Seti@home

[KingJackal]

In my own words:

I 0wn j00 all @ seti :cool:

....ok, so perhaps not Viper_NZ, but he doesn't count or something :p :D.

TEH OCNZ SETI TEAM (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_104429.html)

So - any questions? And yes, a Seti/UD FAQ will be up shortly ;).

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

That's what I forgot to do :eek:

*runs away to reinstall* :D

[_N_]

any of you guys using that RAM drive so it runs in your RAM instead on the HDD?

[GooGlo]

Got linkage N?

[Binky Stunt Cat]

bah, the Cancer project is more interesting :D
plus i've actually been taught about the current target protien, RAF.

[_N_]

http://www.setiathomescreensaverspeed.co.uk/index.html

scroll down to ramdriver part.

[Viper_NZ]

Seti rox0rs!!!

Well done KJ, I'm sure your battle for 2nd place with Whetu is pumping a lot more units our teams way :D

Whatever happened to Scorched?? He just stopped moving a few months ago??

And Cancer is a good thing to prevent, provided they don't flick you onto Anthrax research........ I prefer Seti though.

[Control_Phreak]

*silently climbs the ranks of the OCNZ seti team*

[Viper_NZ]

26) Control_Phreak 38 192 hr 13 min 5 hr 03 min 31.3 sec Sat Jun 1 02:44:41 2002 New Zealand

Good effort. Don't think I've ever noticed you there before... hehe

Only a 5 hour average tho.... hmmm..... Might have to keep an eye on you ;)

[fatsanchez]

i'm still around , been a bit slack lately though.

whetu's 486'es have 3com nics and fdd's in them ready to go, just wait till i get some ram :D

[Control_Phreak]

w00t, you'll kick all our asses fatsanchez :P

yeh, my average has crept up a bit too... cause im playing gta3 all the time :)

[swiftynz]

Originally posted by Viper_NZ
And Cancer is a good thing to prevent, provided they don't flick you onto Anthrax research........ I prefer Seti though.
if you download the think client from intel's website, you cant be switched over to the anthrax project.

i reckon think's a lot better than seti. seti's kinda pointless (what's the chance of finding aliens) whereas think projects always have a purpose. i like the think website and client better than seti too :)

[Control_Phreak]

at least seti has a USEFUL purpose

The first real distributed computing projects were run by distributed.net for cracking encryption. The current rc5 project has been going for... wait for it... 1,681 days (4.6 years)

and I've been working on it for 1,611 days :)

Its got no real purpose other than to demonstrate how secure the encryption is...

[mird-OC]

*prepares to move into the No.2 spot on the RNZ THINK team*

:D

[Geek4Life]

I do THINK for the RNZ team, but the old celery ain't too flash at it. The only problem is not being able to run it as a client.

[swiftynz]

Originally posted by mird-OC
*prepares to move into the No.2 spot on the RNZ THINK team*

:D
well considering i'm currently number 2... grr.... :mad: :D

anyways looking at these stats you wouldn't think that you'd catch up to me... but if you've fairly recently added another device.... DOH!

/edit o yea btw altho it says i have 6 devices, only 3 of them are actually active. everytime u reinstall the UD app it adds a new device which u cant remove :rolleyes:

[SilverPriest]

*giggles*
Just my tbird and my k6-2 plodding along for all of this...
well, till the k6-2 died

[swiftynz]

hang on a minute silver.... u mean to tell me that you've done all that on two computers??!

jeez i've had the following 3 doing it for a long time, although my parents shut their computers off every night AND they're on 56k and thus not often connected so maybe thats why:

Mine: Duron 1200 / Tbird@1333

Dads: P4 1.5

Mums: Celeron @ 566

my brother doesn't have a net connection when hes at school so not much point in putting it on his.

[SilverPriest]

Yup, just me 1.33@1.4 (mostly) tbird, and the k6-2 450 @ 475 (105fsb)
My comp goes 24/7
the k6-2, well, whenever the parents turned it on and off, hehehehe.
Look @ my number of instalations.
Only 2 pc's :)
i have had the option of installing UD on oither peoples PC's under my account.
But i just gave them their own Accounts as i wanted this to be on my own.
*shrugs*
Hence the number of BN people in the RNZ team ;)

[Binky Stunt Cat]

hey dont forget bout me!!!
chugging away at 10:01:26:47 and 2499 points.
altho thats been since i started it on the 20th....and recoding videos doesnt help either...

