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Message 47947 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 22:50:51 UTC
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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...


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Message 47948 - Posted: 19 Nov 2004, 22:57:52 UTC

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.
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Message 48010 - Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 2:28:43 UTC - in response to Message 47948.  

> 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.
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Message 48030 - Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 4:34:32 UTC - in response to Message 47947.  
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> 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"


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Message 48033 - Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 4:53:58 UTC - in response to Message 48010.  

> > 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.

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Message 48104 - Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 9:13:43 UTC

Hi

I think too they mean users not hosts.

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Message 48138 - Posted: 20 Nov 2004, 14:12:57 UTC - in response to Message 48033.  

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> 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.
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"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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