Posts by Ministry of Disinformation

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (86) Server Problems? (Message 1459687) Posted 1 Jan 2014 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: sighs Well, it's clearly obvious that the holiday season is over for at least some people... So much for "...tis the season to be jolly," or such ideas as, goodwill to all men.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : RAC ? (Message 1080136) Posted 21 Feb 2011 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: Are the amount given for work done dropping again? I've noticed that the amount of credit being awarded for Astropulse wu's is now a lot more variable. Before the outage, I was getting the claimed credit for them everytime (aprox 1294) and now the credit varies from 500 to 990, most being around 700 to 800.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Completed, can't validate (Message 877523) Posted 20 Mar 2009 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: At least there's been a positive outcome it would seem. I know it doesn't help with the one I lost, but it stops it happening again, to either myself or other people. That's a good result in my opinion. It's nice to know that we are listened to. :)
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Completed, can't validate (Message 876313) Posted 16 Mar 2009 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: I would like to see a response from one of the actual seti team about this, with a positive message that they are at least aware of the issues and they are going to try to fix it. I have invited Project Administrator Dr. Eric Korpela to visit this thread and offer his input. Thanks for that OzzFan, and thank you too to Dr. Eric Korpela for the reply. At least if the issue is known about, a solution can hopefully be worked to suit the project and the crunchers.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Completed, can't validate (Message 876176) Posted 16 Mar 2009 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: Well, the workunit looks to have been purged from the database now, the link now resolves to a page that contains a message saying "can't find workunit." The situation sucks badly in my opinion, I just take some small comfort from the fact it was only 10 hours or so CPU time, although that's not going to be of comfort to other people if they run into the same sort of problem. I'd hate to think how the people with only 1 older computer for instance and it takes 40 hours or more for them to crunch a single AP wu will feel. I don't think that this policy has been thought through very well to be honest. While I appreciate we are running seti@home by choice, it is nice to think that when we do, we will receive credit for the work we actually do. Not be told "tough, other people screwed you up by getting errors." I would like to see a response from one of the actual seti team about this, with a positive message that they are at least aware of the issues and they are going to try to fix it.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Completed, can't validate (Message 876039) Posted 16 Mar 2009 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: Was looking through the results I had returned recently and noticed: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=420803531 So because of client errors from other people, those who do end up returning valid results are going to effectively have their credits denied in future? "Other people couldn't do it, so you can't have your credit even though you could" is hardly a way to keep your crunchers happy. Just wait until you get people who aren't running optimised apps who take far longer to crunch each wu noticing this, fun times ahead me thinks. Oh ye of little faith the admins have blessed us with a new category different from PENDING - called VALIDATE INCONCLUSIVE - (as an explanation). Just got 2 of them and SETI was prioritized to process them and BINGO - IT WORKS. KUDOS to the admins - That seems to be different though, or re you saying that they'll reverse the decision about the couldn't validate and send it out yet again? There is a fairly large difference between "Completed, can't validate" and "Completed, validation inconclusive." I'd like to think that multiple hours of cpu time haven't been wasted, but that's not how it's looking.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Completed, can't validate (Message 875793) Posted 15 Mar 2009 by Ministry of Disinformation Post: Was looking through the results I had returned recently and noticed: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=420803531 So because of client errors from other people, those who do end up returning valid results are going to effectively have their credits denied in future? "Other people couldn't do it, so you can't have your credit even though you could" is hardly a way to keep your crunchers happy. Just wait until you get people who aren't running optimised apps who take far longer to crunch each wu noticing this, fun times ahead me thinks.

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