[mird-OC]

this is what i've got going atm:

tbird 1.2GHz @ 1.5GHz (crunching most of the time)
celeron 850MHz @ 1.133GHz (crunching at night only)
dual celeron 366MHz @ 550Mhz (crunching hard out all day every day, except when i'm rendering)

but even tho i signed up quite early i didn't do any crunching for the first two months... i racked up about 26,000 points with just one machine (my trusty tbird), until about a fortnight ago when i added in two more rigs... now (as you can see below) i'm clocking up about 1,000 points a day :D (depending how much 3dsmax work/rendering i'm doing at any time).

[Binky Stunt Cat]

gah, you multi-computer pplz..... the rest of my family use Macs...

[Scorched]

Well I've taken the plunge...Ditched Seti a few months ago, just joined the RadiativeNZ team and about to finish my first unit -Yahoo-. Got a bit of work to do to catch you guys though.

What overall rating do your machines get in the Device information section?

[Binky Stunt Cat]

mines currently sitting on 44.....
and now i have the 2nd half of SG1 season 5 to recode...and then 3 seasons of Farscape, ack, it just goes on and on and on.....and i need a new HDD too :(

[KingJackal]

Originally posted by Scorched
Well I've taken the plunge...Ditched Seti a few months ago, just joined the RadiativeNZ team and about to finish my first unit -Yahoo-. Got a bit of work to do to catch you guys though.

What overall rating do your machines get in the Device information section?

Ahhhh - so THAT's why you... just... stopped? Lol - now Viper can sleep in peace tonight knowing that you weren't just stashing a couple thousand WU's..... :D

[DiscoStu]

My rating is usually round the 108 mark for UD.

But I can't sleep with it on so it evens out :D

[mird-OC]

my tbird is on 98, cellymine is on 80, dually celly is about 68 (per CPU :D)...

[SilverPriest]

Mine is 120-130 for me tbird.

[Geek4Life]

This is on 54 at the moment :mad:

[Geek4Life]

Hey whoa, they've just chopped the post counts from displaying ;)

[Viper_NZ]

Why on earth did you stop?? The competition was fun!!!

Now I'm not really competing. Just building up a tally......

Now, THINK people, stop hijacking the seti thread :P

[KingJackal]

Originally posted by Viper_NZ
Now, THINK people, stop hijacking the seti thread :P

Here here! :D

D@mnit Viper, how many drones you got - you're screaming up the leaderboards. Exactly HOW GOOD is that nForce of yours? :eek: :eek: :D

[Viper_NZ]

*taps side of nose - grins*

Good so see our team is moving along well. We should try and organise another race with OCAU...

[fatsanchez]

Originally posted by Control_Phreak
*silently climbs the ranks of the OCNZ seti team*

hmm,

16) FatSanchez 5 hr 01 min
26) Control_Phreak 5 hr 03 min 49.5 sec
28) Deviant 5 hr 36 min 27.1 sec

bring it! :D

[Deviant]

actually just started crunching at 4 hrs 30 mins, so that time should start coming down. It was 5hr 49mins yesturday.

[AgentofEvil]

I'd join the team, but I'm kinda stuck with anandtech. We're 11th in the world BTW.:D

[_N_]

well, last year SETI added about 600 hours on my account in one update which took me only 20 hours to do.
I've been doing about 1WU/6 hours on my duron 1GHz now, so everytime I update with a new WU, my average goes down by 1 hour.

Currently I'm running SETI in RAMDisk in Seti Driver and that seems to work the best and fastest. What do you guys use to make it work even faster?

[Deviant]

How much does the Ramdisk help, cause it's not exactly accessing the HDD all the time.

[_N_]

Are you sure it doesn't access the HDD?
cause after running Seti for hours, WinME comes up with HDD FAT32 errors and BSOD. and then crashes.
Whereas it doesn't do that with RAMDisk.

For me, it also sped up SETI a bit too, maybe took it from like 7-8hours per WU down to about 6 hours.

[KingJackal]

Lol man, I think you've got some other issues you need to deal with. The machine down the hall is using WindowsME, and crunching Seti 24/7. It generally has uptimes of 2-4 weeks....

