Somewhere on teh intarweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

In article <48aa7822@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "~misfit~" typed:

I've got a few completed Astropulse WUs now (and another queued) but
still none that have been confirmed, all still pending. I see that
they only send out two copies of each (last I remember it was three
of each for vanilla SETI WUs?) with one of the WUs I'm waiting on
having been sent to a Pentium III 1133MHz machine that does 1068 /
1763 MIPs respectively. I could be waiting an age for that one to be
verified.

I've been checking the results of my Astropulse WUs (just reported
another one) and this guy let it run for quite a while before
aborting it:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=309983638

Luckilly it was given to another machine (Athlon 64 3000+) that was
running 24/7 and it's now been completed by two machines so I've
been credited for it.

After clearing the cache of regular WUs, my P3-700 Linux machine is
finally crunching the lone Astropulse WU it got. It has currently
spent about 71 hours on it, and BOINC estimates it will take another
227 hours to finish it. It's also currently the only work on this
machine, I suppose it'll start requesting more once the AP unit is
close to finishing...

I've done quite a few now, my RAC really see-saws while I'm waiting for a 
few to be validated. I sometimes check to see the progress of the WU and 
quite a few are being aborted, I assume by the user. Also I'm seeing a 
higher than usual amount of 'compute errors' from other machines with 
Astropulse WUs.

I think that SETI need to raise the bar as far as minimum requirements go. 
My current AP WU is the 'biggest' by far, having already taken 37 hours and 
the client is predicting another 10 hours. That's just one core working on 
it but that core is benched by SETI at 3500 / 7200. I see these units going 
to machines that are rated at 1000 / 1800. They'd take a couple weeks to 
crunch, especially if they're not running 24/7.

What MIPS does BOINC give for that P3-700 Patrick?

I do hope they don't send an Astropulse unit by accident to the
P1-133MHz/64MB machine I also still have crunching (well, nibbling
would be a more appropriate term perhaps ;) away. It takes about 225
hours just to cruch a regular WU. ;)

LMAO! As these WUs look to expire after one month I really hope they raise 
the bar. I'm yet to have a AP WU validated when reported, they all take 
varying amounts of time to get a second result, sometimes weeks.

Cheers,
-- 
Shaun.

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