According to data provided by BOINCstats, the SETI@home project just surpass the 1.5 million volunteers with credits* ! Woohoo ! :)
Congrats to all ! 2 million keep in sight !

*Yes, I know, only 8,30% of volunteers are active but still had to celebrate this crossing...

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Wow....
15 years ago or so, who would have conceived such a level of participation?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

15 yrs ago there was over 2 million users but then it changed and a lot left so we still got a lot of users to get to catch up still good to see the numbers rising again

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I find the ratio of active hosts to active users interesting. It shows that, on average, each active user has more than 6.26 active hosts.

I feel like a slacker with only 2 (3 if you count my phone, but I haven't let it do any Main work in 2-3 months, so I don't know if it does count in these numbers).

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I find the ratio of active hosts to active users interesting. It shows that, on average, each active user has more than 6.26 active hosts.

I feel like a slacker with only 2 (3 if you count my phone, but I haven't let it do any Main work in 2-3 months, so I don't know if it does count in these numbers).

I had 9 until I lost my Frozen One this weekend.
Many have only one or two.
But that average is changed by the datacenter and school system folks with 100's, and some folks that have 20-30 running.
Interesting stat, though.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I find the ratio of active hosts to active users interesting. It shows that, on average, each active user has more than 6.26 active hosts.

I feel like a slacker with only 2 (3 if you count my phone, but I haven't let it do any Main work in 2-3 months, so I don't know if it does count in these numbers).

2 is enough isn't it? :-)

Cheers.

2 is enough isn't it? :-)

Until we find them there are never enough.

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I find the ratio of active hosts to active users interesting. It shows that, on average, each active user has more than 6.26 active hosts.

I feel like a slacker with only 2 (3 if you count my phone, but I haven't let it do any Main work in 2-3 months, so I don't know if it does count in these numbers).

2 is enough isn't it? :-)

Cheers.

... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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Oh....LOL. I know that symbol and understand it very well.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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Yep that $ keeps me from building another one to replace my aged I7 920.
At one time I was running 4 machines. But only 3 for the last year or so.

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... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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Yep that $ keeps me from building another one to replace my aged I7 920.
At one time I was running 4 machines. But only 3 for the last year or so.

Well I won't be building another one, but GPU upgrades are another story with the 2 that I do have (and then I may fire up the old test rig again for another short test session with the old cards). ;-)

Cheers.

I find the ratio of active hosts to active users interesting. It shows that, on average, each active user has more than 6.26 active hosts.

I feel like a slacker with only 2 (3 if you count my phone, but I haven't let it do any Main work in 2-3 months, so I don't know if it does count in these numbers).

The 780,943 active hosts which Boincstats shows is IMO wrong. The graph of active hosts over the last 60 days shown on http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail/host certainly has interesting features. The "granted credit in the last 30 days" method means if the host total for one day is messed up, the host suddenly gets counted as active even if it has long ago been broken down for recycling. Other than that vulnerability, I like that criteria for which hosts are active.

http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/bp.php?project=19 shows 181,729 active hosts. I think that's based on the last time a host contacted the project being within the last 30 days, an easier criteria to deal with, and probably quite close to a reasonable tally.

I'd certainly be glad if an extra 600,000 hosts became active, though I think it would create alarming side effects in the work delivery system.

                                                                  Joe

I have one pc but my boys let me use theres too making three, I was going to replace my graphics card but my boys siad my pc is too old there getting me a new one for my 60th birthday in november with a gtx 760 and I5 should work ok on here I think

... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

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Yep that $ keeps me from building another one to replace my aged I7 920.
At one time I was running 4 machines. But only 3 for the last year or so.

"Aged I7 920"??? My good cruncher is a 920.

I had 3 until one of them had a Windows nervous breakdown. I got that one cheap, and it has scared me off of getting any more cheap from the same source. Electricity is also a factor.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

... only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

$

Yep that $ keeps me from building another one to replace my aged I7 920.
At one time I was running 4 machines. But only 3 for the last year or so.

"Aged I7 920"??? My good cruncher is a 920.

I had 3 until one of them had a Windows nervous breakdown. I got that one cheap, and it has scared me off of getting any more cheap from the same source. Electricity is also a factor.

Electric is why I am only running 6 out of 7 machines I have setup at home right now. The old i7-860 just has to low of performance per watt for me to justify running it during the summer.

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. only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

I'm shore Hal9000 that most of diehard setizens have more than 2 at home but the question is how many work ?

I have 2 big boxes with parts old boards old chips all the way back to the SLOT 1 PII chips old ram .

But only the 2 i'm running now are any good these days for seti

GOWD how much money have i spent over the years with computers mmmm I reckon most of us diehards would have been able to by a small 1 bedroom unit for what i have spent over the decades

Expensive hobby ....

BOYS AND OUR TOYS heheheheheheh

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I have this one daily driver/cruncher, a dual core with no usable graphics hardware. I also have a laptop that I don't want to stress with Seti. Then of course there are the old boxes, Win95, Win98, even a WinXP, too slow to be worth crunching, that sit unused in the spare room.

I might have more computers, or a graphics card, if it weren't for money.

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The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine.

SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours

I'd certainly be glad if an extra 600,000 hosts became active, though I think it would create alarming side effects in the work delivery system.

Josef is perfectly correct. If the workunits crunched went up by 50%-100% could the current server infrastructure cope? I doubt if it could, but then again it isn't likely to happen.

It is hard to guess how much the servers could handle. When a single user joined and added another 8% it didn't even really show up in any meaningful way to the server stats.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
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. only two computers? I don't understand. How can someone have only two computers...

I'm shore Hal9000 that most of diehard setizens have more than 2 at home but the question is how many work ?

Yeah, I forgot to mention, I also have a couple of laptops, but I don't crunch with them. I did with my first couple of laptops and decided it probably contributed to their premature deaths.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.