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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Great result for the project and all it's crunchers !!! There is no proof that God exists but but the official motto of the USA is "In God we Trust" so how can the politicians say aliens don't exist? |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
way to go off topic on the admins thread.. 2 billion? I still feel hungry. crunch crunch crunch In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
True, but they are celebrating 1 billion and there are no work units to work on for THREE days. I have my computer set for 10 days of work!! First off: they're celebrating 2 billion (binary), not [1]... (could be a typo there, you've got the concept in the following 'graphs...) Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...) . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...) [off topic] Don't confuse a modern ASCII or EBCDIC encoding using a whole byte per character, with the actual storage space required for data. A decimal digit only requires four bits (if you know in advance it's going to be numeric), so two of them can fit neatly side-by-side in a byte - and probably did, given the cost of memory in the early days. [/off topic] |
.clair. Send message Joined: 4 Nov 04 Posts: 1300 Credit: 55,390,408 RAC: 69 |
Tuesday morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we haven't yet recovered from the weekly outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers. I blame NEZ, if he had not done so much we would not be here yet :¬) |
Jason Safoutin Send message Joined: 8 Sep 05 Posts: 1386 Credit: 200,389 RAC: 0 |
This morning we reached 2 Billion BOINC results processed by SETI@home! Or to be more accurate, 2 to the power of 31 results (2,147,483,648). This explains why we're a little slow to recover from today's outage: we need to update code to accept larger numbers. Been too busy to check forums lately, so figured I would comment from the beginning. This really is great news. It means more people are participating in this project and that makes me happy. Congrats to everyone on every end of the project. this is a huge milestone. "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3 |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
Second: if a date was stored with only one byte, you'd have to change the assumption every decade, not just every century... (I ran some programs that had only one byte for the year, changing the date to the next decade was easy... [Autocoder]) the "Y2K" problem was because people had assigned 2 bytes, not 4, (not me, I had thought of the problem in 1974!, and assigned 4 digit dates...) BCD, Richard, binary-coded-decimal. IIRC there's even some support for it in the x86 instruction set. Ah, yes, DAA -- Decimal Adjust After Addition for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcode |
bloodrain Send message Joined: 8 Dec 08 Posts: 231 Credit: 28,112,547 RAC: 1 |
wow congrats. |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
Can we say: "That's a wrap" ??? |
DevilishLiszt Send message Joined: 30 Nov 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 141,412 RAC: 0 |
Congratulations from Italy! Keep up the good work boys! |
ZatriX Send message Joined: 25 Feb 10 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,474 RAC: 0 |
Emm, guys? 19th over here, no work units. what gives? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36760 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Emm, guys? 19th over here, no work units. what gives? Instead of asking that question in a news thread you should have checked out the Number Crunching forum (where these sort of questions are spose to be asked) and read the More HE Problems ???? thread or just asked your question there. ;) Cheers. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2442 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
So what did he initially say? 2 billion results? I see it myself by checking the numbers in the task list. What is the way of doing it now? Just decimal characters perhaps? Or maybe 64-bit numbers are being used now? |
Alex Stiletto Send message Joined: 13 Apr 09 Posts: 196 Credit: 127,314 RAC: 0 |
The next question for project administrator! Workunit group database last updated:25 Aug 2008 18:07:51 UTC http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/data_density.html When will the next update of this table? |
peeper Send message Joined: 17 Aug 02 Posts: 1 Credit: 3,904 RAC: 0 |
Mooncalf: I am sorry I have to respond to this: you cannot prove a negative. I'm pretty positive there's aliens out there actually. Even if life on earth is a one in a trillion affair, that just means there's GOT to be more lifeforms out there. |
rasc Send message Joined: 4 Sep 02 Posts: 3 Credit: 10,207,910 RAC: 0 |
Fed up with SETI and lack of available data to crunch -0 always an issue these days ! |
john3760 Send message Joined: 9 Feb 11 Posts: 334 Credit: 3,400,979 RAC: 0 |
i've got loads of data to crunch , and i'll keep on crunching till we find something.when things go dry i will just wait a bit , then crunch some more when it is available. i have been maxing out on WUs recently so i can't understand how you have been running short. |
woodyrox Send message Joined: 7 Apr 01 Posts: 34 Credit: 16,069,169 RAC: 0 |
I too have been getting a lot of work units lately. Using BOINC Manager check that your downloads aren't stuck in a "Download Pending" state . If so, select some or all work units and click "Retry Now". |
Rod Cloutier Send message Joined: 14 Nov 02 Posts: 17 Credit: 3,422,938 RAC: 0 |
2 to 32nd power? (For results) I'm not a scientist, but wouldn't 2 billion results be 2 to the 9th power? 2 + 9 zero's after it. (Typo I think!) |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
2 + 9 zero's after it is 2 times 10 to the 9th power. 2 to the 31st power minus 1 is 2147483647 (the largest signed number to be stored in 32 bits), a bit more than 2 billion ;-) Gruß, Gundolf |
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