SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2018

[Terminator_1]

SETI.Germany invite Team ANANDTECH to the SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2018. It takes place from 15th August, 16.00 UTC, until 29th August 2018, 16.00 UTC.
We cordially ask all team leaders to forward the invitation to their team. Information about the Wow! Race 2018, an exciting race concept and a registration form can be found here:
http://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/anmeldung.php?&lang=en
SETI.Germany wishes you and your team members much fun with the Wow! Event 2018.


Many Greetings: Terminator from Team SETI.Germany

 

[petrusbroder]

Registered.

 

[emoga]

I'm in

 

[Thebobo]

Registered.

Hope it's ok Alpha One Seven

 

[lane42]

Registered

 

[emptykoolaidcup]

I’ll be sliding into the 69th position on the team later today... Can I get a giggity?

 

[Thebobo]

I’ll be sliding into the 69th position on the team later today... Can I get a giggity?

giggity!

 

[Orange Kid]

Giggity

 

[lane42]

giggity giggity

 

[petrusbroder]

I second that: giggity!

 

[Ken g6]

I finally decided to register for one of these.

 

[Orange Kid]

…...and I am in.

 

[Markfw]

Well, I am sort of in, but I have surgery that day, and recovery may not be complete until the race is over, so don't count on me.

 

[Ken g6]

Well, I am sort of in, but I have surgery that day, and recovery may not be complete until the race is over, so don't count on me.

It's a long race, and SETI WUs take forever to validate. So you might as well just start SETI around August 1st and leave it running.

Except you'd probably rather run F@H most of that time. I'm not sure what to suggest in that case.

 

[Markfw]

Well, the surgery is a biopsy for my cancer, which based on my current symptoms will probably be positive, so yes, most of my farm will still be folding or rosetta, I will have one or two CPU boxes on seti., maybe 60 threads.

 

[TennesseeTony]

The SETI WOW event is NOT a TeAm event, Mark, it's an individual event, so I think we'd rather have you to continue crunching for a cure.

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giggity giggity

 

[ericlp]

In...

 

[StefanR5R]

Re #16, actually there will be stats per zodiac sign/ per user/ per team/ per country. (And medals will be awarded per zodiac sign/ per user/ per team.)

IOW it is also sort of a team event, but not mainly. I'd say it is firstly a relaxed get-together of SETI@home fulltimers and parttimers.

 

[QuietDad]

Once Seti@home gets its servers back up, I'll be in

 

[TennesseeTony]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a QuietDad sightiing!

Hello ole' friend!!!!

 

[QuietDad]

In and registered. Howdy Tony, Never gone. Always lurking.

 

[ericlp]

Once Seti@home gets its servers back up, I'll be in

No Doubt... I've told them, time and time again, why not split the down time to Two or Three Half days... That way, people with fast machines won't dry up with work units so quickly. I've also looked at their servers and it seems to me, one could work on HALF of the servers, while the other halve continues to function normally...Then when the next weeks comes, they can fix the other half... It's called REDUNDANCY.

Dunno, I get pretty frustrated with SETI, since, they were down for 2.5 days this week, I can only imagine the WU's potential LOST. Look, I get it... Everyone needs cash for servers and free volunteers to do the work etc...etc... But, on the other hand they cry that they don't have enough people crunching work units. Seems to me, they could try new approaches and stop losing about 75 days approx of downtime every year.

 

[lane42]

I think I burn my 10 day cache in around 5-6 hours.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Time to look into multiple clients per machine, to work around the maximum number of tasks limitation....anyone have a link handy?

 

[ericlp]

yeah, unless I missed something.... I could have switched over to primegrid and crunched with them... But, normally, I try to do my own downtime, cleaning fans and dusting out the radiators or upgrades with the seti downtime, and often times, I'm not really around to check when the rig is thirsty. I feel a bit guilty for starting and stopping working on different projects when one goes down (for meantime). Unless it was somehow automated and I didn't really have to do anything. I suppose I could split the difference, and I know some people do that. Tho if you did do it 50/50, and seti goes down, does that pool the resources to 100% of the other project?

Sorry, I'm getting off topic here for this WOW event. Hopefully during this WOW event, they don't pull 2.5 days of downtime.