Posts by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 572899)
Posted 21 May 2007 by  Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: When the paid staff is absent durring a crisis this is NOT a good sign. You only quoted part of my post and take it out of context. Nice try at twisting reality. As I posted... in absence of someone they must have a sufficient plan B. You say it is a volunteer project... for who? There are wages being paid to some in the project. I have no issue with them getting their vacations (as I had stated in my post but you failed to comprehend), but while they are away, a project of this magnitude cannot be left in the hands of less capable people. There has to be someone left in charge that has equal abilities to the project leader as well as project knowledge. Please, we are volenteers for this project- if it's NOT important to you I suggest you leave the project with your reality and re-evaluate YOUR priorities. The expression "juvenile" comes to mind. |
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 572834)
Posted 21 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
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The project's importance is directly measured by the importance of those who make it function. Thus if one may be gone for an extended period and no legitimate back-up exists, this indicates a lack of importance of this project. In other words UC Berkeley needs to back this program properly or give it up to a worthy recipient. There is no problem with giving people their well deserved time off. There is a problem with not having a sufficient plan B for their absence. |
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 569901)
Posted 18 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: You call it complaining, I call it open discussion. Agree to disagree as I will discuss what I want when I want. Your political observation is far too vague to be accurate. In fact, if they can't keep it going, then who will take it? Give that thought for the future when this project runs out of funding. Some collaboration between Universities does seem in order assuming people can get off their high horses and loose the ego's. |
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 569680)
Posted 17 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: Sounds like they need a professional grant writer. Most government grants are applied for via professional grant writers who truly understand the process and have a good track record of receiving grants for their clients. Also sounds like UC should find a University more willing to take the handcuffs off of the project so it has the opportunity to thrive. Contact the University of Wisconsin. Let me guess, UC has a rule on contacting other Universities too... not to mention the staff has no desire to cut their own jobs. |
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 569498)
Posted 17 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: Project/Task Subtotal Total SETI@home I $65,700 Offline Data Analysis & RFI Rejection $22,000 Candidate Identification 37,500 Followup Observations of Best Candidates 6,200 SETI@home II 149,200 New Client Application Software Development 98,800 Candidate Identification & Data Analysis Software 50,400 Astropulse ¹ 92,700 Client application/data analysis software development 45,000 Equipment: Database and server hardware 19,400 Candidate identification and followup observations 28,300 Operations 230,400 Internet connection and bandwidth charges 59,700 Database administration and support 48,500 Systems administration and support 62,800 Server maintainence and preformance monitoring 20,900 Web site development 25,200 Upgrade to failure tolerant server configuration 13,300 Total 538,000 Astropulse The current SETI@home application looks for signals that are narrow in frequency, but have long duration. That's one way that an extraterrestrial civilization can send a signal that stands up above the radio background noise. Another possibility is that they could put a lot of power into a short duration pulsed signal that has a wide bandwidth. As such a pulse travels through intestellar space, interactions with interstellar matter slow down low frequencies relative to high frequencies in a process called dispersion. This dispersion spreads the pulse out over time. If we know how much dispersion a pulse has experienced, we can correct for this effect. For an extraterrestrial signal we won't know how much interstellar matter the signal interacted with on its journey, therefore we have to try every possible dispersion measure. That takes a lot of computing time. Astropulse is a SETI@home application that uses coherent dedispersion to search for pulsed signals. In addition to extraterrestrial signals we might see signs of evaporating black holes or discover new pulsars. You can read more about Astropulse here . Both Astropulse AND current seti@home use the same servers, perhaps they both benefit if not having to go down due to equipment failure. I am sure the NSF assumed the computers were functional when they funded the project and that they would need upgrading at some point. Has anyone attempted to gain new funding from the NSF for server upgrades? |
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Fast One (May 16 2007)
(Message 569470)
Posted 17 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: Perhaps they should consider tabling astropulse and use that portion of the budget to purchase more servers. |
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Can't talk.. Debugging.. (May 15 2007)
(Message 568808)
Posted 16 May 2007 by Dr.Okun_@_SETI.USA
Post: Thinking the best move is to totally block internet regions while others are allowed to upload to the project. Do a round robin of blockages until the project is caught up with the demand. |
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