Re: Why workunits were taking 3x longer after upgrading to 3.08

Dave Trapnell wrote:

Stratcat� wrote:

Robi wrote:

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Anyhow, BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
as in http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/

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While my posting is occasionally sporadic, reply to this thread if you would
like any additional links/info on BOINC & the SETI II transition. I,
or perhaps someone else, will be happy to respond, though my knowledge is
somewhat limited, in relation to some of the more 'aware' posters.


I went to that website. It appeared that they were going to
offer an open-structured SETI-like model for other types
of problem processsing. I could not immediately see how
that was going to affect the ongoing SETI@HOME project,
unless the implication is that such a project will take
processing power away from SETI?


Well, the ongoing SETI@home will be replaced with BOINC *running* SETI@homeII
SETI@homeII will analyze the southern sky as well.
The ongoing beta test of BOINC uses AstroPulse (Black Hole evaporation)
http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/SETI@home/Update_110501.htm

There will be other projects running on BOINC, and every user can run
whichever project(s) he wants, so to your next question, the processing power
will be split up between different projects.

They seem to already have more processing power than they can use anyway.


"They" will need the processing power again for the southern hemisphere
scan(s), and listening for a signal from some ET intelligence/civilization
needs patience, because those civilizations - like us (or unlike us ;o) -
don't broadcast nonstop high powered signals into space for us to lock onto
the signal whenever we like. Actually we might be missing their broadcast
just because they send (or sent) it right when arecibo rolls out of reception
range and the signal ends some time before arecibo is back in the range.
This means that the sky needs to be surveyed and analyzed over and over and
over and over... again, and that, my dear Watson, needs processing power :^)

Did I miss something?


did I? ;o)


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Robi
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