Just noticed I hit the 10 million mark this past week!

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At one time, many years ago I as keeping up with Mark, but I don't even dream of reaching one billion. I am proud to say that I have reached 35 million. Yeah me.

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Congrats and thumbs up (or would that be kitty paws up?) to all of your achievements.

Today the kitty crew reached another one themselves......
850 million all-Seti kibblestones.

Meow meow meow, and onward!

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

That is definitely one HUGE achievement,
WTG Mark!

That is definitely one HUGE achievement,
WTG Mark!

Indeed!
For me, I suspect that accomplishment would be a Marshall Tucker moment (e.g. Dreams I'll Never See :)
Already 2 weeks past the summer XCel Energy extortion cutoff moment, and just now starting to shut crunchers down for the summer.

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Well, recently got one great achievement, got to talk on Observatory in Zagreb about BOINC.

Check info here: http://zvjezdarnica.hr/popularna_predavanja/pomoc-znanosti-iz-naslonjaca/

Event was made here: https://tinyurl.com/yc4vve6t

& here's a PDF of lecture: https://tinyurl.com/y8cxzxn2

So, let's spread "the Word". ;)


EDIT: had to myka tiny URLs, as facebook URL didn't function.

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non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU

Crunched past the 10M total last week while I was travelling to a high-school class reunion. (I don't remember all those old people in my classes!!) With solar power offsetting most of my Seti effort (see other posts in this thread re: solar power) it is easy to rationalize a 24/7 operation. Just plodding along in the fine tradition of citizen science screen-saver applications, I am greatly impressed by the Seti production of the "big guns." Give us a call, ET, we're listening.

That is definitely one HUGE achievement,
WTG Mark!

Indeed!
For me, I suspect that accomplishment would be a Marshall Tucker moment (e.g. Dreams I'll Never See :)
Already 2 weeks past the summer XCel Energy extortion cutoff moment, and just now starting to shut crunchers down for the summer.

Close! You must be about my age, I remember when that came out, I was a teenager and loved it. :-) That was Molly Hatchet who sang Dreams, MTB was a little more country, a little less hard(ish) southern rock. And where do you live? I am on Xcel here as well, but haven't noticed a summer escalation on my bill, but then, I guess I should probably pay closer attention. But with my solar panels, that helps absorb a good bit of the summer pain, as long as the sun is shining, of course... :-/

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That is definitely one HUGE achievement,
WTG Mark!

Indeed!
For me, I suspect that accomplishment would be a Marshall Tucker moment (e.g. Dreams I'll Never See :)
Already 2 weeks past the summer XCel Energy extortion cutoff moment, and just now starting to shut crunchers down for the summer.

Close! You must be about my age, I remember when that came out, I was a teenager and loved it. :-) That was Molly Hatchet who sang Dreams, MTB was a little more country, a little less hard(ish) southern rock. And where do you live? I am on Xcel here as well, but haven't noticed a summer escalation on my bill, but then, I guess I should probably pay closer attention. But with my solar panels, that helps absorb a good bit of the summer pain, as long as the sun is shining, of course... :-/

Arrgh, and I even saw Molly Hatchet perform "Dreams" at the Buffalo Rose in Golden CO, mid-90s maybe? For some reason I seem to have a mental block in misnaming them as MTB. Dunno why. Must be those substances I was ingesting in the 70s. :)
Here in Colorado, the cost/kwh doubles for the months of June through September each year for each kwh over 500 per month.

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Just passed 4 Million cobblestones for Seti@Home.

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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

Another 10 million creds in the bank.
The kitties have now surpassed 860 million all-Seti kibblestones.

Meow meow meow!

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

I'm thrilled to report that I am #2 top participant just behind my Team Make W3 Perl.

I also have 5 of the top 10 crunchers here at Seti@home (their rankings are constantly moving up and down within the top 10)

Woo Hoo !!!!

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Congrats Zalster. No bad feelings knocking me out of the Top 10 list. Still hanging in at #12. And your contribution to the GPUUG team is awesome and worth noting that your farm is 1/10 the size of W3Perl's. Go-Go GPUUG team, I think we have the metal locked up for the WOW contest this year.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I also have 5 of the top 10 crunchers here at Seti@home

And just to think with all that hardware at 4-5k a pop, an extra $40 for an SSD with Linux and Cuda8 and you would easily fill the top 5 spots!

I had to say it :D

Good job Zal, keep those meters spinning!

Thanks,

Hit me up when the Windows version is ready. ;)

Z

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Even though I have been with the project almost since the very beginning, I have only made a little less than 19 million credits.

For some years I had all my computers crunching 24/7. I dont do that anymore.
There are many reasons.

Most of my computers are not that powerfull, and don't have a useable GPU, so it wouldnt be worth the effort.

Electricity is relatively expensive where I live, and my electric bills were simply to big.

And I got tired of having many computers standing around making noise and heat (especially during the summer time).

So I'm down to crunching on one, not particularly powerfull machine, and its normally only on, when I actually use it.

I'm hoping to get to 20 million credits, and perhaps even 50 million, someday, but its not something I will put a lot of effort into.

On the other hand I have done, and still do some testing for the developers. Not much any more, but I am ready to help if they need my input.
This, I hope, helps the project with having the big crunchers run more efficiently / making less errors.
So in that way I hope to contribute in my own way. That way, perhaps indirectly, I'm helping it produce some extra science, for the energy spent.

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Everybody contributes as they can or wish to.
Your efforts are appreciated, Karsten.
Meow!

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

Am about to hit my first 1 million mark...very shortly...:-)

Who is the keeper of the green stars? I wrote a check to Berkley using the donation form back in May. It didn't clear my account and trickle down to SETI until 16 August.

Great day in the morning, hit 80M sometime in the early hours today!! I wonder what the next 18 years will bring.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!