macrumors SETI [Archive] - MacRumors Forums

twoodcc

Dec 8, 2006, 05:11 PM

hey, not many threads about SETI around here, so i thought i would start one.

is anyone still active on SETI and here? i noticed the top guy has 10 computers running SETI!!! that's insane!:eek:

i'll never catch him. but i'm ranked 17 right now on the macrumors team. hopefully i'll keep going up

right now we're ranked 95 on SETI as a team. also, Apple computer has it's own team. is that official?

livingfortoday

Dec 10, 2006, 02:53 AM

twoodcc

Dec 10, 2006, 04:29 PM

Dang, I'm only #78 on the MR team on SETI. I think it's cause I run Rosetta (no MR team), Einstein (11 on the MR team! .. out of 13), and SETI on my Mini, and fold on the Powerbook. SETI gets the least CPU time of the three, too, I'm afraid.

well it depends on how you look at the rankings. by default, it's set to 'recent average credit'. based on that, i'm now # 10, using a mac pro and macbook

Jasonbot

Dec 11, 2006, 10:00 AM

How exactly does SETI and other distributed computing work? I mean what if I just "lose" my files that I was computing, the whole project will be ruined. And what exactly does it compute.

Dont Hurt Me

Dec 11, 2006, 10:17 AM

What would a advance civilization have to gain by contacting man? a species that just climbed out of the cave and kills each other and wars with itself over religion & the earths resources every single day. Plus why would ET use slow radio waves? makes no sense at all plus there is all kinds of proof that the pentagon is hiding its knowledge of ET from our own govt and its people. We are "suppose " to think that we are the center of the universe. The govt wants it that way.

JurgenWigg

Dec 11, 2006, 10:33 AM

How exactly does SETI and other distributed computing work? I mean what if I just "lose" my files that I was computing, the whole project will be ruined. And what exactly does it compute.

Firstly, you're "given" the files to work on, but you're given a copy of them. They're smart enough to not distribute the only information they have to total strangers and rely on them not to mess everything up, which is why all we do is just sit there and let it run its course.

The project itself is just that they point radio-telescopes all over the sky and record all of that data. To analyze that data for any unusually high or just strange signals or readouts requires an immense computing force, which is found in the folding community. We're not computing anything, persay, we're merely taking the raw data and looking for unnatural signals.

What would a advance civilization have to gain by contacting man? a species that just climbed out of the cave and kills each other and wars with itself over religion & the earths resources every single day. Plus why would ET use slow radio waves? makes no sense at all plus there is all kinds of proof that the pentagon is hiding its knowledge of ET from our own govt and its people. We are "suppose " to think that we are the center of the universe. The govt wants it that way.

Haha, that was a good laugh, especially the center of the universe thing. The prevailing notion is that if there's life out there, chances are it's not much more advanced than we are. And if it is, the immense distance between us and even the closest star puts any signals that could be reaching us at technological levels at or around where we are. Meaning that if they're a thousand years ahead of us, but they're a hundred light years away, what they would have been transmitting a thousand years ago would just be getting to us (math may be incorrect, principle is sound). Why would they contact us? They probably wouldn't and there's a huge argument against UFOs and all that. We're transmitting signals as well as listening trying to find life, we're not finding life discretely and then determining if we want to make contact, why should they be any different than that?

Dont Hurt Me

Dec 11, 2006, 12:14 PM

Though what you say is possible and we might catch a stray signal from thousands of years ago you ought to do a little research into the UFO phenomenon. Look at the military and the police cases on file for the good cases and look at why our govt finds it so necessary to black out so much info even from 50 years ago. Fact is they are hiding more then just our own secret aircraft projects. Plenty of good solid cases on record.

livingfortoday

Dec 11, 2006, 05:37 PM

Jorey3969

Dec 12, 2006, 08:40 PM

there's a macrumors team, well how can I join!

livingfortoday

Dec 12, 2006, 08:48 PM

there's a macrumors team, well how can I join!

Go here, click Join:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=30427

Dr.Gargoyle

Feb 4, 2007, 10:12 AM

is anyone still active on SETI and here?
I have been running seti@home on my, now very slow, computer at work since 1999 ;)
I have seen the interest decline among people here at MR. Most people seem to have gone over to folding@home...

twoodcc

Feb 4, 2007, 11:09 PM

I have been running seti@home on my, now very slow, computer at work since 1999 ;)
I have seen the interest decline among people here at MR. Most people seem to have gone over to folding@home...

wow! that's a long time.....i havne't been on this much lately...just been using my resources on other stuff i guess.

yeah, i can tell people like folding more

sushi

Feb 4, 2007, 11:32 PM

is anyone still active on SETI and here? i noticed the top guy has 10 computers running SETI!!! that's insane!:eek:
I finish in December 2005 with a little over 12,000 work units under the old system.

