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S@H V5.17
Simon:
Actually,
Simon does just fine ;)
I would imagine that there will not be a hard cut to 5.17 required. Based on application version (your BOINC client knows which you have in your app_info.xml) it should still send out crunchable WUs to 5.15 apps (meaning no ALFA data).
Still, as soon as there is a more formal announcement as to when 5.17 will come out of beta, I'll try and be ready with a version, as well.
Thing is, to my knowledge only the Mac code was recently changed (if you believe the changelog, that is) so the code changes I've heard about are still not incorporated.
Regards,
Simon.
JavaPersona:
With all due respect, folks. 5.17 is the required version of SETI for Windows and has been for a few days! I just reconnected my machines a few days ago (all were running Simon's versions for 5.15 and I had just gotten my Internet connection back after moving Home and Office) and the Windows machines have not been able to download work units at all. This has been the case since I was able to get everything back and running this past Friday/Saturday PDT. All machines were run dry of tasks before the move.
Linux boxes are getting 5.15 units, however.
pepperammi:
--- Quote from: JavaPersona on 10 Aug 2006, 12:44:11 am ---With all due respect, folks. 5.17 is the required version of SETI for Windows and has been for a few days! I just reconnected my machines a few days ago (all were running Simon's versions for 5.15 and I had just gotten my Internet connection back after moving Home and Office) and the Windows machines have not been able to download work units at all. This has been the case since I was able to get everything back and running this past Friday/Saturday PDT. All machines were run dry of tasks before the move.
Linux boxes are getting 5.15 units, however.
--- End quote ---
With all due respect again, I'm still getting plenty of 5.15 WUs to crunch. I think 5.17 is still beta and it would probly be very wise to avoid releasing any beta code into the wild. That partly got one person into a lot of hassle in the past. Better to stay on the safe side.
Any new app would still new to be fully tested not only in beta area but any newly compiled optimised versions need to be tested fully here too before they're sure to be ready for general release.
By the way. Last I heard 5.17 was/is slower than 5.15. Generally because the aamount of new code to handle the new ALFA reciever data.
Simon:
JavaPersona,
respectfully, respect has nothing to do with the current issue you're experiencing ;)
Rather, it's a problem various people experienced - when the 5.17 app release went onto Beta (BETA, not the main S@H project), anyone who is crunching both Beta and S@H with an optimized app ran into trouble (unless they already had an entry for 5.17 in their app_info.xml).
This is an unfortunate problem for which none of us are responsible, but that nonetheless is rather annoying.
The fix is quick and painless: change "514" to "517" in the app_info.xml, restart BOINC, done.
HTH,
Simon.
JavaPersona:
Alright, fix applied. I am now crunching 5.17 tasks in SETI (thats what the WU's say they are ;))
It just seemed to me that the posts here were saying that 5.17 was not yet released to SETI. My Windows machines were looking for the 5.17 version for SETI (BETA was already crunching those) and would not d/l any work becuase I had "the wrong" version of the app. Now that the fix you mentioned is applied I have d/led some 5.17 task for SETI.
The impression I got from:
--- Quote from: msattler on 09 Aug 2006, 08:57:24 am ---When 5.17 is rolled out to mainstream Seti, will they go through a transition period (like the transition to enhanced) where the scheduler will still parse out 5.15 wu's to users who are not upgraded yet, or will they just force the Seti client to update to 5.17? And if they force the update, will I come home from work some day to find all of my 7 crunchers merrily running pell mell through the wu's generating errors ('cuz they are all on Chicken apps)? Or will Simon (I guess I don't know if he prefers to be referred to as Simon or the notorious Chicken) have his apps upgraded to 5.17-ready in advance to we can all upgrade before they start coming out? I know, a lot of questions.
--- End quote ---
Was that 5.17 had not yet been released to SETI. It had been. With Simon's (Chicken's app) there was no pell melling going on. Just not d/ling at all.
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