I'm a 15+ Year SETI user: Obvious Big Fan.

I would like to start a dialogue with all the Big Time / Big Work Unit Individuals.

Also if you have more then 100 Years Classic Time I think we should have a little recognition... we started out 10 - 15 plus years back (stone age in cpu time) and we really busted out!

I would really like to see some Great Comradery and better Milestone Recognition. We could really boost SETI@Home as a community with a little praise and pats on the back.

LET's TALK


TEKLock

I guess I qualify for this:
I've been crunching SETI for about 15 1/2 years

SETI@home classic work units = 204,777
SETI@home classic CPU time = 995,447 hours

995,447 hours divided by 24 = 41476.96 days
41476.96 days divided by 365 = 113.64 years


It's been fun

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Seti Classic: 204,777 WU /113.636 Yrs

SETI@home classic workunits 4,321
SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours

This isn't anywhere near 100 years, I am not sure how you would get that much time with only one or two computers. are you saying only those with a rack of machines are a worthy?

I think my hours add to a little under 3 years, about 97 years short.

Whatever you think is fair
Bob

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Sometimes I wonder, what happened to all the people I gave directions to?
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SETI@home classic workunits 4,321
SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours

Recognition beyond the norm leads to elitism. Isn't it enough that people receive badges for RAC levels? But even then -- "we don' need no stinkin' badges!" Internet points for recognizing the source of the quote without looking it up ;-)

The *camaraderie of the entire S@H community, coming together to assist in researching something we all believe could happen, should be enough. It's all about the people, not the numbers. (That's not saying that nobody should tweak the hell out of their rigs to get the best performance possible, but that's more a personal challenge.)


Just my $.02, for a whopping 221 hours since 2005 on random, old machines.

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Well I came up a bit short of 100 years of CPU time with only 98.567 years worth.
Looking at the classic stats It looks like my 93865 WUs put my at #1001 in the ranking. Just behind Victor Wheeler. Only 145 short of being #1000!
Back then I was happy just to crack the 10 hour average mark, but now I am making up for it.

Also it looks like there were many people with much faster machines that did several hundred thousand WUs & have less than 100 years of computing time.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

Only 31K worth of classic time under my belt.
I started out slow.
But, I've made up for it since....LOL.

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

Also it looks like there were many people with much faster machines that did several hundred thousand WUs & have less than 100 years of computing time.

Actually, it was found that some people were engaging in rampant cheating and gaming the system by re-uploading the same finished result over and over again to inflate their numbers. This is one of the many reasons why they started fresh with the stats when going to BOINC.

Also it looks like there were many people with much faster machines that did several hundred thousand WUs & have less than 100 years of computing time.

Actually, it was found that some people were engaging in rampant cheating and gaming the system by re-uploading the same finished result over and over again to inflate their numbers. This is one of the many reasons why they started fresh with the stats when going to BOINC.

Yeah I remember hearing about the people that would save a result at 99% then distribute that to hundreds of machines to upload over and over. IIRC a few users doing that were banned in some way.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

I only managed 20,676 workunits and 74,223 hours which works out to 8.47 years using my two OS/2 workstations. I think considering the hardware used back then, that is fairly impressive. Of course with the current hardware that equates to about 2 months production, so in retrospect, not so impressive.

Keith

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Well, just 2411 work units and 58921 hours or 6.7 years, but dialup in those days.

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9177 units, 40655 here. I remember copying the work unit to a floppy and walking it over to the un-networked machine to run. Then at the end of the day carrying it back to upload.
Run time only works out at 4.5 years but my distance travelled is probably right up there.

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Looks like number of work units and CPU time vary considerably.
I show 3,469 Classic workunits but 70,144 hours.
Almost 1/3 of Dr Greys units and significantly more hours.

Thanks for your post, Long Life Classic Users would have had to start Aprox 1999 - 2002 and I started with one PC in 2000...

it's not about 'worthy'; we are all in a community for an extremely worthy cause, all participation should be praised and appreciated but for those with 100+ years classic cpu time, well, that's a league of its own.