I was just getting ready to make a cool SETI Farm starting with 10 CPUs. My concept was a hanging MB system. I planned on sharing power supplies and booting from USB flash memory devices. I had envisioned expanding my system by 10 CPUs each year until I had 50 on line. Yes, the electrical bill did concern me a bit. :eek:

Anyhow, the SETI folks changed to the system. I lost interest and haven't done anything since then with it. Maybe someday that will change.

twoodcc

Feb 5, 2007, 12:35 AM

I finish in December 2005 with a little over 12,000 work units under the old system.

I was just getting ready to make a cool SETI Farm starting with 10 CPUs. My concept was a hanging MB system. I planned on sharing power supplies and booting from USB flash memory devices. I had envisioned expanding my system by 10 CPUs each year until I had 50 on line. Yes, the electrical bill did concern me a bit. :eek:

Anyhow, the SETI folks changed to the system. I lost interest and haven't done anything since then with it. Maybe someday that will change.

dang, seems like you had some great intentions.....maybe one day you'll start working towards them...? ;)

150hp

Apr 16, 2007, 11:24 PM

I just got my C2D iMac rolling on SETI. I had 4 computers going back in 99 when I was @ a University so now I just have this one @ home. So much faster of course now vs. the old G3's. Anyways, I of course had to join the MacRumors team. & was suprised to be ranked 30th already. So glad to be back searching for E.T.;)

livingfortoday

May 22, 2007, 02:44 AM

Finally. I finally did it. I am in the top 10 in total credit on the MR SETI team! WOOOO! Yay! I just broke in at #10!

I'm currently #1 in RAC, but I think that will drop soon as it's probably just because of their recent outage.

But still... I'm gunning for you dcappello! You're going down, my friend! 154k credit and climbing, punk!

Eithanius

May 22, 2007, 05:13 AM

livingfortoday

May 22, 2007, 09:08 AM

With the link below in mind, I seriously doubt it's your own effort. Get a life dude....[/URL]

Well yes, usually I delegate the number crunching to computers, and don't sit at home spinning a little crank to crunch the WU by hand. And do you know that not a single person responded to my call for justice?! They missed the chance to be a part of my glorious SETIvolution!

Eithanius

May 24, 2007, 04:29 AM

Well yes, usually I delegate the number crunching to computers, and don't sit at home spinning a little crank to crunch the WU by hand. And do you know that not a single person responded to my call for justice?! They missed the chance to be a part of my glorious SETIvolution!

Call for justice...? :rolleyes:

More like a call for your glorious exploitation....

island

Jun 2, 2007, 01:11 AM

I have to get back up with the SETI crew soon!

DoFoT9

Jun 20, 2007, 11:08 PM

dang ive been doing seti, but for a differnt team. if i switch teams ill loose my credit aye?>?? that sucks :( ive been getting a recent credit of 200ish, its still climbing as i just made another computer join the other day.

EDIT: oh wait there we go. DoFoT9 6,694.87 :):) number 19!!!!!!

Consultant

Oct 10, 2007, 06:40 PM

Is there something similar for Cancer or other important diseases?

I found something on cancer, but seems to be PC only.

redsteven

Oct 11, 2007, 01:40 AM

Is there something similar for Cancer or other important diseases?

I found something on cancer, but seems to be PC only.

folding@home (if that's what you're talking about) runs on macs (natively on both intel and ppc), windows, and linux.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

oh yeah, and playstation 3's can actually be used for it too now.

Consultant

Oct 12, 2007, 11:46 AM

folding@home (if that's what you're talking about) runs on macs (natively on both intel and ppc), windows, and linux.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

oh yeah, and playstation 3's can actually be used for it too now.

Thanks! Will sign up for that. Got a PowerMac Dual G4 running 24/7 as server. Might as well contribute some CPU cycles for a good cause.

I think I broke the site when I visited it though...

Naimfan

Oct 12, 2007, 08:51 PM

I can remember the days when a 1.33 GHz Powerbook was pretty fast.....although connecting it to seti@home has cured me of that notion.....My iMac is probably at least 5 times as fast (2.16 GHz C2D).

Nice to think I'm doing something to advance science!

Badandy

Oct 19, 2007, 03:33 PM

Is there something similar for Cancer or other important diseases?

Now there's the right question to ask. I know you already got your answer, but folding@home is way more practical and useful than SETI, which relies on a completely made up formula with no known variables to look for other, intelligent life.

twoodcc

Oct 22, 2007, 03:17 PM

well i sure haven't been on SETI in a while....maybe i'll start again

twoodcc

Jan 7, 2008, 12:56 PM

so i decided to start again. i am currently number 31 on the macrumors team

twoodcc

Jan 8, 2008, 09:07 PM

man we are not doing good as a team. we rank number 109 in recent average credit and #127 in total credit.

we need to get busy!

