How Many SETI Data Units Have You Completed?

[Aignam]

So...how many SETI Data Units have you completed to date?

Data units completed: 1541
Total computer time: 8678 hr 43 min

[Ryan M.]

None. Don't have the thing installed. :)

If anyone wants the program, which I assume is what he's talking about, it's at SETI@Home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/).

[dlavery]

Data units completed: 8925
Total computer time: 77045 hr 56 min (so far... :) )

I'm probably going to stop after I get the 10,000 unit certificate.

-dave

[geo]

Data units completed: 191 (My computer is too slow :()
Total computer time: 7432 hr 02 min 04.7 sec

[Aignam]

Data units completed: 8922
Total computer time: 77037 hr 32 min (so far... :) )

I'm probably going to stop after I get the 10,000 unit certificate.

-dave Whoa! Is your account running on multiple computers? All of NASA in on the mix? Heh, that's ALOT of units.

[Ashley Weed]

I ran it for a very short time after a fellow FIRSTer installed it on my other lappy at school. My new zd7000 might handle it better though - does anyone notice lag when running SETI? Any warnings or precautions I should take before installing?

~Thanks :)

[dlavery]

Whoa! Is your account running on multiple computers? All of NASA in on the mix? Heh, that's ALOT of units.

Just doing it for a long time... (and running it on two multi-processor machines)

http://www.team116.org/images/Workunits.jpg

... and how many other times can you say "25,473rd place just isn't good enough..." :)

[Aignam]

I ran it for a very short time after a fellow FIRSTer installed it on my other lappy at school. My new zd7000 might handle it better though - does anyone notice lag when running SETI? Any warnings or precautions I should take before installing?

~Thanks :) No lag whatsoever, this having been tested with loads of games, applications, and software. My computer does run funny during Doom 3, but it does it with or without SETI running. :rolleyes:

And Dave, that's pretty awesome! Here's mine---
http://www.aignam.com/seti.jpg

[dlavery]

Yeah! I just finished my 9000th unit! And moved all the way up to 25,292nd place!

-dave

[Elgin Clock]

I thought I had signed up for this a long time ago, but I can't find any old e-mails saying what my password and username was and what not..
So I signed up for a new one today.

Estimating how long it took to do 1% of a data packet, I'm guessing I will have the first one done in 4-4.5 hrs. Is that a good time?

I'll post the actual time when I finish the first one.

[Ashley Weed]

I decided to download and run the BOINC program. :rolleyes: I think I'm dense and did something wrong though, it recorded a lot of communication back and forth at the beginning, but then nothing in the past 12 hours. I'll probably end up just installing the SETI Classic.

[Aignam]

4-4.5 hours is pretty amazing. I'm pulling about 5.5 hours on an AMD Athlon XP 3000+.

EDIT: I have a question. Right now, I'm completing Data Units that are about a year behind today. What happens when we catch up to today?

[Elgin Clock]

Yeah um.. I may have grossly over estimated my computer's ability. I went to bed last night expecting to wake up and have the first (and maybe 2nd) packet done, and I have 33% of the first done only and it's been 10 hours..:ahh:

I'm thinking that it doesn't work as hard when my computer went to sleep mode, so I shut that off and we'll see how long the next one takes..:rolleyes:

[miketwalker]

Lavery and Aignam put me to shame.

My stats:
869 units, 5040hrs.

[Astronouth7303]

Is there a FIRST team/group? And can SETI run on a system that is offline? (granted, I'd load 10-20 units at a time!)

[Ryan M.]

I decided to download and run the BOINC program. :rolleyes: I think I'm dense and did something wrong though, it recorded a lot of communication back and forth at the beginning, but then nothing in the past 12 hours. I'll probably end up just installing the SETI Classic.I tried that too. Actually, I compiled from source, but same thing. The BOINC keeps giving me an error of "No work available". Um... anyhelp?

--EDIT--
Also, know of any more fun BOINC distributed computing things I could join? :D

[Elgin Clock]

Is there a FIRST team/group?
See this thread. Looks like only 1 or 2 are actually active still.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19226&highlight=seti

[Ashley Weed]

I tried that too. Actually, I compiled from source, but same thing. The BOINC keeps giving me an error of "No work available". Um... anyhelp?

