-=( Techspot SETI @ HOME team )=- going BOINC

DigitAlex · Jun 24, 2004

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

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

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

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)

LNCPapa · Jun 24, 2004

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

Didou · Jun 25, 2004

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...).

jlem · Jun 25, 2004

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

DigitAlex · Jun 25, 2004

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

MrGaribaldi · Jun 25, 2004

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

)

jlem · Jun 28, 2004

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.

Didou · Jun 28, 2004

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.

jlem · Jun 28, 2004

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

Didou · Jun 28, 2004

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

MrGaribaldi · Jun 30, 2004

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)...

jlem · Jul 1, 2004

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.

novicegamer · Jul 10, 2004

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

MrGaribaldi · Jul 12, 2004

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

jlem · Jul 12, 2004

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

MrGaribaldi · Jul 12, 2004

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....

novicegamer · Jul 12, 2004

cool now there are 2 going,hope more soon

STK · Jul 12, 2004

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.

MrGaribaldi · Jul 13, 2004

Well, we're now up to 4 people crunching

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

DigitAlex · Jul 13, 2004

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

STK · Jul 14, 2004

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?

SNGX1275 · Jul 14, 2004

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)

Goalie · Jul 17, 2004

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.

novicegamer · Jul 18, 2004

Setti boinc trchspot link still doesnt work

Goalie · Jul 18, 2004

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.

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