1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Old data (Message 4766) Posted 6 Jul 2004 by bestunderblue Post: I think perhaps you have misunderstood the whole point of SETI. Sure its nice to process units and get recognition for it, but really we are here and are offering our CPU's for the greater good. I will lose my 2500 or so units, but who cares? sah have spent a good deal of time and effort in improving the software, I volunteer knowing that I won't get any money or anything else tangible for it. I just think its a cool thing to do, So don't complain too much. Its not really about you, its about the search for extra terrestrial intelligence and the best way to get it done. Look at the bright side; if everyone is set to zero, you start level with EVERYONE else, including me and those who have processed hundred's of thousands of units. Your fifty units are valuable, but try and put your complaint in the perspective that it should have. Happy crunching > > > So it was pointless running SETI after this date because we've got > no > > credit > > > for it. Why weren't people informed? My current team was created > after > > that > > > date so we officially no longer exist. Geee thanks. Are they trying > to > > upset > > > users? Do they want us to process units? > > > > I suspect on S@H1's termination, stats will be updated with the final > totals. > > > > The transition document reads that it won't. If SETI plan on copying across > the final stats, they should say so because I imagine quite a few people won't > be making the change over to BOINC due to SETI's current disregard for their > efforts: > > What will happen to my workunit totals? > BOINC projects can have workunits of many different lengths, so BOINC keeps > track of your computer's work in terms of actual computation performed rather > than number of workunits. > > Because of this change, SETI@home accounts will have separate old and new work > totals. The old total is the workunit total from the current SETI@home. ***It > won't change***, and a section of our web site will show the final > leaderboards based on old work totals. New work unit totals will start from > zero. > > > >

 
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