Brings back fond memories of using TheDraw to do ANSI graphics for BBSes.

Exactly what it was supposed to do. When I first joined SETI@home, I was using my P2 (if I remember correctly it was running at 800MHz), running windows NT4.0 SP 6 (followed by Server 2000, probably already happened by this time). I had CAT 5 cable strung all through the house to get the kid's workstations on the LAN. We had just left the days of ASCII art, BBS, and AO Hell over 56K Modems (US). I'd just got my first cable connection. DBCS was a brand new thing then. The days of IRC, programming in Windows was MFC, not .NET. I was running the SETI client on 5 home PCs, and I had 4 Dual P2 workstations at work I was running on that client. It took at least half a day to process a task on the faster machines. I can't imagine running S@H on a 486. How things changed.

Edit* Within 3 years, I'd be working on what was the world's 495th fastest supercomputer in Monterey, California, with an OC 3 connection. One 128 processor Cray, 2 128 & 1 512 processor SGI, to round off the suite. I assisted with the distribution for the products on a Sun E10K, and a few other Sun boxes.. I even wrote a few Visual Basic apps to modify the GRIB data we produced for varying purposes.

Then I must be blind, because I have trouble making a thumbs up, out of that one....

Time to bring back ASCII art.

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Grant
Darwin NT

April 22 0:40 UTC
I've still got 259 Pendings and 342 Inconclusives

April 22 23:20
My Pendings are down to 145 and Inconclusives 237.

April 23 22:21
65 Pendings, 145 Inconclusives.

April 25 03:12
25 Pendings, 101 Inconclusives.

April 26 01:46
20 Pendings, 80 Inconclusives.

April 27 05:02
8 Pendings, 58 Inconclusives.

April 28 04:40
4 Pendings, 25 Inconclusives.

3 Pendings, 15 Inconclusives.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Brings back fond memories of using TheDraw to do ANSI graphics for BBSes.

. . . AAAhhh! The good old days :)

Stephen

:)

Brings back fond memories of using TheDraw to do ANSI graphics for BBSes.

. . . AAAhhh! The good old days :)

Stephen

:)

The struggle was real :)

Eric has posted about how many Tasks or Workunits are still in need of Validation in response to https://www.facebook.com/groups/317689381579505/permalink/3487289331286145/

If you are a Facebook member, you can see his comments.

In summary there are less than 2% of the "Results out in the field" that are still needed, around 17,200 at the time of his post, 9 hours ago.

I'm not a facebook member or user, but the comments are perfectly findable.

Including the second one, which hasn't been posted here before:

Eric Korpela: Yeah, the hoarders can be a problem, too. We'll still accept results after we've got them all validated, but the canonical result will already be in the database.

April 22 0:40 UTC
I've still got 259 Pendings and 342 Inconclusives

April 22 23:20
My Pendings are down to 145 and Inconclusives 237.

April 23 22:21
65 Pendings, 145 Inconclusives.

April 25 03:12
25 Pendings, 101 Inconclusives.

April 26 01:46
20 Pendings, 80 Inconclusives.

April 27 05:02
8 Pendings, 58 Inconclusives.

April 28 04:40
4 Pendings, 25 Inconclusives.

April 29 06:20
3 Pendings, 15 Inconclusives.

1 Pendings, 11 Inconclusives.

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Grant
Darwin NT

In progress (1) 

Snif... Sad moment...

SSP showing results waiting for validation at 5...I have two of them :)

SSP showing results waiting for validation at 5...I have two of them :)

. . Well I have nine of them, 8 are inconclusive and all have 3 delinquent wingmen, they also all have an extra wingman as of today UTC, one final hurrah!

Stephen

:(

they also all have an extra wingman as of today UTC, one final hurrah!

Don't think it meant to work this way - Completed, marked as invalid

Task			Computer	Sent				Time reported			Status				Run time	CPU time	Credit	Application
click for details							or deadline							(sec)		(sec)
8697652957 		8568062 	31 Mar 2020, 8:58:16 UTC 	23 May 2020, 14:56:06 UTC 	In progress 			--- 		--- 		--- 	SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
8697652958 		6720169 	31 Mar 2020, 8:58:15 UTC 	31 Mar 2020, 12:16:53 UTC 	Completed and validated 	14.09 		14.09 		1.05 	SETI@home v8 v8.22 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) windows_intelx86
8703421396 		8669749 	20 Apr 2020, 16:28:53 UTC 	24 Apr 2020, 16:32:06 UTC 	Completed and validated 	26.13 		24.08 		1.05 	SETI@home v8 v8.05 windows_x86_64
8704108619 		7099708 	23 Apr 2020, 4:41:02 UTC 	15 Jun 2020, 10:38:52 UTC 	In progress 			--- 		--- 		--- 	SETI@home v8 v8.24 (opencl_ati5_cat132) windows_intelx86
8704274210 		6821578 	27 Apr 2020, 0:43:34 UTC 	19 Jun 2020, 6:41:24 UTC 	In progress 			--- 		--- 		--- 	SETI@home v8 v8.24 (opencl_ati_cat132) windows_intelx86
8704298435 		8909481 	30 Apr 2020, 20:51:25 UTC 	30 Apr 2020, 22:38:32 UTC 	Completed, marked as invalid 	36.16 		20.77 		0.00 	SETI@home v8 v8.00 (cuda32) windows_intelx86

