SETI@home Part 3 (Take 2) (1 Viewer)

[Chris White]

Go Chris Go!!
Ranking Update!
All Seti Teams #139

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[Mike Voigt]

Chris, thanks.
Looks like STARFLEET and Raytheon are next up.
STARFLEET has a lot of members - 314. While slower than we are, at 16h27m per unit average vs 11h53m for HTF, given the extra people we may not catch them, unless we have a huge influx of people... or we just happen to have a lot more 'slaves', which don't count into that member total.
Raytheon, OTOH, has 151 members; we have 159, and they run 14h56m. It is possible - they're only ahead by 1700 units according to the Top 200 page.
Mike

 

[Chris White]

I finally reached a long awaited personal Seti goal over the weekend -- I broke into the top 10,000 of all Seti users! Of the 2,844,391 total Seti users, I'm currently ranked 9986th and have completed more units than 99.649% Seti users. Woo hoo! I believe I shall celebrate this evening with a lovely adult beverage.
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[Patrick R. Sklenar]

Congratulations Chris!! That's fantastic!
My current, personal, goal is to reach the 99th percentile. As of this morning I'm at 98.834%. I've returned 1561 work units which puts me at #33130 out of 2844391. There are 34 other users who share this position with me.
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[Jeff Blair]

Good going Chris. It looks like you will be passing me up sooner than I would like. I just lost my job, so all of my clients are gone, excepet the ones I run at home. Wish me luck in finding a new one.
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[Bruce N]

1000 units for me! WOOHOO!
Adult beverages all around!
Bruce
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[Chris Maynard]

Dang Jeff!
That is really horrible man. That is NOT the way I wanted to take your position in the rankings. I do wish you the best in finding a great place to work.

 

[MikeSerrano]

Jeff, sorry about your job.
The top 20 HTF users now have over 2000 WUs.
Right now I'm in position 21 chasing Micah Lloyd... Hopefully I'll pass him be the end of next week (all my slaves will be down the week after, but will come back the week after that).
-Mike
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[Patrick R. Sklenar]

I finally got off my lazy butt this weekend and installed "SETI Driver" and "SETI Spy" on both my home and work PC's. Installation and configuration was a snap.
I've got it set up with a Cache of 10 WU's at this point. How many WU's are most other folks caching?
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[Chris White]

I have a cache of 10 units on my office computer because it has a full time connection to the internet so if the Seti server is down, it will normally have the full 10 in reserve. My home computer uses a modem connection, so I keep a cache of 15 units since I download units only once a week.
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[MikeSerrano]

There hasn't been any updates to this thread in a while, so I thought I'd share:
Just passed 2000 WUs this morning. Woohoo! I'm still trailing Micah--but should break into the top 20 by the end of the week.
Yay me!
-Mike
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[Patrick R. Sklenar]

Well, I just got home from a ten day vacation in FL. Just in time to get both of my systems processing again and to stay ahead of "Sorcerer". {whew}
1623 work units as of this morning - 98.877th percentile. 99%, here I come!
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[MikeSerrano]

Okay, just to recap:

MikeSerrano
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Posted On: April 10th, 2001 01:32 PM

Woohoo! I just broke into the top 20!!!
-Mike

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Patrick R. Sklenar
Southern New England, USA
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Posted On: April 10th, 2001 07:31 PM

Congrat's Mike! I'm getting closer and closer to my current objective ... as of this evening I'm at the 98.905th percentile. My current objective is to reach the 99th percentile. Once I've reached that, then I'll figure out a new goal.

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Chris White
Orlando, Florida
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Posted On: April 11th, 2001 05:36 AM

Congratulations Mike. After sneaking up on Paul for the past few months, I managed to squeek by him this weekend and have now moved up to #7. I shall quaff a lovely adult beverage in celebration. Next goal - 4000 units.

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Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 11th, 2001 07:04 PM

I guess that's what I get for being side tracked for so long.... I guess I might have to do something about this

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Chris Maynard
Northern California
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Posted On: April 11th, 2001 07:05 PM

Yeah Paul.....I saw the power levels dip throughout our systems. What the heck did you just fire up?

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 11th, 2001 08:27 PM

You don't want to know....
Oh look.... what's that over there..... ?

