[Merged] Team Seti & distributed computing

[greencreeper]

All I need now is a snazzy graphic for the background

[swoop101]

Cheers for the pointer for my sig. greenkeeper


edit: what kind of graphic are you after?

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by swoop101

what kind of graphic are you after?

Not sure - something outer-worldly or funky-cool, maybe with a lickle alien?

[edit] I've been hoping that the boinc.dk site would provided signatures but nothing as yet - their sigs only work for SETI Alpha and Beta. I was reading the SETI forums and saw a working sig, checked out the URL and hey presto I think it's in its infancy the site - not many are using it yet.

[swoop101]

Got this one if you want.

Cheers for the sig images, about time some one found a WORKING image

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by swoop101

Got this one if you want.

I'll give it a go. Just tried with three images and the text wasn't clear - tried various colours. This art stuff isn't me

[greencreeper]

Still can't get the text colour - don't think there's going to be one colour that works. Have a look.

This site helps with RGB values - http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/big.html

[greencreeper]

Cracked it Iris Nebula it's called - appropriate.

[edit] I see swoop is having a go - ta for the effort

[Maggy J]

So how long until credits show up?

I'm going to be severely p*ssed if it takes as long as it did to even get started.

[swoop101]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

So how long until credits show up?

I'm going to be severely p*ssed if it takes as long as it did to even get started.

It can take a couple of days, but they do come through.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by swoop101

It can take a couple of days, but they do come through.

Optimistically, yes. I've found it to be nearer a week. Depends on how long it takes the other people who have your WU to return their results, AND whether all three results check out as similar, otherwise the WU has to be sent out again...

Like someone said (swoop??) - once you have a stock of returned WUs, credit starts trickling in, you process more WUs, and eventually you don't notice the delay in getting credit. Very much like being paid in arrears.

[swoop101]

It has only been this slow because of the problems.
We should get them faster now.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by swoop101

It has only been this slow because of the problems.
We should get them faster now.

That's what I think is called the transitioner - the thing that does the comparing and awarding of credit. Even if it was working at full speed the factors I mention would still slow down the speed at which your pending credit becomes actual credit. Some of my WUs were returned two or three days after I returned them. Assuming that the transitioner (if that's what it's called) was working, then that's still a two to three day wait, assuming that all three WUs check out.

Worse case scenario would be that a WU you've returned promptly isn't returned by the (roughly) fortnight deadline by someone else also allocated that WU, so you wait for it be reallocated (a day??), and wait for it to be returned (could take any time upto the deadline). Once all three WUs are returned they'll be compared and credit allocated. Let's say one of the WU results is bad, then the WU will be reallocated and you have to wait upto a fortnight again...

[abailey152]

Okay, just testing my sig

Thanks greencreeper for finding the stats site

[poolking]

So SETI have finally gone over to BOINC then?