Topic: SETI Thread Part III

[AJTK]

lol, i dont think i will be cranking out 1K wu's per DAY anytime soon, rofl! but, im hoping to build a new desktop sometime this year. either with a top o the line hyperlthreading enabled p4 or perhaps an athalon fx64

yeah, over 1000! FINALLY! and my time is still going down down down

HAND!  
 

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

5) Dragon93     25000     33.455 years    11 hr 43 min 22.0 sec    Mon Jun 7 02:58:25 2004    United States  

Now lets see you get the 50,000 certificate.

 

[Dragon93]

That's gonna be a while there buddy.

Unless I can commandeer some more machines...

[The Postman]

Does anybody know what is going on with the data server? Is this a bandwidth problem on their end? They seem hard pressed to get it to run 48 hours without problems.  I can't keep my "service" machines running if they can't keep the server up. As it is I haven't been able to transmit for 2 days on my home machines.  

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

June 17, 2004
We are working on fixing the network problems that are resulting in dropped connections to the data server.

June 18, 2004
The campus network folks did some great troubleshooting and narrowed down the problem to a faulty link on the path to our ISP. Repairs have been called in.

I've had trouble sending in but since I use SETIQueue I haven't missed a WU.    

[The Postman]

I have been following their troubles since they began posting. My problem is that I have 3 machines that I can't run any caching on. Everytime the server crashes on their end and one of these 3 machines tries to transmit and can't, it stops running until I can reboot it. I lose more than half of my capacity when those machines don't run.  In the meantime I have enlarged my cache by 1 day for the rest of my machines.  

[Taldren_Admin]

And we're off....

[Gambler]

Quote:
And we're off....  

And that is news to whom?  

 

[Gambler]

Drat, if not for Farenheit, I would have had the last post in the second thread.  

[DreadlordGW]

Ok everyone post away.

Gotta get this thread above the old ones

[jualdeaux]

Heh. It seems that we can only get so many posts before this version of the UBB stops the thread from working well.

[Sethan]

One of the last posts I made in Seti Thread II was a response from David Anderson - the power that be behind BOINC - to a note I sent him.

My original message was as follows:

Quote:
The ability of programs like SetiQueue to be a single point of contact for many Seti clients is important to maximum work unit production.  Many of the machines currently processing Seti work units do not have an internet connection, but connect to a single machine that does.

Remove the ability of SetiQueue to act as that single point of contact, and you also remove all of those non-internet connected machines from the pool.

His response:

 I think that an HTTP proxy would serve the same purpose.
I added some text to the "transition" page to this effect.
-- David  

The transition page of which he speaks is here:

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

and his address (should anyone have an issue with his response) is:

davea@ssl.berkeley.edu

[Cyberkada]

Having said that non-Internet connected machines will not have access, I'm through after SETI I.  Most of my machines are behind a fairly ugly milnet firewall and have no access individually.  SETI is one of those banned Internet programs.  SETI can run but can not receive/ send W/Us.

Oh well, I guess I will have to be Lord God for Life for SETI I for Taldren.  

[Sethan]

Like I said - if you have an issue with it, send Mr. Anderson a note explaining what the issue is and why.

[digi]

Although I only use 3 machines, 2 of these will be affected by Seti 2.  I've emailed Mr. Anderson about the issue as you suggested.  Hopefully if he gets enough of these some action may be taken to solve this issue.

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

Programs like SetiQueue and SetiDriver were created to handle problems with non internet connected machines by individuals.  I would be very surprised if the same did not occur with BOINC.  So give it time.  

[DreadlordGW]

This post brought to you buy the letter A

As in We need a BOINC Setiqueue

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

Since it looks like the old threads are going to be "unstickied" I think it may be useful to post a link to them.  Here they are.

Link to Seti thread I
Link to Seti thread II  

[Mentat Jon]

89) Mentat Jon   120 2530 hr 27 min 21 hr 05 min 13.5 sec Sat Sep 27 13:31:58 2003 United States



the slow creep to the summit continues!!!!  

[jualdeaux]

Well, due to two factors, I'm going to stop running seti, at least until we get another group going on another project. Lately, I've been having trouble paying bills so I'm turning off everything non-essential to try to drive down my electric bill. The other is just that this part is ending and it looks like there will be a lull between this one and the next so this is a good time to quit.

I just can't believe how fear this relatively small group has gone. We went from nothing to one of the top 200 groups in the world in just a short time. Does anyone know how long this group has be in existence and how long the SETI project has been going?