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 13th, 2001 10:01 AM

Sorry Doc, but thanks for keeping #7 warm for me

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 14th, 2001 08:36 PM

Woo hoo... 4000 units.... Time to quaff an adult beverage

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Patrick R. Sklenar
Southern New England, USA
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Posted On: April 14th, 2001 08:51 PM

Geez Paul, how many slaves do you have!?!?
98.925% after 1701 work units ... 99% is almost ... in ... reach!

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Chris White
Orlando, Florida
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Posted On: April 16th, 2001 05:57 AM

Ladies and gentlemen, please keep your hands and feet completely within the ride at all times and do not disturb Paul!
Good grief Paul - did you suddenly remember that you have a couple of spare Crays in your garage????

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Northern California
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Posted On: April 16th, 2001 01:05 PM

Paul - You know we are having a power crisis here in California?
BTW: I noticed you stole my best slave...can I have it back? All four processors please?

MikeSerrano
The People's Republic of Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Posted On: April 20th, 2001 09:22 AM

I just passed Dennis Reno!!!
-Mike

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Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 20th, 2001 11:21 PM

It's the weekend, and I just passed 4500 units.... Time to quaff yet another adult beverage... Cheers!

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Chris Maynard
Northern California
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Posted On: April 23rd, 2001 06:30 PM

Well I am at the #2 spot now.
Since Paul is cranking out units fast than diarrhea from a cat I decided to increase production. I went down to the gallows and told the slaves I had bad news...."Captain wants to waterski".

Chris White
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Posted On: April 24th, 2001 05:54 AM

Chris M, I don't know what has happened to Paul. Ever since I passed him one day (briefly!), he has gone nuts! Thanks to the super productivity of everyone the past few weeks, we have begun moving up the ranks again.
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Andrew Pratt
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Posted On: April 24th, 2001 09:03 AM

cool I'm now running a 1 gig chip at home so my times should drop a good wallop

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Posted On: April 24th, 2001 03:21 PM

Beep beep!... Sorry Rogue.
I have managed to slip past the Rogue into 6th place (damn you're a slippery one...)
Time for celebration! Hi Ben.... How ya doin?

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 25th, 2001 05:00 PM

Beep Beep.... Finally got past Ben.
Finally back in the top 5, feels good. Time for a brew

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

MikeSerrano
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Posted On: April 25th, 2001 05:22 PM

...just passed WayneBundrick... aiming for top 15.
-Mike

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Jim Armstrong
Acona
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Posted On: April 25th, 2001 07:10 PM

I mentioned this weeks ago, but now I really need to figure out why I'm NOT adding units. My hour rate has frozen, and my rank is going south. Perhaps I need to unsubscribe and then rejoin. Haven't even seen SETI on my screensaver in months.
Jim

Wayne Bundrick
Warner Robins, GA, USA
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Posted On: April 25th, 2001 09:56 PM

Things are a bit hectic right now and I haven't had time to make sure SETI is running on my machines, but I'll get them rolling again soon. I may even add more machines.

--Wayne Bundrick

Joseph Howard
Salisbury, MD, USA
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Posted On: April 26th, 2001 04:50 PM

I've just celebrated my one year SETI anniversary.
Woo hoo!! I think it is definately time for an adult
beverage.
Also, the semester is at an end and I'll soon have
many many many new CPUs to dedicate to the cause. I have
to stay ahead of Paul.
--Joe

Dr. Joseph Howard
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if you could do what you imagine."

Paul Berquam
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Posted On: April 26th, 2001 06:45 PM

Congrats Doc on the one year..... I like a challenge

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Chris Maynard
Northern California
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Posted On: April 26th, 2001 08:13 PM

Paul - You are scaring me.

Paul Berquam
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Posted On: April 27th, 2001 09:22 AM

Woo Hoo!!! Just hit the 5000 unit mark. Definitely time for a nice frosty adult beverage. But alas I'm at work and can't until I get home
Have a good weekend everyone!

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

David-S
Virginia Tech, VA
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Posted On: April 29th, 2001 09:52 PM

Ranking Update!
All Seti Teams #135

(and i'm moving my way into the top 140 on the team!!)
The only conflict of interest will be when HTF is trying to overtake VaTech!! might have to abstain there...

