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SETI units

Post by Lorien » Tue, 25. Nov 03, 00:20

Has anyone had a unit from SETI finish within 10mins? Normally they take anywhere between 8 and 12 hours to process through on my machine... The last one I had finished in 8mins 56secs.
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Post by Faze » Tue, 25. Nov 03, 00:52

Every now and then you get the "End of tape" unit.

Works wonders for your figure(s)

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Post by esd » Tue, 25. Nov 03, 02:24

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That's my fastest ;)
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Post by pjknibbs » Tue, 25. Nov 03, 08:37

If the data unit you download is corrupted or in some other way cannot be processed you will often get very short processing times. AFAIK you still get credit for processing that unit, even though the only result was "this is garbage"!
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Post by Lorien » Tue, 25. Nov 03, 23:51

Thanks all. Just seemed little odd to me. :)
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Post by Faze » Sun, 30. Nov 03, 23:37

Yahoo

Just cracked 600 units.

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Post by Stealth » Sun, 30. Nov 03, 23:59

Just finished gnawing on number 55...

I swear, if I ever get to number 100, I'm buying you all a drink. Hell, I'm buying the whole bar! :mrgreen:
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Post by pjknibbs » Mon, 1. Dec 03, 09:43

Faze wrote:Yahoo

Just cracked 600 units.
Only 7633 to go to match my total. :-)
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Post by Nuwanda » Sun, 18. Apr 04, 11:52

how come ur not in the X-btf team pjk?
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Post by pjknibbs » Sun, 18. Apr 04, 13:43

At the moment I'm in a team from my place of work--I might move over at some point, though.
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Post by crunn » Sun, 18. Apr 04, 17:42

pjknibbs wrote:8233
Impressive!!

Kinda' laughs at my 179.

How long you been doing SETI PJ?
I guess you have more than one PC running it.
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Post by Nuwanda » Sun, 18. Apr 04, 20:25

pjknibbs wrote:At the moment I'm in a team from my place of work--I might move over at some point, though.
will be great to see u move in!
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Post by pjknibbs » Sun, 18. Apr 04, 21:09

I've been running it since March 2001, I think. Number of PCs I have running it varies over time--at the moment I only have two of them. However, since one of those is my home PC which can crunch a unit in about 3 hours, I tend to get through a few!
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Post by ArgonTrustedLoony » Mon, 19. Apr 04, 10:59

I'm at 1931 at the moment, looking forward to the great 2000.

I run it at work mostly, the machine chomps a unit in a little over four hours usually so that's about 4 a day (well, overnight actually).
Every hour injures, the last one kills.
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Post by JTressy » Mon, 19. Apr 04, 22:30

Lucky people with your fast PC's, I've got a 1.2 and it takes about 56 hours for each unit, I'm only on 8 and it's been running for ages.........
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Post by The_Abyss » Mon, 19. Apr 04, 22:34

jtressy wrote:Lucky people with your fast PC's, I've got a 1.2 and it takes about 56 hours for each unit, I'm only on 8 and it's been running for ages.........
That's way to slow - you must be running it on screensaver only. Some people also run more than 1 PC...
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Post by pjknibbs » Tue, 20. Apr 04, 08:26

jtressy wrote:Lucky people with your fast PC's, I've got a 1.2 and it takes about 56 hours for each unit, I'm only on 8 and it's been running for ages.........
You definitely have a problem there. If my 2.6GHz PC can crunch units in 3 hours there's no way a machine around half as fast should be taking almost 20 times as long! For that matter, when I used to crunch SETI units on a 1.2GHz Athlon I was doing units in about 7 hours, not 56.
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Post by ManiacDC » Tue, 20. Apr 04, 08:26

main pc; 1hr 40 min per WU (2 processes running at once, 3hr 20 min per WU. 3 hr 20min/2 = 1 hr 40 min per WU)
2nd PC: 42 hrs per WU (200@233 MHz P1 w/MMX)

(both using command line)
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Post by Witchy » Tue, 20. Apr 04, 09:14

The_Abyss wrote:
jtressy wrote:Lucky people with your fast PC's, I've got a 1.2 and it takes about 56 hours for each unit, I'm only on 8 and it's been running for ages.........
That's way to slow - you must be running it on screensaver only. Some people also run more than 1 PC...
If your running it as a screensaver you can speed up the crunch time by choosing the option to go to a blank screen after, say, 2 min.
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Post by ManiacDC » Tue, 20. Apr 04, 10:27

hehe my 233 gets WU's done faster than his 1.2 lol.
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