So, how many SETI work units have you guys completed?

[Feanor]

I checked mine tonight... The average CPU time for work unit completion however is about 2x how long it takes now, since I upgraded my computer in February, and this number has been falling somewhat fast... As a consequence, the results received per day has incidently been going up too, again due to the CPU, mobo, and memory upgrade. This is where it currently stands

Your credit:
Name (and URL) Son Goku
Results Received 2307
Total CPU Time 2.301 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 8 hr 44 min 20.6 sec
Average results received per day 2.69
Last result returned: Mon Aug 12 08:59:55 2002 UTC
Registered on: Fri Apr 7 18:36:36 2000 UTC
View Registration Class
SETI@home user for: 2.347 years
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 3905229 total users is: 48049th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 24
You have completed more work units than 98.769% of our users.

[serialdave]

I haven't done any upgrading to any cpu's in while so my average cpu time is still slow. But with 11.4 results received per day I am still climbing up the charts. Been waiting to see the you have completed more than 99.9% statistic then 10,000 work units done.

Got a few video cards lately and when the amd 64bit chips hit the market I might swing a few motherboard cpu upgrades - not that I will be going after the 64 bit chips but when they hit the market the old 32 bit stuff should be cheeap.

But man a nice hammer box or four would be a nice addition to a seti cruncher. :)

Name (and URL) serialDave

Results Received 9025

Total CPU Time 14.081 years

Average CPU Time per work unit 13 hr 40 min 04.0 sec

Average results received per day 11.40

Last result returned:Mon Aug 12

Registered on:Sun Jun 11

Your rank out of 3905327 total users is: 6643rd place.
The number of users who have this rank: 1
You have completed more work units than 99.830% of our users.

[Kruno]

Me = none

I been playing games too much :)

[netape]

I almost finished one work unit, but then I got bored and removed the software :D

[ExitWound]

Name (and URL): ExitWound
Results Received: 1123
Total CPU Time: 1.008 years
Average CPU Time per work unit: 7 hr 51 min 58.5 sec
Average results received per day: 1.87
Last result returned: Mon Aug 12 07:31:07 2002 UTC
Registered on: Tue Dec 19 20:28:31 2000 UTC
SETI@home user for: 1.646 years
Your rank out of 3905344 total users is: 109532nd place.
The number of users who have this rank: 105
You have completed more work units than 97.193% of our users.

This isn't that bad actually considering that I've done 1100 units on one machine, ~7h 42m. It's a celeron 566@953Mhz. I recently added the seti client to a second machine, a Celeron 500. My time per unit is climbing because of that, but my results per day is also going up. 39th in the nVnews team, slowly creeping up.

[ALobpreis]

User: ALobpreis
Group: nV News
Registered: 02/02/01
User ID: 2744081
Results returned: 460
Last result returned: 12/08/02 09:57:18 a.m.
Total CPU time: 3767 hrs
Avg. CPU time: 8:11:23
Result interval: 29:01:34
CPU dedication: 28,2%
Rank: 236.621 of 3.905.512 (93,932%)
Users with this rank: 365


Feanor, join nV News!!

[Cereal-Killer]

Name (and URL) Daniel "Cereal-Killer" Zunnun
Results Received 1349
Total CPU Time 1.202 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 7 hr 48 min 25.4 sec
Average results received per day 1.48
Last result returned: Mon Aug 12 02:39:16 2002 UTC
Registered on: Tue Feb 15 22:11:58 2000 UTC
SETI@home user for: 2.490 years
You belong to the group named: SETI.Germany
Your rank out of 3905767 total users is: 90065th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 62
You have completed more work units than 97.692% of our users.

I have two machines running Seti right now. My machine can crunch one work unit in just over 4 hrs, but my old PIII-533 is pushing the average time way up :) I would have joined the nvNews team, but it's too late now... :(

[Feanor]

Yeah I have 1 running it now. I had a second the first 8 months I had SETI downloaded (a Pentium 400) but then I finally got it sent off to my father so he could have an upgrade from his Pentium 166 with 32 MB RAM, and yuck!!! and double yuck a S3 3d accelerator (oh yes that first one most peeps got rid of fast and replaced with Voodoo Graphics). Updated the CPU to a Celery 700 right before sending to him though, and upgraded the memory to 256 MB for win2k

Since then, I've been down to 1 computer, though this AXP 1900+ is returning them more often (even with the newer version and the changes to slow the client down so we contact SETI servers less often...aka they ran out of BW sometime back)...then I got with the 2.x client with both the Athlon 700 and PII 400 combined.

