Just saw I received a email from a Seti graduate student for 2018 donations for hardware and software.

Interesting news that they said they have received new Parkes data at Berkeley and it should be distributed to the splitters soon.

So the perennial question about when last years fund drive for Parkes hardware would supply actual data seems to have been answered.

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Just checked my email..Nothing...

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I received a "Genome surgery, talking politics" mail from Berkeley, but see nothing related to what you mention ...

I would assume all the latest donors from the last special donor pledge to get the email eventually. I wouldn't think they would just target me. I pledged again for this year. Will be waiting for the Parkes data. I'll post the email content minus the usual donor URL. The email came from SETI@home <donors@ssl.berkeley.edu>

I'm an undergraduate student who has been working with the Berkeley SETI team for more than three years. I've learned a great deal about the details that go into the complicated projects that are run here. I've spent much of my time on the search for fast radio bursts (FRBs). Lately, I've been writing software that monitors the new SETI and FRB experiments on the FAST radio telescope in China to make sure they are operating properly.

A lot has happened here in the last year. Thanks to your donations we were able to buy a server to handle the Breakthrough Listen data from the Parkes telescope. We have our first set of data in Berkeley and the SETI@home splitters should be working on it soon. We've automated the Arecibo pipeline so that data from Arecibo is sent to Berkeley over the Internet, as quickly as possible. And we've greatly improved our interference removal and candidate identification pipeline for SETI@home and are adapting this same pipeline to the analysis of our SERENDIP data.

To accomplish our goals for next year, SETI@home needs two things. First, we need you, and your friends and family. The current flood of data requires more processing power than SETI@home volunteers currently provide. Please spread the word about SETI@home and encourage people to participate. Second, SETI@home needs the funding to obtain the hardware and develop software required to handle new data sources. I'm hoping that you will give generously to our efforts .

Happy holidays!

Sabrina Berger
Berkeley SETI Ungraduate Research Associate

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Thanks Keith,

Interesting reading. More than we can process he says?? Don't know how much of that is true or not, lol...but either way, it makes a good sales pitch....

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He? :P

Hahaha

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I think Sabrina just told Keith to put in a order for Four 2080Ti's with water blocks :D

Or read my mind about my upcoming Threadripper build. Which is gonna cost a penny. Ha ha.

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I would assume all the latest donors from the last special donor pledge to get the email eventually.

I know someone that received the email and has never donated. Maybe staggered sends?

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This is what I got by email earlier today..

And it's available online with tomorrows date tag.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor_letter_nov18.php

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The SaH v8 amendments for Green Bank data were designed in a way that should generalise for other sources.

I'm watching the pre-processing changes - last month

Parkes raw data header parsing.

Factor out the getting of the frontend into its own routine.

Add some fixes to two header items that are wrong in the raw files:
NBITS
BLOCSIZE
These fixes will be removed once the raw data files are fixed.

Act on the return value from populate_header().

closely followed by

Only do Parkes correction for Parkes data.

:P

So I think it's possible that they might be able to map Parkes data onto the existing apps with only internal testing. We've certainly not been asked to make any application changes so far.

That 'only do Parkes for Parkes' adjustment reveals that the tapes will be distinguished by the keyword 'guppi_parkes' - so maybe the data formats are more similar than they originally expected.

Eric told me there will be a v10 application.
If Parkes data will work without modification of the apps i`m almost sure it will be tested at beta first just to make sure it works as expected.
You would be careful as well.
So we`ll see.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The problem of course with Beta, is that so few people participate when there is something new to test.
Too few, different computers/GPU's, and setups, to make a good Beta run.

Too many users (credit hounds), are only interested in their RAC on main. :-(

We'll see what happens if there is a v10 app, but I guess most of the people here, with multi CPU/GPU computers,
those that really should participate in a Beta test, to make a good sample of different computers, will not participate at all....

Some may have a "Volunteer tester" tag, but how much do they really participate on Beta, when there is something new to test?
(not much, judging by their total credit on Beta at least)

RAC on Main, is God, eh?

Why are you here?

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If it pleases the court.

I have taken my tablet off of SETI Prime and restarted it on SETI Beta. When it's done with Prime, it will do Beta.

Happy?!?! That's 1 back on beta.
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Why are you here?

Did the truth hurt? :-)

Edit: Did you miss: Some may have a "Volunteer tester" tag, but how much do they really participate on Beta, when there is something new to test?
There's nothing new to test on Beta now.
I run Beta 100%, just because I don't like the RAC/Credit obsession by some here on main. (And the Linux "I'm better than you windows people" types)

Truth never hurts me, as long as the truth is real.

You seem to be here on Prime only to sow dissent throughout the ranks. For someone that has nothing good to say about SETI, it makes me wonder why they are even here, if not to sow dissent.

I have done Beta with many of my past machines. If you don't like to see the "Volunteer Tester" tag next to our avatars, go back to Beta and tell them just how "bad" it is over here on Prime.

By the way, what was your avatar name before you changed it? I never added your current name to my ignore list and yet you are there. Just curious. ;)

Siran

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"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

By the way, what was your avatar name before you changed it? I never added your current name to my ignore list and yet you are there. Just curious. ;)

Siran

You don't add the avatar name to the ignore list, you add the User ID, which in my case is 8973273. So either you never added me, or you removed me :-)
Now, add User ID 8973273 to the ignore list, and be done with it....

Semantics dude, semantics.

Well, obviously YOU missed everything I said on that line of text. So, here it is for you to fully read:

By the way, what was your avatar name before you changed it? I never added your current name to my ignore list and yet you are there. Just curious. ;)

So, what was your previous avatar name?

BTW, I re-enabled SETI Prime on my tablet since you said there's no work on Beta right now. Then when there IS work on Beta, my table will get some. lol ;)

Siran

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"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

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By the way, what was your avatar name before you changed it? I never added your current name to my ignore list and yet you are there. Just curious. ;)

So, what was your previous avatar name?

BTW, I re-enabled SETI Prime on my tablet since you said there's no work on Beta right now. Then when there IS work on Beta, my table will get some. lol ;)

Siran

I give up on you. You obviously can't understand what people write in plain English.
So again: You can't add a name to the ignore list, so no matter what my avatar name was before, it does you no good to know that.
And then I didn't say at all that there was no work on Beta right now, I said "There's nothing new to test on Beta now. " However it's lots of work on Beta now, just "nothing new to test "

With that, I'll drop you like a hot potatoe.

I think I know who you "were" when I ADDED YOUR ID NUMBER to my ignore list, it's just your country of origin, Sweden, that is throwing me off. And, it's because of this attitude you spew out here that you ended up there. I just cannot remember your last avatar name. Just tell me you last avatar name and I'll leave you be to spew you negativity. That simple. :)

Siran

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Siran - user NAMES are not a unique identifier, they are just a few words that user xxxxxxx wants to use at a given time. So, if you don't want to read what our Grumpy Swede says then use his unique user number to block seeing comments.

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

If and when there is something to test on Beta I'll move my machines, but there hasn't been anything to test in well over a year so no need to Beta test a app that already on Main.

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