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Yeah, your team is going to have a new production high score of about 8 million
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The SETI@Home Gauntlet 2012 april 16 - 30| info / chat | STATS

for every two days of downtown there is going to be one day of backlog, and ever approaching epigy of one on one. Meaning one day down one day backlog. At this point, if seti does come back online it would have to run almost none stop for almost a month just to keep up with the workload, before it starts to break even enough to afford scheduled downtime maintenance.
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and dont forget moors law. The seti project may very well be approaching saturation, meaning, it wont be able to keep up with the general populace as they get more involved with faster and better computers.
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If the ETs run into just a thenth of the technical problems SETI had the last few months, we will NEVER get into contact with them!

Too bad if arecibo unfortunately listens right into their direction just during THEIR weekly outage!!

You all should hope ET DOES consider HIS part of the job - sending the signals we try to listen to - as 24/7.

Just in the unlikely case we finally get into contact, we really should send them a list of the server names we used in this project, just to prevent them from naming their spaceship, bound to visit our planet, e.g. "mork" - another crash of mork would be very poor performance, then!

Chris
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Just wanted to take a moment to thank the SETI crew for their efforts. I just hit 1,000,000 and am rather happy about it. Took about a year after starting over and it's been a great way to utilize the power of my newly-built server. (A year-long benchmark; if you will.)

That said... I also want to express my extreme disappointment in people who don't seem to be able to understand that there is only so much that can be done sometimes...

For example: I see comments like THIS ONE:

The fact still remains for what ever reason's in the last 30 days user have not been able to access or use seti more than 50% of the time

That's appalling
news of whats up over a week apart
come on
That's no way to treat CONTRIBUTERS

If the ETs run into just a thenth of the technical problems SETI had the last few months, we will NEVER get into contact with them!

Too bad if arecibo unfortunately listens right into their direction just during THEIR weekly outage!!

You all should hope ET DOES consider HIS part of the job - sending the signals we try to listen to - as 24/7.

Just in the unlikely case we finally get into contact, we really should send them a list of the server names we used in this project, just to prevent them from naming their spaceship, bound to visit our planet, e.g. "mork" - another crash of mork would be very poor performance, then!

Chris

Thank you sir for your your excellent post.

If I may be so bold and not ruffle feathers

I have been watching the foibles of keeping S@H online for more than ten years. If memory serves me correctly the problem always seems to be in the hardware not the software. This is hardly the first time. In fact I increased my backlog to ten days of work based upon the hardware downtime since I returned to S@H eleven months ago.

Has anyone seriously priced using off site servers run by people who keep hardware alive for a living?

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Like a lot of scientists they (SETI) are fanatical about keeping the data secure.

If you think about it if we ever do find a signal for ET the very first questions to be raised are going to be about the integrity of the data and who has access to it...

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to the forum, but have been following for a few days. Does anyone know if there is an ETA on the stats export?

I know it really doesn't "matter" but it's in my CDO nature (I used to have OCD, but CDO has the letters in the proper order, as they should be)to see my stats somewhere other than in the manager.

Thanks for any info anyone can provide.

Dean
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I'm not here for stats. I don't care how many work units I complete. I don't care where my standings are in relation to others. The only thing I care about is the work unit my computer is processing right now, as I ask the question, "could this one be 'the one'?". If it's not, then I move on to the next one. I participate for one reason, and one reason only.... the search for proof of intelligent life out there. Most likely when we find it (amd I'm confident we will in my lifetime) my computer most likely won't be the one. But I will be able to stand up and brag proudly that I helped. I don't want good stats.... I want bragging rights!
-Carl

Like a lot of scientists they (SETI) are fanatical about keeping the data secure.

If you think about it if we ever do find a signal for ET the very first questions to be raised are going to be about the integrity of the data and who has access to it.

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Even now you can see the sceptics out in full force with this scientist who claims that a laser type pulse was received by him.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/11/scientist-claims-strange-signal-comes-alien-planet/