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465098 now. A small step in the right direction. but keep up the good work we need to do some overtaking as well as holding off!
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Still keeping ahead of US Army with another slight increase in the lead to 474,991.

We should hit 100 Million by the new year and might manage some overtaking by then.

I've worked out that my difficulty in mass emailing forum members to recruit their assistance is to do with the 7 thousand bogus forum members we have. I've trimmed that back to 2500 and will try and slash that over the next 2 days & then send out a round robin to all forum users.
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As I'm no longer fussed about RAC's etc I'll point my machine 100% on Seti see if it makes a difference.
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FlyingfocRS wrote:As I'm no longer fussed about RAC's etc I'll point my machine 100% on Seti see if it makes a difference.
Thanks for that! :)

It has to be said that SETI is a project more likely to attract the alruistic scientificly motivated cruncher than the out & out credit-whore! Had I not already hit top 100 status my sentimental urge to heed Reeltime's rallying call to keep our founding project from relegation would have been somewhat weaker. :?

As it we are holding off US Army with the safety margin being 511,356, which is nice! We are also within a million of over-taking the 2 slower teams in front of us. 8)
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The margin btwn ourselves and and US Army has narrowed to 331K :shock: Yikes!

No matter that we are gaining on quite a few other teams, I've decided that the stops, all of them mind you, must be pulld out. All my Nvidia GPUs and as many CPU cores as I can prise off work in progress will be set to SETI. I shall not cease this until we have completed 100 Million for SETI AND we are 99th or better for it by total credit! CCHHAAARRGGEE!
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Yeah I noticed that. I'm having great problems getting work to download from SETI. I keep getting project backoffs
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Same here! I have to run a secondary project on the same PC in case this happens and leaves me dry. It does, however, seem to stabilise after a while... :?
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SETI has planned outages every week with tuesday being the SETI sabbath and the rest of the week being fairly restful as well. Persistance usually pays off however.

The situation is:
WWW SETI +575888
TSBT ................... 0
US ARMY ... -324532

The important thing is to catch WWW SETI before the American military machine catch us.
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Relative positions a day on

WWW SETI +554,906
TSBT ................... 0
US ARMY ... -315,718

So we should catch WWW Seti before we get caught.

And I've just racked up my 3rd SETI million! :wav:
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The position has improved considerably!

WWW SETI . +460,533
TSBT ...................... 0
US Army ...... -352,410

Not only has our rate of gain on WWW SETI improved but we have increased the gap between us & US Army. :wav:

Keep up the good work/join in the good work/recruit some chums for the good work! :lol:
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Looking very good! 8)
We've clocked up 99 million for seti and the relative positions now are:

..#99. WWW Seti . +350K
#100. TSBT .............. 0
#101. US Army .. -395K

?99th by 2012. Maybe. :)

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Latest Position is

#099 WWWS ... +322K
#100 TSBT .............. 0
#101 US Army . -398K

So no worries! :D :D
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Now it's:

#099 WWWS ... +313K
#100 TSBT .............. 0
#101 US Army . -402K

A further improvement even though some of us (me at least) allowed our NVidia cards to be distracted by the unexpected return of DistRTGen. :roll: :oops:

99th before 2012 is a tall order now but at least we are safe.
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And Now it is:

#099 WWWSeti ... +212K

#100 TSBT ............... 0K

#101 US Army ..... -460K

So closing in on the kill! :D
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#099 WWWSeti ... +155K

#100 TSBT ............... 0K

#101 US Army ..... -507K

Yeah Baby!
We might make promotion before 2012!
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Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah!
The lights go back on and the position is:

WWW Seti ... +32K
TSBT ............... 0K
US Army ..... -611K

This time tomorrow we WILL be 99th! 8) 8)
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Megacruncher wrote:
This time tomorrow we WILL be 99th! 8) 8)
And we are!!!

Thanks to Reeltime for alerting us to danger! And well done everyone for helping us to avert it !
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Nice!

Danger averted for now (just a note though. There are 3 teams above us that are infinately catchable, even without keeping the massive push going)

Things are looking rosy again :)
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Very Rosy! We just passed 100,000,000 for SETI! :wav:

And we are just 31K away from overtaking seti.international so that might happen sometime in the next 24hrs. :) Other scalps await! 8) 8) [/b]
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98th Now!

The bottom of seti.international has been most emphatically kicked. 8)

Next for thrashing are:

US Marine Corps .. +122K
Team SERIO ........ +191K

Another week should see both of them off after which we can probably regard ourselves as officially safe & ease off & do a bit more Primegrid & DistRTGen and boost the overall numbers.
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Overtaking imminent!

