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Message 89782 - Posted: 23 Mar 2005, 14:06:34 UTC

Hello!

I've just discovered that SETI@Home Classic will be closed in the next few days/weeks? This is horrible!
I like the classic version much more than the boinc version, because:
1. The statistics of each user are much more detailed, as in the boinc stats there is not even a total amount of WU's, only the credits (I didn't have a clue how much I really crunched at this time for BOINC).
2. In the classic versions there are milestones to reach and to every milestone I received a pretty certificate. I've crunched 2000 WUs and I wanted to get the 2500-milestone, but at this time it seems, that I can never get it when classic is closed.
3. The add-on SETI-Monitor has a cache function and allows to regulate how many WUs I can store to my HD, so that I don't need to connect every 4 hours or so to get new WUs. This isn't implemented in BOINC and yet there is no equivalent add-on to do this. This would be a perfect function in BOINC in addition to all other BOINC-projects.
4. In addition to the stats, I wonder what signals I discovered. There are about 100 WUs out of my 2000, which SETI-Monitor has declared interesting, but in the stats there is nothing about it, though the official SETI-explanation of the stats declares, that they would be announced, if significant signals were discovered. This must be an improvement for both projects.
I hope, this points will help the developers to create a better BOINC-version ans -stats. Otherwise it is not acceptable for me to stop the classic project.
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Message 89812 - Posted: 23 Mar 2005, 15:40:03 UTC
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Hello and welcome!

First:
The (very good) manual for Boinc is the BOINC Powered Projects Documentation by Paul D. Buck and the FAQ therein.

1. The statistics of each user are much more detailed, as in the boinc stats there is not even a total amount of WU's, only the credits (I didn't have a clue how much I really crunched at this time for BOINC).

The task distribution, that works fine IMHO, is this:

Projects care about science, and deliver raw stats data.
Communty cares about the gizmo, like stats. Look here!

For information regarding Credits look here!

2. In the classic versions there are milestones to reach and to every milestone I received a pretty certificate. I've crunched 2000 WUs and I wanted to get the 2500-milestone, but at this time it seems, that I can never get it when classic is closed.

There will probably be some special certificates in the future, it has been said in some other thread. But it's not top priority ATM.

3. The add-on SETI-Monitor has a cache function and allows to regulate how many WUs I can store to my HD, so that I don't need to connect every 4 hours or so to get new WUs. This isn't implemented in BOINC and yet there is no equivalent add-on to do this. This would be a perfect function in BOINC in addition to all other BOINC-projects.

Cache manager is a build-in function of Boinc. You only have to adjust your preferences to a longer value here:
Connect to network about every (determines size of work cache; maximum 10 days): 2 days

4. In addition to the stats, I wonder what signals I discovered. There are about 100 WUs out of my 2000, which SETI-Monitor has declared interesting, but in the stats there is nothing about it, though the official SETI-explanation of the stats declares, that they would be announced, if significant signals were discovered. This must be an improvement for both projects.

It's not implemented for boinc atm, but I think it will be in the future.
Add my support for this feature on this wish list :)
Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki
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