kingbunky 3 #1 September 13, 2002 this may have been posted in the past, but i haven't seen it recently. how many people here are running the SETI program? If you are and weren't aware of it, there is a group called the Skydiver Alien Network. i am a member, and i see a few other familar names on the list as well. would anyone be interested in starting a dropzone.com group? if you are involved now, how many work units have you completed?"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #2 September 13, 2002 I stopeed running SETI after I got in trouble for running the Solaris command line version on the production servers over the weekend. I think the unites were being processed about once an hour or something...I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #3 September 13, 2002 geez, that's smokin'! my home system takes 6-10 hours per, i was running it at work on an hp l2000 system pretty quick as well. it was a test box at the time, so nobody cared."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cajones 0 #4 September 13, 2002 I am running SETI. Wasn't aware of any "groups" within SETI. I'm small time (5-6 units/day), but tell me more... The laws of physics are strictly enforced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spy38W 0 #5 September 13, 2002 Quotehow many people here are running the SETI program? The who what? -- Hook high, flare on time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gemini 0 #6 September 13, 2002 I have it running at home. Usually takes me a month or more to finish a unit since I only run it for a short time each evening. Blue skies, Jim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prepheckt 0 #7 September 13, 2002 I used to run it, but I switched to XP and I couldn't get to work. Oh well, it used to take 3-5 hours per unit, when I had it."Dancing Argentine Tango is like doing calculus with your feet." -9 toes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #8 September 13, 2002 What is SETI. What does it do, and how much is it?7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #9 September 13, 2002 http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/windows.html FreeYesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prepheckt 0 #10 September 13, 2002 Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence....There is the VLA (Very Large Array) of radio Telescopes that was being used to listen for radio or other forms of EM communiction thought to come from an extraterrestrial civilization. Now they use the Mount Arecibo (sp) telescope in Puerto Rico. One of the largest in the world. They collect so much data, that they can't analyze it all. So, they set up SETI @Home. The basic principle is simple. If you network a lot of small computers, you can effectively create a huge one. So, they send out a program which you can download for free, they send you a chunk of data, which your computer analyzes, using Fast Fourier Transfroms ( used to find patterns in data), then sends it back. Then they send you another chunk of data....etc. Here's the website http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/"Dancing Argentine Tango is like doing calculus with your feet." -9 toes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #11 September 13, 2002 when will i know if i found an alien? if i find one can i keep him and name him as well?7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prepheckt 0 #12 September 13, 2002 yeah, you get to name him and them keep him. Take it skydiving."Dancing Argentine Tango is like doing calculus with your feet." -9 toes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #13 September 13, 2002 Yeah, it was an Sun 64 processor server they used to crunch some pretty complex numbers (breast cancer research). FYI, Having the Unix Admin rip you a new one in the cafeteria is a very humbling experience. Then again this was the same guy who put a personal linux box on the network to get around some closed ports (Tribes and Quake mostly) only to realize that it had taken over the gateway functions for the whole campus. Can we say OOPS?I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #14 September 13, 2002 if you look at your profile , there should be something there about a team or group. The group i belong to is the skydiver alien network, whose stated purpose is to track down an alien so that we could be the first to jump a ufo. the team site is here."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhino 0 #15 September 13, 2002 The SETI screensaver has been passing viruses.. Be carefull.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cajones 0 #16 September 13, 2002 Done! Is the exit order from the spacecraft determined by the order in which we join the group? The laws of physics are strictly enforced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamT 0 #17 September 13, 2002 Cool, you had seti running on a fully loaded Enterprise 10000? I always wanted to do that, i would of thought it would take less then an hour to prosses a unit tho. adam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #18 September 13, 2002 Uh... I guess so :) I was a desktop support guy there, but one of my friends who was also a sysadmin was telling me the specs on that puppy. There were 4 seperate servers clustered together, but I thought I was smart and telneted into a single node to run it. Who would have thought that people actually read the logs, Rumor had it that it went something like "What is seti and WHY is it using 98.7% of the CPU cycles? OOOOO look Mr Lum is logged in and running that process, KILL PID XXXXX...I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #19 September 13, 2002 i'm not sure, we could contact the group founder. or we could start our own group and race them!"Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #20 September 13, 2002 yeah, but seti is not multi-threaded as far as i can tell... it will only run on one processor. i'm running it on a dual processor test box right now and it will run one instance per processor. if you try to run more, it swaps a lot and doesnt' accomplish as much. you must have been hogging one processor and someone noticed."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #21 September 13, 2002 The Seti network has never had a virus. The closest that there has been is Hydra that installs Seti. Also Hermes that is virus with files labeled as a Seti tweak, but has nothing at all to do with the actual network.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamT 0 #22 September 13, 2002 I played with SETI for solaris, i thought there was a way to make it user more then one cpu, maybe not. But y ou could always run more then one instance. Swapping probablem wouldn't be an issue with the machine in question. If it had 64 procs then it probably had 64gb of ram as well, as that is the max configuration. Even split into domains as Lummy said it was, a single board domain would still be 4cpus 4gb. Those are pretty sweet machines, they were sun's top of the line until about a year and a half ago, i think. I was stoked the first time i got to play with one. adam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #23 September 13, 2002 our stuff is all appraching antique status now, but we are getting all new ibm stuff soon. all that hpux and solaris training will come in handy then won't it! "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mujie96 0 #24 September 13, 2002 Just out of curiousity, am I the only one here who is COMPLETELY LOST?! Just thought I'd ask... Jess Just keep swimming...just keep swimming.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
