2 Billion Results

The people on Seti make a great job. I just can´t belive only now somebody rememeber 2 billion results is the limit!!!

Yes it has been several weeks that I have noticed that I don't receive a 10 load of work units. I have amd X6 (all 6 cores working) and two GTX 460se. This computer is 24/7 for seti@home. Been crunching since 1999.
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Great result for the project and all it's crunchers !!!

Two days after I read the US government "has no proof aliens excist" I surely believe this private project will proof them wrong in my lifetime...

Well, I think : people don't moan if you can't report your work... ET can wait another day !

For you guys at the lab : keep up the great job !!!

On The Other Hand, the US Government also doesn't have proof that aliens don't exist... ;-)

True, but they are celebrating 1 billion and there are no work units to work on for THREE days. I have my computer set for 10 days of work!!
Something is not right.

That "Something" is time needed to change the code and test it.

Do you remember the Y2K problem?
(dates written as 00 may be interpreted as 1900 or 2000 because only one byte was used for date in some old programs/databases)

This is something similar - for now they can't accept your new results
because you will get/return e.g. result #2,150,000,000 and they do not have "room" with such high a number in their "hotel".

From the First post:
"... This explains why we're a little slow to recover from today's outage:
we need to update code to accept larger numbers."

Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...)

Tuesday morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we haven't yet recovered from the weekly outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers.

This morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we're a little slow to recover from today's outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers.

Unsigned is not a long term solution!

Congrats to the crunchers and the project.

Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...)

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Don't confuse a modern ASCII or EBCDIC encoding using a whole byte per character, with the actual storage space required for data. A decimal digit only requires four bits (if you know in advance it's going to be numeric), so two of them can fit neatly side-by-side in a byte - and probably did, given the cost of memory in the early days.
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The next question for project administrator!
Workunit group database last updated:25 Aug 2008 18:07:51 UTC
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/data_density.html
When will the next update of this table?

Fed up with SETI and lack of available data to crunch -0 always an issue these days !
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I too have been getting a lot of work units lately. Using BOINC Manager check that your downloads aren't stuck in a "Download Pending" state . If so, select some or all work units and click "Retry Now".
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