Martin
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 Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Going away & want 2 keep SETI running |
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Brian wrote:
[quote]After reading all the comments, I have learned (& a little more confused)
about caching workunits. I think that from now on I will send/receive
workunits 2 times per week.
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Sounds reasonable if your total cache size is about 5 or 6 day>s worth
to keep your machines busy, yet still avoid any WUs lingering for more
than 1 week.
[quote]... I will go for the 'friends to look after' option. One of them is now
looking forward to having another pc so he can LAN game at home & my father
will look after my other pc.
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Good idea. With the rate at which these things get out of date and
depreciate, you may as well get maximum use out of them!
Keep crunchin',
and roll on BOINC soon.
Regards,
Martin
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Martin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Going away & want 2 keep SETI running |
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Antonis Markouizos wrote:
[quote]Ok, guess, I didnt Know It.
Since Seti Give a 4 week "limit" before deactivating you, I thought that may
be something similar for the work units.
It seems that things have changed.....
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Things always change, especially with computers (:-))
[quote]Well, Shouldnt be developed a "system of "tracking" the WUs?
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When s@h started, they checked every WU sent and received in real-time.
As the project grew to very many users, with very very many WUs, s@h
changed to the lower server overheads system used today. I guess that
the proportion of WUs 'lost' is small. Hence the present good method of:
'send n copies of WUs'; and then 'offline' checks for what WU>s have
been correctly checked.
There is 'competition' for how quickly your system returns WU results as
compared to everyone else. WU results from the users with the longest
delays are beaten by the same results from quicker users. The very
slowest users are just incrementing their WU count statistics, for no
useful science. (And there are other science projects that could benefit.)
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[quote](I>m working, and I>m using the seti on the two pc>s home. Since the
connection is a dialup with a really limited bandwith and a per hour cost, I
have to download the WUs the time I really dont use connection nor the
telephone, but I>m home and on the Pc after 10p.m., and I dont have to wake
up next morning before the sun does.)
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The cache add-ons are ideal for this, and a good exercise to make it all
work well.
[quote](as u may have noticed, I>m not a proffessor on English Philology....)
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And neither am I...
(:-))
Keep crunchin',
Regards,
Martin
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