NEWS FROM THE SETI@HOME STATISTICS PAGES

Seti@Home Classic Crunchers are closing in on the major milestone of TWO BILLION work units crunched. As of 08/01/2005 these dedicated participants in the worlds largest distributed computing project have produced 1,966,174,512 work units of processed work.

Projections based on emperical evidence indicate that these crunchers will reach the TWO BILLION milestone in mid September, 2005. The hard core crunchers are producing nearly 800,000 work units per day. Seti@Home statistics show that there are approximatily 290,000 active crunchers working on the classic project. Many have been with the project for over four years, and still many more in recent years. Active sign up for the classic project was ended on June 1, 2005.

Stay tuned for more news as the project approaches this major milestone.

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NEWS FROM THE SETI@HOME STATISTICS PAGES

Seti@Home Classic Crunchers are closing in on the major milestone of TWO BILLION work units crunched. As of 08/01/2005 these dedicated participants in the worlds largest distributed computing project have produced 1,966,174,512 work units of processed work.

Projections based on emperical evidence indicate that these crunchers will reach the TWO BILLION milestone in mid September, 2005. The hard core crunchers are producing nearly 800,000 work units per day. Seti@Home statistics show that there are approximatily 290,000 active crunchers working on the classic project. Many have been with the project for over four years, and still many more in recent years. Active sign up for the classic project was ended on June 1, 2005.

Stay tuned for more news as the project approaches this major milestone.

Does this mean they will keep classic open to get to 2B WUs........?

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Does this mean they will keep classic open to get to 2B WUs........?

Why not?? This would be a great milestone for the project!

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

I wonder what's the TeraFlop count for 2,000,000,000 WU's...

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Does this mean they will keep classic open to get to 2B WUs........?

Why not?? This would be a great milestone for the project!

Is it a meaningful milestone, if nothing is found?

Does this mean they will keep classic open to get to 2B WUs........?

Why not?? This would be a great milestone for the project!

Is it a meaningful milestone, if nothing is found?

It's a milestone, lots of zeros.

Does this mean they will keep classic open to get to 2B WUs........?

Why not?? This would be a great milestone for the project!

Is it a meaningful milestone, if nothing is found?

But you would know that there isnt life in there.

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But how many of these WU's have been crunched over and over and over? They have not been doing any new work for a while.

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But you would know that there isnt life in there.

You would absolutely know that nobody transmited a signal at the time the tape was recorded. Does not mean that there is no life at that point in the sky, only that they didn't transmit when we were listening.

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

But you would know that there isnt life in there.

You would absolutely know that nobody transmited a signal at the time the tape was recorded. Does not mean that there is no life at that point in the sky, only that they didn't transmit when we were listening.

Or that we weren't looking in the right places.

Big Possibilities for Small Stars

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But how many of these WU's have been crunched over and over and over? They have not been doing any new work for a while.

And how many of those are cheats of one sort or another?

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Agree John

You are welcome to find one of my previous "rants" about "UCB authorized clients"... I do remember the "one classic foopah" that would turn out a mangled workunit about every 15 seconds... It was stated that it would take over a year to recover the Science... But that is also history..

My home computer lab has turned out over 47 years of Classic Seti Science. If I am paying for electricity for them to run... Then they should be doing "useful things." That was the basis of my wife telling me "Seti" is a "Good Thing." With BOINC it is hard to determine... I believe that I am approaching half a million computer hours donated since Jan 2000...

But how many of these WU's have been crunched over and over and over? They have not been doing any new work for a while.

And how many of those are cheats of one sort or another?

I like this part the "web site" tells what splitter tapes are running... Some have this years date... Hmmmm is UCB/Seti Classic, not telling everyone the Truth? Otherwise others would be migrating...

R/

Al

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Aw, come on.. Let Classic reach 2b! This change over to BOINC has been going on for a year and a half already so what's a couple more months? (the UCB crowd will be back from summer break by then!)

Come on UCB.. 2b would be a nice cut off point - even if you find the data bogus or redundant. It's a number that all Seti classic crunchers will remember,as "we did 2b WU in classic" will have meaning to those that have been here for 3-6 years.

It's called "PR" to the folks that have been crunching for years. There has been a "resistance" to move to Boinc as it is, and if Classic is shutdown short of this goal, it will not help matters.

Remember - crunchers are the most important resource that Seti Classic or Seti Boninc has. Without them, all the server hw in the world will mean little.

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I suspect that David Anderson wants the PRESS!

The DEATH of Classic, has been threatened several times and with this post.. It seems like they want Press and Not Science...

BOINC "working" has been threatedned several times (or about two years)... The Forum is littered with both...

At this point I am still migrating from Classic to BOINC...

So in the "Advertised Waste of Time" why should any Classic User Care?

So yes, it is time that someone get off their collective you know whats and decide, announce it! It would also be nice that they inform the thousands/millions of users that are donating their time! Ooops that is an old failing of UCB... Mushroom theroy, "Keep them in the dark and feed them cr@p"...

Derogatory, I think that was the topic which Davids thesis was founded on... Communications on any of the BOINC/Classic sites tend to prove that!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry old story, it has been "Proven" over the years... The Users are "Screwed" Seti only gains "Credit" and return Nothing! At this point, I do not think David will ever learn... He has too much Glory and too many Problems to "bask in." It also appears that what the uesr tell him is too much of a burden... He learns nothing from that area...

If you can build an army, they understand and are able to tell others, what happens when they can explain it to others... The simple term is "word of mouth advertising"... It can go good or bad... But then no one ever published of the 5.4+ million users how many EVER completed 1 workunit... WE can see, that roughly 300,000 users are doing the work...

Aw, come on.. Let Classic reach 2b! This change over to BOINC has been going on for a year and a half already so what's a couple more months? (the UCB crowd will be back from summer break by then!)

Come on UCB.. 2b would be a nice cut off point - even if you find the data bogus or redundant. It's a number that all Seti classic crunchers will remember,as "we did 2b WU in classic" will have meaning to those that have been here for 3-6 years.

It's called "PR" to the folks that have been crunching for years. There has been a "resistance" to move to Boinc as it is, and if Classic is shutdown short of this goal, it will not help matters.

Remember - crunchers are the most important resource that Seti Classic or Seti Boinc has. Without them, all the server hw in the world will mean little.

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I suspect that David Anderson wants the PRESS!

I don't beleive that. But if it was, so what? If the press find this story useful and spread the word about SETI@Home, it will also attract new users and therefore gain science.

Plus, it's also an opportunity to announce the close of classic. Perhaps some classic users who don't check the message boards or home page(s) will read it and hurry to migrate to BOINC... :)

Aw, come on.. Let Classic reach 2b!

But by proper standards, it's 2 thousand million - not 2 billion. :P ;)

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Neil

Aw, come on.. Let Classic reach 2b!

But by proper standards, it's 2 thousand million - not 2 billion. :P ;)

Proper standards would be 2 * 10^9, and nevermind the silly names.

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More NEWS from the Classic SETI@Home STATS pages

Based on recent updates to the Classic Seti@Home Stats pages, the projected arrival of the TWO BILLION Work Unit will be around Sept 2.

The 290,000 active Classic Crunchers are busily working to achieve this great goal, as well as further the science of the project.

Officially, the SETI administration has been silent on plans for the end of the Classic project, and this report is in no way ment to be an official proclamation or statement as to that subject.

I will update the TWO BILLION projections as the stats are received.

Happy Crunchin' to all.

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!!!GO CRUNCHERS GO!!!

Keep it up!

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Rob_G

I think most BOINC users would be very supportive of a decision to let classic crunch 2 billion wus and go out in a blaze of glory. If that is the case then seti should write a one sentence announcement on the home web page. It is frustrating to both BOINC and classic users that they do not. There is no reason not to share this information. My concern is that the decision to close classic will just continually be put off and we will not be able to progress.
BOINC has been stable for quite some time. The only revisions have been to accomodate new projects or give new features which is an on going process. The bottlenecks will be relieved when we can use resources gained from classic. If that is not enough, then seti will deal with it and find a way as it always has. Reassuring the BOINC users that classic will close relatively soon and reassuring the classic users that they will remain in business until they can reach the impressive two billion mark is easy to do and makes good sense.

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