• What is BOINC/SETI@Home?
• Where is the home page?
• How do I sign up?
• Where can I download the client?
• I've downloaded the BOINC client, now what?
• How do I join Team Starfire?
• How can I create an account that will be automatically linked to Team Starfire?
• HELP! I've returned some work but I'm not getting any credit!
• How do I find my CPU benchmarks?
• Where can I get a personal stats counter?
• Where can I find our team page on the SETI@Home site?
• Where can I see my personal stats?
• What are some Team Starfire SETI stats sites for BOINC?
• How do I run SETI BOINC as a service?
• No work available (There was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)?
• How do I cache WUs?
• How do I deplete BOINC's S@H cache?

This is basically the "classic" SETI@Home client but ported over to the new BOINC framework. There are some new bells and whistles you should be aware of. Here is some information taken from one of the project's pages that helps to explain some of the new features you'll find:

• Multiple applications: BOINC allows projects to run more than one type of program on your computer. New program versions are downloaded automatically. SETI@home plans to use this feature do a new type of analysis of radio signals, looking for short broadband pulses that could be evidence of ET, black holes, or fast pulsars.

• Variable credit per work unit: BOINC assigns a variable amount of credit per completed work unit, based on your CPU speed and the CPU time used.

• Finite work supply: Each work unit is now processed a limited number of times (typically three). When we have no work for your computer, you'll get a 'no work available' message. We encourage you to participate in other BOINC-based projects; then, when SETI@home has no work, your computer can stay busy doing other scientific research.

• Highly configurable preferences: You have more control over how your computer is used: for example, you can limit the disk usage, the network bandwidth, and the work hours. You can also control the amount of work that your computer downloads each time it connects to our server. These 'preferences' are managed using a web-based interface, and they automatically are applied to all the computers on which you run SETI@home.

• OpenGL-based graphics: SETI@home's graphics now have a modern 3-D look. When they're running in a window, you can use the mouse to rotate and zoom. You can even customize the graphics using a web-based interface. This also means the graphics are FAR less CPU intensive!

• Open source: The source code for both SETI@home and BOINC are available. If you have a rare kind of computer, or like to compile things yourself for security reasons, you can still run SETI@home.

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http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

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by pike
last modified: 2004-07-18 17:08:03

There are two ways to sign up actually.

•If you have participated in SETI@Home in the past AND you have access to the original email address you used to sign up SETI@Home, click here and enter your email address. In a few moments you will receive an email with your account key.

•If you have never participated in SETI@Home or you no longer have access to the account you used to sign up with the original SETI@Home, you will need to click here and create a new account.

If you don't have access to your old email account, don't worry! It's not a big deal. Your original SETI@Home stats are not carried over to the new framework anyway - the new client uses a completely different method of calculating stats. However, several items will carry over: your profile, your join date, your location, your team, etc.

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by pike

The link is right here.

Currently there are compiled clients available for the following platforms:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• SPARC/Solaris

If your platform is not listed or you prefer to compile the client yourself, you may download the source code by clicking here.

BOINC installation and configuration instructions can be found here.

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After downloading and installing the client, you must attach to a project. You will need a few items to attach. First, you'll need your account key, which can be found in your activation email. If you don't have an account key, see here /faq/10503. You'll also need the project URL, which is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu.

After intially installing the client, the first screen you should see looks like this:



If you don't see that window, click on "Settings" and choose "Attach to Project". Just enter in the your info and BOINC will take care of the rest!

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by pike
last modified: 2004-06-25 15:17:54

GREAT question! Those of you who were able to transfer their old SETI@Home account over to BOINC should already be Team Starfire members. If you weren't able activate your old SETI@Home account or you are a new user, please go to this page to join the best team around!

Note: you must be logged in to the SETI-BOINC site to join or quit a team.

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by pike
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Go here and fill in the form, then a confirmation email will be sent to the email address you used to sign up with. Open the email and paste the account ID into the webpage that came up when you created the account.

Then, if you have already signed up for other BOINC projects, click the "I'm currently participating in another BOINC project" link other wise click the "This is my first BOINC project" link. Check over the settings and make and changes necessary and click "OK" at the bottom.

If this is your first BOINC project then download the software for your operating system and follow the instructions.

If you've already signed up for other BOINC projects then just enter the info as shown into the BOINC client.

That's it. Welcome to Team Starfire!

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by Liontaur

BOINC handles work credit very differently than the original SETI@Home. For a great write-up by leibold , check out this FAQ entry.

The most important thing to remember is that you will not be credited until at least 3 users have returned the same WU.

But don't worry! You can still verify that Berkeley received your work by going to your personal Pending Credit page. Here you will see what results your have sent up, how much credit you are claiming for each result, and how many (if any) other users are currently working on that unit.

*Note: you must be logged in to the SETI-BOINC site to check your pending credits.

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by pike
last modified: 2004-06-25 15:05:22

The BOINC client tests your CPU the first time you attach to a project and periodically throughout the duration of the project.

If you would like to see the numbers BOINC comes up with, you can force a benchmark by following these easy instructions:

Under the "File" menu in the BOINC client, select "Run Benchmarks". Then click on the "Messages tab". After a few moments you will see the following lines appear:



This shows your Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks. Please note that as of this writing, Berekely has stated these numbers are very likely to be inaccurate.

One of our forum members, Slapyo , has created a site to log and compare these numbers accross a wide range of processors and clients. This will allow us to compare the numbers for accuracy as well as changes in the calcuations as different versions of the client progress.

To submit your benchmarks, visit Slapyo 's site here. You will also need to submit your host ID which can be found by clicking here. Remember, you must be signed in to the SETI-BOINC page to view your host IDs.

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This one is very similar to the one currently available for SETI@Home Classic. This counter is provided courtesy of Neil Munday and is hosted on a reliable server.

»boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/

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by pike
last modified: 2004-11-09 15:45:22

Right here »setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_di···id=30192. Currently users are sorted by their SETI@Home Classic WU count from 15-May-2004. Yes, that's kind of odd - hopefully Berkeley gets this corrected soon.

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http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/home.php

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»www.boincstats.com/stats/user_st···ti=30192
»stats.kwsn.net/team.php?proj=sah···id=30192
»www.setisynergy.com/stats/teams.···ject=sah
»www.clenetworks.net/test
»boinc.setiatwork.com/team/stats.···id=30192

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by Liontaur
last modified: 2005-03-17 17:11:22

Courtesy of Rattledagger :

To install as service on NT4 & later, stop the gui, and open up a cmd-prompt.
If installed to default directory, type cd "\program files\boinc"

boinc_cli -install

And it's installed as service.

Note, if running XP, you very likely must go into the service-control-panel and change the BOINC-service to run as "localsystem".

And start the service, or reboot.

BTW, also make sure you've not got any BOINC-shortcut in startup-folder.
Also, some have reported some win2k-computers gives an error-message when installing as service.

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by Smuuth edited by samburgers
last modified: 2004-11-10 23:59:53

The explanation is here. In short you need a minimum of 64MB of RAM to run SETI under BOINC.

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by Liontaur

As default BOINC will cache some WUs but not a whole lot. To increase the amount of WUs cached:

Sign in here, click on "View or edit general preferences", click on "Edit preferences", and edit the "Connect to network about every" field, make it however many days worth of WUs you want to have cached (7 days should be good), click the "update properties" button. Open up your BOINC client (on each computer), click the projects tab, right click on seti@home, left click on update.

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GN7 wrote a great howto here: [BOINC] Depleting your queues for the Classic race

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by paul edited by Liontaur
last modified: 2005-03-16 06:49:27