Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Weird Seti@home error

Now that AQUA seems to be out of Fokker-Planck work units, I decided to attach the Intel quad to SETI and run some Astropulse work using the Lunatics SSE3 optimized client. The weird thing is when I attach to the project, all is as normal but when I go on their website to change the default location, I just get a blank screen with "Couldn't find computer" when I click on the "details" link.
The problem seems to be the allocated Host ID (in this case 5328134) ... the strange thing is that no machines around this number seem to exist either (5328133/5328135 etc). When I spotted this yesterday, I thought it was probably something to do with a delay in details getting to the database but now we are 24hrs later and the problem persists.
There doesn't seem to be anything in the forums related to this. Guess I will wait and see if it comes right by itself ... not too concerned as my XP laptop has been waiting for Astropulse v5 work units for over a week now anyway.

EDIT: Ok, 3pm now and the computer in question is showing on the SETI@Home website and I am able to change locations etc. Still no Astropulse v5 work units however.