Team MacNN prepares to pass a SETI data unit milestone as they approach the 400,000-unit mark. The MacNN SETI members have currently accumulated 667 total years of computer time. Team MacNN managers Scott and 'Reader50' encourage MacNN readers to join the team effort. [updated]
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Does that mean "average hours per user?" My SETI units take about 25 hours each -- so 667 hours would result in little more than 26 units completed on my Mac. . . .
400,000 total units, taking 25 hours each (assuming my G4 is about average) would mean that closer to a whopping 10,000,000 hours of computer time were expended.
So I'm guessing that each user has donated an average of 667 hours of computer time -- or perhaps each user has crunched an average 667 units of data.
Anyone have clarification on this? Either way, it's quite a milestone!
Get a life.
Especially "Team MacNN managers Scott and 'reader50'" (careful there reader50, don't want all these f****** losers knowing your name and hounding you for all of your fame and attention!
Team MacAddict has 2,613,691 units done with an average of 15 hr 28 minutes average time per work unit. They far surpass the MacNN team and MacAddict is in 6th place in teams, with SGI,Sun,Compaq, ahead of them and the number 1 team is ARS Technica Lamb Chop with 5,056,898 work units done with an avertime work unit time of only 11 hr 39 minutes.. . .
667 years, that is. And come on, MacAddict dude, it's not a race - it's just cool that they hit 400,000.
My Dual-800 with OS X gets an average of 2.7 units a day done, with SETI off for a couple of days.
I'm not sure if that's this week, or overall. Given that I had SETI off for a couple of days this week, and I used to run it on an old G3, either way, my average is usually higher.
Anyhow, that's a unit every nine hours or so, at least. If you are getting one unit a day, and your G4 is recent, you can probably do better with the OSX CLI version and some better settings.
Ian 'fuz' Struckhoff
And that is SETI Team Apple, Inc. To the little pinheaded scumbag that dissed my pal Reader50, you'd best keep an eye over your scrawny little shoulder.
...idiots can still post anonymously when I can't? :p
On another note, more power is always greatly appreciated. If you have an older Mac that's currently doing nothing, put it to some use. If I remember correctly the oldest support Mac is the 6100/60, which can do about 1 workunit per week.
Just because MacAddict et al is ahead of us doesn't mean were pathetic or irrelevant, nor more so than Windoze's dominance of the desktop market means that the MacOS is pathetic or irrelevant. Think different and support the underdog; it worked for the Patroits (and those who bet on them).
Woohoo!!
I posted the second post. . . .
The question was asked which G4 I'm using. I have a G4/ 450. 25 hours per work unit is about the worst I get -- typical is about 22.
I also note that they corrected the article so my post doesn't make sense any more. There has been 667 YEARS of total crunching, not 667 HOURS. It will be interesting to see a millenia of computer time of MacNN users pass -- 2/3 of the way there.
But thanks for the correction.
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DO THIS!
It is great exposure when a Mac team blows by a bunch of PC-using teams!