Hello all Techspot crunchers.

As you may know, S@H is changing the way all the crunching will work, so please read some important information HERE (http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/transition.php)

Shortly said, all your "old" work units will be saved to a separate stats place and when you will switch to BOINC clients, everybody will be starting from ZERO !!! A new way of calculating the credit is also used in this version.

The new homepage of our team can be reached HERE (http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/team_display.php?teamid=31905)

At the moment, I downloaded the new client but it says that there is no work for the project, so don't hurry yet...

By the way, in order to switch to BOINC you have to get a user ID from your old seti account, so activate it HERE (http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/sah_email_form.php)

On last thing, the client is reporting some performance and hardware related information to SETI, so if you are a privacy paranoiac, be careful. (Reporting IP, domain name, computer name, CPU, OS, RAM, HDD and client uptime percentage)

Someone post as soon as work is available - I'll start switching over then :)

I activated my account & it allready downloaded a few units for me to crunch. I think I'm gonna stick to SETI classic for now (especially since I have to keep running away from Goalie...).

I'm a bit confused guys, are we doing both seti and UD cancer research? Should we just pick one and run with it?

It's your choice ! Some run both (UD on some machines and SETI on others), some just run one of them

Well, BOINC downloaded and account activated.
Now I'm just waiting to conclude my cache of WU for the old SETI before I try it out.

(Though I might stick with the old client a while longer since I've at least got some units done there, and won't be at the bottom of our team ;))

I downloaded it also but no work available so it is to the classic I go. I don't liket he new one. I don't like change much. :)

There is supposed to be a new CLI available but you need Visual Studio .NET to compile it as there aren't any builds available. I like the idea behind BIONC but I'll wait for it to be a bit more mature before I do the switch.

are there any other projects available to work on in boinc?

There's the AstroPulse project (http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/) ( link -> http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/ ) wich analyses BlackHoles. You too in the back, stop laughing !!! :p

Well, it didn't like my user id (but the log shows a server error), so I'm staying with classic for now (which too is down right now)...

I finally got a project in the new one. I stopped the old client long enough to let this one run through. Let's see how it goes. :)

I have credits on boinc.Is anybody else going to start now ??
I feel so lonely,so hurry and get some more numbers up

I've tried, but now I can't get any WU's in either classic or boinc, so I've given up for the time being.

Three all day meetings and then one week vacation.
After that though, I'll try to get one of them to work :)

Yeah novice, if you check the second page you will see my results too, d_broncofan, I have switched all my computers over today.

Well, just booted up boinc to see what would happen, and don't you know it finally decided to work :)

Now I'll just have to see if it'll keep working when I'm gone, or if it'll be satisfied with the 3 WU's it had earlier today....

cool now there are 2 going,hope more soon

Hmmm... I created an account, but I cant get to the link to join the tech spot team, the link is not working for me.

Well, we're now up to 4 people crunching :)

STK> Strange. You are logged in when you try to join?

The techspot BOINC team link was this one, but now it stopped working for me :(

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/team_display.php?teamid=31905

No, Mr G i can not access the link, it does not respond.

I can not search for a team or anything either. I can not get any more work, do you have to do something to get work?

What is the teams name? tech spot?

July 13, 2004
Sorry folks, we ran into a cascade failure, our database server hung and had to be forced to terminate before it could be used again, which then required several hours to check all the tables and indexes, after that issue was resolved we ran into problems with our Network Attached Storage device. Additional fixes may occur throughout the night and possibly tomorrow.
Looks like they are having problems again. I found that at this link: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

STK - The team's name is techspot (no space between tech and spot)

For those of you having trouble with the BOINC client.. according to setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu the problem isn't that there is no work, just there is high demand and the RPC Scheduler can't handle it.. they're bringing machines up as they can, plus more splitters to handle the workload (They at one point had a 300,000 unit cache, were creating 12 units per hour or, and were handing them out 10,000 per hour.)

Keep force updating it, as well as letting it sit there, it'll eventually get the data.

For those poor folks like me on dialup, be sure to go into the BOINC preferences webpage and tell it to save at least X days of work to cache for ya.

Setti boinc trchspot link still doesnt work

The stats link probably should be setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu, not setiboinc....

I'll look into it when I get a few more minutes later on tonight.

I finally got it to work... problem is it doesn't seem to obey my settings. I have it set on the webpage to ask before connecting to the servers (cause I've got dialup at home). It has apparently ignored that command, because all 3 of the machines I put it on seem to dial up without asking.
It wouldn't normally be a problem except that my winmodem is such a POS that occationally it doesn't hang up properly and it leaves our phone line with no dial tone until I unplug the phone line (and we cannot recieve calls during this time either). It also sucks cause last night was the first night I had it on mine, and it woke me up several times during the night trying to connect.

What you can do is click on File->Disable Network

Yeah, I've noticed it doesn't listen to that modem setting. Do you have a home lan? I wonder if that affects it somehow....

Yeh it told it to disable network whatever, and that seems to be working.
No to the home LAN.

guys, I was finally able to see our stats by logging into my profile and clicking on the team stats link provided below.

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=31905

the difference being the /sah/ in the url

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/team_display.php?teamid=31905
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=31905

Wow thats ugly. Thanks for the link though.

The BOINC servers have been down for quite some time now, causing some of my report deadlines to come and go. That sucks cause my comps are slow, so its a lot of CPU time per unit to not have them count.. :(

my computers all show delaying contact to server for 6 days, up to a week. What happened?

Their systems that are made to handle this apparently cannot handle it. There has been nothing but problems with BOINC since it was released. I have yet to see it work flawlessly even once, and I have yet to see it work even with a few glitches for over 2 days.

Its crap, and my machines will not even be attempting to dl units until I hear from people over a few day period that its working.

Not very encouraging,I just read this
http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/10/alien_hunt_wrong_freq/

While the client is working fine, the servers themselves continue to have repeated outages.

They're moving to new hardware in hopes that it helps, but really I'm not sure this is the solution. It seems to me that a revamp of the DB architecture and workunit distribution method will be needed before BOINC is ready for full time.

Perhaps we should call this client B0IRK?

Have there been any changes on this front? Just curious to know if things have changed. I, personally, have stopped crunching for a while (my rooms are getting too hot) but was considering coming back once the bugs have been worked out.

I hope this is the right place to try and get some answers. I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 and the power and battery ligh just blinks when power cable is plug in. I think it may be the mother board but would like to know for sure. Has anyone had this problem before.

I have put BOINC on my system, but it is definately un-user friendly and a royal pain in the rectum to run. And you're correct- I haven't seen it run for a few days straight without outages. The screen-saver is a little prettier than the classic seti-at-home....

still I like to donate unused clock cycles to something worth while.

What is this exactly? I have seen people talk about how it does good and cancer research but I am a little confused any explanation of it would be appreciated.

BOINC is a program that allows multiple free clock cycle platforms to run on your computer. When one platform is not able to run for whatever reason - lack of data, server problems.... the next one will.