SSP showing results waiting for validation at 5...I have two of them :)

. . Well I have nine of them, 8 are inconclusive and all have 3 delinquent wingmen, they also all have an extra wingman as of today UTC, one final hurrah!

Stephen

:(

I checked through everything I have left today and made sure that none of them were pending for any reason. Everything else I have already has credit assigned, and that will be finished on one machine today, and the third machine...maybe day after tomorrow. I can safely say nobody is waiting on anything from me.

Looks like someone has messed with the back-off parameters again. Instead of a consistent 30 minutes, it's now 15 minutes for a couple cycles then bounces you out to 24 hours.

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State: All (203) · In progress (0) · Validation pending (0) · Validation inconclusive (0) · Valid (203) · Invalid (0) · Error (0)

State: All (4833) · In progress (0) · Validation pending (4) · Validation inconclusive (20) · Valid (4777) · Invalid (32) · Error (0)

Each of my four pendings gained another wingmate overnight, making five in total. Two of them seem to be returning tasks already, so there's hope: two others haven't returned a sausage, including the one that got 96 of the resent tasks. This is going to take a while yet.

April 22 0:40 UTC
I've still got 259 Pendings and 342 Inconclusives

April 22 23:20
My Pendings are down to 145 and Inconclusives 237.

April 23 22:21
65 Pendings, 145 Inconclusives.

April 25 03:12
25 Pendings, 101 Inconclusives.

April 26 01:46
20 Pendings, 80 Inconclusives.

April 27 05:02
8 Pendings, 58 Inconclusives.

April 28 04:40
4 Pendings, 25 Inconclusives.

April 29 06:20
3 Pendings, 15 Inconclusives.

April 30 06:19
1 Pending, 11 Inconclusives.

1 Pending, 8 Inconclusives.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Looks like someone has messed with the back-off parameters again. Instead of a consistent 30 minutes, it's now 15 minutes for a couple cycles then bounces you out to 24 hours.

Hi Jim,

Yep, I just looked at mine and I'm at just under 24 hours. :(

Oh, but, Mr. 1337 got a boat load of tasks on his Core 2 Duo yesterday. I highly doubt anyone else is getting anything at all.

I have 0 pending and 4 inconclusive. I haven't gotten anything for about a week or more. I believe maybe since the 22nd of April.

I may just do as Juan has when I run out of inconclusive tasks. Or then again, maybe not just in case it doesn't take too long to get SETI running again. ;)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Reformatting Grants continuos log (really appreciate it; gives a good situation awareness). But it's hardly readable on my 4" iPhone anymore. ;-)

April 22 0:40 UTC: I've still got 259 Pendings and 342 Inconclusives
April 22 23:20: My Pendings are down to 145 and Inconclusives 237.
April 23 22:21: 65 Pendings, 145 Inconclusives.
April 25 03:12: 25 Pendings, 101 Inconclusives.
April 26 01:46: 20 Pendings, 80 Inconclusives.
April 27 05:02: 8 Pendings, 58 Inconclusives.
April 28 04:40: 4 Pendings, 25 Inconclusives.
April 29 06:20: 3 Pendings, 15 Inconclusives.
April 30 06:19: 1 Pending, 11 Inconclusives.
May 01 06:43: 1 Pending, 8 Inconclusives.

Hi Jim,
Oh, but, Mr. 1337 got a boat load of tasks on his Core 2 Duo yesterday. I highly doubt anyone else is getting anything at all.
I have 0 pending and 4 inconclusive. I haven't gotten anything for about a week or more. I believe maybe since the 22nd of April.
I may just do as Juan has when I run out of inconclusive tasks. Or then again, maybe not just in case it doesn't take too long to get SETI running again. ;)
Siran

. . Re Mr 1337 ... :(

. . Like you nothing for ages now, but I will leave the rigs connected to the project even with 24 hour backoffs just in case someone takes over the infrastructure with something interesting. Meantime I will persevere with E@H and WCG. If I lose interest/patience waiting for 'a new hope' and disconnect then I will probably shut down everything and take a holiday ...

Stephen

.< shrug >