Somewhere on teh intarweb "Claude Ortega" typed:

~misfit~ wrote:

Is there anybodyyyyy... Out there? <cue acoustic guitar>

I've recently returned to crunching a few units again after an
hiatus as I have use of a wattage meter and discovered that running
SETI/BOINC on a 30% duty cycle only consumes an extra 10W on my C2D
@ 3.3GHz. The question: I'm running Seti@home Enhanced client 5.27 which 
is a
beta client. When I check the "Your Results" link I see around ~100
tasks that say "In Progress" when I only have <10 queued up in the
client. Can anyone tell me what's going on? TIA.

You've picked up what are called 'ghost WU's'. There have been
glitches on the SETI servers where it thought that it had sent WU's out, 
but
the client's computer didn't get them.  Just ignore them and they
will go away.

Ahh, thanks for that. I'm pleased that it's a known problem. I was concerned 
thatit could be something specific to me/my computer. The computer summary 
page lists 247 tasks for my computer!

Also, I see that the client has just now downloaded the Astropulse
.exe and a 10MB Astropulse WU that is estimated just a bit under 24
hours to completion. I've never done an Astropulse WU before. Being
~24 hours to completion and running a 30% duty cycle it'll take over
three days to calculate. I'm pleased the reporting date is a month
away. I only hope that I get credit for it, that it isn't done and
dusted by the time I report it.

I've gotten 2 Astorpulse WU's, so far, on my 3.0 ghz P4/HT, and on a
laptop. They will be taking a few days to complete. Just let it run. :-)

Thanks again. That one's done (26,730.88 secs of CPU time, 168.62 claimed 
credit, pending) and I see I have another one queued. I looked at the 
SETI@home site after posting this (yeah, I know..) and see that there are 
requirements that must be met by the computer before it's sent Astropulse 
units. Obviously the alogrithm that decides these things likes my computer. 
(Measured floating point speed 3215.65 million ops/sec, Measured integer 
speed 7047.89 million ops/sec per CPU.)

Thanks for the reply Claude.
-- 
Shaun.

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