[Todd Madson]

There's no doubt, those CoreDuo (and Core2's) are one heckofa chip.

I bet the new laptops with the Core2s do nicely as well.

Next project: trying to get my G52.5 to get an RAC of 1200 or above.

I have an idea how to accomplish it but ack, if I'd waited a year.

Oh well.

[adream]

at the risk of sounding over eager :-) is version 7 ppc availabe for release yet alex ?

regards

adream

[alexkan]

Originally Posted by adream 

at the risk of sounding over eager :-) is version 7 ppc availabe for release yet alex ?

Well, there were a couple other things that I want to pursue, but v7.1 is already enough of an improvement over v6 that I might as well put this out now and release v7.2 later...

v7.1-g4-nographics
v7.1-g5-nographics

Versions with graphics are a long way off, because some of the optimizations I made won't play nice with graphics and I need to figure out how to deal with this. Source will be posted later at the link given in the ZIP file, if people are interested. Don't compile it for i386, though...it won't work yet.

Todd, hopefully this will help you get your G5 over 1200 RAC.

[Todd Madson]

Wheeee! Thank you!

[Gecko_r7]

Originally Posted by Todd Madson 

Wheeee! Thank you!

I'm totally bummed. I haven't missed a new ap release since when Java Lizard's was top dog. A shiny new v7.1, and no PPC for me to run it on now.
G4 is still dead. Apple Genius said HD, I disagreed, but installed a new one I had in a box.
Still dead, won't post. 2 CPUs dead in 1 week? Don't think so.
Me thinks logic board. Hope not...too expensive!

Have fun and I look forward to seeing some G4 times from the gang.
Maybe there is still hope for a cheap fix for my G4

Cheers!

[Todd Madson]

Here is the url for my machine:
Results for computer

And here's one of the 7.1 returned units:
Result

4466 seconds versus an average time before of 5400 to 7050 seconds!

Stay tuned, there's only one unit processed by 7.1 in, more later.

[adream]

Many thanks Alex for another fine client,

its running here on a couple of g4s and my dual 2.7 g5, all faster and no errors yet

i really appreciate your efforts to enhance the clients

regards

adream

[Todd Madson]

And:

Results for computer

This is my wife's iMac G4.

Her last work unit with v6 is Result
that was in 14,209.48 seconds.

Latest with v7 is Result
completed in 10,654.37 seconds

More later as more results come in. This is highly impressive improvement!

[zombie67]

Hi Alex,

You probably missed it because this thread scrolled to a new page. Can you please go back a page and search for my userid? There is an error message that is showing up on the intel version of your app. I would like to know if that is normal.

TIA!

[alexkan]

Originally Posted by Todd Madson 

And:

Results for computer

This is my wife's iMac G4.

Her last work unit with v6 is Result
that was in 14,209.48 seconds.

Latest with v7 is Result
completed in 10,654.37 seconds

More later as more results come in. This is highly impressive improvement!

Don't compare the times on two work units unless they're within +/- 0.5 of each other in terms of claimed credit. Crunch times vary a lot more than they used to in SETI Enhanced.

[alexkan]

Originally Posted by zombie67 

You probably missed it because this thread scrolled to a new page. Can you please go back a page and search for my userid? There is an error message that is showing up on the intel version of your app. I would like to know if that is normal.

For the most part, I wouldn't worry about problems unless they're causing you to crash, misclaim credit or fail to validate, since these are the only sorts of effects that my changes are likely to have. In your case, I'd check the file permissions on your SETI binaries...it looks like an operation to modify the app's icon is failing because of insufficient permissions.

[zombie67]

Originally Posted by alexkan 

For the most part, I wouldn't worry about problems unless they're causing you to crash, misclaim credit or fail to validate, since these are the only sorts of effects that my changes are likely to have. In your case, I'd check the file permissions on your SETI binaries...it looks like an operation to modify the app's icon is failing because of insufficient permissions.

Thanks for getting back to me!

Well, trying to fix it was a disaster. I tried to make the owner & permissions match my PPC version, for the seti application. Then BOINC wouldn't even start. I changed them back, but no good. Then I tried reinstalling your optomized app, with the default permissions, but that didn't work either. It required actually reinstalling BOINC, as if that makes any sense.

The only thing I can think of is that I was using a 5.6.something for BOINC, and that was causing the ownership issues. Anyway, after installing 5.4.9, everything is back on track. I will take a look at the results later and see if the error messages are gone.

Thanks again for such a great app!

[Todd Madson]

Wow. Weirdness.

Okay, I got back from work and check this out:
Results for computer
Take a look at some of the numbers. Interesting reduction.

But look at the workunits:

Result
indicates "No heartbeat from core client for 31 sec - exiting"

So does:
Result

And:
Result

And:
Result

Is something broken or is this normal?

Here's a page of my numbers with the old client.

Versus:
Results for computer
Mostly 6000-8000 seconds with the older client.

[arkayn]

Nothing like that on my system so far.

[Todd Madson]

I rebooted the thing, it had been up for over a week and I'm guessing it just needed
a punt to the head. I'll post if more weirdness occurs.

Originally Posted by alexkan 

Well, there were a couple other things that I want to pursue, but v7.1 is Source will be posted later at the link given in the ZIP file, if people are interested.

Well i'm interested
Good opportunity to learn some of the stuff you do ;-)

[QSilver]

I've blown about 30 WUs this morning after upgrading to v7.1-G4. The error messages are all pretty much like this:

Sat Oct 28 08:30:48 2006|SETI@home|Finished download of 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213
Sat Oct 28 08:30:48 2006|SETI@home|Throughput 165675 bytes/sec
Sat Oct 28 08:30:49 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded
Sat Oct 28 08:30:49 2006|SETI@home|Starting result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 513
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 (process exited with code 2 (0x2))
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006|SETI@home|Computation for result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 finished
Sat Oct 28 08:39:58 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: project op

This was with a 1GHz iLamp running 10.4.7. v6 had been running just fine.

Anyone have any suggestions?

QS

Originally Posted by QSilver 

I've blown about 30 WUs this morning after upgrading to v7.1-G4. The error messages are all pretty much like this:

Sat Oct 28 08:30:48 2006|SETI@home|Finished download of 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213
Sat Oct 28 08:30:48 2006|SETI@home|Throughput 165675 bytes/sec
Sat Oct 28 08:30:49 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded
Sat Oct 28 08:30:49 2006|SETI@home|Starting result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 513
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006|SETI@home|Unrecoverable error for result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 (process exited with code 2 (0x2))
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: process exited
Sat Oct 28 08:30:50 2006|SETI@home|Computation for result 02my03aa.22748.9330.698572.3.213_1 finished
Sat Oct 28 08:39:58 2006||request_reschedule_cpus: project op

This was with a 1GHz iLamp running 10.4.7. v6 had been running just fine.

Anyone have any suggestions?

QS

You should check your file permission on the executable.
Boinc cannot find the app.

[arkayn]

Did you quit Boinc Manager before you changed the executable?