Thought admittedly it's uptime ATM is only a measily 9days ( hardware change 9 days ago ) :(.

[_N_]

i know,
I'll do something about it when I get some time,

[Viper_NZ]

Originally posted by AgentofEvil
I'd join the team, but I'm kinda stuck with anandtech. We're 11th in the world BTW.:D

Goes to show where your loyalties lie :P :P :P

mwuahahaha... 3404 Seti units

[Deviant]

Woooow, I started crunching a WU, after 10% I set SetiDriver to do 2 processes at the same time, the first just finishes in 4:03mins, and now it reads 90.1% on the second W/U, estimated at 4:01mins.

I'm working double time, and the WU's take bugger all longer to do two at the same time.

I might try 3 at once!!

What do you think of that N!!

[Viper_NZ]

Originally posted by Deviant
Woooow, I started crunching a WU, after 10% I set SetiDriver to do 2 processes at the same time, the first just finishes in 4:03mins, and now it reads 90.1% on the second W/U, estimated at 4:01mins.

I'm working double time, and the WU's take bugger all longer to do two at the same time.

I might try 3 at once!!

What do you think of that N!!

Umm.. If you're running an NT based OS, it'll keep track of the CPU time THAT particular seti process used, not the total CPU time..

Are you sure it didn't take 8 hours to do those 2 4 hour units?

[_N_]

nice, I tried doing two at once, but didn't help me, only took twice as long, :(

are you sure, :D, like, try to do 10 or 20 WU's to be sure?

[Viper_NZ]

hahaha.... 20 clients x 15meg mem usage average......

That's only 300 meg... Nothing wrong there ;)

[Deviant]

I don't know how long my computer has been on today, as I was at work. It depens if the wife was using it.

[Viper_NZ]

Originally posted by Deviant
I don't know how long my computer has been on today, as I was at work. It depens if the wife was using it.

I get that... She has a perfectly good computer sitting over there.. But will use mine when I'm at work......

Bit annoying that I'm always signed out of messenger when I get home.. But I shouldn't complain. She only has a 14" monitor on hers ;)

[Control_Phreak]

Originally posted by fatsanchez


hmm,

16) FatSanchez 5 hr 01 min
26) Control_Phreak 5 hr 03 min 49.5 sec
28) Deviant 5 hr 36 min 27.1 sec

bring it! :D

*stops playing GTA3 in his spare time to let seti run at full speed....*

that should drop my average time back down to under 5 hours ;)

[Viper_NZ]

I love this extra bandwidth their servers have now... No more hassle getting units :D

[Control_Phreak]

*passes deviant in the ranks*

look out fatsanchez... im coming after you next! :D

[TheChosen_1]

Just joined SETI, not bad!!! Joined under TheChosen_1

[_N_]

have you joined a team?
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=overclockers+new+zealand

here is a good one, :D

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Control_Phreak
*passes deviant in the ranks*

look out fatsanchez... im coming after you next! :D

Passes you back!!!!

[TheChosen_1]

cheers Deviant just joined!!!

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by TheChosen_1
Just joined SETI, not bad!!! Joined under TheChosen_1
me thinks that you made the wrong decision there. THINK is what you should do.

There's more chance of you being TheChosen_1 and being affected by cancer some how. Than being TheChosen_1 by getting aliens coming after you.

[SilverPriest]

Now now Geek4Life, each to their own.
Chill ;)

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by SilverPriest
Now now Geek4Life, each to their own.
Chill ;)
Sorry Mr SilverPriest :o

[Antallica]

*Joins*

[mole]

Me too, see ya Blackvault.com I'm movin on.

[_N_]

I've picked up seti again too, joined in 99, but haven't done much since then,

[H2gO]

Originally posted by Viper_NZ
I love this extra bandwidth their servers have now... No more hassle getting units :D

on the quiet there Viper_NZ

I noticed your increased work unit rate of late
does this mean you're down on the Farm ?

:rolleyes:

[Viper_NZ]

Originally posted by Viper_NZ


Goes to show where your loyalties lie :P :P :P

mwuahahaha... 3404 Seti units

Wow, that really was a long time ago :D

[H2gO]

As instructed - from the halls of Seti@home FAQ
Q
How Long has OCNZ been active with this project

Dam good FAQ their Mr KingJackal by the way

One small pointer directed to the founder
OCNZ seti site NEEDs the offical logo don't you think

:cool:

[Grrr!!]