[fishlung]

Results Received: 234
Total CPU Time: 2169 hr 15 min
Average CPU Time per work unit: 9 hr 16 min 13.1 sec
Average results received per day: 0.44
Registered on: Mon Feb 26 01:04:39 2001 UTC
SETI@home user for: 1.460 years
Your rank out of 3906452 total users is: 379597th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 1020
You have completed more work units than 90.257% of our users.

The fact that I used to run SETI@Home on a 1 GHz P3, and that I infrequently used the computer during a strange life period, has ruined my averages it seems. :) Hehe. The 1.5 GHz AMD rig I built last fall completes a work unit in about 4 hours. That P3 took more than twice that long. ACK! Amazing, I used to think that PC was pretty quick a couple years ago. Duhhhhhh. :rolleyes:

[Feanor]

In it's day, people used to think a 286 was quick enough... Of course the programs weren't such resource hogs back then either *cough* Windows *cough*

[Spiritwalker]

Name (and URL) futureman
Results Received 3171
Total CPU Time 3.889 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 10 hr 44 min 39.3 sec
Average results received per day 3.07
Last result returned: Mon Aug 12 21:57:36 2002 UTC
Registered on: Thu Oct 14 03:37:25 1999 UTC
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SETI@home user for: 2.833 years

[Spiritwalker]

...and I have one that was just about to complete. I guess that I should have waited ;)

[Feanor]

Even when mine complete they don't always update right away :D

This might be of help to some people. Remember how difficult it was to return results and get new one's before SETI got their own ISP? Even now they get saturated at times, drop connections, etc... I've before gone days without being able to re-connect.

Anyway, go to the SETI site and look for Add-ons and then SetiQueue It'll queue a number of work units (I now have 24 queued, and one in process of being completed)... So it'll just pass these and let one send them up at a given time in the day...

Thing is, if the servers are down then, no problem as it leaves one enough work units to work on until after the servers recover (unless things are unusually bad and down for several days)...

The number of queued has been steadily increasing on my comp though since I installed this...I think it's getting the point it might want to queue more then it has though... Anyway, say bye to those "can not connect" errors...

[SavagePaladin]

0...and proud of it

[Matthyahuw]

Originally posted by SavagePaladin
0...and proud of it ditto...

[serialdave]

The group does seem alittle dead.

[volt]

I don't see nothing special about SETI. Just a waste of my CPU cycles. So yea, I've never completed any task they gave heh

[serialdave]

I guess when the team founder moves on it is a sign of the times. With the mods and editors down on a team founded here I guess I will try a team with a little more enthusiasm. :(

[intercede007]

Name (and URL) intercede
Results Received 732
Total CPU Time 2730 hr 15 min
Average CPU Time per work unit 3 hr 43 min 47.5 sec
Average results received per day 1.28
Last result returned: Sun Aug 25 22:28:44 2002 UTC
Registered on: Fri Feb 2 04:41:54 2001 UTC
SETI@home user for: 1.563 years

Blah..there are people enthusiastic about distributed computing, you just have to find them. I'm one of them..I'm damn proud of my Average CPU time ;) It's all about the science anyway..if you're not really interested in what your computer has a hand in doing, you're not going to stick with it. Thats probably why the team is a little dead...most people got into it for the novelty aspect and didn't care so much about the science.

[volt]

People are used to follow trends. This is no longer tredy IMO.

[saturnotaku]

I personally have no problems with the idea of distributed computing. What I don't like is SETI's premise as I think this much of a search for extra-terrestrial life is a colossal waste of time and energy.

On the other hand, distributed computing to find a cure of cancer, which is folding@home if I'm not mistaken, is something I'm all for. In this case, CPU cycles are going to a more worthy cause, IMO.

[[Corporal Dan]]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
I personally have no problems with the idea of distributed computing. What I don't like is SETI's premise as I think this much of a search for extra-terrestrial life is a colossal waste of time and energy.

On the other hand, distributed computing to find a cure of cancer, which is folding@home if I'm not mistaken, is something I'm all for. In this case, CPU cycles are going to a more worthy cause, IMO.

Yes and YES.

Search for extraterrestrial life? Gimme a god damned break. What crap

If all seti users did folding@home or Intel's client (www.intel.com/cure), we'd have a cure for cancer by now.

[Ryoko]

damn right... folding is the shiznit :D

[fishlung]

I dig Folding. Unfortunately, it seems like work units take days to complete. :) I never heard of Intel's distributed computing thingy, but somehow I trust Stanford more. ;)

[Matthyahuw]

This is what I do...Intel is (was?) a sponsor, yes, but they have no mention on their website anymore, the page it was on is dead...typical big biz bull...
http://members.ud.com/download/gold/