Doug...here's an answer to your question about SetiTEAM...I don't use it. I tried it once but it takes way too long to load our team so it's really annoying more than anything else.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r ... ~mode=flat
About BOINC...you've heard correctly. You can continue crunching under the old
[email protected] (no change on your part) for a brief time once BOINC goes public. After that point (which they will specify upon the release) you will just no longer be able to send wu's in. You will have no choice but to use BOINC.
As of right now, there are no set-in-stone plans to accomodate for the front-end programs to the command-line client (i.e., SETISpy, SETI Driver, SETI Watch, SETI Hide, SETI Monitor)...especially those which cache wu's for you because that feature is built into BOINC. How this works is you have a Preferences page at the BOINC website which you can log into. Once there you can choose how much CPU gets devoted to which projects, how many days worth of wu's to keep for each program (right now just Astropulse and
[email protected] I), Maximum upload and download speed, etc. There are quite a few options. Also, the graphical client is built into BOINC...you just choose whether or not you want to see the graphics. They're pretty the first few times and then I imagine, if you're like me, you'll just let the programs run to crunch faster. It's also going to make SETIQueue, the wu caching program, obsolete. A few people have asked whether we'll still be able to utilize these other programs but nobody has a definitive answer and a couple of the admin at Berkeley say it's up to the writers of those programs whether they want to continue.
One thing that will take some getting used to is the credit system. It's based on the cobblestone which is the amount of time it takes your computer to crunch a wu compared to a dummy system with an average time at Berkeley. The numbers for the stats will be at a decimal rather than whole numbers like we're used to. I hope this doesn't turn people off too much. Also, with AP and SAH, when you send in a wu that you've finished it lists your wu and how long it took to complete along with the "Claimed Credit". I think the only way you get credit for that wu is if someone else has crunched the same wu and their results were very similar to yours. Once your wu is verified against another identical wu from yourself or another user your "Granted Credit" will update.
Sorry if all this just confuses. It's really not that complicated. Everyone currently on FFST and TAB should get their hands on the BOINC website and get a feel for how things work. Get to know your way around...here is the link:
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/
You will find a lot of info there...pay particular attention to the Message Boards for hints as to what to expect and the current bugs that are still being worked out.
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