With the current return rate of 150,373 it will take 2.65 hours to get through 398,228 (ready to send queue)

But with the current creation rate of 46.8552 per second, another 446,998 tasks will be created in the same time.

Correct but all things being equal in the 2.65 hours we would process 398,228 work units. Which is great for science

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The datafiles being split right now (blc13s) must not take as much time to process as other WUs. We are at a 150k return rate which is high. I don't think it is a panic situation yet as there is a healthy RTS queue (450k), but it is not a full 650k RTS queue. I'm impressed how the system is staying up and splitting and hopefully the system can handle this until "meatier" WUs come along.

From looking at the Aricebo schedule, I'm guessing they have a bunch of files they haven't given to us to split yet. I hope they will soon give us a few to help balance the system with some WUs that take longer to process.

From looking at the Aricebo schedule, I'm guessing they have a bunch of files they haven't given to us to split yet. I hope they will soon give us a few to help balance the system with some WUs that take longer to process.

And so it came to pass, with 11oc19ac now on the splitters. But the first tasks to hit my machines are all shorties, so I'm not sure the rest will slow us down much.

Still no panic as the RTS is being drained slowly, but certainly more worry as the RTS is 266k, and the return rate is still around 150k. The aricebo file didn't help one bit.

Guess we will see if we are empty in 12 hours or if something changes.

The aricebo file didn't help one bit.

It might later on. After the shorties at the beginning of the tape, I got some chewy ones later on - a fairly common pattern, these days.

The people on the AP thread should be happy. 13oc19aa is now splitting.

Yes, happy camper here. Starting to rake in some AP's now that haven't been around for weeks.

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Looks like the RTS is healthy. They may have cut the frequency of the status update, which seems like a good idea. They are still giving us Aricebo (old and new) to split too.

The occasional noise bombs appear to have cleared out, to be replaced by lots & lots of shorties.
I hope the servers can hold out till they clear.

Edit- how lovely, looks like many of the shorties are noise bombs...
Take that Seti servers.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The out in the field is over 5 million, so are the blc13s just quick, or are there errors??
The return rate is 148k, and RTS is down to 472k.
There is no panic, just curiosity.

probably not exciting to say they added blc14s (20-83), but this file did catch my eye.
blc14_2bit_guppi_58691_58260_PSR_B0355+54_0022
I'll take a wild guess that this is a pulsar. I'll put it into the search bar and I get the following info.
found a paper with this interesting title
"DEEP CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF THE PULSAR WIND NEBULA CREATED BY PSR B0355+54" so this pulsar had been studied.
Do we expect a seti type signal from this?? or do we process the data for another reason?? study of noise that interferes with the search??

Thanks to the seti team for a short outage.

probably not exciting to say they added blc14s (20-83), but this file did catch my eye.
blc14_2bit_guppi_58691_58260_PSR_B0355+54_0022
I'll take a wild guess that this is a pulsar. I'll put it into the search bar and I get the following info.
found a paper with this interesting title
"DEEP CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF THE PULSAR WIND NEBULA CREATED BY PSR B0355+54" so this pulsar had been studied.
Do we expect a seti type signal from this?? or do we process the data for another reason?? study of noise that interferes with the search??

I was looking at the AP background information and apparently the AP-based searches will pickup Pulsars, black holes and other phenomena besides the intelligence we are looking for. So I am guessing you are looking at an Astropulse task?

Tom

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No she posted the task name and it is just a normal BLC. The targets can be from anywhere and from any catalog. The taskname target name is just the common name from an astrophysical catalog of which there are dozens and dozens. If it was an AP task, the taskname would start with apxxx~.

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1 thing about the current data mix this month is that I just had to buy another 10GiB of download capacity to stave of being shaped until the end of the month. :-(

Cheers.

1 thing about the current data mix this month is that I just had to buy another 10GiB of download capacity to stave of being shaped until the end of the month. :-(

Cheers.

Sorry to hear Wiggo, yes the AP's in the current mix are definitely inflating the download size. AP's are 10X larger than MB's. But your RAC appreciates them.

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

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1 thing about the current data mix this month is that I just had to buy another 10GiB of download capacity to stave of being shaped until the end of the month. :-(

Cheers.

I am sorry to hear this I was surprised to read that Australia still has limited data caps

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AP's are 10X larger than MB's. But your RAC appreciates them.

Not as much as it used to. 400-440 Credit seems to be it for the current batch of AP work that isn't all blanked or noisy (other than the odd outlier, and even then not a single one of 500 or more).
Credit New continues to reduce it's payout for work done.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I've been wondering why the Aricebo schedule said they recorded APs, and we haven't been getting them to split. I had many wild ideas why, but now whatever caused the delay in seti splitting them is gone and we have been catching up on all the Aricebo files while still resplitting older files as well. We are now up to 19no19aa, so almost up-to-date.

We have been working on day 58692&3 from the Greenbank data for a while, and we still have a few more days worth in the splitting queue. They collect so much data in one day that it takes us months to process it. This is the second "groundhog" day of data. I think that it might make a nice basis for a paper to have such a wide scan of the sky on one day or two days of such large data sets.

What will we get next? Tune in again in a few days... some seti time (UTC) ,same seti channel !

We are heading into a long holiday weekend. Thursday is Thanksgiving and the system has been a little slow here and there with cleaning up, but it has been staying up, and we have had nice short weekly outages. Thought I'd wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and safe travels to all the seti team and all those on the board here who keep me company and answer my many many questions.

How is our data situation??
17ap08ad is still stuck. Someone will need to send them an email at some point and let them know, but no major harm is caused it just slows down the MB splitting.
23no19aa is AP splitting now, so the Aricebo data is almost all caught up.
Hopefully they will load more Green Bank (blc) files to be split as there isn't enough there to get us through to Monday.

I just got a bunch of shorties from 17ap08ad
And a bunch of noise bombs from 21no19aa

Might be a long night, but hopefully I'll sleep through it. Green Bay would certainly help to make it a productive Thanksgiving.