Finally got round to having a rig crunching again.

Just curious ... but I seem to recall being able to stash a lot of units in the folder and let them all do their thing, and then do an update much later. It's a bit of a nuisance having a loud 56k modem dialing up every 4-6 hours. Could someone enlighten me on this.

[H2gO]

try a program called setistash (http://www.hereintown.net/~wink/setistash.html)

[bob(nz)]

H2gO

I see you have hit the big 10k in work units :eek:

Congrats :D

[Grrr!!]

Originally posted by H2gO
try a program called setistash (http://www.hereintown.net/~wink/setistash.html)

Thanks, just what I needed.

[_N_]

why not use setidriver, it runs command line seti which is way faster, or is setistash the same?

[fatsanchez]

Originally posted by _N_
why not use setidriver, it runs command line seti which is way faster, or is setistash the same?

yep, its the same thing, i think its more basic than most of the other utils that do the same things though.

[Gremlin]

Originally posted by Control_Phreak
at least seti has a USEFUL purpose

The first real distributed computing projects were run by distributed.net for cracking encryption. The current rc5 project has been going for... wait for it... 1,681 days (4.6 years)

and I've been working on it for 1,611 days :)

Its got no real purpose other than to demonstrate how secure the encryption is...

Your forgetting the prize money that went with most of the earlier programs as well thats what they originally started off as attemtps to get. Didn't Distributed.net basically become the people behing UD as well too ?

[H2gO]

Originally posted by bob(nz)
H2gO

I see you have hit the big 10k in work units :eek:

Congrats :D

Cheers bob(nz)

Yip - added yet another milestone to the list

;)

[.weasel.]

just added myself to the long list of contributers to the overclockers nz seti team :)

[NTBlowz]

After 4 years, I shall be joing again! :p (on my P200MMX I got 45hour on average. now I wonder how long will it take for an AXP1600+ :rolleyes: )

[irish-whiskey]

'bout 2 hours with an XP2800 :)

Welcome back!

[NTBlowz]

Originally posted by irish-whiskey
'bout 2 hours with an XP2800 :)

Welcome back!

:eek:

I think it would take 10 hr to finish on my machine.. (only 10% done and its 1hr already..)

[fatsanchez]

the battle is warming up between whisky and myself.

he's ~100units behind me, and was catching up fast, but i've sneakily installed seti on a P3 at tech, and started crunching 24/7 at home. (earplugs are handy here, my pc is rather loud)

*wonders what happened to Deviant and Control_Phreak :p*

[BloodDonor]

ive nearly hit 2000 :D

[irish-whiskey]

I'm still coming Sanchez..... watch your back !!! About 3 weeks I reckon :D

[BloodDonor]

*joined* :p

[Stove]

Hell you ARE coming up with a rush Whiskey. I thought Sanchez and myself had a private battle going :)

[Artifice]

when are you guys gonna get real and start using trojans on the net to spreaed your seti units to university computers the world over? they do it for dos attacks why not seti units? youd get a 1000 units a day that way ;)

[www.cbcnz.com]

I have just done the decent thing and joined OCNZ Seti ;)

much better team then the one I was in.

I hope my units will start greatly increacing as I intend to have seti bundled in the software package for computers i sell :) I'll see what my customers think.

Seti = good to tst how stable a computer is before dispatch.

[fatsanchez]

Originally posted by www.cbcnz.com
I have just done the decent thing and joined OCNZ Seti ;)

much better team then the one I was in.

I hope my units will start greatly increacing as I intend to have seti bundled in the software package for computers i sell :) I'll see what my customers think.

Seti = good to tst how stable a computer is before dispatch.

i'd be very angry indeed if i bought a PC and found seti installed on it. You're actually bumping their power bills up slightly as well.

/edit w00t, 1000 posts for me :cool:

[www.cbcnz.com]

Originally posted by fatsanchez
i'd be very angry indeed if i bought a PC and found seti installed on it. You're actually bumping their power bills up slightly as well.

