WTF SETI Enhanced

h2ocooler · 6 May 2006 at 17:26

Had a hdd failure and had to reinstall, when i loaded Boinc & seti on noticed it was doing Enhanced WU's, no probs i thought more credit.

Well after 6 hours of crunching it finished then decided to have a look what they are worth only to find i got 30 cobblies for each one.
Now my machine would do 4 every 6 hours and its on for 18 hours a day so that would mean my RAC for this machine would go from 870+ down to 360. Needless to say I wont be allowing them again!!!!

Come on berkley if ya want us to do em make em worth more got to be at least 100 to make it worth doing them.

h2ocooler · 6 May 2006 at 17:59

Had a look on the WU id page and yep all getting 30 for them! now i have the optimised client on it hasnt got any more of them.

h2ocooler · 7 May 2006 at 01:00

if you look on the work tab on boinc it will say what version of seti it is using, if it says seti_enhanced 5.something your on the new ones.
all i did was to install the optimised boinc & seti clients, got a load of messages saying no client installed and it went on to DL & start crunching the normal ones.
just had a look again at the results and all about 30 per unit for 20,000+ seconds worth, and thats on a dual Xeon cruncher.

h2ocooler · 9 May 2006 at 14:01

happytechie said:
how can I see how much credit I'm getting for them?

I have completed a few units for version 5.12 and I can't find them in my results lists on the web site?

HT

edit:

I've found one: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=76438914 there is one guy who is a bit miffed about those results mind you

Wow 9 1/2 hours crunching for 31.97 cobblys, i want some more of them NOT

h2ocooler · 19 May 2006 at 18:15

Well just looked at all my machines and getting "no work sent" on them all, got about a day or two's worth left on all of them now, will have to have a think, might be time to change projects!