Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (98) Server Problems?
Message board moderation
Previous · 1 . . . 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 . . . 30 · Next
Author | Message |
---|---|
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22491 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
I'm with Mark. I can't remember the exact figure, but I think SETI@Home has barely got one full-time-equivalent paid staff member, spread across half a dozen bodies. I would far rather they were doing work to get science done than spending part of that rare and valuable resource posting here. Matt's post were Matt doing it when he was taking a break, not Matt doing it as part of his job. Just now they are working on getting the data stream from one of the other telescopes into something for us to work on. For years S@H has been dependent on one equatorial source of data, a source that can broadly, only look straight up in the sky, whereas the new source is pretty well horizon to horizon in it scope. As a very personal aside, I would love to see a data stream from Jodrell Bank, but I doubt that will happen any day soon. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I think that would be the automatic google subtitles. Some places it is really bad. When he says: "The question of extraterrestrial life and intelligent life" It comes out as: "the questioner affects our trust your life and intelligent life" SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Phil Burden Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 264 Credit: 22,303,899 RAC: 0 |
I'm with Mark. Maybe even the SKA when it's operational ;-) P. |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
Maybe even the SKA when it's operational ;-) Or the ATA, I haven't heard or read much lately about progress there. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Filipe Send message Joined: 12 Aug 00 Posts: 218 Credit: 21,281,677 RAC: 20 |
Are we almost done with the 2012 data? |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22491 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Who knows. Don't get hung up on the date of the data, its been traveling for a very long time before it got here, so another few years before week get it screened won't make that much of a difference. One thing to know is that there were quite a few "tapes" that were all but un-usable with the old splitters and applications that, thanks to progress, have become useable, so we need to screen them. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
And the kitties shall be here to crunch 'em up. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21188 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Getting a few resends. One has been around the block a few times. Has _4 at the end. |
BANZAI56 Send message Joined: 17 May 00 Posts: 139 Credit: 47,299,948 RAC: 2 |
I can't remember the exact figure, but I think SETI@Home has barely got one full-time-equivalent paid staff member, spread across half a dozen bodies. I would far rather they were doing work to get science done than spending part of that rare and valuable resource posting here. Please pardon the potential blasphemy, but from that, I had to ask what exact "science" is being done here? I know we're trying to find similar persistent signals from space and to that end there is ntpckr. However, due to the lack of various resources, ntpckr is relegated to have about the same priority as project communications with the minions here in the fora. Resources toward more data streams only allow us to add more data points to a database that is unmanageable (to ntpckr & staffing). More data only feeds into a vicious circle, which may have social science values, perhaps? |
Rasputin42 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 08 Posts: 412 Credit: 5,834,661 RAC: 0 |
+1 |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I can't remember the exact figure, but I think SETI@Home has barely got one full-time-equivalent paid staff member, spread across half a dozen bodies. I would far rather they were doing work to get science done than spending part of that rare and valuable resource posting here. There was a show I was watching that featured Geoffrey W. Marcy. I think it was the show the The Universe. Where he said that when he started his search for exoplanets in the 80's. That he was considered a joke & had basically given up. Planning to finish out his career being laughed at by his peers. After about 10 years of collecting data & finding nothing. The some Swiss scientists found the first exoplanet, which he helped confirm. Then using what the Swiss scientists had found. They were able to go over all of the data he had collected in the decade previously to find lots of planets. So science doesn't always work on a linear path towards its goals. Arecibo is often in danger of being shut down due to lack of funding. So the SETI@home team started taking steps to secure data from other sources. The data we look at right now is only one part in a process. When they added NTPCkr it showed the current db hardware wasn't up to that task to run it at the same time as everything else. They are also working towards sorting out some of the many issues with the various databases. The Technical News posts are where most of those things are discussed. Such as looking for new db software that is more manageable. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Thank you, HAL9000. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
Those who don't feel the project is worthwhile should probably find another project more 'worthy' of their computing time. (More work units for the rest of us). "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Mark Stevenson Send message Joined: 8 Sep 11 Posts: 1736 Credit: 174,899,165 RAC: 91 |
Those who don't feel the project is worthwhile should probably find another project more 'worthy' of their computing time. (More work units for the rest of us). Big +1 if you don't belive in the project what the F##k you doing here in the 1st place ?? |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Those who don't feel the project is worthwhile should probably find another project more 'worthy' of their computing time. (More work units for the rest of us). I'm just here for the free toaster. I've been saving up my bread for the past 16 years and everything! SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
qbit Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 630 Credit: 6,868,528 RAC: 0 |
Those who don't feel the project is worthwhile should probably find another project more 'worthy' of their computing time. (More work units for the rest of us). Don't get me wrong, I love the project, otherwise I wouldn't be here. But I would rather KNOW then have to BELIEVE. It's science, not a religion. And BTW: Did it ever occur to anybody that there may be a link between the lack of fundings/donations and the lack of information/communication? |
woohoo Send message Joined: 30 Oct 13 Posts: 973 Credit: 165,671,404 RAC: 5 |
My t-shirt was free and I haven't even been here a decade |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
And BTW: Did it ever occur to anybody that there may be a link between the lack of fundings/donations and the lack of information/communication? That point has been made repeatedly in this thread and others. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
BANZAI56 Send message Joined: 17 May 00 Posts: 139 Credit: 47,299,948 RAC: 2 |
Those who don't feel the project is worthwhile should probably find another project more 'worthy' of their computing time. (More work units for the rest of us). While I did ask to be pardoned for the potential blasphemy, do y'all really not like the question because of the potential answer? (I had just watched Matt's recent video on the status of the NTPCkr, so it is a relevant question.) |
BANZAI56 Send message Joined: 17 May 00 Posts: 139 Credit: 47,299,948 RAC: 2 |
Thank you, HAL9000. Yes, thank you HAL. From your reasonable answer, will the data from those new streams be merged into the unmanageable database or will they (hopefully) start another? BTW, I do actively read the Technical News section, but sans Matt's or Eric's participation, activity is rather sparse. |
©2024 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.