still have no clue what I'm doing to operate this, though I'm sure it will be explained to me, lol
Ed

make sure you check this thread before you download anything. You want the fastest client and that is the one in this thread.

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=19985

Instructions on setting it up also there then check this thread to use our server

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=21777

Hey everybody. I just set it up and I think I got it all going good. I got a 2.0 GHz Pentium IV, so I think I might help. My comp stats are:
Speed: 685.42 Mflops
Rate: 60.64% / hour
Effeciency: 2.91 CpF


is that good?

You have it running. I seen you connect to the server last night. Welcome to the team.

Actually computer guy, the speed at which you can do work units depends totally on you computers hardware configuration. The only time the modem is used is when the WU are downloaded in uploaded. It takes some serious power to crunch this data.


I only have about 120 WU so far, but I also don't run the client all the time. At any rate count me in!

I should also add that the more clients you have running (up to a point) the more WU you can complete in a day.

Welcome to the team matticus_99.

I am just trying to join the Team!...
What is it all about?

ok.. Finally i have joined!..
Can anyone explain me what advantage i will get from it?
And SETI will get from me?..
:)
Thanks

1. The advantage for SETI is quite simply free computing power to handle really tedious computing task that this project requires.

2. Really there is no advantage for you except the fact that you get to participate in the largest computing project ever undertaken. I don't worry about that, I kind of look at it like a benchmark. The more units I do, the better.

ok.. Thanks!..

Kickinit: Yes those stats are good, very good. :D
Welcome aboard! :)

Some impromtu comments>>>

'Drake Equation' - problem was you couldn't estimate number of habitable planets - but now 80+ exoplanetary systems have been cited - the equation is getting easier to interpolate.

'SETI downloads raw data' - info on 'Big Ear' WOW signal detected in 1977 -
http://www.bigear.org/wow.htm

sounds fun..... im interested..... should i join if i cant keep my computer on when i am not using it??

Possibly. The whole point is that you leave your machine running for a substantial continuous period of time. When I was involved, I left my box on 24/7 and all of our top SETI members do the same. It really depends how much power and speed your machine has and how long it can be left switched on.

:-\

oh..... i got it..... i'll join attempt joining during the summer when i can leave my comp running overnight. Anyway, i went there it is seems like a simple set up. :)

i forgot my user name and password for the seti, is there a way i can retrieve it? i know the user name is something like wild wolf, not sure

wildwolf!..
Check out Get Password (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/get_passwd.html)

Your password has been email to you, from the address i know(joymail)!

thanx got it :)

I have joined the team but my computer goes through the WUs very slowly. can any one help me speed them up?

System specs
CPU: AMD K6-2 500mhz
RAM: 512mb
OS: Win ME
GFX Card: Geforce2 mx 32Mb


what I mean by slow is they go at about 1% per Hour

Do you have a lot of other memory resident or system tray applications running? They shouldn't be a problem with all that memory, but still...

You could of course download and use the command line version which I hear is much faster. Look for a link in this thread somewhere.

Much better I went from 100+ hours per WU to about 20 hours

wow thanks for the help ChiefRedBull

kulbak

In my experience, the speed is not determined by RAM, it is affected by processor speed and the size of the processor cache. :)

But if there's no RAM free, there's no processing space. Thus, no speed.

Also, remember that if there is a small amount of memory then the OS is forced to page out to disk. This is a slow operation and if the OS is having to do it regularly then the overall system speed will be affected.

i just switched teams, I havent done seti in a while but I got pretty good stats which just transered to the group. I was with team art bell compliments of my uncle, but I like you guys better :O)

For those who view seti as a hassle but still wish to contribute here is a link on how to run the command-line client as a service in 2000/XP. Also welcome to the team anomaly.

http://www.geocities.com/lwddemon/setiservice/

Alright, Sweet My parenst got a new compaq and are letting me use it to do WUs and its is going at about 1 work unit every 3.75 hours.

My coMputer took 17+ hours to get to 40%

got three done already

Look for mike way down in 27th place but movin on up:D :D :D

to the founder of the team:

Please regenerate the team page. it is not updating correctly.

Just got some new computer parts and will now be running a Athalon XP 1800 with 512mb of pc2100 ram all with my new soyo dragon ultra platinum edition Mother Board.

Will blow my K6-2 500 away.

Just Joined yesterday and everything is up and running, just a couple of questions though.

Firstly, is it worth my while downloading the command line version for speed (i downloaded the windows version)?

Secondly, how many could i have open at the same time? (i am running an athlon cp 1800+, 512mb pc2100 ddr).

I thought this would go in the seti post !

I mean that i ahev just joined your seti group.

I'm guessing you are refering to SETI?

yes, sorry, i just edited the thread.

