Posts by [STS]LoB

1) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2050363)
Posted 26 May 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I would like to recommend the short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God by Arthur C Clarke to everyone as they finish their last few Workunits and Tasks

I found it kind of appropriate, as we are getting closer to the end of the current search.


Thank you for the hint, Keith T. It is on Kindle for 49 cents, so I just bought it quickly.
2) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2050361)
Posted 26 May 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Congrats on hitting 21yrs crunching :), you're lucky to have been able to do that! Unless you bunkered of course ;).


I didn't. But I was lucky to receive another pile of work units after they ran out for the first time a few weeks ago.
3) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2050132)
Posted 23 May 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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So that's it. After exactly 21 years (started May 23rd 1999) I've finished my last work unit yesterday: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=8704138288
Thank you all. This was a part of my life for more than half of my life time.
4) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2046284)
Posted 22 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I've received tons of new work units. Pretty probable I might reach my 21st anniversary now :)
5) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2045886)
Posted 19 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I don't understand how reducing cached WUs increases throughput.


It doesn't. It just helps your CPU work on most up-to-date tasks. If you have a pool of 20 days of work units, whenever your PC actually starts crunching a new one, it has been sitting on the queue for 20 days, and thus it's aged 20 days. If you have a queue of 0 days, you start with a fresh work unit all the time.
6) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2044492)
Posted 13 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Out in the field is more interesting anyway to me. As long as this is above 0, there's still a chance to grab a new WU :)
7) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2043652)
Posted 8 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I found where 25k of the WU's are hiding.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8873154

thats 1 PC. Cant see why they did this unless they were trying for some milestone.

And drilling down, this is the owner of the computer those tasks are assigned to. Can't get any further into the account.

Have a great day! :)

Siran


Interesting. Newly registered in last December.
8) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2043311)
Posted 6 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Slowly running out as well:
1. Raspberry Pi: out of work units
2. Laptop: out of work units
3. Mobile phone: out of work units
4. Tablet: 2 work units left
5. Desktop PC: 120 work units left
9) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2042541)
Posted 2 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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. . I signed up for Rosetta but there is NO work ...


They are aware. Many people are trying to help now, so servers get overwhelmed.
https://twitter.com/RosettaAtHome/status/1245090687957102592
10) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2042509)
Posted 2 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Almost 15 years. Truly devastated by this news. Anyone have any recommendations on what to crunch next? I have never even thought of running anything else. I would like to crunch something space related. Thanks to ALL of the volunteers who kept this project going! Is there any chance it will come back?


Right now it might be a good idea to help fighting Corona.
* Your CPU can do via Rosetta@home: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ - which also runs via Boinc
* CPU and GPU can help via Folding@home: https://foldingathome.org/ - which is not Boinc unfortunately
11) Message boards : News : Final data is in the splitter queue. (Message 2042205)
Posted 1 Apr 2020 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Eric and all the others on the team: Thank you all for a great experience. SETI@home has been one of the first things I have done at all on the internet, having registered early after the doors opened back in the days. It has tought me a lot about technology, astronomy, science and society.
Thanks. Would love to see SETI@home come back some day.
12) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1833328)
Posted 30 Nov 2016 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I don't recall seeing any complaints about the prior web design, at least not from those who actually USED it.........


Excactly. Matches what I said. Any CHANGE()! created complaints, not any design never being changed. I'm pretty sure if we dig back to the time where seticlassis was changed to boinc we will find a ton of complaints about the web design. I can already recall a ton of complaints about BOINC itself in comparison to the SETI only client.
13) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1833150)
Posted 29 Nov 2016 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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First Titanic deck steward: "Let's position these deck chairs to give the best view of the moonlight reflecting off that big, beautiful iceberg we just passed."
Second Titanic deck steward: "No, no. They really should be facing directly toward the moon, so the passengers have a bit brighter light to read by."
Titanic passenger: "When it's pitch black in the middle of the night, it really doesn't make much difference. I still can't read these damn directions to my lifeboat station. Doesn't one of you have a flashlight?"
First deck steward: "Only this one with the green cellophane over the lens."
Passenger: "Anyway, shouldn't you be making better use of your time than just rearranging deck chairs. Like perhaps doing something about a few of those pesky holes in the side of the boat?"


So true. But in my career it has just proven that ANY change will create dissappointed by a group of people. You just cannot please everybody at the same time. (Different selectable themes can be a solution, but then again the above story kicks in. How much time, effort and money should they invest in different themes rather than sience?)

One more quote: "There's nothing that people hate more than change and the way things are right now."
14) Message boards : News : Web site upgrade (Message 1832492)
Posted 25 Nov 2016 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Beautiful and modern. Thank you guys!
15) Message boards : News : Nebula: Completing the SETI@home pipeline (Message 1829134)
Posted 8 Nov 2016 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I will admit that I did not read all the materials pointed to in the various places.

That said, I find myself troubled by the statement: "Its goal is to let us finish the current SETI@home experiment".

This sounds like the end of SETI@home.

I'm a bit tired and low on my glucose levels and I hope I'm not jumping to conclusions so please tell me that I'm off in the weeds.

John


Publishing this paper won't mark the end of SETI@home. It may continue indefinitely. However, it will probably undergo a major transformation soon - new telescopes, new frequency bands, new front-end algorithms - that will effectively start a new experiment. We need to finish the original experiment.


http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/nebula_web/goals.php
16) Message boards : News : SETI@home annual fund raising campaign has started (Message 1300390)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Thank you Donald. I wasn't aware that manual work is necessary in the process, hence the impatience.
All my 6 previous donations must have happened on workdays by chance then. :)
17) Message boards : News : SETI@home annual fund raising campaign has started (Message 1300138)
Posted 29 Oct 2012 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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It it still Sunday in Berkeley. Wait until Monday afternoon their time (PDT/UTC-7), then if you have had no response, ask again.


Thanks, I'll do - yet I thought this was all working automatically without any manual actions by the stuff!?
18) Message boards : News : SETI@home annual fund raising campaign has started (Message 1299966)
Posted 28 Oct 2012 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I donated some hours ago and see neither the star, nor the donation in my donations list. Is there some queue waiting?
On the other hand, I didn't even receive my email about the donation, so I'm wondering whether I mistyped my email address?

Any thoughts on what I could do now?
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Tired of backoffs and not getting new work (Message 1177570)
Posted 12 Dec 2011 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Since you don't have newer ATI cards, I also recommend you "downgrade" your boinc to version 6.10.60.
It is not possible to achieve anything with 6.12.x on seti due to its ridiculous back-off times.


For which ATI cards do you need 6.12.x? I have an ATI Radeon HD 5750.
20) Message boards : News : Fall Funding Drive (Message 1163555)
Posted 18 Oct 2011 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Did my annual 10$ donation:

Thank you for your gift of $10.00 via Visa on 10/18/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $10.00

Your confirmation number is:
XXXXX


AND flattr'd SETI@home. I wonder how much money came in over flattr once this was started. :D


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