I will more than likely be moving my herd to the new project soon, hope to see you all there.
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/
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I will more than likely be moving my herd to the new project soon, hope to see you all there.
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/
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I have installed the BOINC version on my system at home to test it out.
The motherboard died in this system about a month ago. Now it has been upgraded from an Athlon 1700+/ASUS A7V266-E/512MB to an Intel P4-2.8E/Intel D865PERL/1GB system, along with a new Antec 430W power supply and a new Maxtor 160GB HDD.
I will probably wait for a non-beta version of the BOINC CLI service before installing it on the rest of the systems.
I'll let everyone know what happens and the stats that this program comes up with.
BOINC is nice, BOINC is to seti as Steam is to Half-life, but where steam is a miserable failiure, BOINC actually is designed around what clients want, and BOINC is excellent.
My only gripe is that many of the program settings are online (web-based) and you can't change them offline.
As for the CLI-version, well the windows boinc GUI still runs seti without fancy graphics etc, and processes as fast. (unlike the old seti that even minimized the old seti gui would take about twice as long to process a WU).
Having a CLI version will still be nice for a farm or whatever, but for the 'average' home user having the boinc_gui is sort of equivalent to running seti driver + seti CLI.
BOINC looks pretty good to me. Is there any point in carrying on with seti@home classic as the wu's are not going to be transfered across any more? To my understanding everybodys wu score was transfered on may 14 and any completed since then will be lost when seti@home classic is stopped. Is this correct????
Am going to transfer my herd now anyway. Going to be a real pain as I'm going to have to visit every machine to install:(
Anybody else moving?
I am starting to move mine over a little at a time..
Your right about the transfer.. ours was transfered at 28000+ wu's completed.. so you might as well go to the next phase..
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I Have officially moved my entire herd to Boinc.
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I moved 1 computer over, a P4 1.7G P4 laptop... the hit in completion time is significant! Using the CLI old S@H i was getting under 5 hours on this machine, boinc: 6.5 hours. :rolleyes:
BOINC actually uses seti CLI 3.08, so there must be other factors involved, or perhaps you just got a larger WU. (they no longer have to all be the same size because of the way credit is worked out).
Yeah thanks... I'm thinkin maybe something in preferences might be goofy, but of course the site is down this weekend. Im trying 'run always' :)
yes, but whilst the website is down, at least the back-end is up and giving out work etc, just a shame a lot of the "options" are web-only too :(
Indeed :rolleyes:
Can someone post some screenshots? I'm curious to see what the new version looks like.
Here's the work page pasted over the message page.
Thanks genesound. I wonder if there is a way to use the old cached WUs with the new client. Does anyone know? I've got around forty sitting here locally. It would be a shame to waste them.
I doubt it... the file names are similar to those listed in the work page and they are larger than the old work_unit.sah files.
Well, hopefully those alien's radio transmissions aren't in one of the WUs that gets deleted then. Whoever decided to rule out backwards compatability between the new and the old client must be on drugs. I'm a bit miffed with the fact I'm going to need to get a 8 port router now, too. I've got a few old computers here running just for an extra WU or two a day I never bothered to have to have online. It looks like if I'm going to keep using them I'll need another router.
Anyone try the Linux client?
There's not really a need to stay online. I use dialup now and windoze ICS for mine (I hate it, I was on DSL for years, an early adopter). Once they're all converted the built-in caching should be OK. You just need to be online to down/upload and to change preferences.
Also they send out WUs multiple times. Skipped ones aren't a problem. :t
Well, thats good news then. So I guess really nothing has changed other than the fact that some of the add-on program's features have been integrated right into the client. It looks like I'll go ahead and upgrade when the page goes online tomorrow then.
Does the new client log your stats like setispy does?
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Originally posted by Johnny Fist
Does the new client log your stats like setispy does?
Boinc will keep track of all your project totals, and average's.
Anybody managed to install the client by using 'boinc_cli -install', under Windows 2000 pro? Works fine under Windows XP, but can't seem to get it to work under Windows 2000.