DoFoT9

Jan 14, 2008, 07:48 AM

man we are not doing good as a team. we rank number 109 in recent average credit and #127 in total credit.

we need to get busy!

bahahah trust me im busy!!!!
1. imac dv 400mhz running at 100% CPU 24/7
2. mbp cd 2.16ghz running at 40% CPU (used to be 80% but got too hot)
3. imac 2.8ghz running at 100% CPU (when dad doesnt stop it lol)

if my pc had a network card it would be doing it aswell lol

but yea, im getting ~1200 average. not too shabby i say lol

twoodcc

Jan 14, 2008, 01:37 PM

bahahah trust me im busy!!!!
1. imac dv 400mhz running at 100% CPU 24/7
2. mbp cd 2.16ghz running at 40% CPU (used to be 80% but got too hot)
3. imac 2.8ghz running at 100% CPU (when dad doesnt stop it lol)

if my pc had a network card it would be doing it aswell lol

but yea, im getting ~1200 average. not too shabby i say lol

that's great that you're doing all that, but we need more people to get busy with us!

bamf

Mar 11, 2008, 11:12 PM

I just switched over to the MacRumors team. Just added 1,262,023 credit to the MacRumors Seti bank... :)

DoFoT9

Mar 12, 2008, 01:05 AM

I just switched over to the MacRumors team. Just added 1,262,023 credit to the MacRumors Seti bank... :)

ohhh nice work mate. need all the help we can get :)

twoodcc

Mar 12, 2008, 10:00 AM

I just switched over to the MacRumors team. Just added 1,262,023 credit to the MacRumors Seti bank... :)

dang, that is nice work. thanks for joining macrumors.

sorry i haven't been doing any work for SETI lately. i've been folding@home instead. it seemed like more people around here were involved in that, but our team isn't doing all that great over there either

livingfortoday

Jul 30, 2008, 02:08 PM

So. We're 113th in total credit and 121st in RAC.

Comments? Suggestions? Vague threats?

DoFoT9

Jul 30, 2008, 05:21 PM

So. We're 113th in total credit and 121st in RAC.

Comments? Suggestions? Vague threats?

i think its gone a bit quiet not many people are doing much. im averaging 500-700 which isnt that much, i could do better.

imac 100% usage 24/7,
pc 50% usage about 10/7
mbp 40% usage 10/7...

what are other people using?

livingfortoday

Jul 30, 2008, 11:35 PM

I've got a Mini CD 1.66 running it 24/7, and my EeePC whenever it can, but that's no real help. My work computer runs is whenever I'm there (C2D 1.86).

DoFoT9

Jul 30, 2008, 11:48 PM

I've got a Mini CD 1.66 running it 24/7, and my EeePC whenever it can, but that's no real help. My work computer runs is whenever I'm there (C2D 1.86).

i cant see you in the list lol... i wonder where you are :confused:

iToaster

Jul 31, 2008, 12:06 AM

I've got a Mac Pro going 24/7 on SETI, 38th in total credit.

livingfortoday

Jul 31, 2008, 06:59 PM

i cant see you in the list lol... i wonder where you are :confused:

Listed as "Alex".

DoFoT9

Jul 31, 2008, 11:31 PM

Listed as "Alex".

aaahhh thanks i see now haha. nice work

Dmac77

Aug 7, 2008, 05:00 AM

DoFoT9

Aug 7, 2008, 06:15 AM

Hey,

Is anyone else unable to get new work units? I tried downloading BOINC, and I attached to SETI@home, and Einstein@home, and I'm unable to get work from either of them. If you guys aren't having the problem, what do you recommend to try and trouble shot this?

Thanks,

Don

hey man, it will occasionally go down for a few days at a time, i am unsure why it does it. but it will come back on, just give it a few days. i have my computer set to download about 4days worth at a time so it still does work if the link is down.

Dmac77

Aug 7, 2008, 03:18 PM

hey man, it will occasionally go down for a few days at a time, i am unsure why it does it. but it will come back on, just give it a few days. i have my computer set to download about 4days worth at a time so it still does work if the link is down.

Thanks! It's just a pain, because I tried last week, and I'm now trying again. I read something on the SETI@home page that said that Macs have been unable to get work units. Guess I'll just have to be patient.

Don

DoFoT9

Aug 7, 2008, 08:33 PM

Thanks! It's just a pain, because I tried last week, and I'm now trying again. I read something on the SETI@home page that said that Macs have been unable to get work units. Guess I'll just have to be patient.

Don

yea its odd how it wont work on macs but on PC's, must be from different servers or something like that.

hopefully it will get back on soon!!!
have a good day (its morning for me haha)
DoFoT9

Dmac77

Aug 7, 2008, 09:29 PM

yea its odd how it wont work on macs but on PC's, must be from different servers or something like that.

hopefully it will get back on soon!!!
have a good day (its morning for me haha)
DoFoT9

Yeah it is weird, you would think that it is distributed in the same file format. oh well. Thanks for you help, you have a good day to.

Don

livingfortoday

Aug 17, 2008, 11:31 AM

I've got a Mini CD 1.66 running it 24/7, and my EeePC whenever it can, but that's no real help. My work computer runs is whenever I'm there (C2D 1.86).

And I just added a quad Q6600 last night - that thing TEARS through work units! I'm getting four done every 45 minutes, which is madness.