CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones (tm) XVII **CLOSED

Author	Message
Fred W Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jun 99 Posts: 2524 Credit: 11,954,210 RAC: 0	Message 907152 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 5:51:55 UTC - in response to Message 907126. I luv the kibblestones........... All 31 million of them and counting.... In a few weeks I will have been at it for 9 years. I have risen to #31 in the WORLD for total Seti credits.......in about 6 days, that will be #30. I am #4 in the SETI.USA team ranks for Seti....#117 in the world by RAC... The Frozen Nehi still hangs on as the last non-server, non-cuda i7 in the top 20 computers on Seti... And the Kitty City (Seti City), which I founded here, has risen to #13 in the USA..... These are some things that float the kitties' boat....LOL. You forgot your unique milestone: Record number of time to return from banishment ;-P Keep up the good work, good-buddy. My quaddie + CUDA was right on the Nehi's tail but I have now switched on my CPDN models again as they have been hanging around for a while and SETI is reluctant to rebuild my cache after a detach / re-attach to clean up the cache following the abortive attempt to upgrade to v6.6.34. F. ID: 907152 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51527 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 907154 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 5:57:16 UTC - in response to Message 907152. I luv the kibblestones........... All 31 million of them and counting.... In a few weeks I will have been at it for 9 years. I have risen to #31 in the WORLD for total Seti credits.......in about 6 days, that will be #30. I am #4 in the SETI.USA team ranks for Seti....#117 in the world by RAC... The Frozen Nehi still hangs on as the last non-server, non-cuda i7 in the top 20 computers on Seti... And the Kitty City (Seti City), which I founded here, has risen to #13 in the USA..... These are some things that float the kitties' boat....LOL. You forgot your unique milestone: Record number of time to return from banishment ;-P Keep up the good work, good-buddy. My quaddie + CUDA was right on the Nehi's tail but I have now switched on my CPDN models again as they have been hanging around for a while and SETI is reluctant to rebuild my cache after a detach / re-attach to clean up the cache following the abortive attempt to upgrade to v6.6.34. F. LOL....that's another stat I am working on....my MTBB (mean time between banishments)...longer is better...for everybody involved. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 907154 ·

Robert Barton Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 9 Credit: 3,264,524 RAC: 76	Message 907343 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 18:24:22 UTC Looks like I will be one of the next ones to reach the 1 Million work unit mark !! I never thought it would happen. I am pleased, should happen today or tomorrow. ID: 907343 ·

_heinz Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Feb 05 Posts: 744 Credit: 5,539,270 RAC: 0	Message 907374 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 21:22:54 UTC Congrats to all your personal milestones :-) every point counts summer and vacations are comming soon, bring us most outages. heinz D5400XS V8-Xeon ID: 907374 ·

Terror Australis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44	Message 907476 - Posted: 14 Jun 2009, 3:14:32 UTC Ticked over 7,500,000 Credits today #12 in Oz Will break into the world top 400 in about 10 days Only one (very basic) CUDA machine. Congrats to everyone else on their achievements !! Brodo ID: 907476 ·

Speedy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1646 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89	Message 907690 - Posted: 14 Jun 2009, 20:57:25 UTC - in response to Message 907343. Last modified: 14 Jun 2009, 21:06:05 UTC Looks like I will be one of the next ones to reach the 1 Million work unit mark !! Out of interest how do people keep track of how many work units they have completed, is it by writing down how many are returned each day or by a program? I'm close to reaching a milestone of sorts that is my remaining ap unit will be granted creait I returned it on 26 Apr 2009 5:09:10 UTC there's another 124,313 ap units to be returned. Imo it would be a milestone record to have all ap units returned be for new ap data comes online. Congrats to everyone else on their achievements ID: 907690 ·

Dorphas Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 118 Credit: 8,007,247 RAC: 0	Message 907813 - Posted: 15 Jun 2009, 12:49:10 UTC just passed 2,000,000 in seti. long time coming for me...... :) ID: 907813 ·

