Seti@home gauntlet 2012

[dajeepster]

http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NT-H1-T...1741848&sr=8-1

Hands down. IDC did a huge write up on the stuff in the Cases & Cooling sub forum, the only way to do better is that metal stuff, which looks a little intimidating IMHO.

just recieved the compound on friday... i'll take care of it sometime this week.

and i need to dust off three 260GTX and pop them in a machine.

 

[blckgrffn]

just recieved the compound on friday... i'll take care of it sometime this week.

and i need to dust off three 260GTX and pop them in a machine.

:thumbsup:

That's some serious hardware to be "scrounging up"

 

[petrusbroder]

We need more members to join ... please?

 

[Wiz]

Who do we have so far?
When does it begin?
Is Bryan Wallace or Lane42 or TeAm Enterprise or Astro-AL or cory in?
They all have great RAC.
We have some heavy hitters already I'm sure but more = better!

 

[Sunny129]

i plan on participating so long as i can get done what i need to get done before the sign-up deadline. i'm adding an MSI R6950 TFII to my Milkyway@Home/SETI@Home machine, and i have to transfer it all to a bigger case first to allow the new video card to fit. plus, i may be trading my HD 5870 (+ cash) soon for a second unlocked MSI R6950 TFII. i have to get MW@H squared away first - the project recently updated the Separation application from the CAL-based v0.82 to the OpenCL-based v1.02, and i can no longer run the display on the IGP and MW@H tasks on the HD 5870 without getting errors. so i got the additional discrete GPU in hopes that it'll help the situation. if i can get MW@H running error-free, i can then devote time to getting SETI@Home running on the other GPU. i'm aiming to get this done by the end of the weekend, but i'm not making any promises at this point...

 

[Pokey]

Who do we have so far?
When does it begin?
Is Bryan Wallace or Lane42 or TeAm Enterprise or Astro-AL or cory in?
They all have great RAC.
We have some heavy hitters already I'm sure but more = better!

Last I looked, Peter had five listed ……. six counting me. The list included you and lane42.

Since my most productive crunchers are folding, I will probably need some lead time to get them switched over to Boinc-Seti. Hopefully I can get them going full speed when the race starts. I keep monitoring this forum and the Seti@Netherlands forum for news.

 

[Rattledagger]

Last I looked, Peter had five listed ……. six counting me. The list included you and lane42.

There's 7, since he forgot to list my account.

 

[petrusbroder]

Sorry for being unobservant - will be corrected.

Edit: is corrected ...

 

[bryanW1995]

I'd like to join. User id is 494498.

edit: can't figure out how to setup an account over at S@N.

 

[bryanW1995]

We will get involved.

I'll be in with all cores and all GPUs - I only hope that seti@home will not have a server outage ...
Which happened at the previous gauntlet ...

Oh crap, that should be a LOT of power!!

 

[bryanW1995]

Who do we have so far?
When does it begin?
Is Bryan Wallace or Lane42 or TeAm Enterprise or Astro-AL or cory in?
They all have great RAC.
We have some heavy hitters already I'm sure but more = better!

You, assimilator1, and crazee should have contact info on the entire Seti TeAm. I would email everybody, there are lots who have a pretty low SETI output but have other crunchers that they might temporarily switch over.

Edit: I'm going to post a new link to The Knights Who Say Ni! homepage so that everybody can get all of the latest optimized apps up and running as well.

 

[[2W]SEARCHER]

:biggrin: Hi to all,

here a new Information from User Cecile from Team SETI.Netherlands :


Hi Searcher, it will take some time before we can start the gauntlet. The bugs are more persisitent than we hoped. And our big bug-chaser Eesger is very busy with his own company. The crew hopes we can start the gauntlet in April.


Greatings [2W]SEARCHER

 

[Wiz]

You, assimilator1, and crazee should have contact info on the entire Seti TeAm. I would email everybody, there are lots who have a pretty low SETI output but have other crunchers that they might temporarily switch over.

An all TeAm email would be a big deal, something generally reserved for very important events. My feeling is that people read the forum so they should know about the gauntlet.
I would be all for waiting and seeing.
One thing that could be addressed is the language barrier on the other site to members signing up.

 

[petrusbroder]

...
One thing that could be addressed is the language barrier on the other site to members signing up.

That should not be a problem, it is sufficient if a member registers here @ AnandTech forum. The organizers check this forum too.
I'll keep track of all members and will post at the Seti-Netherland forum.

 

[Wiz]

That should not be a problem, it is sufficient if a member registers here @ AnandTech forum. The organizers check this forum too.
I'll keep track of all members and will post at the Seti-Netherland forum.

Thanks Peter, I had a fun time figuring out how to do it and I guess others might be going there - looking - and just giving up.

 

[Pokey]

From a strictly English speaker, I had the language barrier problem but found a translator (FoxLingo, a tool bar add-on for FireFox) which works pretty good. I got registered on the forum and can translate enough to get around pretty good.
I have a new admiration for the guys who are multilingual, even if they do occasionally make a error in grammar. I don't know enough to even make an error.

