Dear SETI@home participants, colleaques.
Growing electrcity bills & quite a lot of noise, produced by all servers & crunchers, push me to shutdown all this stuff.

Happy crucnhing !
Yours,

Jet

Sorry to see you go Jet. Both are valid points we all face.

Will you set to No New Work and crunch until your many-hundred task queue runs dry, or do a Detach, Join, Detach ?

There is no reason why you have to leave all the way, just leave SETI on the one system you continue to use. So it's only on 8 hours a day. Every little bit helps. I only run one system and it's not always on 24 hours a day. The idea was to use spare time on an already on system, not to be a money pit.

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I agree. just leave BOINC running on the system you currently use. bleed down the WU's until you have only a few to crunch and only get new work when you've bled the cache down again. That way you keep a RAC over 1 and you can still post here.

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Dear Colleaques,
Thanks a lot for the advices, will follow them.
I'm leaving the crazy RAC race, but not the idea to find ETI.

Yours,

Jet (nanoJet)

Thanbks again Jet. Lets hope things get better for you.

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

There is no reason why you have to leave all the way, just leave SETI on the one system you continue to use. So it's only on 8 hours a day. Every little bit helps. I only run one system and it's not always on 24 hours a day. The idea was to use spare time on an already on system, not to be a money pit.

Exactly.

I have two active crunchers. My workstation is on about 16 hours per day. The other one is my "web stats" server, and it runs 24/7, but it's pretty lightweight.

Seems to me that investing big money in SETI@Home (or any D.C. project) will inevitably lead to disappointment if you don't understand the promise these projects make to the participants.

BOINC is designed to bring lots of crunching power to a task at a very low cost to the project. That means the project is going to load the servers more heavily than someone else would do, and it means that they won't pull the kind of redundant connectivity (and staffing) that one would expect from Amazon.

We should celebrate what is accomplished at a dramatically low cost, but no, we get mad because the servers go down over the weekend.

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