KB4SH MentorSim Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 5 Credit: 39,807,916 RAC: 5	Message 907842 - Posted: 15 Jun 2009, 14:37:43 UTC I passed 2,000,000 on May 26th. My results really accelerated after the Lunatics published the setup for installing a GPU properly and 6.6.20 came out. Thanks. -- mentorsim ID: 907842 ·

Charles Anspaugh Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Aug 00 Posts: 48 Credit: 22,715,083 RAC: 0	Message 907862 - Posted: 15 Jun 2009, 16:19:55 UTC // ID: 907862 ·

Bob Mahoney Design Send message Joined: 4 Apr 04 Posts: 178 Credit: 9,205,632 RAC: 0	Message 908014 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 0:44:05 UTC I retired the Top Host that served so well for so long. It was a wonderful machine. Check out my profile here for a picture of the computer, plus some technical data. Bob ID: 908014 ·

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 908034 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 1:48:58 UTC - in response to Message 908014. I retired the Top Host that served so well for so long. It was a wonderful machine. Check out my profile here for a picture of the computer, plus some technical data. Bob WOW! ... now that's SETI@home Crunching Machine! Way To Go! ID: 908034 ·

Ghery S. Pettit Send message Joined: 7 Nov 99 Posts: 325 Credit: 28,109,066 RAC: 82	Message 908041 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 2:35:33 UTC 5,000,000 total for BOINC. SETI in a few days. ID: 908041 ·

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 908111 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 10:25:41 UTC - in response to Message 908014. Last modified: 16 Jun 2009, 10:46:51 UTC . I retired the Top Host that served so well for so long. It was a wonderful machine. Check out my profile here for a picture of the computer, plus some technical data. Bob Bob Congratulation! on reaching the top Host spot! the Computer you built is Awesome! Ghery S. Pettit Congratulation! on reaching your five (5) million Milestone WTG! @ all Congratulation! to all on reaching your own personal Milestones! Byron . ID: 908111 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 908212 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 22:13:40 UTC - in response to Message 908014. I retired the Top Host that served so well for so long. It was a wonderful machine. Check out my profile here for a picture of the computer, plus some technical data. Bob Congrats! That was an amazing host, and your next project seems very ambitious indeed! Off topic, but is that the same ExecPC that started out as a BBS back in the 80s and 90s? ExecPC was one of my top favorite BBSes to dial into, and it always made me want to start my own BBS because it seemed so fun. ID: 908212 ·

Fabe Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Nov 99 Posts: 79 Credit: 2,774,904 RAC: 0	Message 908333 - Posted: 17 Jun 2009, 7:15:53 UTC Just went pass 1,000,000 for Boinc total. ID: 908333 ·

Carlos Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 31202 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157	Message 908635 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 4:20:30 UTC - in response to Message 907126. Your personal milestones are whatever you define them to be. Personally, I don't track cobblestones as milestones - machines have just got so much faster over the years that I can now add a million in a few weeks whereas such a number would have been unthinkable when I first started crunching SETI. In about 45 minutes, I hit a milestone that does float my boat - 10 years since I first crunched Classic (though I did take a few years furlough in the middle and missed that actual change-over to Boinc. F. I luv the kibblestones........... All 31 million of them and counting.... In a few weeks I will have been at it for 9 years. I have risen to #31 in the WORLD for total Seti credits.......in about 6 days, that will be #30. I am #4 in the SETI.USA team ranks for Seti....#117 in the world by RAC... The Frozen Nehi still hangs on as the last non-server, non-cuda i7 in the top 20 computers on Seti... And the Kitty City (Seti City), which I founded here, has risen to #13 in the USA..... These are some things that float the kitties' boat....LOL. Awesome stones Mark. I remember when we were not too far apart. During the last 3 years you have really been dowing some amazing things with that ice machine of yours. Me, 10 million for Seti. ID: 908635 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51527 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 908657 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 6:44:04 UTC - in response to Message 908635. Awesome stones Mark. I remember when we were not too far apart. During the last 3 years you have really been dowing some amazing things with that ice machine of yours. Me, 10 million for Seti. Thanks Carlos.... And congrats to you on your 10 Million!!! "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." ID: 908657 ·