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: April 30th, 2001 01:31 PM

I've been doing great the last few days, but when I woke up this morning I noticed that a couple of my slaves were stuck. When I checked the Seti status page it said that the server was unavailable, but when it showed online again I tried my local machine and still no go. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

Peter Yee
Mountain View, CA, USA
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Posted On: April 30th, 2001 08:00 PM

Paul, I had the same problem. I think the server was getting swamped on the work unit process but actually was able to deal with the web requests (for stats and the like). I finally managed to return my work unit this afternoon, but it took a couple of hours longer before I could retrieve a new one.
-Peter

Patrick R. Sklenar
Southern New England, USA
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Posted On: May 1st, 2001 05:06 PM

YAHOO!!! I made it!! 99.002% I made my short term goal!!
Now I've got to come up with a new one ... hmmm ...

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JasonP
Baltimore
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Posted On: May 1st, 2001 08:38 PM

Hello, I joined tonight. named schlitz100
Is there a way to use SETI@HOME on a computer with no net connection at all? Can you put WU's on a floppy or CD-RW?
Thanks

Paul Berquam
Sacramento, CA USA
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Posted On: May 1st, 2001 09:01 PM

Hi Jason, welcome to the team!
Sure it's possible. In fact I ran some units off of floppy for a few machines. You will have to connect somehow (another machine) to DL the work unit to begin with, and also to upload the results after it's processed.
I know there are some proggies out there that will save multiple work units and process them all before attempting to upload the results, but I'm not sure what's available. Check the links on the Setiathome site for the details.
Good luck!

"He was a good little monkey and always very curious..."

JasonP
Baltimore
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Posted On: May 2nd, 2001 05:57 AM

cool, I'd like to use it on my work computer. When I'm not playing solitair
Jay

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Wayne Bundrick
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Posted On: May 7th, 2001 08:33 AM

I've just passed 2500 units and MattB who unfortunately has remained idle all this time. And for the moment I'm in front of Mike Serrano, we've been leapfrogging for a couple of weeks now but I recently added more horsepower that may give me the advantage.

--Wayne Bundrick

MikeSerrano
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Posted On: May 7th, 2001 02:58 PM

I just passed Dr Plaid and am now in the top 15--I now have my sights set on the top 10...
Is that a challenge Wayne?
Bring it on!!!
-Mike

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[MikeSerrano]

In response to Wayne's challenge, I just added 3 more Pentium III 700s to my stable.
Currently, WayneBundrick is in the 15th spot with 2519; I am in 16th with 2518.
-Mike

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

It wasn't really a challenge, Mike. I'm just trying to stay in the top 20. I've got one P3-850, two P3-800's, about seven Celeron 500+, and one P2-350 going. The Celerons are office desktops running the screen saver (in blank screen mode of course), the rest run the command line client around the clock. I have three dual-P3-700's that I could add to the mix but they aren't connected to the network and probably have no idle cycles to spare.
There's also a completely idle P3-Xeon-866 that I could add but it also isn't connected and I think it's going to pick up the modem and call corporate headquarters to tattletale if I so much as look at it. (Corporate has not yet started using this new system.)
The rest of the 50+ computers here are vintage Pentium classic. They'll be replaced when they die and not a moment before. Ever see a 486dx2-66 running Windows NT Server?

 

[Chris White]

4000 units completed, 9365th place overall. Yee haw!!
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[Paul Berquam]

Woo Hoo.... Just under 5800 units and finally caught Doc Howard!!! 4th place now...
Time for cheer, a drink, and run like hell before he finds out
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[Wayne Bundrick]

To honor the Doctor I recommend a Doc Otis as the beverage of choice. I think I'll have one too, having surpassed Dr. Plaid.

 

[Joseph Howard]

Dab Nabitt!! Paul!! You passed me!
Fair warning. May 23rd the computer labs are at my
disposal again and I'll greatly accelerate.....that is
if the IT people don't notice again.
--Joe
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[MickeS]

I just passed Andrew J Grall... wooohooo... but he was several units ahead of me before. What's going on Andrew?
/Mike