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Sir Ulli Send message Joined: 21 Oct 99 Posts: 2246 Credit: 6,136,250 RAC: 0 |
according to this When BOINC is poised to take on 500,000 more users, we'll throw the switch a lot of work on I think, and a question is the BOINC Hardware ready to this, more than 500.000 Users are sending Results, and... ah, came from here http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.php only for Info Greetings from Germany NRW Ulli S@h Berkeley's Staff Friends Club m7 © |
Terry Send message Joined: 17 Sep 00 Posts: 153 Credit: 1,805,202 RAC: 0 |
I think that's a rather generous estimate. I believe the majority of the ones that are going to switch already have. I doubt the number would be over 50K. |
Toby Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1005 Credit: 6,366,949 RAC: 0 |
> I think that's a rather generous estimate. I believe the majority of the ones > that are going to switch already have. I doubt the number would be over 50K. errr... there are already nearly 60,000 users on S@H/BOINC. And I know of several of our team members (mostly power crunchers with many machines) who have yet to switch because they don't want to have to update 300 machines every time BOINC releases a new core client which has been happening frequently lately. I think after 4.5 comes out and is stable, we will see another influx of members. A member of The Knights Who Say NI! For rankings, history graphs and more, check out: My BOINC stats site |
Thor Prime Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 35 Credit: 21,008 RAC: 0 |
> is the BOINC Hardware ready to this, more than 500.000 Users are sending > Results, and... From "server-class hardware": "SETI at home is in the process of ordering an Opteron (either 2 or 4 CPU, 8 or 16 GB RAM, not determined yet). This will be our MySQL server, and will probably run Linux. Apparently there's currently a Linux bug that prevents a process from using > 4GB memory. So we may end up running Solaris if it's available by then. We expect that this will give us the DB performance we need to transition all users from SETI at home Classic to SETI at home BOINC. -- David" |
Terry Send message Joined: 17 Sep 00 Posts: 153 Credit: 1,805,202 RAC: 0 |
> > I think that's a rather generous estimate. I believe the majority of the > ones > > that are going to switch already have. I doubt the number would be over > 50K. > > errr... there are already nearly 60,000 users on S@H/BOINC. And I know of > several of our team members (mostly power crunchers with many machines) who > have yet to switch because they don't want to have to update 300 machines > every time BOINC releases a new core client which has been happening > frequently lately. I think after 4.5 comes out and is stable, we will see > another influx of members. > Ok, but wouldn't the 300 machines still be just 1 user? I still don't think that flipping the switch on classic would result in 500,000 MORE users here. Only time will tell. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Hi I think too they mean users not hosts. greetz Mike With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Ingleside Send message Joined: 4 Feb 03 Posts: 1546 Credit: 15,832,022 RAC: 13 |
> > Ok, but wouldn't the 300 machines still be just 1 user? I still don't think > that flipping the switch on classic would result in 500,000 MORE users here. > Only time will tell. > "Classic" have currently 450k "active" users and had at max 650k active, while the BOINC-version have 58293 non-zero-crunchers so it's not unreasonable to expect a large increase of users then "classic" is shut down. Of course, some users will not transfer over, but at the same time new users is added daily so having the capasity of atleast 500k more before killing off "classic" is a good idea. |
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