In article <h_rVb.12379$QX4.8819@clgrps13>,
D. <Dereka_k@notsohotmail.com> wrote:

 I've been crunching WU's for Seti@Home now for four years.  Lately I've
begun to wonder as BIONIC gets ready to roll out is Seti dying?

That's "BOINC".

                                                                The number
of dedicated data crunchers continues to inch up to 5 million users, yet
over the last month I've watched my registration class shink my over 40
users and seen many Seti Newgroup users say farewell to the project.

The number of "dedicated" crunchers is more like 525,000. The rest haven't
returned a result for over a month.

 Although all looks good as the numbers grow, how long can the project live
and how effective can it remain if it continues to lose its core base of
dedicated crunchers that have helped it survive all these years?

It'll live as long as the SSL keeps serving work units. 

Further, from my point of view, there's no shortage of results being
returned--I'm returing over 48 results/day, have been stuck at 99.967%
for months, and have slipped over 100 places in rank from my peak--I'm
down to 1600 now. 

S@h is in _no_ danger of running out of computing power out here.

 I welcome the new users, but if  Seti can't find away to keep its most
dedicated supporters, what future can they have?

A long one, if they want it.

Excuse me, I need to get more systems online...


Gary

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Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

Contrary to popular opinion, _not_ everyone loves Raymond.