/edit w00t, 1000 posts for me :cool:


yea it was just an idea I had probable one of the ones that i think are good but noone else does ;) I would be intrested to hear what other people think prehaps if I included a detailed description of what SETI is and an easy to follow uninstall procdure (a .bat file prehaps) or I could just put it on the CDr I give with new computers full of useful software ;)

always good to get opionions before you do somthing ;)

[BloodDonor]

Originally posted by NTBlowz
:eek:

I think it would take 10 hr to finish on my machine.. (only 10% done and its 1hr already..)

make sure youre using the commandline version... way faster :)

[Geek4Life]

Well for a start at a guess it is completely against the seti rules/guidelines and is highly frowned upon.

Not that I'd be bothered by it. But installing on a customers PC is taking it too far IMO.

[dustyslapper]

Congrats to Mr Irish-Whiskey,

He just made it into the top 1000 crunchers in NZ.

[www.cbcnz.com]

Congrats to Mr Irish-Whiskey I wish i could crunch that fast :(

how many units do you submitt each day?

[SecretSquirrel]

**** irish, what are your specs again dude??

[whetu]

Originally posted by Geek4Life
Well for a start at a guess it is completely against the seti rules/guidelines and is highly frowned upon.

Not that I'd be bothered by it. But installing on a customers PC is taking it too far IMO.

yup.. some guy got sued for doing it... I think it's classed as theft

update - the guy who got sued was running RC5.. same diff

[www.cbcnz.com]

like I said I have aborted the idea altogeather now.
but I will still use SETI as my pre dispatch stress test (you know a computer is going to be very unlikley to fault if it can do 3 days of crunching)

[Viper_NZ]

I've slipped and been putting less effort in...

DoH!

[varkk]

*bumps thread*

OK guys with the BOINC going into a public beta (link in the sticky thread) I think we need to organise an OCNZ team ASAP! I was going to leave it to whoever is in charcge of the curent seti team to setup for consistancy reasons. However if they don't wish to for now I guess I could set it up and hand it over if appropriate later when it goes final and seti@home is replaced.

[TB_]

ALOT of people are avoiding BOINC due to serious security issues with it. Mainly due to the fact the software updates itself automaticly. Now sure once its out and is revised etc I doubt there will be any issues, but tons of people wont run it and are having their bosses who previously allowed seti to run on their work machines refusing to let it on the network.

[BloodDonor]

hit 3210 for seti@home ;)

[CommanderK]

Well I would join but I never get an E-Mail when I ask for "forgotten password":rolleyes: :(

[MrThc]

Originally posted by BloodDonor
hit 3210 for seti@home ;)

You're next on my hitlist ;)

[BloodDonor]

Originally posted by MrThc
You're next on my hitlist ;)

im only using 1 pc :p

[H2gO]

I've re joinned the fold for that its worth . . . ;)

[veetii]

I've only just joined, it seems to run better when movies are playing so I'm just watching all the Red Dwarf episodes. It may just be in my head but the time goes from ~8hours to ~4 hours when watching videos, so meh. I'll run out of stuff to watch soon though :/

[CommanderK]

And also does anyone know what the SETI@Home email responce is because I may have it on my block list in hotmail without knowing it:confused:.

Any help please:).

W00t got my first SETI certificate:D:D.

[H2gO]

Un substantiated reports
From a message hidden away in the seti@home-message-board:

We're basically waiting on some new hardware to arrive
which will vastly increase our ability to handle all the
current SETI@home classic users. These items will arrive
early in the new year. Once everything is configured,
everybody's being shifted to BOINC and classic will be
turned off for good.

Of course, with this new hardware, we will also be able to
turn BOINC pending credit back on.

Keeping classic SETI@home running forever will actually
be physically (as well as fiscally) impossible. We need
to cannibalize that hardware for BOINC, or turn it off
as our server closet cannot handle any more heat from the
excess machinery.A defiant date hasn’t been set in concrete however the end is emit 2005 for Seti@home the Classic with Berkeley performing scheduled database migration onto the Bonic platform being the first phase

Anyone else able to share news :)

[Spoon]

Well, I've thrown the towel in on SETI... Too much power = too much heat. I was down to about 2hr 20min. 8th place isn't too bad considering I only started 18 months ago...

[Growly]

Who?

127) growlz 0 0 hr 00 min Unknown New Zealand

[tarmac]

I gave up on it aswell, too much of a arse to setup after a reinstall no simple click click, so didn't get done strait away :confused:

And I use to 2nd :(