AriZonaMoon* Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Apr 06 Posts: 5556 Credit: 1,541,289 RAC: 0	Message 908677 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 9:15:09 UTC Last modified: 18 Jun 2009, 9:17:22 UTC I have passed 3.500.000 in Boinc. Pretty good for a coconut.. ;-))) Congrats to you Carlos!! I whish I could say I`ll reach you sooooon.. pP ;-D ID: 908677 ·

Bob Mahoney Design Send message Joined: 4 Apr 04 Posts: 178 Credit: 9,205,632 RAC: 0	Message 908790 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 16:12:55 UTC - in response to Message 908212. I retired the Top Host that served so well for so long. It was a wonderful machine. Check out my profile here for a picture of the computer, plus some technical data. Bob Congrats! That was an amazing host, and your next project seems very ambitious indeed! Off topic, but is that the same ExecPC that started out as a BBS back in the 80s and 90s? ExecPC was one of my top favorite BBSes to dial into, and it always made me want to start my own BBS because it seemed so fun. Yep, that ExecPC BBS. Still available via Telnet at bbs.execpc.com My good friend Curt Shambeau is still running it in his basement with an original Novell file server and 80386 hardware. Yes, 80386. He's going for the duration record. I birthed it in 1983, I left in 1998. We spanned the era from 110baud to broadband, Arpanet to Internet. Wow, what a trip. Past employees are now re-forming the collective on Facebook. Anecdotes? Oh my. Visits from the FBI (sometimes with concealed weapons) to ask me if I am illegally downloading HBO movies from satellites with "those dozens of 2400baud modems"...Death threats from users gone crazy...Employees and/or users coming together in marriage...The employee party where they drank no beer, just Mountain Dew, and slam-danced themselves dizzy (and someone made our company logo out of Spam)...The international file compression competition...The Million Caller Milestone competitions...We used up all of the phone lines in an entire industrial park before we went to fiber...And the intensity of working with 100 brilliant employees plus thousands of blazingly intelligent users (peaked at 85,000 active customers during my tour of duty), all for the same cause - to advance mankind's progress through new and better ways to share knowledge and information. It was fun. The good people who run SETI@home and the loyal users of SETI@home are, for me, a wonderful deja vu of the experience of creating and running ExecPC. That is one of the biggest compliments I can give. Thanks, OzzFan. Bob ID: 908790 ·

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 908902 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 20:12:06 UTC - in response to Message 908790. Last modified: 18 Jun 2009, 20:21:48 UTC Past employees are now re-forming the collective on Facebook. Anecdotes? Oh my. Visits from the FBI (sometimes with concealed weapons) to ask me if I am illegally downloading HBO movies from satellites with "those dozens of 2400baud modems"...Death threats from users gone crazy...Employees and/or users coming together in marriage...The employee party where they drank no beer, just Mountain Dew, and slam-danced themselves dizzy (and someone made our company logo out of Spam)...The international file compression competition...The Million Caller Milestone competitions...We used up all of the phone lines in an entire industrial park before we went to fiber...And the intensity of working with 100 brilliant employees plus thousands of blazingly intelligent users (peaked at 85,000 active customers during my tour of duty), all for the same cause - to advance mankind's progress through new and better ways to share knowledge and information. It was fun. The good people who run SETI@home and the loyal users of SETI@home are, for me, a wonderful deja vu of the experience of creating and running ExecPC. That is one of the biggest compliments I can give. Thanks, OzzFan. Bob thanks Bob that's Amazing! Best Wishes on your next project! @ all Congratulation! to all on reaching your own personal Milestones! Byron ID: 908902 ·

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