Seti@home & murc, part 2

[breezer]

Guys, we are processing unit as fast as seti can record them, they will run out if they release any faster code.

[Wombat]

yes, and?
What's the harm in that? Oh, they might lose all that precious hype, and sponsorship, and someone that could actually use the idle cycles might actually benefit.
Sorry for being such a cynic, but I really think SETI should be up front about what's going on.

-Wombat

[Jorden]

Plus, there's still that private UFO I want to win

[Brian R.]

Don't you get envious when you see some of these guys with Alpha chips processing a WU in 90 seconds? Drool

By the way, I finally made it back to the top 10. Yippy ki yay m..f..


[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 17 October 1999).]

[Hecubus]

Watch out for me? Looks like they should watch out for you too Brian.

[Brian R.]

I am trying to draw attention away from me an focus it on you. While everyone is worried about you, I'll sneek on by. :-)

Actually, I only have access to serious computing power periodically.

[bobby2]

Bugger - my chum steve has posted a message to the MURC forums for me offering up my units. Hes used my PC so its 'auto'd' the username / pass - my apologies if this got anyone excited. Guyver in particular ...

My response was to wait till he had 'pulled' a nice woman last saturday night, and then move in and scupper things by being his boyfriend for 10 mins. Hehehe - crash and burn.

bert
King Lony Jo = Only Joking!!!!!!

[Guyver]

Doh! And here I thought I'd found a way to miraculously sneak past you all... Looks like I'll have to do it the hard way....

Guyv..

[Hecubus]

I was looking at my personal stats for SETI, and it shows the number of work units received as greater than the number it has sent out to me, by about 20 units.
WTF?
Anyone else with similar "statistics"?

[Brian R.]

Mine are 382 received and 358 sent out. However, I looked the other day and they were within one unit of one another.

By the way, hecubus, why aren't you a MURCer? Did you do something wrong?

[Hecubus]

I don't think I did anything wrong...
I was a junior member, and then when Ant upgraded the BBS I became a member at about the same time.
That's when all the members became murcers I think?
Maybe I just missed the boat.

[Brian R.]

Seems like the downloading and sending of wu are much more reliable today and maybe yesterday. I bet they've updated their servers.

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 19 October 1999).]

[Buuri]

People behind SETI@home-project never estimated the computer taking part on the project to be such an amount that it is, which is why they are heavily lacking capacity to deliver enough works units and receive/check completed units.
If SSE/3DNow! client was released, it would be catastrophic for them, since 1) there simply isn't enough material to be processed and 2) if there was, they wouldn't be able to check all the received WUs.

Poor planning on their behalf I think.. The good news is that SETI@home 2 is already being planned to continue the work after #1 is completed in 2 years or so.

_
B

[Hecubus]

Hi Mark, just giving you a friendly wave!

I'm pretty sure that you will be waving back at me down the road though, one of my computers is going off-line in the near future.

Also, I'm curious - what types of systems are people using for their SETI machines?

Me:
Dual P3 Xeon/1024k cache 500Mhz, some crappy vid card.
Dual P2 300Mhz, G200.
Single P3 450Mhz, G400MAX!
Command-line client, 1 instance per processor.

Unfortunately, the Xeon will have to quit seti for its real job soon...

[Brian R.]

Hecubus,
No wonder you can zip out the units so quickly. Mine:

PIII 450 @ 581 MHz (Abit)
PII 450 (Dell)
PII 333 (Compaq)



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