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My first result purely with v5/G4 (I think the... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
My first result purely with v5/G4 (I think the one preceding it was a hybrid with v4 and v5):

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=339998424

Looks like I'm the fastest one...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 11, 2006 at 02:04 AM, in Team MacNN
S@H provides a ranking for computers according to... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
S@H provides a ranking for computers according to RAC; with the advent of multi-processor and multi-core machines, perhaps they should also provide a ranking according to WU completion time. Of...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 10, 2006 at 07:27 PM, in Team MacNN
Try <a... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Try <a href="http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?p=2994256&highlight=wisdom#post2994256">this post</a> for alex's original instructions and the 300,000 posts that follow for help with issues when...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 9, 2006 at 02:01 AM, in Team MacNN
Is that 5% better than the G5 v5 compile or 5%... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Is that 5% better than the G5 v5 compile or 5% better than the G4 v4 compile? (Say that 5 times fast...)
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 9, 2006 at 01:54 AM, in Team MacNN
"Oh, honey, you don't need to take the iBook with... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
"Oh, honey, you don't need to take the iBook with you today...no, don't put it to sleep...just leave it on the desk open...in fact, just leave it open on the desk every day..."

When I first got...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 8, 2006 at 11:02 PM, in Team MacNN
Well, you've answered your own question, but for... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Well, you've answered your own question, but for future reference for others, you *can* tell. You can't tell inside the BOINC Manager GUI app, but you can tell either by the method I posted earlier:...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 8, 2006 at 04:18 AM, in Team MacNN
Boog's right that installing Alex's packaged... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Boog's right that installing Alex's packaged files in the directory will work. However, you said you have a MacBook Pro and were looking at some Intel versions, if I remember correctly. If you've...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 7, 2006 at 07:00 AM, in Team MacNN
No kidding--they've already deleted/hidden the... 1,708 Views / 26 Replies  
No kidding--they've already deleted/hidden the thread:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=31634 -- "Unable to handle request. This thread has been hidden for administrative...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 6, 2006 at 09:31 PM, in Team MacNN
Ah, Alex, we love you. How can we ever repay you?... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Ah, Alex, we love you. How can we ever repay you? :-)

I'll hold off until you post the G4-specific compile (to minimize the hassle of timing it right not to interfere with currently-processing WUs...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 6, 2006 at 01:29 PM, in Team MacNN
<a... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
<a href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=335561196">Here's</a> an interesting WU. It did not validate with the v4 client (running on my desktop G4 350). It's an extremely small WU...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 5, 2006 at 12:49 AM, in Team MacNN
OK, I couldn't help myself and started to run... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
OK, I couldn't help myself and started to run another test. This time, I made sure that I copied the correct wisdom file, and I zeroed out the timer on the init_data.sah file.

A minute or so after...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 4, 2006 at 05:30 AM, in Team MacNN
Test Results 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I ran the reference WU three times: once with the stock worker, once with v4, and once with v4 with the custom-built wisdom file. Here are the results. I used "time ./[worker app name] -nographics...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 4, 2006 at 04:32 AM, in Team MacNN
I just read through most of that thread, but I'm... 1,708 Views / 26 Replies  
I just read through most of that thread, but I'm still confused: what exactly happened? Who did what to make him leave the project? Something about the S@H staff, I gathered, but not having been a...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 2, 2006 at 06:29 PM, in Team MacNN
I found an interesting way to compare v4 to the... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I found an interesting way to compare v4 to the stock worker without a whole lot of hasslese : compare my S@H results with my own S@H Beta results--the Beta project is still crunching with the stock...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Jun 1, 2006 at 06:25 PM, in Team MacNN
Well, I finally found the reference WU, but I... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Well, I finally found the reference WU, but I have not had a chance to run it yet. I've also had v4 running for about 30 hours now, so I've crunched several WUs. It appears that the *average* time...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 31, 2006 at 05:35 PM, in Team MacNN
It's hard to compare WU results and times... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
It's hard to compare WU results and times directly, as the new Enhanced WUs vary greatly in size/depth/whatever. However, a result done in my stock worker gave 58.7 points of credit for 47,980...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 28, 2006 at 02:50 PM, in Team MacNN
Tried to synthesize directions for finding and... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Tried to synthesize directions for finding and completing the reference WU. I downloaded boog's reference WU .zip from earlier in this thread file and expanded it. Then I copied your v3 worker into...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 28, 2006 at 12:10 AM, in Team MacNN
That answered my question, too. Thanks. I... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
That answered my question, too. Thanks.


I finally got fft_test3 to produce a wisdom file. I could not get it to work under single-user mode (yes, I had made the drive mountable)--it kept...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 27, 2006 at 07:11 PM, in Team MacNN
There wasn't a wisdom.sah file in the setiathome... 153,018 Views / 1,309 Replies  
There wasn't a wisdom.sah file in the setiathome directory, even though I've been running Enhanced for at least a week now. I did a search, and there *are* two wisdom.sah files--one in [boinc...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 27, 2006 at 05:56 AM, in Team MacNN
Yes, it's BOINC. I registered for the WCG several... 556 Views / 2 Replies  
Yes, it's BOINC. I registered for the WCG several months ago but suspended it in my BOINC client. On a fluke, I recently resumed the project, and when it didn't error out, I realized that there was...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 26, 2006 at 12:19 AM, in Team MacNN
Hey, unless we want to pay them, we have to take... 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
Hey, unless we want to pay them, we have to take what we can get from them! :-) I'm sure they have other things to do in life...

But it would be nice to at least have an update or estimate on when...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 18, 2006 at 04:17 PM, in Team MacNN
If Spotlight does not nab it (since its database... 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
If Spotlight does not nab it (since its database is not necessarily instantly updated), try the following commands in Terminal:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
(wait a few minutes)
locate...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 6, 2006 at 08:55 PM, in Team MacNN
Agree. This thread is becoming extremely... 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
Agree. This thread is becoming extremely unwieldy, too; starting over from scratch will do us well.

I vote to let Alex start the new thread. That way, he can edit the first post as needed to...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 6, 2006 at 01:03 AM, in Team MacNN
Update 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
Just thought I'd update: everything's working fine now--client is processing WUs properly, etc. Average WU time is around 5000 seconds (anywhere from 4600 to 5700)--which seems to be roughly what it...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on May 2, 2006 at 11:33 PM, in Team MacNN
Although I think the permissions were workable... 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
Although I think the permissions were workable before, I did chown -R root:wheel the entire /boinc directory just in case and verified the worker was ugo+x (which it was). In any case, no more...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Apr 30, 2006 at 08:05 PM, in Team MacNN
I've been using alpha 5 for a couple of months... 122,441 Views / 970 Replies  
I've been using alpha 5 for a couple of months now with no problems. In the spirit of helping the science :-) I came back to this thread to see if there was anything new. (There's a lot of catch-up...
Posted by liebsmaschine, on Apr 29, 2006 at 10:28 PM, in Team MacNN
 
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