Yes, the command line version is MUCH faster because it doesn't
have to draw all the graphs and stuff. Also, you can have as
many open at the same time as your CPU can handle, I believe.

If you have Windows 2000 or XP, you can go to Task Manager
and adjust the priorities of each one so that their CPU usage
is equal for each one you have open. (Go to View -> Select
Columns, and check CPU Usage and Base Priority, right-click on a
process to change its proirity) Be sure not to set the prorities
too high, or they will take over your computer and leave no
processing power for anything else (not good).

how do u guys know that ur not just processing information for some bloke who set this whole thing up?:D

is this basically just giving part of ur internet connection and processor to do task for them?

I encourage you to read this. It will explain the science and the reason why they use other peoples computers.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/about_seti_at_home_1.html

They don't use your internet connection. Even very rarely connected computers can participate in the SETI project. The connection is only used for retrieving work units and sending the analysis results back.

I have been thinking about doing this for a long time but now that i have a much faster computer there are alot of unused cycles.

Starting the download now...

Just wondering if the group page takes awhile to update, since on http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_134625.html it shows me as having no statistics and http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=henszey_@hotmail.com&cmd=user_stats_new shows all my statistics.

The team stats pages at seti@home are down. As soon as they get them back up the page will regenerate and your stats will show.

hi i do have seti here and a friend of mine has got the id and password.
but till yet i m not able to understand what and how are we the part of the seti and how is it helping us.

well i also want to know that how does it works.

The Main computers send your computer a small chunk of data, then your computer goes through it running several differnt algorithms to search for pulses and things like that. After your computer has processed the data it sends the results back to the main computer.

is anyone else having problems with connecting to the seti server. I cant connect to send of some results.

also is there a way to see how the stats of individual members of this group?

Follow this link to see the stats of the team and each member

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Extreme+Visual+Basic+Forum

are you aware of any problems?

The team page is located here (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Extreme+Visual+Basic+Forum)
Sometimes the data server goes down for a variety of reasons. The best bet to help keep you up and running is to use SetiDriver (http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/). With it you can cache a few (or many) workunits to keep you going when the data server is down.

i have done that and am on my last packet.

the message i get when connecting is this:

new software version.....
connecting to server
connect: no such file or directory
cant connect to server

for a guide to setiing up seti or installing seti as a service in windows xp go here:
http://bionicdonkey.host.sk/index.php?modname=Seti

Anyone know how (where) to find out your rank?

You can see your rank in our group right here...
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Extreme+Visual+Basic+Forum

you are 19 when i wrote this post

Sorry, I cant join, Ive had my own group for a few years now and i would like to keep working on it.

Can anyone tell me why, when i am sending results it is not then downloading more information to process (i.e. fill)? and how i can fix it please?

i cant get it to work

I have the name SETI.EXE

And when I click new clinet it pops up windows and then I click it and it deletes the SETI.EXE?

HELP!?

Im using the Command line (I cant get Seti Driver to work?)

Should I use Seti Driver?

But I just ran seti.exe

and then im using Seti Spy?

Is this how you do it?

Adam

I joined!! I joined!:D

(This post was accident sorry)

I joined!! I joined!:D !!

Ok but I dont have the Driver working?

O wait..

Humm I might have got it working now...

Ill post you for an update


I have a 66% rate, is that good?

Ouchie WHA WHA!!

Im a avid overclocker (I have my 1600+ at 1900+ currently (Ive had it at 2300+, but that was one my friends mobo, i need a new one, mine sux bad!!)

But what I was gonna say is that this really heats things up.

In winter ill just turn SETI on when I get cold..

lol

1 more thing LOL

MY Overclocked

P1 MMX 200 @225 is doing a .99% Rate..

****!?!

LOL

EDIT:
Everything is working correctly on BOTH machines :-)

Some one said 'Well be at top in no time"

Ouch.. that is a OVVVVVVVVVVVVVVER Statement

We have like 9000 in and the LOWEST on the chart has 195864

LOL, and over 400 years, we have 12?

Come on, we need more people!! I might Setup another machine.

(I have 2 fried 1800+ that I gotta send back, If I got those going I could do tons of them a day)

:-)

I just gotta send them in!!

CPU time: 0:10:15
Speed: 482.40 Mflops
Rate: 42.43 % / hour
Efficiency: 3.27 CpF
Estimated total time: 2:21:24
Estimated time left: 2:11:08
Est. time done: 6:46 AM
Completed: 7.26%
Drift rate: 1.3124 Hz/s
FFT number: 958



WHY DOES THIS KEEP GOING DOWN???



CPU time: 0:12:16
Speed: 450.31 Mflops
Rate: 39.61 % / hour
Efficiency: 3.50 CpF
Estimated total time: 2:31:29
Estimated time left: 2:19:13
Est. time done: 6:58 AM
Completed: 8.10%
Drift rate: 1.7358 Hz/s
FFT number: 1262

??

