MD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8422 posts, RR: 13 Posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 838 times:
I've done 156 work units over 4797 hours so far.
Today's my 3.000 year anniversary with seti@home, I joined March 6, 2002. My average CPU time is 30.75 hours, and I've completed more work units than 86.650% of the total users.
(can't you tell they love statistics?)
I don't think I'll ever be the one who's computer discovers an authentic extraterrestial signal, but hey, it's fun.
MD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8422 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 815 times:
2?
My old computer (400 MHz AMD K6-2, 96 MB RAM) used to do them around 90 hours apiece, while my current Dell laptop (1.6 GHz, 384 MB RAM) did them in 15 hours. But lately it's gone up a lot, to almost 40 hours. I'm not sure why, though.
For example, right now my data unit is 46% done, and it has taken 23.5 hours to process it that far. Seems slow to me (although they did change the data units several months ago, to search for more stuff).
Sophiemaltese From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 2064 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 810 times:
I used to have it a while back but have since upgraded computers and never reinstalled it.
Lubcha132 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 2776 posts, RR: 8 Reply 6, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 806 times:
what is it? i know what seti is but what can you do?
MD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8422 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 793 times:
It's the original distributed computing program. It's run by Berkeley, and examines data from the Arecibo radio telescope to see if an extraterrestial signal could be detected.
Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21 Reply 8, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 786 times:
1272 1.989 years 13 hr 41 min 45.8 sec Fri Dec 13 08:03:27 2002
That's when I lost access to the computer at work it was running on because the company went under ;-(
Haven't installed it anywhere else yet. Computers at work aren't powerfull enough and I need the CPU cycles at home for other things.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 75 Reply 9, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 783 times:
I have it. I am around 350 work units and am pushing 8,000 hours or so. I think I have had it for like 8 or 10 months or so.
On a side note, anyone know how to check for to make sure all the old Seti@Home info is getting deleted off your hard drive, so it doesn't keep taking up space?
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
Covert From Ghana, joined Oct 2001, 1436 posts, RR: 2 Reply 10, posted (10 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 780 times:
In your seti directory, work_unit.sah is the file containing work data. It should be around 350-400K, and is replaced automatically when you send the results in.
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