Eeeeek, I can't stand it! Someone please tell me what is a
cobblestone. Have mercy, I'm going mad.

Tommy Atkinson




David Stites <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message news:<Xns941F329A149A1daviddstitesnet@199.45.49.11>...

"Rizla" <nothere@noway.com> wrote in news:bnahtl$4kp$1
@titan.btinternet.com:

Hi all,

How long will it take to send an e-mail to 4,723,933 users?

How will the S@h server cope with 4,723,933 dowmloads?

Have been reading here:-
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.html

Find out what a 'Cobblestone' is.

How many Cobblestones would this produce?

Processing rate:  3.40 hour / work unit  (29.43 % / hour)
Processing speed:  333.12 MegaFLOPs / second
Processing efficiency:  9.29 CPU cycles / FLOP
Floating point operations to process:  4.10 TeraFLOPs


Results returned:  3042
Last result returned:  24/10/2003 06:59:44
Total CPU time:  1.86 yrs
Avg. CPU time:  5:21:52
Result interval:  12:24:49
CPU dedication:  43.2%
Rank:  67,022 of 4,723,933 (98.581%)
Users with this rank:  32

(SETI Spy data)

I think they are smart enough to space it out over weeks or months. 
Notify people in batches small enough to handle.

Name (and URL)  David Stites   
Results Received  3179 
Total CPU Time  3.832 years  
SETI@home user for: 4.262 years 
Your rank out of 4725469 total users is:  63821st place.  
The number of users who have this rank:  29  
You have completed more work units than  98.649% of our users.