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Andrew Heath Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 2 Credit: 77,078 RAC: 0 |
Before I start opening up my machine to the SETI cause, I want to know how much data is exchanged between the SETI computers and my own. I don't want to find that I end up blowing my data limits set by my ISP. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
So, set a maximum that the project can download then. In your computing preferences, you can set Transfer at most X Mbytes every Y days. Set the value to well below your data limits, and you should be good to go. Example given, you have a data plan of 1000 megabytes a month, then you set the value there to 600MB per 30 days. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22160 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
To give you an idea of task sizes: An MultiBand download is about 300k An Astropulse download is about 8Mb The results returned by both is about 30k To give you an idea of amount of work done My top cruncher does an MB in a few hours on the CPU, or 10-20 minutes on the GPU, and is doing seven task concurrently on the CPU and 6 concurrently on the GPU. (You can see a summary of this PC here http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7085153 - this PC is currently 56th on the SETI leader board, out of about 250,000, so it is "no slouch") Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Andrew Heath Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 2 Credit: 77,078 RAC: 0 |
Thanks guys. Now I know I can set the limits, I am happy to join the ranks! |
magazinieftin Send message Joined: 6 Apr 14 Posts: 2 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
Really nice and easy to set up, thanks guys. |
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