I disagree, but not strongly.
Just a 'smigin' of 'elitism' and friendly competition (especially 15 years ago when we really had to work for it) isn't such a bad thing.

as magnanimous as we all really strive to be (especially in the entire S@H community) we all have the biggest streak of competition - and I would wear my 100 year classic badge proudly.

we are all in a community for an extremely worthy cause, all participation should be praised and appreciated but for those with 100+ years classic cpu time, well, that's a league of its own.

I disagree, but not strongly.
Just a 'smigin' of 'elitism' and friendly competition (especially 15 years ago when we really had to work for it) isn't such a bad thing.

as magnanimous as we all really strive to be (especially in the entire S@H community) we all have the biggest streak of competition - and I would wear my 100 year classic badge proudly.

we are all in a community for an extremely worthy cause, all participation should be praised and appreciated but for those with 100+ years classic cpu time, well, that's a league of its own.

I'm still not sure about CPU time alone without mentioning WUs. For instance in a classic user has 182.112 years of CPU time but only 27589 WUs. With an average CPU time of 57 hr 49 min 26.2 sec. That must have taken loads of machines with an average speed that high.

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SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

That's what I'm talking about...

For those of us that worked with dial-up and floppy disks and slow ass equipment and still managed to obsess over every single work unit for the last 13 - 15 years... my hats off to you! We are a foundation to the S@H community. Legitimate 100 Year Classic and those say 10+ year 'crunchers' - CONGRATS.

'Newbies' (for lack of a better word) may not have a real appreciation for the phone booth, dumb phones, pagers, floppy disks and dial-up. (Many More Low Tech References Possible)

The dedication and sheer 'nerdyness' needed to run that deep is PRETTY AWESOME!!

TEKLock

9177 units, 40655 here. I remember copying the work unit to a floppy and walking it over to the un-networked machine to run. Then at the end of the day carrying it back to upload.
Run time only works out at 4.5 years but my distance travelled is probably right up there.

That's what I'm talking about...

For those of us that worked with dial-up and floppy disks and slow ass equipment and still managed to obsess over every single work unit for the last 13 - 15 years... my hats off to you! We are a foundation to the S@H community. Legitimate 100 Year Classic and those say 10+ year 'crunchers' - CONGRATS.

'Newbies' (for lack of a better word) may not have a real appreciation for the phone booth, dumb phones, pagers, floppy disks and dial-up. (Many More Low Tech References Possible)

The dedication and sheer 'nerdyness' needed to run that deep is PRETTY AWESOME!!

TEKLock

I disagree, but not strongly.
Just a 'smigin' of 'elitism' and friendly competition (especially 15 years ago when we really had to work for it) isn't such a bad thing.

as magnanimous as we all really strive to be (especially in the entire S@H community) we all have the biggest streak of competition - and I would wear my 100 year classic badge proudly.

we are all in a community for an extremely worthy cause, all participation should be praised and appreciated but for those with 100+ years classic cpu time, well, that's a league of its own.

I'm still not sure about CPU time alone without mentioning WUs. For instance in a classic user has 182.112 years of CPU time but only 27589 WUs. With an average CPU time of 57 hr 49 min 26.2 sec. That must have taken loads of machines with an average speed that high.

*** No, it took a really long time on REALLY OLD Machines - if you have been running for 15 years with a dedication to match, you get those results.

TEKLock

Looks like number of work units and CPU time vary considerably.
I show 3,469 Classic workunits but 70,144 hours.
Almost 1/3 of Dr Greys units and significantly more hours.

It's pretty simple, back in the 'good ol' days' when we had to walk up hill both ways to school with no shoes on, it took our machines FOREVER to process a WU and we took pride in each and every one... not the 1000s of WU possible today in such a short time.

TEKLock

As I Look at the Feedback...

Everyone commenting here has been a S@H user for 15 or so years (with one acceptation, not going to mention any names but he didn't understand why 15 years dedication is a 'smigin' better then 10 years - especially considering tech older then 10 years) and that's AWESOME! We are somewhat the founding fathers of this Amazing Effort and Community - I'm very proud of that!

"SETI@home was released to the public on May 17, 1999" - 16 Years

I see some real Heavy Hitters Here - CONGRATS!


TEKLock