It was steady at around 60-70%????

But if there's no RAM free, there's no processing space. Thus, no speed.


Red, Memory is 1% of this operation

Its all about CPU Speed/Speed of your cache and how much.

It could prob run on 2 megs, but would run slowers, each of my things takes up about 15 megs of mem

(I have 1 gig, so no worries here im running 4 processes

:-)

)

1 more question before I goto bed!!

Does More processes slow down the work untis per hour?



(Im setting up my Dual PII 300 To see how that runs :-))

Night all

The Dual 300 will be up tommarow most likely!!

ayoung,
You have successively Posted 10 threads each with a 5-10 minutes difference. Can you please control on it unnecessarily.

Have a look at Posting Guidelines. (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/announcement.php?s=&forumid=25).

No duplicate threads. Post your question once, in one thread, in one board only. You will get a reply if you have observed guideline 7 and if someone knows the answer, but it may not happen straight away. Duplicating often dilutes the volume and quality of any responses you receive, and potential respondents may not reply to a duplicate knowing that a moderator will delete all but one of them. If you wish to clarify your question, do so in a reply to the original thread. This action will 'bump' your thread to the top of the thread stack. Empty 'bumps' are discouraged and threads 'bumped' in this way, more than once in 48 hours, will be deleted.

Your threads are not *really* duplicate, but it is not the way to post 10 threads when there is no reply to your threads. The wiser way, will be to edit one of your Posts, with the new updates you want to show or explain.

I hope you will take the suggestion Positive. :)

O sorry dude.

My appoligies

(Im still up, screwing with that Dual PII, but im going to bed now...)

Lol 6:00am here

Again, Im sorry Anis and Anis, how far are you from the plants where they made the CPU's?

Sorry Man,

Adam

EDIT:

O anis and it you look, my posts started at 9:00pm and ended at 10:25 Almost 1.5 hours, not 5-10 minutes

Just so you know :-)

Its ok. Just keep in mind for future. Have a Great Day.:)

NP man

Is anyone alive?

How long do the stats take to update on there site?

Adam

As soon as you update a completed unit I suppose. I'd imagine that the page is dynamically generated from the results database.

anyone got any ideas why my cache doesnt auto fill when updating?

would running it on a Ram drive make it any faster?

(I dont think it would cuz the files are soo small n e way, that there are just cached into the Ram n e way.)

I don't really think so, people for the most part run it on a ram drive so they can power down there disk drives and it can still process the WU without accessing the HD. The thinking is I guess that it saves power if only the MB and power supply are running.

35) ayoung 4 14 hr 29 min 3 hr 37 min 25.4 sec

Wow looks like my PC is fastest (Well unless someone is doing what I am)

It wont be in a few hours, I have m Dual Pii 300 which does like 10 hours per work load

and my P1 MXX @225 is like 35 hours, so once they send in there data, it will sky rocket to a bad (sloowwwwwww ) #

But for now my Pc is pretty fast :-)

Well I finally got my Dual System up, I had it on Winxp but it was sllllloooowwwww!!

So I put Win2k Pro, and it ALOT faster, actually its alot faster than I thought.

Its does 2 processes and it is doing about 8.5 hours per work load..

Remember this is a Dual PII 300MMX, @ 8.5 hours(Running 2 processes), where I have a 1900+ (10.5x150) @3.1 hours (Running 4 processes) But i dont think the processes mess with that number, beucase it avg's them out.

But that is ALOT faster than I thought!

thats kool

I have:

1 Really slow machine 30+ hours (P1 200Mxx @ 225 )
1 Kinda Fast Dual Pii (Dual Pii 266 @ 300)
1 Fast 1600+ ( Amd Athlonxp 1600+ @ 1900+)

Sounds like fun!! :-)

O BTW Im gonna make a small web page for the SETI team here so people can join, its just gonna be one simple page and it will have all the info that you gave us about where to get all the stuff.

(Ill prob just copy and paste)

Adam

:D :D

This is just a 15 minute website.

Nothing special

(On my sig)

Tell me if you want me to (consider) change anything.

Or if you want to to (consider) add anything.


Which I prob. will, with no problem.

Adam

I like it. We do need a replacement queue since I took the one we had running down. Good job and I have bookmarked it and will be using it when I get the seti box back online.

why dont you post a message in the main forum about seti and this group and try and get a few new members, afterall there are only around thirty members (most of which seem to be innactive). The group really isnt doing that well. I think that if a message was posted in the main forum then more people may join your group.