--EDIT--
Also, know of any more fun BOINC distributed computing things I could join? :D

I just gave up, deleted it... and installed SETI@home. This is deffinately working and processing information.

[Cory]

Is there a FIRST team/group? And can SETI run on a system that is offline? (granted, I'd load 10-20 units at a time!)

I dont believe it can run offline... how would it acquire the data it is anaylzing, without a connection?

Cory

[Astronouth7303]

I dont believe it can run offline... how would it acquire the data it is anaylzing, without a connection?

Cory
I have a connection, just not on that computer. And I can transfer ~128 MB of units at a time.

[miketwalker]

Yea, you can process without an internet connection... but when it finishes doing how ever many packets you have it download... it needs to connect to upload the results and download the new packets. But during the actual processing you don't need a connection.

As Elgin pointed out earlier... there are several FIRST groups. I never knew about those myself, I'll join up with one of those... but I think we should all make an agreement as to which group to join so we're all together. I'd suggest http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_163242.html since 2 of the other 3 have nobody, and the 4th only had 1 user.

Edit: I noticed that group has all inactive members. What do you guys think would be the best idea? Just join up with that one... or another, or what? I guess it doesn't really matter if we all reach an agreement so we're together :)

[Joe Ross]

I don't beleive seti by itself can cache units, so you need to be
online, at least to download work (then it will do that unit and wait
for you to connect again).

However, there are programs that will cache work units for you. One of
those is Seti Driver, and you can read about it here:
http://www.teamlambchop.com/tips/setidriver.htm

I'm not sure if you can use that or anything else to sneakernet workunits, though.

Your credit:
Name (and URL) sciencewhiz
Results Received 50
Total CPU Time 196 hr 54 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 3 hr 56 min 17.7 sec
Average results received per day 0.08
Last result returned: Tue Feb 3 05:38:19 2004 UTC
Registered on: Sat Dec 21 04:06:14 2002 UTC
View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 1.681 years
Your group info:
You belong to the group named: TeAm AnandTech
You are not currently the founder of any teams.

Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 5106790 total users is: 1249782nd place.
The number of users who have this rank: 9732
You have completed more work units than 75.337% of our users.

[evulish]

Yeah um.. I may have grossly over estimated my computer's ability.

I didn't even realize there was a SETI client for the Apple IIe :D

[Elgin Clock]

OMG.. 19.5 hours for my first packet..

Whoop dee doo...

[Ashley Weed]

Wow, now that I actually got rid of the BOINC, and installed something that works. I left it running all night on my zd7000 I don't think I'll do that again. HOT! HOT! HOT! :ahh: I'll have to let it run when I'm at classes for short periods of times or something, I'm suprised my case didn't start to melt.

[geo]

I decided to download and run the BOINC program. :rolleyes: I think I'm dense and did something wrong though, it recorded a lot of communication back and forth at the beginning, but then nothing in the past 12 hours. I'll probably end up just installing the SETI Classic.

Same thing happened to me.

BONIC suppose to be a improved version of SETI Classic, from my point of view it's unreliable. One day downloading data, other day showing no work available for 24 hours. I definitely like the classic better.

[Aignam]

:( I would have made a FIRST Group awhile back, but I got stuck in some other group. I put an HTML tag in the header that it didn't like, just as a test, and now the page I need to get to in order to quit the team doesn't load right because of that one tag. ::hmph::

[Joe3]

I'm not sure why, but I am finding this fun on some level. Checking back every so often and just seeing "Ooo, It finished another 3.79%. But then again, maybe I'm just wierd.

Your credit:
Name (and URL) Jbomb3
Results Received 24
Total CPU Time 63 hr 11 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 2 hr 37 min 58.9 sec
Average results received per day 3.46
Last result returned: Thu Aug 26 12:45:32 2004 UTC
Registered on: Thu Aug 19 15:05:25 2004 UTC
View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 166 hr 32 min
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
You are not currently the founder of any teams.

Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 5107459 total users is: 1608977th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 21525
You have completed more work units than 68.076% of our users.

[Cory]

One unit completed
Fourteen Hours, 42 minutes, 35.6 seconds. :-D

[Ryan M.]

