Wally Anglesea? <wanglese@spbigpondammersareparasites.net.au> wrote in message news:<b2c2hvg5coq2p1micmtqaoseou3d1tgobk@4ax.com>...

seti@home has been going for some time now,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what the average processing time
per unit was back when we began, and if there's a graph of how this
has decreased over time. Purely from an intellectual exercise.

I guess the numbers of users per month has either remained static,
grown or decreased over time, so I'm just interested in if any stat
analysis is worthwhile (outside of the work unit processing of course)
:-))

I have a little useful info for you. First of all, until about
December 23, 2000 Setis analyzers were less thorough than they are
now. In my case it took my computer only 3/5 as long to process a unit
before then as after. Thatll put a stairstep in the historical
processing time graph if you find one. On January 1, 2002 the average
processing time was about 15.0 hours. One year later it was about 10.6
hours. Now it is about 9.3 hours. As far as number of users per month
there is a historical graph of "active users" accessible from "Current
Statistics". It shows the historical number of active users (that have
turned in at least one unit in the past 28 days). That number now is
about 598,000.