 

[blckgrffn]

Any magic required at this point to get AMD GPUs into the mix? What is required from a GPU standpoint (openCL, Direct Computer, DP, etc.)?

http://www.overclock.net/t/986936/seti-for-ati-amd-gpu-users

That looks doable but a little intimidating, simpler would be better...

Thanks in advance

 

[Sunny129]

Any magic required at this point to get AMD GPUs into the mix? What is required from a GPU standpoint (openCL, Direct Computer, DP, etc.)?

http://www.overclock.net/t/986936/seti-for-ati-amd-gpu-users

That looks doable but a little intimidating, simpler would be better...

Thanks in advance

yeah, optimized SETI apps for AMD GPUs are not for the faint of heart, or the inexperienced user. that said, it looks more intimidating than it really is. i don't have time to hash it out now, but i'll try to provide some "guidelines" later this evening.

*EDIT* - on that note, the S@H Lunatics v0.40 installer was officially released this morning: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=53611, and includes the new Astropulse v6.01 application.

 

[bryanW1995]

Figured out how to change settings on site to english, it's at the very bottom of the main page. I set up my account, just awaiting admin approval now. I need to brush up on my (nonexistent) Dutch, trash talk often loses its luster in translation!

 

[dajeepster]

yeah, optimized SETI apps for AMD GPUs are not for the faint of heart, or the inexperienced user. that said, it looks more intimidating than it really is. i don't have time to hash it out now, but i'll try to provide some "guidelines" later this evening.

*EDIT* - on that note, the S@H Lunatics v0.40 installer was officially released this morning: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=53611, and includes the new Astropulse v6.01 application.

cool.. i'll update mine when i get home after work.

has anyone tried seti on a gtx680 yet?

 

[Sunny129]

so obviously i didn't get a chance to post a simplified version of how to use AMD GPUs for SETI@Home last night. and i probably won't have time to do so until wednesday or later due to a very busy work schedule. that said, i think i can make things a bit simpler than the way they're explained in that overclock.net forum thread. since the release of the Lunatics installers (starting w/ v0.37, the most current being v0.40), we no longer have to manually download the appropriate applications, or manually create the associated app_info.xml file, or place them all in the appropriate directory. the Lunatics installer allows you to pick and choose which apps you want to use (from a list of various CPU & GPU apps), places them in the appropriate directory, and generates an app_info.xml file containing the necessary code for the selected apps for you.

the only intimidating part from here on out would be to edit the app_info.xml file for various reasons, the most common of which would probably be to allow more than 1 GPU task to run simultaneously. so if you're content w/ running one task per GPU at a time, then you don't need t edit anything in the app_info.xml file and you're good to go. if you would like to improve GPU load and/or crunching efficiency by running 2 or more tasks simultaneously, then you have to find the <count>n</count> line in that application's code section in the app_info.xml, and edit the value accordingly. the default value is 1, which corresponds to running 1 task at a time on the GPU(s). n = 0.5 corresponds to running 2 tasks simultaneously, n = 0.33 corresponds to 3 simultaneous tasks, as so on and so forth.

the only other things to remember are your basic project and web preferences. in other words, you want to make sure the project is setup to use the GPU (from both the server end via your web preferences, and from your own end via the BOINC manager preferences). also, if GPU computing is the only SETI@Home crunching you plan on doing, make sure your web preferences aren't set to use the CPU.

i'll post up in a few days w/ more detail...

 

[filibusterman]

ok I am in...made my post on the seti Netherlands site

 

[petrusbroder]

Please all Gauntlet TeAm-members:
Please run a WU or two asap to get at least some points. If you have not any points at all (=0) you can - for some reason I don't know) join the gauntlet.
Probably because you are not "active" ...

 

[petrusbroder]

The test-Guantlet is running - the date for the start is approaching. Please check this thread regularly for updates!

 

[[2W]SEARCHER]

Good Morning and Hello TeAm AnandTech,

here a new Information from User Eesger vom Team SETI. Netherlands :

Hello all,
First of all we (the S@NL) team are almost ready for the Gauntlet. It's been a hell of a job, and the Gauntlet hasn't even started yet
Everything didn't go at the speed we all would like, but (as usual) the problem is that we also have a(nother) life with (other) responsibilities
Now the statscode and the frontend seem to be ready! Look here : http://www.seti.nl/boinc_team.php?action=showsubteams&gauntlet=1&language=1
The final date will be set when a small test Gauntlet which will start with the update of today and will end on april second goes as we are hoping....
Therefore today you can still join the TEST Gauntlet. Then there will not be made any (team)changes until the TEST Gauntlet has ended (2 April 2012). Then we the team will evaluate if everything is ready and set a date for the REAL Gauntlet if everything went as hoped.
In the mean time other teams and members are offcource welcome!!

And here a new Posting from User XP_Freak vom Team SETI.Netherlands :

The test-Gauntlet is running, and all is looking just fine.


Many Greatings [2W]SEARCHER