My average work time:
4 hr 04 min 21.5 sec (over 4 units)

See the rest of my stats at:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=texancd%40gmail.com&cmd=user_stats_new

[dachickindapit]

I'm not running SETI (I don't have a home computer right now), but I thought those that are would be interested in this article.

SETI Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040902/od_uk_nm/oukoe_space_signals)


The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI@home project, which uses programmes running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope.

[Aignam]

Cool article. Thanks for the link!

[Cory]

Alright, I've been running SETI for almost 400 hours now, and in the last two days or so my computer has gotten really slow. About every few minutes or so my computer totally doesn't respond to any input for 10-20 seconds or so. I've checked for spyware, viruses, all that stuff, and found none.

I disabled SETI when I just restarted my computer, and so far everything is running great.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be goin on?

Cory

[Ryan M.]

My SETI processing rate slowed down recently too. It dropped from 4 hours ~10-20 min to 5.5 hours. I don't know what's going on.

P.S. I've had 549 hours.

[Cory]

My SETI processing rate slowed down recently too. It dropped from 4 hours ~10-20 min to 5.5 hours. I don't know what's going on.

P.S. I've had 549 hours.

Mine is still getting faster actually, I went from like 14 hours to 5 or so.

The computer itsself runs *REALLY* slow with SETI running, and so far I've had it disabled for the better part of a day and everything's working fine.

[Elgin Clock]

Alright, I've been running SETI for almost 400 hours now, and in the last two days or so my computer has gotten really slow. About every few minutes or so my computer totally doesn't respond to any input for 10-20 seconds or so. I've checked for spyware, viruses, all that stuff, and found none.

I disabled SETI when I just restarted my computer, and so far everything is running great.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be goin on?

Cory
Umm.. yeah. SETI takes up about on average 90%-99% of your processor power when it runs.

SETI can be similated to spyware in this regards. (But it is something you know is running, unlike most spyware's that run without your knowledge).

As far as proving this, if you have WindowsXP hit ctr-alt-del and go to the Processes tab. Then sort by CPU Usage by clicking on that column header.
Currently as I type this and SETI is running in the background, SETI is using 98-99% of my CPU's power. :ahh:

That is why it has an option to run constantly (not recommended unless you have a super fast kick butt computer), or to have it run in Screen Saver mode when you are idle anyways and not sharing the computer's power with anything else.

[Elgin Clock]

Yea, you can process without an internet connection... but when it finishes doing how ever many packets you have it download... it needs to connect to upload the results and download the new packets. But during the actual processing you don't need a connection.

As Elgin pointed out earlier... there are several FIRST groups. I never knew about those myself, I'll join up with one of those... but I think we should all make an agreement as to which group to join so we're all together. I'd suggest http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_163242.html since 2 of the other 3 have nobody, and the 4th only had 1 user.

Edit: I noticed that group has all inactive members. What do you guys think would be the best idea? Just join up with that one... or another, or what? I guess it doesn't really matter if we all reach an agreement so we're together :)Yeah Mike, I'm joining your (SETI-FIRST) team!! yay!!!

If anyone else wants to join, click here:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_163242.html

[dlavery]

Yeah! I just finished my 9000th unit! And moved all the way up to 25,292nd place!

-dave

Woohoo! 10,533 units and 22,688th place! At this rate, I will be in the top 100 by sometime around 3:17pm EST on the third of September of the year 3642!

-dave

[tkwetzel]

Woohoo! 10,533 units and 22,688th place! At this rate, I will be in the top 100 by sometime around 3:17pm EST on the third of September of the year 3642!

-dave

All you need is some more computers to get there faster! You think NASA could spare another one for you?

[gobeavs]

I'm a Folding@Home person more...I find that it manages resources better. Using the computer while running Seti would result in some slowdown, because Seti didn't manage resources well. Using the computer and F@H at the same time doesn't have the same slowdown in my experiences, because I think it handles CPU processes better....but that is just what I have noticed on my machine.

[Elgin Clock]

By the way, for fear of severing relationships with everyone on CD here who uses SETI@Home, there is a new computer user data diagnostic type service out there.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/


And look, there is already a FIRST group created among the users.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=VH5XNJBR9N1

<I didn't make the FIRST group btw, I just learned about it on Tuesday, where one of the other Team 237 mentors showed me the site, and the application, and the FIRST group that he created.>
w00t for FIRST being everywhere!!!