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Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 ![]() |
tbret wrote: ... If the $50 million estimate is close, then all we need to do is get every participant to stop crunching for 4 days each year and send the saved cost to the project as a cash donation. That would for the first time provide enough cash so they could do some of the things we all want. Obviously that won't happen, but perhaps it is an understandable approximation of what distributed computing can do for SETI; the server side needs about 1% of the cost. Those outside the project in the "someone that matters" or "powers that be" category probably wouldn't be greatly impressed by that $50 million, they're dealing with budgets far greater. But it might be a good point to make in negotiations to get the project more access to the 1 Gbps fiber link down the hill or such. Joe |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 ![]() |
thank you Joe I wish there was some way to start a campaign to make that happen but as you say Obviously that won't happen. oh well we can dream Byron |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 ![]() |
We can start it one user at a time. Many of us already have. A general philosophical comment: some posters seem to think they are entitled to WUs, because they built a better computer or contributed money or whatever. Really,this project is about Science, not RAC. Can anybody prove how doing a few extra WUs a day is helping the Science? When I read the Berkely SETI blogs I see people searching for time and money to do science, in order to keep up with us crunchers. I don't see anybody there concerned about too few crunchers. If you want RAC, head over to something like PrimeGrid. Not knocking them, just pointing out the hard realities. If S@H uses my donation to actually do science (since they seem to be getting free data processing faster than they can use it) that's fine with me. And Perryjay, thank you for completing your extra WUs, instead of aborting them because they didn't fit your idea of how BOINC should be working. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 ![]() |
And Perryjay, thank you for completing your extra WUs, instead of aborting them because they didn't fit your idea of how BOINC should be working. No problem Bill, I never abort work unless there is no other alternative like if there is something bad wrong with my computer (or I screw up royally and lose them )though I try my best to run down what I have even then. The closest deadline is eight days away and it's ready to upload. I'm sure they will have us up and running long before then. I'm almost all caught up on the extra work I got so things are running smoothly on this end. Everything is working exactly how I expect it to, I just messed up and got a bunch more than I expected when I figured out my mistake. ![]() PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
-BeNt- ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0 ![]() |
When I read through threads like this is really makes me appreciate this project lol. Perryjay it's ok like many before me have said, it doesn't matter how long it takes you to finish the extra work as long as you finish it. You've said you haven't aborted, so while those others that are waiting may have to wait longer it won't matter in the long term. In other news, I've been dropping my cache lower and lower as time has went by so I'm now down to 5 day cache on each machine of mine. I've gotten to rethinking my project status and why I'm here, and came to the realization that is was getting more about the numbers than the science behind it. Not good, so I decided to visit the forums a bit less(it breeds number watching) and away from the various stats sites for awhile, and I couldn't be happier. I just set it and forget it, well not forget it I still check to make sure I'm handing in good units etc. Which brings me to my next point, for some reason Boinc decided to let a few of my units go over their deadlines which was weird?? Never happened before...guess I should start leaving my main machine one a bit more often lol. Any who crunch as fast as you dare everyone, I hear Berkeley may throw us a BBQ if we find the aliens!! Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Any who crunch as fast as you dare everyone, I hear Berkeley may throw us a BBQ if we find the aliens!! The next anniversary is generally one year later. Oh. Wait. I get it now. ![]() ![]() |
-BeNt- ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Any who crunch as fast as you dare everyone, I hear Berkeley may throw us a BBQ if we find the aliens!! Interesting, where was MY invite. They now owe me either a plate, or an alien signal. Their choice. lol Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 ![]() |
Hi Bill, I agree with you 100 percent. thank you for your excellent post. Best Wishes Byron |
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