Hey man, i'm not inactive on the seti thing, i have 4 computers running it!

a
1.2Ghz computer
a
733Mhz computer
a
233Mhz computer
and a
133Mhz computer

i was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to test my guide for running seti as a service in NT/2000/XP. i would do it myself but i don't have access to a computer running nt at the moment. here's the guide:
http://bionicdonkey.host.sk/service.php

Thanks

Originally posted by Webmaster
I like it. We do need a replacement queue since I took the one we had running down. Good job and I have bookmarked it and will be using it when I get the seti box back online.

Whats a "Replacemnt Queue"

thanks Honcho :D

Adam

Hey i joined and i have a 350 Mhz(256MB) running GUI and a 700Mhz running CLI my 350Mhz(160MB) is soon to have CLI

Hey Does neone use SETI nemore. Only a few ppl have returned results in the last few days; I am afraid that is y we are not Ranking!!!!

We are not ranking because we have a handful of members compared to some teams who have hundreds.

You are right though. There aren't many people doing it anymore. See this thread (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43654) for reasons.

But it does not matter the number of members. Some of the top teams have the same number as us

There are a couple but none above 48th and from the number of years they have they must have started a long time ago.

I mean come on, there are national teams in there. The only way I can think of to get that many people is to make new members here join our team, and I don't think that's such a good idea anyway.

yes this is true

Some teams (especially the top 50) have say 300 computers running on corporate networks, so they can return nearly a years results every day, to catch up with them your team would realistically need about 1000 members, each with say 10 computers each, each processing units in about 10 hours, thus getting 2 1/2 units a day, contributing 25,000 units a day, gaining 10000 days computer time every day, and that will still take time to catch up...

The Sun team has returned 1023765 results, with 1047.406 years of CPU time, av work time roughly 9 hours, that's what you have to compete against.

At the very least to get into the top 1000 you need to get 33192 results, and 55.251 years computer time.

Long way to go.

Whooo Hooo, over 10,000 results received!

Are there any seti kernals that are Multi threaded? (Multi processor support?)

Adam

Yes i am movin' up in the group

20 WU

30 of 39

I don't get it.
I mean, what does this actually do? How is it helping in the search for extra-terrestrial life? Maybe I'm stupid, but the site seems like an advert for spyware (shock! gasp!), with "when you go for a coffee, your computer will be..."

What type of information is this processing, and why would we want something using processing power, whether we're at our computer or not?

It sounds a good idea, but (lol) I'm 56 K dial-up so I doubt I'd contribute to finding our little oddly-fingered friends :)

I hit 1000 wu sent. Didn't have seti running for a couple weeks because I was changing some things and moving servers around. Once I get it running on the rest of the computers again at home and work the second thousand should come around much quicker.

Originally posted by rimby
I don't get it.
I mean, what does this actually do? How is it helping in the search for extra-terrestrial life? Maybe I'm stupid, but the site seems like an advert for spyware (shock! gasp!), with "when you go for a coffee, your computer will be..."

The idea is (and this is explained in more depth in the site) is that SETI use a radio telescope(s) to analyse radio waves coming from space with the ideal goal being that they discover some strong signals from outer space that hopefully they will be radio signals from aliens, hopefully saying "Hello" (and not, "we're coming to kill you" ;) )

What type of information is this processing, and why would we want something using processing power, whether we're at our computer or not?

The idea here is that when you are not at your computer and it is on, it is essentially idle and wasting processing cycles. SETI (and the other similar projects like UD Cancer research) uses this idle power to process the data looking for certain signals. I want to help find a cure for cancer, and as my computer is on 24/7 (and I'm asleep ~8 hours and out from 8am to about 8:00pm, and thus not in use from about 11pm to 8pm during the week (21 hours a day), it can use that spare CPU time to process data rather than just sitting there doing nothing.

[It sounds a good idea, but (lol) I'm 56 K dial-up so I doubt I'd contribute to finding our little oddly-fingered friends :)

Your modem speed has nothing to do with this. Users download a file, the cpu processes it, then the result is sent next time you are online and a new one is downloaded. With regards to dial up, you can download a cache program that stores 4 units, proceses them and sends them when you are next online.

im afraid i left this group - there was hardly anyone interested in from here, about 10 people actualy interested.

Webmaster i tried to connect to the proxy a couple of days ago but coudn't. What do you think is wrong?

Anybody knows the functions seti are using to analyze data ?

Bob I haven't been able to connect to the proxy for awhile now, not sure how long as all that machine does pretty much is run SETI so I don't look at it all that often.

I just got back into SETI. I got my new box (AMD Athlon XP 1800+)
and it's going about 26% and hour (so a little under 4 hours per
unit), and I'll be getting some more memory soon, so it should go
even faster.

I have a amd 2100+ and get about 3,25 -3,5 hours every unit...

My number of units sent is 9827 with an average of 30-40 units/day I have several machines making units ...