Team SERIO +10K
US Marines . +58K

It should be all over by Friday after which the tension rather goes out of the SETI situation, until autumn anyway!
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97th for SETI Now!

Well we showed SERIO who is boss. :D 8) :wav:

The US Marines Corps are however, as one would expect, fighting to the last. As they are just 3K away from having their macho bottoms kicked by some Scottish civilians :lol: I confidently predict that their last is imminent & we shall have vanquished them before the day (the 12th) is over.

After that I suggest that all of us with NVidia GPUs crunching SETI find some laurels to rest them on and set them on more profitable projects. 8) At the same time anybody with a CPU (ie you reading this) should consider setting it onto SETI. This will defer the dreadful day when, in order to keep a scientifically and sentimentally important project afloat, we need to waste precious GPU resources, which could be better deployed elsewhere.
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So much for that prediction.
The Marines have shown that they are good for more than pissing on dead taliban :shock: and have now pulled 20K clear. [Edit: On reflection I think I may have miss read the stats and the gap was actually 30K :oops: ]

It ain't over! But soon it might be. Maybe.
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96th Now for SETI!

Hurrah! :wav: US Marines Corps lie vanquished at our feet, anticipating our urine. But, we are morally superior to them, so let us use the battlefield portaloos instead and move onwards and upwards! Except I think there might be more onwards than upwards for a while. Still can't have everything.

Keep those CPUs on SETI and we'll all be fine. :D
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#45 SETI EMERGENCY !

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FFS Guys we are 102nd for SETI!

This is simply not good enough: we must get back to top 100!

Regardless on the impact on the overall output of TSBT or myself I shall turn all of my CPU cores and NVidia GPUs over to SETI until we are back in the premier league where we belong.

You could do the same but in practice setting your CPU cores onto SETI might be the most cost effective way forward.
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Sorry, been working on SETI Beta rather than the main site. Will swap back this evening for what my output is worth.
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It all helps thanks and I'd rather have loads of CPU cores thrown at SETI than use up too many GPUs which could be getting much better credits elsewhere.
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Good response guys!
In a few days we have dropped from 171st by RAC to 143rd!

We are still in 102nd by total credit a situation on which I think we can improve.
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121st by RAC now!
And as we seem to be passing 100K per day we will soon be top 100 by RAC with the Total Credit heading that way.
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I checked last night and my machine had mostly cleared the old cache and was working almost exclusively on SETI. Not sure how long I can keep it doing that but it'll be a few weeks at least. :)
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MacDitch wrote:I checked last night and my machine had mostly cleared the old cache and was working almost exclusively on SETI. Not sure how long I can keep it doing that but it'll be a few weeks at least. :)
I'll keep it up so long as I can avoid demotion from the Boinc Combined World top 100. At 87th with a buffer of 80 million that will be a few months. :)

I've never really felt that I've pulled my weight with SETI ( I'm outside the UK top 200 for instance) so an excuse to improve my standing has to be a good thing. I'd like to lead TSBT from the front (top 3 at least) and break into the UK top 100 for it.

Allowing my NVidia beasts the odd sniff at DistRTGen goes a long way towards keeping my totals respectable.
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97th by RAC now! Still 102nd by Total Credit although that will improve over the course of a few weeks.
I think I've got a fairly sustainable mix of loads of SETI with some DistRGen and Primgrid which is protecting my overall output at over a million per day (and allowing my Boinc Combined ranking to rise to a best ever equal of 85th! 8) ) whilst allowing me to contribute 30K for SETI which is hopefully helping our situation.
But it's a team response and plenty of others have upped their games. Many unkown to this forum. Thanks to all & keep it up. Its an ultra marathon not a sprint!
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SETI seems to have gone down for the last 45 hrs.
This is a good thing! :lol:
Keep crunching it right up to the point that you run out of work units ( then switch to something else (obviously)). When the lights come on again -asthey always do- we will have gained on our competitors with small caches and faint hearts.
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Hmmmmm. I think I have a question!

My BOINC Manager shows the following task info: "Running (0.264 CPUs +1 NVIDIA GPU)" for a (cuda23) task

Is that typical? Are my cores being used primarily on non-GPU tasks, and how can I tell how efficiently I am processing tasks?

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I can confirm that this is typical. I get similar messages - give or take a few dozen 1000th of a CPU. Presumably it means that a fraction of a core is needed to help out the GPUwith SETI although it's a pretty token amount and doesn't actually reduce the number of CPU tasks running.
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