Come get your 2.70 GUI beta RIGHT HERE

[Guru]

Faster than CLI 2.04! http://www.riddlermarc.freeuk.com/se...e_win_2_70.exe

EDIT : FIXED LINK!

OH BTW this is still the fatest version for Coppermines and AMD CPU's!

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[Sisyfos]

hmmm 2.4 you mean (nitpicky remark I know).
I tried the 2.71 beta, but that was very inconsistent in times (some new analysiseses (err) I think).
I know that S@H will accept the WUs, but is it "legit" if you're not a beta tester???

Kim

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[MegaManX4]

Good work Guru, I thank you for that.


Mega

[Guru]

Originally posted by Sisyfos:
hmmm 2.4 you mean (nitpicky remark I know).
I tried the 2.71 beta, but that was very inconsistent in times (some new analysiseses (err) I think).
I know that S@H will accept the WUs, but is it "legit" if you're not a beta tester???

Kim

The 2.7 is faster then the 2.71! Don,t know if its "legit"!

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[Brian R.]

My view is as long as it's unaltered from SETI, it's legit.

[Sisyfos]

Also the beta status is probably concerning how well it fares on the end-users computer, and not wether the returned results are valid.

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[Rattledagger]

The point with beta is to check out that everything is working as it should, and fix problems that may arise.

I will not recommend anyone using ver. 2.70, since it has some known bugs corrected in ver. 2.71
Notably: Missing part of the science calculations.
Wu with low angle-range is very slow.
Fixed some of the client restarts on partially crunched units.

A new beta version is probably out later today, fixing more bugs.

[Brian R.]

So where is(are) the more updated beta(s)?

[Guru]

Originally posted by Rattledagger:
The point with beta is to check out that everything is working as it should, and fix problems that may arise.

I will not recommend anyone using ver. 2.70, since it has some known bugs corrected in ver. 2.71
Notably: Missing part of the science calculations.
Wu with low angle-range is very slow.
Fixed some of the client restarts on partially crunched units.

A new beta version is probably out later today, fixing more bugs.

1. True 2.71 has more bug fixes!
2. I recomend using 2.70 since it is faster!
3. It is not missing parts of the science calculations compared to the ver. 2 client! But ver 2.71 is checking som new sort of data and that is why it's slower!
4. 2.72 will be out tomorow and will be the last beta befrore ver. 3 final!
5. I don't recomend changing to ver. 2.71, 2.72 or 3 before we have to because they are slower then ver 2.4!

Guru

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[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by Guru:
1. True 2.71 has more bug fixes!
2. I recomend using 2.70 since it is faster!
3. It is not missing parts of the science calculations compared to the ver. 2 client! But ver 2.71 is checking som new sort of data and that is why it's slower!
4. 2.72 will be out tomorow and will be the last beta befrore ver. 3 final!
5. I don't recomend changing to ver. 2.71, 2.72 or 3 before we have to because they are slower then ver 2.4!

1: Since more bug-fixes, lesser chance to run into problems and crashes/corrupted results.

2: Faster? I took a look on my results with the beta-versions. Beta 2.66 was terribly slow, no comment here. Beta 2.70 is faster than 2.71, but still slower than cmd-2.04
I've got the following results:
cmd-2.04 (major ver. 2, minor ver. 4):
131 results, cpu-time 1673,60h; run-time 841,5h; cpu 12,78h/wu; run-time 6,42h/wu
gui-2.70: 9 results, run-time 126,29h; 14,03h/wu
gui-2.71: 25 results, run-time 377,92h; 15,12h/wu

As result, gui-2.71 uses 7,8% longer per wu, while gui-2.70 uses 9,8% more than cmd-2.04; well, actually 118,5% more since this is dual-machine.
So for me cmd-version is desidedly faster than gui-2.70


4: Well, 2.71 was also slated as last-before-ver.3

3&5: Since the whole point with seti@home is the science, I will strongly recommend upgrading to ver. 3 then it's released, and not then you're forced to upgrade.
Besides, the added time from 2.70 to 2.71 is smaller than from cmd-2.04 to 2.70, so then jumping to beta I can't see any reason to stop with 2.70 and not the latest.

Either keep using the 2.0x-clients while waiting for ver. 3, or use the last awailable beta.

[Brian R.]

Guru - The site you referenced no longer accepts downloads. Must have gotten alot of pings.

[MegaManX4]

My WU times are terrible with this beta. TERRIBLE FAST !!!! Before I crunched WU's in about 6 and a half hours, that was with the gui Client. Now i have times of about 4 and a half hours! Sometimes it is even only 4 hrs!
Now my thunderbird get's the attention it deserves.

Mega

[Guru]

Rattledagger! What computer are you runing that on? It lowerd the average times om my katmais by 1.5h and on my cumines by 2.5h!
BTW here are some DURON & TBIRD seti times with beta 2.70 !http://www.hardocp.com/articles/amd/ciwsdvstbird2.html




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[Guru]

Brian R here is a new BETA link http://www.riddlermarc.freeuk.com/se...e_win_2_70.exe

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[Brian R.]

Guru - The TBird and Duron times you referenced are in line with what I'm seeing with my 960 MHz PIII (800@120). I'm faster to the extent you'd expect from the difference in cpu speed (3.7 - 3.9 hours). My PIII Klamath (600@672) is running 4.2 - 4.3 hours. With the older client, they were identical.