How Many SETI Data Units Have You Completed?

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

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

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None. Don’t have the thing installed. :slight_smile:

If anyone wants the program, which I assume is what he’s talking about, it’s at SETI@Home.

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

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

-dave

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

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

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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 :slight_smile:

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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…” :slight_smile:

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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

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

-dave

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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:

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Lavery and Aignam put me to shame.

My stats:
869 units, 5040hrs.

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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!)

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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? :smiley:

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

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

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

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

Cory

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