The best way to increase speed with seti is making it work as a service
You can use setiqueue. A very good way to caching units ....
This way if you cant connect , you dont need to stop seti couse setiqueue can wait to send the unit and can give units cached.

You can look setiqueue page at
http://www.setiqueue.org/default.asp

In the ladder for the top something best helping group it show Total CPU time ( in years), what it that based on? X Mhz running non stop for 1 year.... Anyway it hard to fix a number of Mhz sinces the Mhz of a average PC is no constatent

CPU time in years is basically:

1 year of cpu processing - your computer running non stop for 1 year. However, this is variable, because if someone has 10 cpus, they can get 10 years cpu time over 1 year, or 1 year cpu time in 1/10 of a year.

Adding more RAM almost certainly will not improve unit processing time as the unit is done using cpu power alone to numbercrunch the unit. Adding RAM will only make background applications have more available to them, and to my knowledge, this does not effect cpu speed enough to suddenly drop the processing time significantly.

Its being advertised in other places too. All the more help with the ongoing process :)

http://www.fantasytalesonline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=682

I thought it was based on a number of Mhz, I feel newbish :P, but it cool, I downloaded and it running as I type, I'm at 2% I'm can't relly help mutch cause can't keep comp on over night but I'm trying to get a few "work package" thing done, Alltought I might be able to finish a few, kinda my way of thanking for this forum :) and providing for SETI program

HOLY *****, I'm was running that normal program, it was going to take me arround 40H or more to complete a work unit thing, I download this thing called a SETI command line withc remove all the pretty little GFX and does it dos style with reason just silent, compare it

Normal:
20.77 Mega Flop
Total time: 44:59 Hours
Rate: 2.22%/hour
bla bla bla

Command Line One:
137 Mega Flop
Total Time: 8 Hours
Rate: 12.16%
bla bla bla

Ok, my computer isn't relly fast, but compare the Radio... There a BIG diff! I started command line one 3 hours after and it allmost caught up to the normal one (I think its offcialy made by the offical SETI@home team 2) So if you want to catch up use that program (I'm running both at the same time actutaly)

Get it from attachement Also I've inclued SETISpy witch will return info like the one i posted above and tell me where in the sky map your processing and stuff like that. Happy searching!

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allway well go to SETI plug in and get command line NT and SETISpy

Is there any multi threaded SETI kernals?

Cuz if you have a 2 processor system, and you want to just run 1 process it will just run one of the processors 100% and the other will not be touched even if you set Priorty on High and affinity to both processors?

At the moment there is not any multi cpu client ...

I think it's funny that the Seti parody thread (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49272) has recieved more thread views in one day than this one has in nine months! :D:D

Arigato,
Gamer X

I first tryed to do the command thing. But it didn't work. Then I downloaded the Win version. And now I have one green radar and one red radar in my tray. Is that normal, or have I one working and one not working SETI app running???

I'm climbing...or something like that...

weird, i don't know what the red icon is but the green icon is SETI@home gui version.
Command line version should work. make sure you have command line and a program called SETI driver (http://home.sprintmail.com/~obermd/SETIDriver). that should do you good. In SETI driver there is a radio button down at the bottom of the window that says "using Setispy" i think.

SETI spy (http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/) is another program you should download so that you can see the progress of your SETI@home client.

P.S. if you have anymore problems just ask.

these instructions may also help (http://members.home.nl/marcel.zuiderveld/)

Thanks, but I'm using the windows version in stead. Maybe not that fast, but it was much easyer to set up ;)

I'm soon finished with my 8th "data-thingy". And still climbing on the list :D

The windows version is far too slo to run. It takes about three times as long (or more) to complete. In my case that would mean 12 hours, which is quite fast. It shouldnt be hard at all to set up, as i remember all u have to do is download the main client and the set driver put them in the same folder and run the driver.

I downloaded everything into one folder...but when I started it the exe a choosed just disappeared...and nothing happened....

The first data unit was sent away after 28h, the second after 21...now my win client uses about 5-8h on one...So if I could get the other one to run...this might get pretty fast...

Just run the SETI client exe on its own and then start the driver exe. This will stop it from deleting the client exe.

I got it I got it...its running as hell....

Estimatet time: 3.22.41.....

Just one more question...can I close the console window...and just have the setispy window open...or???

Download setihide. Do a search on google for it. It will control seti command line version. I use it and like it.

I found out that SetiSpy could do it...So now the onøy thing showing is setyspy down in the right corner of my try....

So with a estiamtet time of 3:25...then I suppose I'm readdy to start climbing this list...

I'll be watching my back as you come up the ladder.

Originally posted by Bob Schwarz Sr
I'll be watching my back as you come up the ladder.


...lol...I'm never going to reach the top...but I like to think that I'm adding something to the team...nice to be working with you guys...;)

Originally posted by Bob Schwarz Sr
I'll be watching my back as you come up the ladder.