The error I get is:-
CreateService failed - The specified service has been marked for deletion. (0x430)
I'm having problems with it connecting to the serverr and downloading work units or cobblestones or whatever they're called now.
So far I'm not impressed.
Just in case anybody is interested I managed to get it to work. I used a different 'boinc_cli.exe' that somebody had compiled themselfs. Seems like the client from the current precompiled distribution has a glitch.
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Originally posted by JSCTech
Anybody managed to install the client by using 'boinc_cli -install', under Windows 2000 pro? Works fine under Windows XP, but can't seem to get it to work under Windows 2000.
The error I get is:-
CreateService failed - The specified service has been marked for deletion. (0x430)
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Originally posted by Johnny Fist
So far I'm not impressed.
I agree.. I have been 3 days without any work, and they are predicting another 2 to 3 days of no work..
as a result I'm running classic ver. till they straighten this mess out.
I figured that they would have anticipated the amount of people who join the project, and made sure that they could handle the load.
http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies...confused71.gifQuote:
July 2, 2004
We made some progress and are turning the project on. You may still have problems getting work. If that is the case, you might consider switching back to SETI@home Classic for the next few days.
Ok, maybe I am dumb, but what is the project URL?
Seti Boinc web site: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/
You will get the project url when you activate your account: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_email_form.php
I have and I get the message:
Boinc failed to log into account and id may be wrong. I copied and pasted everything.
then I get this after I say ok.
SETI@home - 2004-07-05 09:38:09 - Message from server: No work available
They have been have trouble with the server
give it some time and it should work.
It won't take my login ID, or is that part of the server problem? If so I will just wait and check it later.
Thanks for the help
This is the project url.. make sure this is the one you are using.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
These people have the same problem.
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=908
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=726
I would seem to be a server problem, try again in a couple of hours.
That is the one I am using and the login id that was sent via email. This is what Boinc tells me after it says failed to login to the URL and says check you id, which is copied and pasted from the email?
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ - 2004-07-05 10:01:06 - Project prefs: using your defaults
--- - 2004-07-05 10:01:06 - Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
--- - 2004-07-05 10:01:09 - Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ - 2004-07-05 10:01:09 - Requesting 17278 seconds of work
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ - 2004-07-05 10:01:09 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ - 2004-07-05 10:01:16 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
SETI@home - 2004-07-05 10:01:16 - Message from server: No work available
SETI@home - 2004-07-05 10:01:23 - Resetting project
SETI@home - 2004-07-05 10:01:23 - Detaching from project
Your not doing anything wrong.. It's a server prob.. I just got work for my herd yesterday.(after going 4 days with nothing.)
They are still working out some bugs, wait a few hours and try again.. good luck.
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Kinda sucks, I have lost 5 or 6 days of crunchin because I was on the old seti and now this one don't want to play:confused:
They have been having problems for the last week.. don't fell bad i was just on set@home forum, and there are many people having the same problem. Hopefully the Dev's will fix the problem soon..
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Apparently there is a problem with the BOINC client attaching to a project when there is no work available from that project.
I may have to switch back to classic on a couple of my comp's, due to the lack of work..
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On another note, I have been using a program similar to setiwatch for boinc..
http://boincview.amanheis.de/
Another pic of boincview.
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Hey cment,
I see your computers listed in your account now.
all 4 of them.
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Thing is I don't have 4 1700 Athlons and it keeps deferring for time waiting on packets I guess.
Where did you find that?
You'd think that they would have had most of the bugs worked out before launching the BOINC fiasco.
I've been running classic most of the time as I've managed to get one work unit through BOINC since this whole thing started. I'm pretty frustrated about this whole thing and to be honest, it's really turning me off to SETI right now.
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Originally posted by cment
Thing is I don't have 4 1700 Athlons and it keeps deferring for time waiting on packets I guess.
Where did you find that?
you will have go into your account and merge those into 1 host id.
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Also the servers have down almost all day.. so you might not see any work till tomorrow. (maybe)
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team...p?teamid=30348