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A milestone for Mxy!
« on: May 06, 2009, 10:19:00 PM »


I just ZOOMED right past/through the 200,000-compute-hours mark - almost TWENTY-THREE YEARS of compute time! - for my credit on SETI@home (A UC Berkeley BOINC project)!:




And yes, I was listening to ACDC at the time this screenie was taken!  :winkgrin:

'Still haven't found any other aliens life forms beside you human-types, tho....  ::)

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2009, 10:41:27 PM »
Twenty-Three years is a long time !!!

Great Work Mxy :)

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2009, 01:46:30 AM »
And we STILL haven't made contact with aliens?! Why bother?


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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 03:05:44 AM »
And we STILL haven't made contact with aliens?! Why bother?




'Cuz someday I hope to find another one of my own?



 ::)


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...And dStruct: that's 23 years of COMPUTE time, not clock time!  E.g. Two computers running at a certain speed for one clock hour might generate 3.4 compute-hours, etc....

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2009, 03:54:24 AM »
Only 23 years, not to long if you compare it to an Elvis minute ;)


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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2009, 06:05:56 AM »
Congrats! We never made it past a few hundred :P


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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2009, 07:05:31 AM »
Congrats Mxy   :neckbeard:


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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2009, 07:37:44 AM »
Wow, 23 years are a lot. Congrats!  :neckbeard:

I've got only a small number of compute-hours  :embarrassed:.




But I've chosen some more seriously projects  ;D. Good luck in your search for ET, Mxy.

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2009, 07:57:48 AM »
Wow lol thats a lot congratz!

Thanks Vintage, it's awesome!



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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2009, 02:49:22 PM »
Wow...




Thanks to Manticore for that!



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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2009, 03:00:31 PM »
Im confused

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2009, 06:17:10 PM »
Hold on...if the numbers on the left are hours spent on the computer....how is it possible to have over 1000 hours in 6 days?


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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2009, 07:38:58 PM »
Hold on...if the numbers on the left are hours spent on the computer....how is it possible to have over 1000 hours in 6 days?

Three ways:

1) I have MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER running the software, and

2) Any ONE of those computers may have one OR MORE "cores" or "GPUs" (Graphics Processing Unit, in the graphics device) dedicated to run the program SIMULTANEOUSLY, and

3) Each of the above might be running at a rate that is faster/higher than "average required to do the task" which allows them to complete an estimated "one hours task" in just 30 clock-time minutes.

'Hope that answers your question!

P.S. I can have two of my Q6600's quad cores dedicated to run ALL THE TIME - even while playing Halo, being on vent, running Fraps (and recording my gameplay), running a system monitor, and listening to music with winamp.  So basically two of my cores are ALWAYS running SETI@home.  And when I'm not at my machine, it switches over to use the GPUs in my two nvidia graphics cards, and runs SIXTY TIMES FASTER [e.g. That 30 minutes becomes 30 SECONDS!] than it does in one of the CPU's cores!  :o

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2009, 11:36:55 PM »
WHOA!!!! :liljawdrop: :liljawdrop: :liljawdrop: :liljawdrop: :liljawdrop:

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Re: A milestone for Mxy!
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2009, 12:18:06 PM »
Why SETI rather than F@H?

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