This is acknowleged on the Seti@Home web site as a "temporary problem" due
to their "data pipeline" not flowing at top speed. I'm not quite sure what
that means, but at least they _are_ acknowleging it.
Time to put my SGI back on DoubleChecking.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Cuni [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 8:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mersenne: seti@home fraud!
>
> 500,000 users working on 115 work units?
> Bob_Kanefsky
> (M/California)
> Jun
> 5 1999 2:28AM EDT
>
> I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that SETI@home's half million
> participants are currently being assigned the same 115 work units over and
> over again, all from three different sky locations collected on January 7
> and 8. If anyone has seen any other work units recently -- especially from
> January 9 or later -- please speak up.
>
> After seeing a few duplications of work units a machine at work had
> already processed (same headers, same content), I ran a test. I instructed
> my computer to repeatedly start the SETI@home client and download a work
> unit, but then just kill it, record the name, and start again. The result:
> Out of 2500 work units, the same 115 kept showing up.
>
> Two of the 115 work units are slices of different coordinates and have
> the following names (as shown on the fourth line of the work_unit.txt
> file):
>
> name=07ja99aa.10912.26555.213914.156 [got this one 6 times out of 2500]
> name=08ja99aa.16286.4081.917340.30 [got this one 4 times out of 2500]
>
> The others are all subband slices from one location (but only 113 of
> them). They all say
> name=08ja99aa.12769.4418.68748.*
> where * is one of these subband numbers:
> 0 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 31
> 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 41 43 44
> 45 47 50 52 54 55 56 60 61 62 64 65 66 67 70 72 74 76 78 79 80 85 86 87
> 88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 97
> 98 99 100 102 103 104 109 110 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 122 123
> 124 125 127 131 132 133 134
> 135 138 139 140 142 143 145 148 149 150 151 152 154 158 160 161 163
>
>
> The only other data unit I've seen was one I downloaded on May 27 and
> then had to release the machine that was working on it.
>
> I hope the SETI@home project will fix this problem soon, or at least
> acknowledge it and promise that they're working on it.
>
>
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