The most recent item on the Breakthrough Listen news feed talks about making more data available for other people to process, but is silent on who might be doing that processing.

I expect that many of the techniques you have come up with are of much wider application than just SETI, so, once you've recovered I look forward to seeing your names pop up on other projects and pushing their applications to new boundaries.

Are the tasks by themselves for the CPU and GPU basically the same or are they completely different in nature? I always thought they were somehow different and that partially explained why the GPU tasks finish so quickly.

-=- Boris

Does the GPU card really make that much of a difference?

Thoughts?

-=- Boris

In fact, an advanced ET race is more likely to find us first than us them. What happens when that occurs and they say take us to your leader? Er, um,. sorry guv, we ain't got one! United nations? Rather not think so. Trump, Putin? Lord help us.

I've been looking at Einstein as a new home. They were friendly enough to open a spot in their boards to let us chat on Tuesdays, so that earns them bonus points in my book. How is their uptime? do they have a weekly outage? do I need to configure my system differently?

* We can’t study sensitivity to pulsed signals since we haven't implemented pulsed birdies. Future work.
* We can’t study factors specific to Gaussians (e.g. amount of time observed at Gaussian slew rates) since we currently don’t make Gaussians for birdies. Future work.

If what my computers have analyzed needs to be reanalyzed, then why isn't our computers doing it to help out?

that's the problem. and nobody will answer it.

Even then, it's hard to put a halt to a process that you gave 20 years of your life. I certainly haven't achieved everything I wanted to with SETI@home. I've still got my plans for SETI@home version 10, there was just never time to implement them. Maybe when we've finished our results papers I'll dust them off, assuming I can find the resources.

By the last statistics there will by about 200 000 SETI orphan hosts.

Where they will go?

Perhaps we should all set up a new team called Seti Orphans, and go invade another project.. ? :-)

We have 20 years experience with s@h running on BOINC (s@h 'v2')...

We had the start of a whole new world of volunteer distributed computing with s@h 'classic' (s@h 'v1')...

Over that quarter century since 1995, the original design of s@h has held up remarkably well spanning from the days of 14kbit/s dialup internet and the WUs taking a month of CPU time, to now enjoying the vast power and rates and Gigabit/s we have today. Remarkably, all on the same one s@h database!...


So, for our pause-for-thought during a hibernation, what ideas do we have from us users?


Can I start the ball of ideas rolling with:

• Usefully 'bigger' or more 'compute intensive' WUs to make further use of our ever increasing compute power?
  
  
• Yet also some 'smaller' WUs (different processing) to still take advantage of the lower power abilities of the vast expanse of mobile devices?
  

And to maintain continuity for the s@h project:

• A list in the profiles for our present users listing how many WUs (and of which types) have been successfully processed by that user and the credits and CPU time donated?
  
  
• Also include the latest/last RAC achieved by that user?
  
  
• Monthly updates during the hibernation for s@h news and directions?
  

What do you all think?

What would you like to see next?

And how??


Keep searchin'!
Martin

Definitely should do a

"Seti@Home 1999-2020
- almost 21 years..."


;^)

We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.

Hello
I would ask some advise what are current best in performance per $ (initial cost only, electricity not counted ) metric CPU, GPU and memory (+mobo to support selected computing devices).

It depends very much on the software for the CPU work. If it makes use of AVX 512, then an Intel HEDT (High End Desk Top) CPU is the only option, the performance is huge.


Otherwise, given the price limitations, a Ryzen9 would be the way to go (or a Threadripper or low end Epyc system if more funds can be made available).


The amount of system memory required would once again depend on the CPU software being used- how much does it need?
If the GPU software makes use of Double Precision, then go with a desktop AMD GPU, Single Precision then Nvidia RTX 270 Super (or RTX 280Ti if funds allow).


It's going to be a juggling act between how much CPU performance is required, and how much GPU performance, and trading off between those 2 to fit within your budget.