SETI@home World Visualization

Author	Message
Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0	Message 1660508 - Posted: 1 Apr 2015, 22:21:05 UTC Check out this new animated map showing SETI@home data transmissions during a 5 minute period within the last 24 hours (updated regularly - click on image to view): -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude ID: 1660508 ·

cliff Send message Joined: 16 Dec 07 Posts: 625 Credit: 3,590,440 RAC: 0	Message 1660511 - Posted: 1 Apr 2015, 22:30:30 UTC - in response to Message 1660508. Hi Matt, Neat images, wonder if it could be used as a S@H screensaver? Regards, Cliff, Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt! ID: 1660511 ·

Stephen Kissel Send message Joined: 3 Dec 01 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,716,298 RAC: 1	Message 1660526 - Posted: 1 Apr 2015, 23:21:46 UTC WHOA!!! That is so COOL! Some where in the back of my mind I knew the data transfer to/from SETI@home was a lot and continuous (except when the system was down for checking, updates or repairs). This display is a good show of that data moving around the world. (But I am almost sure it shows just part of what really moves from SETI to the World and back.) This was a very Interesting 10 minutes ... and I have bookmarked the site to watch it again soon. I hope, in my life time, Life from another planet is found. We may never be able to communicate with them, because of the distance they are from us, but I will be happy just knowing they are out there. ID: 1660526 ·

Bluehowler Send message Joined: 8 Feb 12 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,048,096 RAC: 1	Message 1660580 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 3:20:38 UTC Very cool! It's neat to think some of those are coming from my computer! ID: 1660580 ·

lukas Send message Joined: 10 Apr 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 10,055 RAC: 0	Message 1660633 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 6:28:26 UTC - in response to Message 1660508. Does not work in IE 11 win 7.0. Work in Chrome, but with some subreposition of texto with the logos. ID: 1660633 ·

Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3	Message 1660645 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 7:16:10 UTC - in response to Message 1660633. Does not work in IE 11 win 7.0. Work in Chrome, but with some subreposition of texto with the logos. Sorry to here that but no prob here with IE 11 , ....just clicked on picture and it open'd and was working Sounds like you have a problem ......I'm running Win 7 ID: 1660645 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 1660684 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 9:56:49 UTC - in response to Message 1660633. Does not work in IE 11 win 7.0. Work in Chrome, but with some subreposition of texto with the logos. Works perfectly fine here in IE 11 on Windows 7. The animation is really cool too. ID: 1660684 ·

contalis Send message Joined: 5 Dec 01 Posts: 28 Credit: 27,237,533 RAC: 73	Message 1660720 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 13:18:52 UTC Thumbs up! ID: 1660720 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57	Message 1660729 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 13:46:02 UTC That is pretty fun to watch. I just killed about 15 minutes without realizing it. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ ID: 1660729 ·

Nathan Brown Send message Joined: 1 Sep 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 54,321 RAC: 0	Message 1660746 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 14:30:43 UTC Why is Canada so quiet?? ID: 1660746 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 1660781 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 15:44:54 UTC - in response to Message 1660511. Neat images, wonder if it could be used as a S@H screensaver? Why bother with screensavers anymore? Simply open up the page in your web browser and press F11 to go full-screen. Leave it up on your monitor for an awesome display! :-D ID: 1660781 ·

JohnDK Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 1222 Credit: 451,243,443 RAC: 1,127	Message 1660805 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 18:06:01 UTC - in response to Message 1660633. Does not work in IE 11 win 7.0. Work in Chrome, but with some subreposition of texto with the logos. Also have the SETI logo problem in both IE/Chrome, but if you maximize or goes full screen it looks as it should :) ID: 1660805 ·

martin (it-adviser) Send message Joined: 22 Aug 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 8,131,097 RAC: 0	Message 1660811 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 18:18:33 UTC very nice! But why not more users?! The World is sooooo big and only a couple of flying points around the world? ID: 1660811 ·

OzzFan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28	Message 1660815 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 18:31:41 UTC - in response to Message 1660811. Last modified: 2 Apr 2015, 18:38:29 UTC There are 8 billion people on this planet. SETI@home has approximately 100,000+ users last I recall, and most of those aren't hardcore users crunching away 24/7/365 (meaning you won't see their blips very often). Fact is, there just isn't a lot of people crunching in a relative sense. ID: 1660815 ·

Bernie Vine Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328	Message 1660818 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 18:36:37 UTC - in response to Message 1660811. very nice! But why not more users?! The World is sooooo big and only a couple of flying points around the world? If you notice it uses ip2location Going to that page it reports my ip address as "London" with a north London postcode and I am definitely south London. That is just where my ISP registers its ip addresses. By the look of the map it is only using data from the larger cities. ID: 1660818 ·

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1660846 - Posted: 2 Apr 2015, 19:59:03 UTC So cool!! rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1660846 ·

Marc Send message Joined: 1 Feb 01 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,149,488 RAC: 0	Message 1660939 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 1:34:38 UTC - in response to Message 1660508. That's cool... Makes me think of the old Missile Command arcade game... That map, graphics, and point of view would make for an interesting modern remake of that game.... ID: 1660939 ·

Brent Norman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835	Message 1660949 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 2:22:49 UTC - in response to Message 1660746. Canada is cold because I'm WAITing TO RECEIVE Zalster's 980 :) ID: 1660949 ·

Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572	Message 1660996 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 6:02:57 UTC - in response to Message 1660781. Neat images, wonder if it could be used as a S@H screensaver? Why bother with screensavers anymore? Simply open up the page in your web browser and press F11 to go full-screen. Leave it up on your monitor for an awesome display! :-D Then open up task manager and see how much cpu usage its using. Kevin ID: 1660996 ·

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22666 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1661006 - Posted: 3 Apr 2015, 6:46:35 UTC Just under 100% of one core. So its not exactly a "light weight" application Very interesting to see where data is flowing Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1661006 ·

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