SETI for extended stress test?

[HankB]

I've run Prime95 for over 24 hours and consider that the first hurdle to establish stability. I'm wondering what to do next. Would participation in SETI serve to further confirm stability? My concern is that if my PC produces incorrect results, will I have a way to find out or will this just be silently ignored by SETI? Worse yet, will bad results go unrecognized by SETI? My recollection form the last time I ran SETI was that they had multiple participants process each data set to make sure all got the same results.

Feel free to suggest a different DC project if you think it would provide a better stress test or better cross checking of results.

FWIW, while testing stability, all difficulties resulted in a locked up PC. I never saw Prime95 report bad results.

thanks,
hank

PS: I'm ripping my Cosmos DVDs as I type this. :)

[Sephis]

Worse yet, will bad results go unrecognized by SETI? My recollection form the last time I ran SETI was that they had multiple participants process each data set to make sure all got the same results.

Feel free to suggest a different DC project if you think it would provide a better stress test or better cross checking of results.

SETI still uses results from multiple clients to verify that the results returned are correct. It probably isn't the greatest stress tester though. It handles WU errors pretty gracefully and moves on to the next one. I've never had SETI hard lock a machine unless it was really borked. If you aren't watching the message log, you won't be notified of errors in your processing.
Honestly, Prime95 for 24 hours is as stable as you'll need. I've never ran it for more than 8 or 9 before jumping right into other stuff.

All of that said, we would still love to have you crunching for the OC SETI team. We need all the help we can get to keep up with the other top teams. :bday:

[Saaby900t]

We need all the help we can get to keep up with the other top teams. :bday:

Your system is Fine 24 hours in prime is more than needed. However we could really use some help puishing into that 700000 RAC range.:bday::comp:

[QuietIce]

I've run Prime95 for over 24 hours and consider that the first hurdle to establish stability. I'm wondering what to do next. Would participation in SETI serve to further confirm stability? My concern is that if my PC produces incorrect results, will I have a way to find out or will this just be silently ignored by SETI? Worse yet, will bad results go unrecognized by SETI? My recollection form the last time I ran SETI was that they had multiple participants process each data set to make sure all got the same results.

Feel free to suggest a different DC project if you think it would provide a better stress test or better cross checking of results.

FWIW, while testing stability, all difficulties resulted in a locked up PC. I never saw Prime95 report bad results.

thanks,
hank

PS: I'm ripping my Cosmos DVDs as I type this. :) Since you've already passed the 24-hour hurdle SETI is an excellent, on-going stability check. Work units that are invalid or error out are easy to see in the "My Results" pages where SETI will show only errors or only invalid work units. On occasion there are work units that error on their own from invalid initial data (not your machine's fault) but those are rare and can be tracked down fairly easy. :)

[HankB]

I'm in! :)

Too bad the work unit server is down! :(

[QuietIce]

Yes, I just noticed that yesterday after making my post. :-/

Welcome to the Team, though! :) I'm sure Berkeley will get it straightened out soon.

[Saaby900t]

I'm in! :)

Too bad the work unit server is down! :(

I think they said it will be fixed/worked on on Monday.:D

[Pete Church]

Fortunately, I'm finally in the position where I now have tons of WUs cached and can ride this out with no hassle!

[HankB]

I think they said it will be fixed/worked on on Monday.:D
I just got my first WU. :D

Maybe not :(
Tue 08 Feb 2011 05:47:18 PM CST SETI@home Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.06_i686-pc-linux-gnu: HTTP error
Tue 08 Feb 2011 05:47:18 PM CST SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.06_i686-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 08 Feb 2011 05:47:18 PM CST SETI@home Temporarily failed download of astropulse_5.06_AUTHORS: HTTP error
Tue 08 Feb 2011 05:47:18 PM CST SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of astropulse_5.06_AUTHORS

[Careface]

I just got my first WU.

:drool: True!

9/02/2011 12:47:52 p.m. SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks

Awwwww yeeeee :attn: Shame the download server is down, though. But at least I'm starting to be assigned WU :) Woot!

EDIT: All servers are back up and running :) go nuts! (well.. don't kill the servers, but lets start replenishing our caches :D )