 | SETI@home Weekly UpdateMay 26, 2000 - Dan Knight
Team Art Bell should pass the one million mark in the
next two weeks. They will be the first club team to do so,
although three corporate teams (SGI, Sun, and Compaq) have
already done so. A lot of teams changed places this week, mostly due to
members defecting - several teams had one or more days when
they actually lost work units because of members
leaving. We are color coding changes: red text for hot teams that
have climbed in the standings, blue for those that have
cooled and dropped in the standings. Team 6100, the slowest part
of Team Mac Observer (it's only for unaccelerated Power Mac
6100s) has grown to six members. We've now completed 30
units (15 in the past week!) and are averaging about 75
hours per unit. That means each computer can do about 2.3
units per week, assuming they are running SETI@home full
time (mine is). It's not a huge contribution to the effort,
but we're adding about 2 units per day. Key tools in this anaysis are the SETI@home
team statistics page, the SETI
Checker program (which visually graphs recent weeks for
team performance), and Dave's
Stats, which cover the whole SETI@home project, as well
as the team he's part of, The Knights Who Say Ni!
Unfortunately, because of Dave's current mathematical model,
his current projections are skewed by the large defections
of the past week. In the following analysis, data in the second column
comes from the SETI statistics page. Information in the
third column comes from my analysis and Dave's Stats, which
is my source for the average recent work units per day
(because the page has not yet been updated for Friday, we're
using Thursday's averages). Note that this is a volatile
figure which can change a fair bit from day to day,
especially as members join or leave a team and bring their
work units with them. You can also view weekly reports from April
14, April 21, April
28, May 5, May
12, and May 19. |
Macintosh
Low End Mac
Compact Macs
Mac II
Mac LC
PowerBook (68k)
Performa
500 Series
Centris/Quadra
Power Mac
PowerBook (PPC)
Maclones
Earliest
Maclones
DayStar Genesis
Motorola StarMax
Power Computing
Umax SuperMac
Resources
Real
Deals
LEM Help Desk
Memory Upgrade Guide
Troubleshooting
Mac Software
Mac Classified
Upgrade or
Buy a Newer Mac?
Mac Dealers
Best Mac Links
56k Modem Page
Email Lists
Compact Macs
Vintage Macs
Quadlist (68040)
