Beta Test from BOINC and Astropulse

[Sir Ulli]

Hello at all

Something new about Boinc and Astropulse, this is taken
from a Germann Web-Site

http://www.setinews.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=69

This is a Beta Test from Astropulse.

Boinc is even 1 MB big. After installation, it will open a window
and a B is in the Tasklist. You can "log in to project" for a new
project.
By the first time you became an Account-Key per E-Mail.
This Account-Key is global and for all BOINC Projects, this key
is like 6a029xxxxaeb1e17052a62xxxxxxxxxx.

By the login for an Project , you will be asked for the Account key
and an URL, an the the "sub" Client for the project
will be loaded. At this time only the Beta Version of Astropulse
was able to load.
Thje Astropulse-Client is only 232 kb an installed in an Sub-Directory of BOINC. After this you can download the WU.
At this time the WU has a volume from 5 MB !.
This WU is taken in several sub-WUs.
you can see this in the pictures.

The Beta Version is alike the Client Version of Seti, no graphic
Display or so. And you can only see the basic.

By this Beta, with an Pentium 2 at 300 with Windows 2000,
it will show the the Client will take 20 hours to complete.
But we cant see what exacly are calculate.
All Data (contend and time) will be stored in xml-Data,

AND every WU is signed

also no to the Cheaters

.
The xml- Data have many infos zb

- the url , which the WUs will be uploaded
- The first Date of the Account
-which Code he have
-at which Project he is include
-the homepage-url of the project
-which Client Version is aktiv
-th url who is the newest Client Version
-operating System
- the locale IP
-the local hostname
-os-system-Version

Back to the client
If you have logged in, it shows the User Stats like Name, E-mail Adress etc. But there 2 new links "Your Computer and "Preferences". At "Your Computer" you find a list of how many
Computers from you will be crunshing. Every PC has a further a
link, where you can see many Information like

Host information
---------------------------
Host Information:
IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(same the last 1 times)
Domain name: S3-IT-3
Time zone: UTC - -1 hours
Created: 23:39:51 Dec 10, 2002
Total Credit: 0
Recent average credit: 0
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel Pentium
Number of CPUs: 1
Operating System: Windows 2000 5.0
Memory: 126.48 MB
Cache: 976.56 KB
Swap Space: 302.57 MB
Total Disk Space: 9.49 GB
Free Disk Space: 7.53 GB
Avg upload speed: 0 bytes/sec
Avg download speed:
0 bytes/sec
Number of times client has contacted server: 0
Last time contacted server: 23:39:51 Dec 10, 2002
% of time client on: 100 %
% of time host connected: 100 %
% of time user active: 100 %
------------------------------

The second link "Preferences" shows this
------------------------------
Global preferences:
Work if computer on batteries: Yes
Work if computer in use: Yes
Confirm before connecting to network: No
Minimum amount of work to buffer: 1 days
Maximum amount of work to buffer: 3 days
Maximum disk space to use: 1000 GB
Minimum disk space to leave free: 1 GB
Maximum % of disk allowed to used: 50 %
Edit global preferences
Project preferences:
Resource Share: 1
Project Specific Preferences:
Edit project preferences
____________________

That was all to the Stats of every people, by the Team Stats
is nothin new, the same as Seti@home, only by the overall Stas
you can see the Top-User , and Top Teams and this is new
a list of the Top-Hosts. There you will find the fastest Computers.

But BOINC is still Beta and many things can change........

and Sorry for my nor so good English, thats all for the time.

to be continued

with best regards
Sir Ulli

 

[deez]

interesting...looks like the project is right on track

 

[Stryfe]

That all sounds good to me. I'll be on for that whenever it gets going.

 

[Mictlan]

One quick question Sir Ulli:

Do you have to register anew into the project or will the account information (nickname, e-mail address and country) carry over from S@H?

 

[TC]

I downloaded that stuff from Source Forge, but I can't figure out what to do with it. Looks like a lot of c++ code.

 

[Cy]

I know we all want to be ready for phase two or whatever comes next.

Cy

 

[Sir Ulli]

@Mictlan

i thougt that you musst register anew, and the TEAMS
have also build a new Account for BOINC.

@TC

if you download the "Stuff" from Source Forge you need
Windows.net to use it, only the Linux "Stuff" can be used,
because in Linux there is all you need to compile the source.

here are some new pictures from the Linux-Client

http://www.setinews.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=73

regards
Sir Ulli (from Plant3DNow!)

 

[TC]

I'll download it to my nix box and compile it.

 

[Sir Ulli]

Hello

if someone will look at the new client, so look here =klick=

it is the Windows Version, but you can do nothing with it.
I compile it, for the people who will have a look at this.

regards
Sir Ulli
(from Planet3DNow!)