How many WU's do one of these tapes hold? Are they using like LTO-3 tapes or something? I am curious cause I deal a lot with backups.

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This one 91877145 looks like it's going to be a genuine 85.40! Two results in so far, both with 'proper' FLOP-reporting clients.

[edit] AR = 0.097183 [/edit]

[2nd. edit] It's from that 11oc99 tape people have been complaining about, and it took b****y ages to crunch. Maybe there's something worthwhile buried in all that noise! [/edit]

Hello !

I just finished a big WU : http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=91882518

CPU time : 72,005 sec
Claimed credit : 91.89

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CPU real speed: 2551 MHz

Work Unit Info
True angle range: 0.134274

Flopcounter: 22836361651576.215000

Spike count: 0
Pulse count: 3
Triplet count: 0
Gaussian count: 0
</stderr_txt>


Validate state Valid
Claimed credit 88.5437633481254
Granted credit 88.5446943889812
application version 5.15

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

I just had a VLAR which granted 88.33. That's the highest I've seen in awhile.

Alinator

That's four high claims so far today, all "genuine" (i.e. not inflated by obselete BOINC clients), and all from the same tape.

Who was listening to what at Arecibo on 11 October 1999?

My guess is they were swinging the receiver around a lot on that day resulting in a higher percentage of VLAR's than normal.

Alinator

My guess is they were swinging the receiver around a lot on that day resulting in a higher percentage of VLAR's than normal.

Doesn't VLAR suggest they were focusing on a small region? If they were swinging it around, I'd expect VHAR.

I received an 88.34 on this WU: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=91898126

Edit: It's another from 11 Oct 1999.

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My guess is they were swinging the receiver around a lot on that day resulting in a higher percentage of VLAR's than normal.

Doesn't VLAR suggest they were focusing on a small region? If they were swinging it around, I'd expect VHAR.

OOOPS! You got me!! :-)

I should have said they must have been tracking something.

Alinator

91.89 !

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Very sorry I did not notice which wu but about month or two ago I got some 80's in maybe 2-3 wu's. At the time I just wondered whether this was some calculation timing score something. Perhaps many people might got that score whoever had a chance to share that 1999 tape.

OR WAS THIS MATTS SOME MESSAGE THAT SOMETHING REALLY SERIOUS about one of 1999 tapes!!! ;-)

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Mandtugai!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=383313082

94.72 Mind you, atm... only one quorum member other than me has reported, and that was a "compute error".

Still waiting for the quorum to be completed, and validation, as of time of posting.

WU number is: 11oc99aa.8109.20321.804812.3.110_1

Guess what??? October 11th again!

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Claimed credit 88.1463173212575
Granted credit 88.1463173214513

for this this WU

with my Athlon64 X2 4.400+ (Toledo 2200 MHz 2x 1024 kByte)

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

Sir Ulli! Good of you to drop by with another one for my collection.

Yes, it's another one from that 11 October 1999 tape. I've got WUs from 91872539 (Alinator) to 91883957 (littlegreenmanfrommars), all with an AR of about 0.09, split from tape between 14:48:03 and 15:54:36 on 20-Sep-2006.

Sure looks as if Arecibo was studying something quite intensively on 11 October 1999....

Here's another from 11 Oct 99. My PII-300 hasn't finished crunching yet, but according to the other two that have completed it, it will be an 88.something.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=91880684 (sorry about getting lazy with the URL).

My PII-300 still has about 14 hours to go which will put it at about 90 hours total to crunch this one WU.

Labbie

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Here's another from 11 Oct 99. My PII-300 hasn't finished crunching yet, but according to the other two that have completed it, it will be an 88.something.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=91880684 (sorry about getting lazy with the URL).

My PII-300 still has about 14 hours to go which will put it at about 90 hours total to crunch this one WU.

Labbie

Since you've got a live one in captivity, so to speak, a couple of questions:

What was the original time estimate when you got it - anything like the 90 hours it's turning out to be? My first one was vvveeerrryyy slow (by the standards of the machine that crunched it!), and it knocked my DCF for six... (over 0.47 when I thought to look, 14 hours later: it's back to 0.35 and falling now).

Do you feel comfortable copying the downloaded WU data file, and looking inside the copy with a text editor to get, in particular, the RA and DEC figures that say where in the sky it was collected from?

I did like 15 WU's for that Oct 11, 99 tape all were fairly small and one large one around 85.? credits. Whats the deal with this tape anyway?

(edit) I just found 9 more in my cache, one of them is estimated around 75 credits.

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Whats the deal with this tape anyway?

That's what I'm trying to work out!

Most of the ones that I have are small ones roughly averaging to about 30 - 60 credits, and then those two big ones. Maybe this info might help maybe not.

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