PowerBooks
1st PowerMacs
PCI PowerMacs
iMac List
SuperMacs
more lists
Other Pages
Filtering
Spam
Apple Timeline
Macspeak
Top Pages
Support LEM
Sponsors
Amazon.com
Support LEM
|
1. Team Art Bell. The undisputed leader among
club
teams, Lamb Chop should overtake them this summer. | - 986,322 units
- 12,552 members
- 2,978 years
- avg. 26:27
| - +8,535 units
- +7 members
- Avg. 1,023 units per day
|
2. Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop has the second best
average time per unit among the Top 25. They are gaining on
Team Art Bell and should overtake them this summer. | - 876,154 units
- 2,283 members
- 1,295 years
- avg. 12:57
| - +29,304 units
- +26 members
- Avg. 4,027 units per day
|
3. Team MacAddict is the top Mac team. They grew
by 25,525 units in a single day thanks to some new member,
but they are not crunching enough units every day to climb
in the standings. | - 756,113 units
- 3,651 members
- 1,242 years
- avg. 14:24
| - +40,541 units
- +26 members
- Avg. 5,770 units per day
|
4. The Knights Who Say Ni! are moving up in the
standings - they were 9 in late March and 6 last week. They
should reach 3 by the end of the year. | - 471,386 units
- 581 members
- 678 years
- avg. 12:36
| - +21,370 units
- +20 members
- Avg. 3,024 units per day
|
5. The Planetary Society remains at #5. | - 387,198 units
- 1,117 members
- 818 years
- avg. 18:30
| - +8,676 units
- +8 members
- Avg. 1,258 units per day
|
6. Team Slashdot had some defection this week,
including one day with a negative number of work units. | - 367,088 units
- 2,119 members
- 739 years
- avg. 17:38
| - +2,519 units
- -2 members
- Avg. 365 units per day
|
7. SETI.Germany has a pretty firm hold on 7th
place for now. They could pass Team Slashdot this
summer. | - 338,157 units
- 1,268 members
- 577 years
- avg. 14:57
| - +16,186 units
- +30 members
- Avg. 1,085 units per day
|
8. O'Grady's Go2Mac.com Team is the second highest
Mac team and not expected to rise in the standings. | - 286,907 units
- 1,210 members
- 541 years
- avg. 16:32
| - +4,428 units
- +1 member
- Avg. 640 units per day
|
9. Canada lost a lot of work units this week, but
remains at 9. Dave's stats project them passing O'Grady's
team in July. | - 247,206 units
- 928 members
- 526 years
- avg. 18:38
| - +5,366 units
- +8 members
- Avg. 747 units per day
|
10. Rounding out the Top 10 is Linux, had
one day where they lost over 1,000 work units. | - 240,819 units
- 427 members
- 404 years
- avg. 14:43
| - +2,994 units
- +8 members
- Avg. 673 units per day
|
11. SETI@Netherlands, took a week off from passing
other teams. Dave's stats incdicate they should pass the
Linux team by the end of the month. | - 217,951 units
- 766 members
- 371 years
- avg. 14 :55
| - +8,126 units
- +21 members
- Avg. 1,015 units per day
|
12. OS/2 Warp climbed past
SETI Switzerland. | - 200,669 units
- 600 users
- 447 years
- avg. 19:40
| - +4,272 units
- +4 members
- Avg. 611 units per day
|
13. SETI Switzerland dropped
due to member defection, which cost them over 22,500 work
units in a single day. | - 183,627 units
- 374 members
- 309 years
- avg. 14:43
| - -17,524 units
- +9 members
- Avg. -2,454 units per day
|
14. Team User Friendly,
composed of fans of the comic strip, has the slowest average
time among the Top 15. They passed Team NIPPON due to
defection on the Japanese team. | - 166,996 units
- 817 members
- 374 years
- avg. 19:36
| - +2,881 units
- -2 members
- avg. 237 units per day
|
15. Team NIPPON was passed
by Team User Friendly due to a defection which cost them
over 7,500 units in one day. | - 172,019 units
- 561 members
- 275 years
- avg. 14:38
| - -7,228 units
- +2 members
- avg. -1,024 units per day
|
16. Team Mac Observer remains at 16 this week.
They should catch Team User Friendly in early June. | - 159,760 units
- 646 members
- 277 years
- avg. 15:12
| - +4,760 units
- +6 members
- Avg. 689 units per day
|
17. FreeBSD had a large infusion of work units on
Thursday and moved up to 16. They may pass Team User
Friendly in June. | - 154,548 units
- 306 members
- 269 years
- avg. 15:15
| - +1,767 units
- +3 members
- Avg. 249 units per day
|
18. Team Lockergnome has the
slowest average time in the Top 20, yet managed to get past
SETI@Home Poland. | - 153.530 units
- 1,312 members
- 400 years
- avg. 22:48
| - +5,657 units
- +2 members
- Avg. 442 units per day
|
19. SETI@Home Poland was
passed by the FreeBSD team on Thursday due to a defection
that cost them almost 4,700 units. | - 149,944 units
- 318 members
- 261 years
- avg. 15:14
| - +1,059 units
- +1 member
- Avg. -344 units per day
|
20. Team BeOS rounds out the Top 20, trailing
SETI@Home Poland by over 10,000 units. | - 138,740 units
- 636 members
- 250 years
- avg. 15:49
| - +2,657 units
- +9 members
- Avg. 381 units per day
|
Just below the Top 20 we have: |
21. Yahoo SETI Club Team does not appear to be a
threat to any team in the Top 20. | - 120,969 units
- 289 members
- 233 years
- avg. 16:53
| - +1,886 units
- +2 members
- Avg. 270 units per day
|
22. The Amateur Radio Operators team should
pass the Yahoo SETI Club, probably in June. | - 120,368 units
- 288 members
- 272 years
- avg. 19:47
| - +5,008 units
- +4 members
- avg. 432 units per day
|
23. Matrox Users passed both
Quebec and the Amateur Radio Operators this week. | - 117,240 units
- 453 members
- 174 years
- avg. 13:01
| - +4,512 units
- +10 members
- avg. 441 units per day
|
- 24. Team AnandTech was
doing so well, but dropped a notch when a defector cost
them over 9,700 units in one day.
| - 116,765 units
- 310 members
- 177 years
- avg. 13:11
| - +2,038 units
- +3 members
- avg. 302 units per day
|
25. Quebec finishes out the
Top 25. | - 113,204 units
- 400 members
- 235 years
- avg. 17:42
| - +2,948 units
- +3 members
- avg. 430 units per day
|
This week, nothing below the Top 25 looks to be moving
into the Top 20 in the near future. Possible future contenders for Top 25 spots: - Team EDGE is currently at 27. Dave projects them at
13 within a month, but that seems overly optimistic.
- Forum Hardware.FR Team, 37, will reach 22, according
to Dave's stats.
Remember all this is based on a fairly simple
mathematical model that is thrown off by significant
defections or additions to a team's stats. Dave and I have
been corresponding to develop a model that will create more
reliable predictions. That's how the top team standings look this week on the
SETI@home club team page. Come back next Friday for another
update. (And if you'd like to join a team, I'd like to see
you join Team
Mac Observer.) 
Recent articles about SETI@home- Team 6100 Update, 2001.12.20. We've
completed over 500 units and donated over 5 years of CPU time to
SETI@home since May 2000.
- Team 6100 @300 units, SETIonMac,
2001.08.14. Team using old Power Macs has passed the 300 unit mark
running SETI@home.
- SETI@home monthly update,
2001.08.01. Sad news - Team Mac Observer has fallen to #26 in the
team standings.
- A look at SETI Checker,
2000.04.25. This freeware program lets you follow your favorite
SETI@home teams.
Links
- back to
SETIonMac index
|
