OT: Space Empires and Seti@Home

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

A while ago, IIRC, the SETI guys found that people were processing the units TOO fast, and they were going to run out, so they increased the detail of the analysis.

Not true, each unit is worked many times by many different systems, just to make sure that the results are reliable. This also eliminates the need to track lost units. Many of the units that are downloaded never get returned. The biggest problem we have had is when we used up the bandwidth at the UC Berkeley campus. It got real hard to send and receive work units for a few months. But all things must end, and after the first of the year the data from the northern hemisphere will be finished. There are a couple of new projects in the works, but it will remain to be seen if they will be as popular as seti@home is. They should hit 4,000,000 Users this week.

[ September 30, 2002, 17:23: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]