Patrick Vervoorn wrote:

In article <4897d06a$1@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Claude Ortega" typed:

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.)

So how do you recognize the Astropulse WUs? I have seen WUs which use/need client version 5.28 to process (where it used to be 5.27), but nothing specific about 'Astropulse'.

(Keep in mind I am running optimized Set clients, so perhaps BOINC doesn't accept/request Astropulse units because of that.)

You can manually download the Astropulse files and edit your app_info file to be able to process the AP WUs.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_advanced.php
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/forum_thread.php?id=1363&nowrap=true#34336  Scroll down a little for instructions.

On another note: Anyone tried installing the new 6.2.14 (or something like that) of BOINC? I installed it without problems on my Linux machines, but when installing it on a Windows box, I noticed a new question in the dialog box: it wants two directories now: 1 for BOINC itself, 1 for data. However, the defaults do not place the 'Data' directory inside the BOINC directory, but somewhere else.

And, when setting the data directory to the BOINC directory, the installer complains one cannot set these the same (they were identical on 5.10.45!).

Fearing I might lose all WUs in progress, I haven't installed it yet. Anyone know the deal on this? What should I pick, and can I move the Seti@Home WUs across to the new dir? Or should I do something else first?

Yeah, when you install 6.2.14 you will lose any un-processed WUs that 5.10.45 had. After the install you will have to re-attach to the SETI project. It will download the stock app and new WUs. So you will have to put your optimized client and app_info.xml in the new directory (...Data\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu)