Out of the fire and into the pit of sulfuric acid. (Feb 19, 2010)
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oh comeon : / give me some work to do : / | |
ID: 978557 ·  | |
oh comeon : / give me some work to do : / Gauli: There are dozens of BOINC projects out there whose servers are up, Internet connections wide open, and have more work than you could crunch on a thousand computers;) ____________ Best wishes:)  | |
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Some people don't like it that way. They seem to take it like telling them the week after they get divorced that there are other women. | |
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Hey, but this woman (S@H) tells you before the marriage that she wil not allways be there for you. She even provides you with a list of available secondary (not russian) brides. So just go for it and keep your cpu's hot and ready ;) | |
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oh comeon : / give me some work to do : / Please don't be so contrite...for some of us Seti is our preferred choice or only project that we crunch, just let people know what's going on in a factual manner so that they can understand what is happening and why. rgds ____________ | |
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oh comeon : / give me some work to do : / I've nearly quit posting because people in the forums are so mind-numbingly ignorant -- and demonstrate a desire to stay stupid. It is incredibly clear that no one has even read the promise that SETI@Home has made: There are times that there will be no work. It's absolutely obvious that no one has ever read any of the design papers that have been published about BOINC -- especially the ones that talk about what BOINC is supposed to do. BOINC makes it possible for scientific calculation to be done when there is no money to do it any other way. Want perfection? Write a huge check! Get a wish list of things for SETI and buy them. There is no problem that can't be solved by unlimited funding. But it misses the point, completely. If they had enough funding, they wouldn't need volunteers at all. The most effective way to do this is to simply buy (or lease time) on a really big computer. It misses the point because BOINC makes it possible to do science that has no hope of getting huge funding. BOINC changes the game, completely. But the problem is that most volunteers (we aren't "workers" or "clients") have never bother to figure out that what we're doing here changes the whole game. It makes computing for science available at an incredibly low cost -- in exchange for the kind of glitches we've seen over the past decade. If you get it, you realize that even at times like this, and even for all of the problems, and all of the gripes about performance, a very small group of people and a huge group of volunteers are chewing through calculations that would simply not get done any other way. ... and if you think about that, all of the constant bitching is incredibly selfish and just plain stupid. ____________ | |
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... and if you think about that, all of the constant bitching is incredibly selfish and just plain stupid. You the man Ned. Wanted to say much the same myself, but I couldn't do it without using terms that would probably have resulted in a life time ban. ____________   | |
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I don't want perfection, just want to upload that fckin task(weeks ago). I'll not donate. I'm considering not to participate. It makes no sense to calculate if I can't upload the result. That much. | |
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Has there been ANY communication from the S@H team about the cause of the current problem or an ETA for solving same? Personally,I have not seen anything and would have expected any info to be posted in this message board and forum. | |
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... So...Ned...tell us what you really think... <grin> FWIW, I agree with you... C ____________ Join Team MacNN | |
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Patience and time are all that are required. | |
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... and if you think about that, all of the constant bitching is incredibly selfish and just plain stupid. I no longer care. If I'm banned for pointing out the appalling level of ignorance, I'll be just fine with that. My opinions are my own. It's a good thing they're looking for intelligence "out there" because there is virtually none here. I've posted so many times saying "look, here are the white papers!" and "think about how you'd make a reliable system out of unreliable parts" -- with the crunchers themselves being the least reliable, of course. ... and I've pointed out that it costs real money to make servers highly reliable. If you are trying to do big science with no money, you can't afford highly-reliable facilities. You can design so that "highly reliable facilities" are not required, or you can give up and not do the science. Even with all of the issues, BOINC works. It works reasonably well. Thousands of computers are crunching along. Not smoothly, but if you want smooth, relying on the kindness of strangers (the volunteer crunchers) is simply not a good idea. So, the computers are doing fine. BOINC is working as designed, and working around the obvious problems. But, what do we read in the forums? One idiot says he burned his work on a CD, and is mailing it in. How arrogant. Another says "the admins. are quiet, that must mean we should all reload the OS on our computers." Another says "I just want to upload the fcking task." ... and several have posted variations of "I quit." All because the project did not meet their own artificial criteria. This is not time critical data, and while it's important research, it's not well-funded research -- it's barely funded at all. We should be talking about how much work is being done in the face of all the problems, not "why is my RAC suffering" or "it isn't fair that I'm spending all this money on electricity and the stupid project can't give me work." My, aren't we impressed with ourselves. You can't blame staff for not posting when there is always someone ready with some variant of "why hasn't the SETI staff learned to run a couple of computers?" That isn't just stupid, it's cruel and abusive. No one deserves that. ____________ | |
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That's it. I just want some info.(e.g the estimated end of this shit) | |
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Richard Haselgrove  Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7458 Credit: 39,600,125 RAC: 32,775  | |
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Oh, Ned, my friend - where has your sense of humor gone? | |
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7458 Credit: 39,600,125 RAC: 32,775 | |
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But then again, the number of people stuck on 'repeat post', without even noticing that the upload logjam broke about six hours ago, rather makes Ned's point. | |
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I wouln't be surprised, that the ever growing SETI@home community and the use of CUDA, so you would say, good for work production, but maybe were all contributing to a large DDoS Attack and it derails, up-- and down-load servers, scheduler, validator, don't know what the biggest culprit, is. I also could be very wrong :-/ | |
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Dear Ned! | |
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Oh, Ned, my friend - where has your sense of humor gone? It has been beaten out of me by the sheer stupidity of my fellow crunchers. We're watching a whole new computing paradigm, and a whole new way of computing may go down the drain because of people bitching over the fact that they overspent (for electricity and computers) based on their own idea of what the project would deliver -- without even bothering to ask. Problems? You bet. We know about them mainly because, as a research project, BOINC is instrumented. We can peer into BOINC and we can see the gears turning, and the clockwork ticking away. Anyway, I've posted more than I meant to -- maybe I'll be back in a few weeks. In the meantime, computers here are crunching away, and they aren't stunned by the idiocy represented by most of the posts in Number Crunching and "Technical News." ____________ | |
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Oh, Ned, my friend - where has your sense of humor gone? OK fine! Now where is the communication? I have spent over a decade crunching for SETI. If it isn't interested enough to tell me what the problems are, why should I bother spending what the electricity costs me? Idiocy! Well shove that where the sun doesn't shine. People here volunteered. There is only so much crap volunteers will put up with. Simple really - tell people what is happening, or don't. Consequences follow. You may be prepared to waste money on power - why should I? | |
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Dear Ned! I see no where Ned mentions you by name. I think you may be taking his words personally. ____________ | |
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