I was recently cruising the lunatics optimized website and came across a new binary for the v7 MB for FreeBSD... (thanks very much BTW for compiling it. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get it to compile for months, I guess I should have started by not using clang). I noticed an interesting note in the description: probably not compatible with forthcoming "large" tasks!

http://lunatics.kwsn.info/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=17

Does anyone know what that means?

I think it was Ramster that mentioned something like ... v8 of MB tasks will be larger. I have no idea what thread that was in.

So there is something in the works of change, or at least considering it.

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Sounds to me like what they are saying is that until they release another version of there application at will not be compatible with the larger tasks that are coming. In another when it's we may have to go back to using stop applications for a period of time

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Some time ago. We were testing SETI@home v7 "large tasks". Which were ~1.5MB IIRC? For whatever reason development was that was stopped & it looks like they will pick it back up with SETI@home v8. It could be that v8 does away with the 377k tasks altogether or maybe there will be "standard" tasks & separate "large" ones.

At one point I also recall hearing that the SETI@home & AP analysis could possibly be combined into one app. So we would only download a single file to do both types of work at once. Since the data source for both is the same anyway.

EDIT: Reading some of the old threads on Beta it looks like we started with 1.5MB & then moved to 4MB tasks.

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