Wow he is coming up fast i better ugrade and watch me back also

Originally posted by frodobaggins
Wow he is coming up fast i better ugrade and watch me back also

I don't think so...because I have to turn my PC of 2-3 weeks when I go home for X-mas, so you have some time to upgrade your PC....:D

Finished 100 now...and still climbing the charts....back from vacation now...so the next 100 will go much faster...

What does it mean that SetiSpy is Idle???????????

I'd guess it means that you are not processing anything. Did you allow it to download more data blocks? I normally set it to cahce at least 10.

I don't use SetiDriver..(I think) only SetiSpy...so I don't think I can choose cache...

..something happend and the setispy closed...when I tried to open it up again it said..."SetSpy canot access the file state.sah" Abort/Ignore...if I press Ignore it is just standing there "IDLE" doing nothing...

I didn't think that you could use SetiSpy without the driver.

I'm not sure if I'm using it...but when I tried to to follow how to use the command line version of Seti, the command box didn't pop up. But when I startet SetiSpy afterwards it did...

OK, now it sems like I have doubled the proble, for a couple of hours ago, nothing was working, now it looks like both the SetiSpy and SetiDriver is working. Look at the picture. Any one else has this in their task bar????

Yes regularly. The Driver is what controls the downloading and upload of data. SetiSpy simply takes that data and presents it in a nice way. You absolutely need the client exe and the driver but Spy you can load and unload as you see fit.

But the SetiSpy and the SetiDriver is not presenting the same information. Are you sure they are woking on the same data....

They should be. Do you have them both in the same folder?

NoteMe, You are moving up the list pretty fast. Good job.

Thanks, I'm trying...I got a certificate for doing 100 a couple of weeks ago...:D

I think I would have received 'certificates' if I could remember my password so I could change my email address.

:-\

And today I pased "dcl3500" too....BTW where is "dcl3500" havn't seen him around for a while....

one day when i get a real comp, i might climb up the ranks too, lol

If we look at the total CPU time, you are almost the "best"....hehehe....3490 hr 45 min

Something is not like it should be. Now I'm finaly under 4 hours Average CPU time. But Ablecken that has more then 9 hours are going faster then me....I think he has got a new machine...

BTW I can't see him on this forum...

Never mind. I did see him now...he is a zero poster..;)

so, i don't have mush time for reading all this one...

but, i've read some of the posts...

i'm thinking if is there a way of making it more faster ?
is that what I read ?

2 hours !!

and just 5 % of the data has been processed...
I need a way of doing it faster !!

hmm...
just wondering, rebooting my computer will clear the data processed that did not been sent ?

hey...
can i run a user in 2 computers at the same time ? like...

use my login information in more than 1 computer ?

'cause I have a Cyber-Cafe

with 20 fast computers (for games), and, if i could do this...

my stats would climb very very fast...

Yes you can.

what about running it faster ? how ?

Use the command line version. It will run much faster.

Originally posted by NoteMe
But Ablecken that has more then 9 hours are going faster then me....I think he has got a new machine...

'Ablecken' may be running many machines with the same account. Even if all the machines run at 9 hours per unit, with just 2 machines Ablecken would still rise up the ranks faster than someone doing 5 hours per work unit on just one machine.

Is there a way to merge the SetiSpy history coordinates from two machines?

So it's not helping for me to now have the fastest machine on the team...:( hehehehe

Test something.

question for you all. I've got it running as a service on my win2k box (we shut it down every night, and i got tired of restarting setidriver).

I just finished a WU, but have no idea how to transmit it. where is the data that got processed (the name). Seti-driver still recognizes the old seti.exe, so i cant use that. what files could i switch out so that setidriver can transmit?

Inside the folder where SetiDriver lives, you should see folders numbered 1 up to however many units you have cached. Inside these folders are all the files associated with a work unit.

However, you should be able to configure SetiDriver correctly so you dont need to go around moving files.

:-\

but the problem is i dont know where the service stashes its wu's...any idea?

i think i know where they are...

nevermind, i figured it out. The service dumps them in this one location, and all i have to do is run seti.exe from that location to transmit

nother question...i've heard of people running multiple instances of seti? is this more efficient?

I am doing that now. It is a little bit faster, but not very much...

Ok, i've got two going, splitting the time evenly. That good?

I can't see the advantage in having two programs using the CPU time, as you are now having twice the overhead, reducing the total amount of time spent on the actual calculations. Unless, of course, you have dual (or quad) procs or one of those fancy Pentium 4 HTs.

There is no advantage to run more than one on a single cpu box unless you have one of the new P4 3.06Ghz with hyperthreading turned on. I just built my wife one and it does 24 wu a day.

