SETI: BOINC Beta open

[TenaciousT]

Boinc Beta Account Creation Page

I hope I'm allowed to post this... It didn't say anything on the page about it...

 

[Tarca]

Thanks now I'm hooked up WooHooooooo

 

[TenaciousT]

Remember to join
Team Anandtech if you get in the Beta.

 

[Smoke]

Can old guys join in on this?

 

[SirUlli]

Originally posted by: Smoke
Can old guys join in on this?

no you have to go to this

Link, and the put the join Button.

okayyyyyyyyyyyy, just a joke.

Greetings from Germany
Ulli

 

[Wiz]

Cool, I joined.

What's the deal with their "Cannot find server" every other time you try to access anything?

 

[TenaciousT]

I think the server is overloaded.

 

[Wiz]

ummm what URL do I put in to do seti?

 

[TenaciousT]

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/ and click the "Create an Account" link.

 

[Assimilator1]

Cool! ,now lets not have too many of us switch to S@H2 just yet

 

[Idlorj]

The site has stopped adding new users at the moment while they fix database issues

 

[cakin]

It was up but just a few hours and already it is down. You think they would have learned by now...

 

[TenaciousT]

Cool! ,now lets not have too many of us switch to S@H2 just yet

Only switched over 1 machine, not to worry

 

[Wiz]

Just one here at the moment!

 

[Coolkid]

Dunno if i'll switch my main rig over just yet, maybe my duallie

 

[Tarca]

Just 1 rig right now....

 

[networkman]

No thanks.

 

[Smoke]

I switched this machine (My main work station) over last night. Woke up a little while ago and noticed no progress. BOINC was running but nothing was going on.

I checked my CPU usage and it was at 4%.

Enough of that, rebooted and started S@H-1 again.

I'll let you "experts" tell me when it is time to try it again.

 

[Robor]

Account Creation is Disabled

I must have missed it for now. Wanted to try out one machine on the BOINC client to see if I'll be switching over to it after SETI1 ends. Hopefully we can use a central proxy/gateway and a proggie like SetiQ is created for it.

 

[Smoke]

I did notice that when you check your own USER PAGE your computer's NAME is listed. I tried to go give it a peek before writing this reply but it seems the server to that info is overloaded or down.

Anyway, let me speculate: If you give each of your computers (speaking of mini-teams and large assimilations) a unique name, you can monitor which computers are contributing and which are not. I'm guessing on this because I haven't seen any historical stats as of yet. It would really be appreciated if one of the BETA TESTERS, with multiple computers, would provide us with a link to see their stats?

The only thing missing would be the caching of work to be done but it is my understanding that BOINC will have its own caching capability.

BTW, what does this mean:

BOINC - 11/19/03 09:55:21 - Suspending computation and file transfer - user is active
BOINC - 11/19/03 09:56:17 - Already attached to [L=http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/[/i]http://]http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/

BOINC is on but doing no work?

 

[TenaciousT]

I switched this machine (My main work station) over last night. Woke up a little while ago and noticed no progress. BOINC was running but nothing was going on.

That happened to me also. However, I rebooted the machine (actually I tripped over the power cord) and once windows restarted it began crunching.

Maybe it just needs a restart?

 

[Smoke]

Upon reboot, BOINC is in my startup tray and the lines I posted previously are showing again.

When I check the Windows Task Manager, Boinc_gui.exe is one of the processes but it is using 00% of the CPU?

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Smoke
Upon reboot, BOINC is in my startup tray and the lines I posted previously are showing again.

When I check the Windows Task Manager, Boinc_gui.exe is one of the processes but it is using 00% of the CPU?

The GUI won't take more than 0% CPU power (hopefully!). It is the individual project exe's that will be using the CPU power (hopefully!)

Therefore, for Seti, it will be setiathome_2.06.exe that will be using the CPU power, or for AstroPulse it will be astropulse_versionnumber.exe that will be using the CPU power.

If boinc_gui is using CPU power...then something's wrong

If I click on my "Show computers" link, it just hangs and never loads anything But, yeah, it does show each individual CPU that is running, the total credit that it has submitted, the recent credit it has recieved and IIRC it's CPU time each one has used.


Garry

 

[Wiz]

It's runing using about 97% cpu on my rig.

My questions:
when does it return results?
Looking in the Work area it shows 3 units as "ready to report" - why does it not send them in, does it wait until all the work is done for all that it downloaded?
Is there a way to only do setiathome if I wanted, it downloaded 4 units of seti and 6 units of AP?

 

[Smoke]

I used all of the defaults during the install. I believe AstroPulse was the default project?

I'm missing something because there is nothing running. Right now my System Idle Process is 97%.

Guess I'll turn S@H-1 back on. :Q