SETI down for a MONTH. What OC Team to DC for?

[none1]

Hi all!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=61906#1044549

In case folks have missed it, the old tired seti servers are .... no longer functioning. The SETI community took up a collection, and TWO NEW SERVERS ARE ON THE WAY!!

It is possible there may not be regular SETI service for the rest of November, at least.

SO, I've got 40Kish RAC amount of computing power that currently IS NOT helping to keep my house warm, causing me to have to turn on the heat .....

I hate idle CPUs. I have never worked on any other DC project than seti, and have been doing seti since seti classic.

I'd like to find a new DC project, and I'd like to help out overclockers.com.
Anyone got any recomendations? Should we, as an OC SETI TEAM, try to donate en mass some cycles to one of the other teams? What are you all doing with your spare cycles?

(To any other teams reading .... NOW IS THE TIME TO UPDATE YOUR "HELP THE NOOBS HOW TO" stickies, as there may be a bunch of us looking to try something new ....... ) :)

THANKS!!

[Bobnova]

Rosetta! We have a contest going on right now, you could win prizes!

Plus, it's mighty easy to get going considering you're already set up with BOINC.

[deadlysyn]

My vote goes to the folding team, but I may be a little biased.:p

[Jmtyra]

Both -- Help out Rosetta now, as they're running a contest and need our help. Once it's over? Go Folding all the way. :)

[Sephis]

I'm running Rosetta ATM. It is pretty easy to set up on BOINC, but there is no GPU folding. If you use GPUs, you can F@H on those and run Rosetta on the CPUs.

[QuietIce]

Personally, I've been running Einstein off and on for well over a year (maybe over two or more years at this point?) and that's what my rigs have slowly been switched to. Not as well known or popular as Rosetta but still related to astronomy and astrophysics, a subject I find woefully lacking in funding IRL, and an Overclockers.com Team ... :)

[Sephis]

I ran Einstein a very long time ago, but I honestly don't remember much about it. Do they have a GPU app? I'm looking for something I can run on BOINC that will use the vid cards.

[QuietIce]

Yep! Einstein uses CUDA just like SETI does ... :)

[the_cultie]

My vote goes to the folding team, but I may be a little biased.:p

I second that! We are in an epic battle to put MaximumPC behind us and also to fend of the onslaught that is overclockers.net. We need every drop of processing power this forum has!

But as deadky said, I'm slightly biased too ;)

[dejo]

I personally have a soft spot for every team on this forum. that being said, I feel that we are making a good showing for folding already with a 4 spot worldwide. the rosetta team on the other hand gets nowhere near the help of the forum (we currently have 78 active members folding) and are in 23 spot worldwide, the rosetta team could use the help to get moving along and make the top 20. If we can get the exposure up, that could help the team to take off on its own. After that, file you work with whatever client you choose.

[Sir-Epix]

I am currently working on boosting up our Collatz team with my GPUs.... putting out about 130,000 cobblestones a day. And AQUA@home for my CPUs as it is truly the only mulithread BIONC project out there right now.

Any help on these two teams would be a bonus. FYI... Collatz has a hugh favor toward ATI. I still use my GTXs though and rack up major RAC.

[benbaked]

My vote goes to Rosetta@home. And don't stop after the contest ends either.

[Voodoo Rufus]

I've been running Rosetta for the RAC harvest this month. Not using my GPU, but I feel it's a worthwhile project to contribute to, as well as helping out our forum-mates.

[Jmtyra]

Not using my GPU [...]
*cough* F@H *cough*

:chair:

Er...I mean, just OT, F@H has GPU support. ;)

[QuietIce]

*cough* F@H *cough*

:chair:

Er...I mean, just OT, F@H has GPU support. ;) So do several other BOINC projects and they're, well, BOINC projects - without all the overhead F@H brings with it.

I've run F@H, quite simply it's a pain in the butt ...

[Voodoo Rufus]

FAH on GPUs is easy to do. Any modern GPU also just plain rips through units than most quad cores.

[Bobnova]

FAH GPU is nice and easy generally speaking.
FAH CPU is frustrating to set up sometimes.

[ihrsetrdr]

Yea, I noticed my SETI client not doing anything, but Rosetta is regularly getting work.

[freakdiablo]

Switched over to Rosetta for now, and wow the WUs use a lot of RAM. Surprised to see each one using ~275mb compared to SETIs ~35mb. That normal?

[Sephis]

Switched over to Rosetta for now, and wow the WUs use a lot of RAM. Surprised to see each one using ~275mb compared to SETIs ~35mb. That normal?

Yep, the Rosetta WUs are quite a bit larger than the SETI stuff.

[4GHZ_or_bust]

On my AMD rig, with nothing else running beside W7, BoINC, AV scanner, and few typical background process I'm using up almost 3GB of RAM

Rosetta uses between 150MB and 370MB per core