24 a day? Thats insane! Well, im running my amazing (cough) 401 Mhz machine, and its cranking (puttering, more like) out one every 2 days, which is a large improvement over one a week using the GUI SETI.

I got too lazy to start setidriver each day, so im back to running just one service SETI. :)

It was a long hard fight, but, I finally made it to the top.

Yes, the 3.06Ghz box I built for my wife does 24 a day. It has hyperthreading enabled and 2 instances running and both are done in 2 hours or under. It out performs both the dual Xeons servers that we run this site on and my Dual Xeon that I use for a workstation.
I am considering going to 2 of them as servers instead of the duals. It will run better and will not consume as much power. The electric bill is getting rather high.

excalibur: I modified SETI Driver so that it doesn't ask you for the SETI client location each time it starts up. I then put a link to this new SETI Driver in my Startup folder and it goes along all by itself. So far it only works if SETI Driver and seti.exe are both in a folder called C:\SETI but I am working on it so that it can grab the location from the commandline or from a file.

If you want I can upload it next time I am in town. :)

Sounds good. The service works well, except whenever it finishes, i have to shut the service off and transmit manualy, then restart the service.

howd you modify seti driver? Is it open source?

Originally posted by Bob Schwarz Sr
It was a long hard fight, but, I finally made it to the top.


Congratulations...you deserve to be at the top of that list...;)

Originally posted by excaliber
howd you modify seti driver? Is it open source?

Yes SETI Driver is open source (C++):
http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/SourceCode.htm

Huh, cool. Too bad i dont know C++...

Now that im getting a new motherboard/CPU, i'lls tart cranking out the WU's. Its only 1.6 Ghz, but i'll overclock as much as it'll go, so should get more work done... :)

Im gaining on your Squrim :-)

May take a week, but ill be up there soon!

I feel a sudden urge to build a system on one of these and try to unseat Bob ... and then I look at my wallet.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thundergche.html

That board is expensive and the processors are real expensive. I have a quad Xeon server, older P2 500Mhz 1meg cache. I have it offline because one of the vrm is bad. It was running the database for a while. It is a real workhorse. As soon as I can find a replacement vrm I'll put it back up.

Sigh...and i thought my new 1.6 Ghz Athlon was good...I'll beat you all one of these days...the power of old computers!

**Goes down to basement and continues networking several ancient computers together, putting out one WU every week combined**

1.6 Athlon beats my 1.2 T-Bird. The gig-o-ram helps, tho.

Yeah, the board and chips are expensive. The RAM is getting cheaper, though, not that it helps when you need that much of it to max out the board. If only it had an AGP Pro slot, you could throw in a Wildcat4 and a Pure card and never have to turn off particle effects in 3dsmax viewports.

Watch out everyone, my new comp is up and running!

Well, this machine (400 Mhz) gets a WU done every 17 hours.

My new machine (1.67 Ghz) gets them done in 6.77 hours.

HAHAHAHA

**Wanders off to laugh manically some more**

All but two of my 200+ WUs have been between 0 and 30 degrees above the plane of the ecliptic (I think that's what its called) Is there a focus on this region of the sky, or is it coincidence? THe other two came from about 45 degrees above.

And as for speed, my 1.2 Ghz can do a WU in 5.8hrs if nothing is running. Sounds like you got a bum box :)

I have a 1,6GHz AMD MP doing my WUs in 3,51...;)...and that is while a I am working an constantly downloading movies and stuff...

in 3.5 hours? Maybe its because of my harddrive. The drives are ancient and really slow. One is only one gig, and the other is 500 megs. Im going to replace it soon.

The processor is up to speed, i ran some benchmarks on it. And the memory isnt a problem, got 512 megs of RAM

I have only 256Mb of ram...but I think that I becuase I have a MP prosessor things are going a little bit faster...

Yea, i have the AMD Athlon XP 2000+

Would it matter that im running on 98 SE, with the hard drives still on FAT16? :)

I run with 1Gb of RAM, 98SE, with FAT32. The MP doesn't have extra efficiency stuff that much, I don't think; its just got the multiprocessor segments certified. You can use an XP in a multiproc system, there's jsut a chance it will not work/blow up.

NoteMe: Looks like you're the guy who's going to stop my rise; everyone between us either never runs seti@home or has a longer result interval than me. Time to requisition the other machines in my house ... which brings me to the quesiton of merging the coordinates displayed in the Sky Map section of SetiSpy. Are those stored somewhere that I could copy between machines, or is it in some inaccesible location?

"multiprocessor segments"? What are those? Is there a way i can safely enable them, and will it help?

Anything else i can do to speed it up? Im running SETI CLI, but also using SETI Driver. Does Driver slow it down any?

