Seti@Home v3.03 CLI & or GUI for windows Speed Issues is it really slower?

[DigWeed]

Ok I have proof that 3.03 is about as fast as 7 hours maybe a bit more to complete 1 wu on a p3 1 ghz 384 ram and that the seti faq says they added a couple new science instructions whihc make it more intensive so anyone else get the big slow down? I mean from what people say here the 3.0 CLI i could be up to 200 wu's by now.

Pissed & Confused

 

[office boy]

er switch....
The CLI rocks anyway.

 

[TuffGuy]

yes it is slower, but it's all in the interest of science, which is why we're doing this anyway.

 

[networkman]

Historically, the S@H CLI client has been faster than the GUI client version for fairly obvious reasons, but the new 3.03 GUI version is going to be considerably slower than the 3.00 CLI version, simply because the 3.03 is running more calculations.

 

[CTho9305]

well, to give you an idea: 3.0CLI - 5.5hrs 3.03 GUI - 9-12 hrs. even old (2.4, 3.0) gui's were always around 6-7.

 

[Assimilator1]

Digweed
Whilst Tuffguy is perfectly correct,you can legitimately run v3.0 CLi for faster WU times up to the point until they block that client.

So do you want it?

 

[Phiton]

DigWeed, just for reference- this p3@936 does the average w/u in 4.2 hrs with CLI 3.0. I'm not switching to the new client till I have to.

 

[JWMiddleton]

DigWeed, you need to turn on Private Messaging (PM) in your profile!

Check this thread and PM me.

 

[DigWeed]

oh ok will turn it on! hehe sorry =*( Anyways I will look around for the old client 3.0 if one of you guys offered to provide me a link err or something please do! wooo


Thanks guys

 

[DigWeed]

BTW FYI when I say 3.03 I mean 3.03 CLI not Gui the text only version of 3.03 offers no performance benefit to the gui if you run the gui without the screensaver and on another note I shopped around online and found the 3.0 GUI client and I am now doing 1 wu every 4 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woooo the 3.03 client is garbage there is no way 2 extra instructions can add a 3 hour difference like that what are those instructions doing for them? maybe they have them processing how many babies it takes to screw in a light bulb I dunno =)

 

[Ken g6]

It's not two extra instructions an hour; in fact, it's closer to a doubling of instructions. Among the original 3.0 client changes was this:

[*]We were also able to increase the range of doppler drift rates at which the client analyzes the each work unit. We increased the range from +- 10Hz/s to +- 50Hz/s. At this range, we could detect an extraterrestrial version of our own low earth orbiting satellites. This is a search space never before explored. In order to not extend execution time too much, we only process the data at .3Hz and coarser spectral resolution for drift rates beyond +- 10Hz/second.

In the 3.03 client, the fine spectral search drift range was doubled to +- 20Hz/second. I don't know just how much work this adds, but it should be significant. On the other hand, this should allow us to detect civilizations living, say, on a moon of a gas giant planet.

 

[blade47]

BTW there is a performance benefit with the cli over the gui even when running the gui in the background at least with every other version of seti. With v3.0 there was around a 25% performance difference. I would imagine v3.03 will be no different.

 

[PhotoLenny]

Well, my times with the 3.03 client are about 7 hours with a tbird at 1.1g - with 3.0, it was about 3.5 - 4. The new 3.03 is most definitely slower.

 

[BadThad]

blade_47 is correct, the GUI version is ALWAYS slower, end of story.

DigWeed - No reason to be pissed. This is all just for fun! So, sit back, pop open a brew and relax. We're here to have a good time.

 

[Assimilator1]

Photo Lenny

Wow! ,that's a big hit ,about nearly 100% slower! ,ref 3.03 was that the CLi version?

 

[cory]

i moved 2 machines over to 3.03 to see how it goes and
like the rest of you it is very slow.

a 1.1 tbird looks like around 8 hours
a 800 pent 3 is a around 10 hours.
both of these machines were in the 4 hour range before

i am not going to move my cluster and other machines until
i have to but i will let these run this way to see how
stable it is.

 

[Poof]

Assimilator1 - what Photo Lenny has said is true. Having run what is now the new Ars TLC bench WU (0.417 angle range), my P3 600@800 with the 3.03 CLI run via WINE on Linux has gone from about 4:52hrs to 7:28hrs.