How Many SETI Data Units Have You Completed?

[Aignam]

Originally Posted by 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

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.

And Dave, that's pretty awesome! Here's mine---

[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. 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..

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..

[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!)

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Is there a FIRST team/group?

See this thread. Looks like only 1 or 2 are actually active still.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=seti

[Cory]

Originally Posted by 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!)

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

Cory

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Cory

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/s...am_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.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by 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/s...am_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/...am_163242.html

[evulish]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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