The chips have to have a bit of them working that allows a multiprocessor system to run. Sometimes, this bit doesn't come out working from the fab process. Rather than throw away an otherwise functional chip, you just package it as 'not certified for multiproc.' What you want to improve speed with seti@home is a large amount of L1 and L2 cache (on-processor memory) and lots of floating point support. Newer chip architectures in the same processor name will do better at the same clock speed. The latest generation of Athlon XP, for example, performs better than the last generation at a lower clock speed (3000+ runs at a lower clock than 2800+) because of improved architecture. Multiprocessor capabilities don't weigh in the equation, unless you have multiple processors (Or, like Bob, have a chip with Hyperthreading, which is different from multiprocessor support)

Hmmm...not much i can do about improving the L1 and L2 Cache (128kb L1, 256kb L2). I cant change the floating point either, can i.

Anything else i can do to speed up performance? Other than overclocking that is. :)

If you shut off unneccessary background stuff, like a firewall, antivirus, etc. (Yeah, um, kill your internet connection before dropping the firewall ... might want to cache a few WUs before you do that) you can get a performance boost. Also, insuring that your chipset drivers are up to date might get a bit more performance.

Hey, I found where the history for SetiSpy is kept. In the seti@home root directory, there is a file called setispy.log. All the WUs processed while SetSpy was watching are there. If you kill setispy part way through, the WU is still recorded, just with a non-100% completed state.

As another performance mark, I just set up seti@home on my sister's 1.3Ghz Duron with 256Mb of DDR, and it reads 3.32hr/WU. And my 133Mhz Pentium Pro machine does 54Hr/WU :(

3.32 hours on a 1.3? Something must be seriously wrong with my comp. Its down to about 5.3 hours, but thats still slow, comparatively speaking.

Do you think that the combination of 98Se/FAT16 and old harddrives is slowing it down? I have next to nothing running in the background (Motherboard monitor 5, RAMPage (RAM utility) and a LAN connection monitor program)

That was after about 5mins of operation; actual will vary a bit. Buy my sister runs the Drempels screen saver, which is like seti@home in that it eats all idle clock cycles, but unlike it in that the pretty patterns don't actually mean anything. It jumped to about 94Hr/WU with the screensaver on.

I have no idea why your machine has poorer performance than mine; the Duron is supposed to be a piece of crap for CPU intensive apps.

Hey, I think I fixed the little screensaver issue: I wrote a little proggy that kills the screensaver from 11pm to 12 am (when sis isn't near the machine) so that seti@home can run at full power. Funny that screensavers have become so that they actually cause more brightness on the monitor than what is there normally (though the moving image is probably better than the staic one) and are more for entertainment than monitor longevity.

Well, im quite happy now.

I formated my C drive and installed Win2k (a hard and painful task...the monitor didnt work, had to reload the drivers, too much paged memory was being used and took up the drive, etc.)

But after the sweat and toil of installing it was done (and reconfiguring/installing all my other apps), Im quite pleased. While running defrag at the moment, its doing abou 5.12 Hr/WU, and seems to go even lower when not defragging. I think this is thanks to the Win2k OS and the NTFS on the drive.

Cheers!

HAH!

I fiddled with the DRAM Timings, CAS, latency, increased the FSB to 136, enhanced the AGP for better performance, etc.

And got it down to 4.02 Hr/WU.

:)

If the FSB is set to 140, it drops to 3.5, but then the comp randomly reboots itself, which was unnacceptable.

On a different note, I've either found the little green men or my comp corrupted the data while i was fiddiling with the DRAM...

That or you got a WU very heavily populated with suspicious data. Always wondered if they take artifacts induced by overclocking into the seti@home program ...

lol...just have to wait and see...if my name comes up in the world news in the enxt few days, i'll gladly sign autographs. :)

I had 76 once. Bu that is only once....and 36 and 38 once...;)

I got 14 spikes today, after a system crash while seti was running. I think its a record for me. Were your oddly high numbers near system crashes?

My machine has only crashed 2 times the last 8months, so no that has nothing to do with it...;)

I got 14 spikes today, after a system crash while seti was running. I think its a record for me. Were your oddly high numbers near system crashes?

Yup. I was fiddiling with the FSB and the DRAM Timings, which caused it to reboot about 5 times without warning in about an hours time. I bet thats what happened. :D

I just joined the team... so now we have 51.

AHHHHH! No! :D

Go join the EXVB RC5-72 Team! SETI will be ending soon, so we started a different project

The RC5-72 Client is just as easy (if not easier) to setup. We only have two people on the team, so ever bit counts! Go Join! ;)

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/t69993.html

Ok I installed that too, so I guess I will just start running that instead! I jsut thought that noone was doing it anymore cause there were only 2 on the team heh.

Lol. Nope, we just started! Thanks for starting! Recruit your friends! :D