SETI@home Weekly Update

May 12, 2000 - Dan Knight

I just noticed that Team Art Bell should pass the one million mark somewhere around May 22. Very impressive!

The "fun" addition to Team Mac Observer last week was Team 6100, for unaccelerated Power Mac 6100s. Ten of these roughly equals a G4/400. ;-) At this point, we have five 6100 users, who have contributed a total of eight units. (Working flat out, a 6100 can do about 2.8 units per week.)

Beginning this week I'm 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. There are three places where teams have swapped positions in the standings over the past week.

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!

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. 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, and May 5.

1. Team Art Bell. The undisputed leader among club teams, Lamb Chop should overtake them this summer.

971,517 units

12,545 members

2,925 years

avg. 26:22

+18,193 units

+3 members

Avg. 2,613 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 could overtake them this summer.

806,978 units

2,177 members

1,208 years

avg. 13:07

+33,793 units

+16 members

Avg. 4,827 units per day

3. Team MacAddict is the top Mac team, but they are not crunching enough units to climb in the standings.

698,416 units

3,598 members

1,160 years

avg. 14:33

+19,962 units

+25 members

Avg. 2,851 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.

410,487 units

550 members

630 years

avg. 12:42

+23,569 units

+17 members

Avg. 3,367 units per day

5. The Planetary Society overtook Team Slashdot as they were being passed by The Knights Who Say Ni!

360,225 units

1,103 members

786 years

avg. 18:39

+9,150 units

+3 members

Avg. 1,307 units per day

6. Team Slashdot has dropped to sixth after being overtaken by The Planetary Society and The Knights Who Say Ni!

359,621 units

2,118 members

725 years

avg. 17:40

+4,560 units

+1 member

Avg. 651 units per day

7. SETI.Germany has a pretty firm hold on 7th place for now. They could pass Team Slashdot in June or July.

321,971 units

1,221 members

556 years

avg. 15:07

+10,470 units

+30 members

Avg. 1,495 units per day

8. O'Grady's Go2Mac.com Team is the second highest Mac team and not expected to rise in the standings.

280,146 units

1,211 members

530 years

avg. 16:35

+7,292 units

no new members

Avg. 1,041 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.

237,888 units

911 members

508 years

avg. 18:43

+5,907 units

+8 members

Avg. 843 units per day

10. Rounding out the Top 10 is Linux, which doesn't appear to have any chance of rising in the standings. In fact, the Swiss and Dutch should both pass them in the near future.

222,128 units

410 members

382 years

avg. 14:37

+1,047 units

+3 members

Avg. 149 units per day

11. SETI Switzerland passed OS/2 Warp and should pass Linux to enter the Top 10. However, they will probably be passed by SETI@Netherlands soon after they pass OS/2 Warp.

194,510 units

360 members

320 years

avg. 14:25

+9,113 units

+6 members

Avg. 1,301 units per day

12. OS/2 Warp isn't dead, as this team demonstrates. They are averaging just under 20 hours per unit, the second slowest among the Top 15 club teams.

193,359 units

595 users

433 years

avg. 19:36

+6,939 units

+5 members

Avg. 991 units per day

13. The real climbers continue to be SETI@Netherlands, which remains at 13 this week. By the end of next week should pass OS/2 Warp, then take on the Swiss and Linux teams to eventually reach the Top 10.

192,141 units

722 members

324 years

avg. 14 :47

+14,754 units

+24 members

Avg. 2,107 units per day thanks to new members

14. Team NIPPON passed Team User Friendly, but were themselves passed by SETI@Netherlands.

167,673 units

558 members

277 years

avg. 14:28

+5,241 units

+6 members

avg. 748 units per day

15. Team User Friendly, composed of fans of the comic strip, has the slowest average time among the Top 15. They are expected to slowly drop in the standings.

164,115 units

822 members

370 years

avg. 19:45

+3,832 units

+1 member1

avg. 547 units per day

16. FreeBSD had a large infusion of work units on Thursday and moved up to 16. They may pass Team User Friendly in June.

150,723 units

301 members

262 years

avg. 15:15

+3,078 units

+3 members

Avg. 439 units per day

17. SETI@Home Poland was passed by the FreeBSD team on Thursday and seems destined to slowly fall in the standings.

148,785 units

313 members

257 years

avg. 15:09

+3,920 units

+6 members

Avg. 563 units per day

18. Team Mac Observer move up to 18 this week and continues to close on SETI@Home Poland and FreeBSD. It is expected to pass the Poles in the coming week.

148,684 units

627 members

259 years

avg. 15:16

+7,094 units

+24 members

Avg. 999 units per day

19. Team Lockergnome has the slowest average time in the Top 20.

147,873 units

1,311 members

388 years

avg. 22:58

+3,447 units

+1 member

Avg. 492 units per day

20. Team BeOS rounds out the Top 20.

133,912 units

622 members

243 years

avg. 15:52

+4,892 units

+14 members

Avg. 698 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.

117,160 units

287 members

227 years

avg. 16:59

+2,289 units

-1 member

Avg. 327 units per day

22. The Amateur Radio Operators team should pass the Yahoo SETI Club, probably in June.

112,680 units

281 members

258 years

avg. 20:05

+2,037 units

+1 member

avg. 291 units per day

23. Quebec seems stuck at 23 until the Matrox Users pass them.

110,315 units

391 members

225 years

avg. 17:52

+3,520 units

+2 members

avg. 502 units per day

24. Team AnandTech passed passed by Matrox Users, the team that passed them last week. They appear destined to pass the Quebec, Yahoo, and Amateur Radio teams in the near future.

109,368 units

302 members

167 years

avg. 13:24

+5,470 units

+6 members

avg. 781 units per day

25. Matrox Users should remain at about 25 in the short term, evantually passing the Amateur Radio team.

106,625 units

427 members

160 years

avg. 13:10

+2,610 units

no new members

avg. 372 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:

• Scarfy, currently at 27, has a very sporadic growth curve and could enter the Top 25 in the coming week. Or not. Very hard to predict based on their erratic performance, but they averaged 1,494 units per day this week.
• Cassieopeia Seti Group, #38, is only a few weeks old and really crunching work units. It's hard to predict how a new team will fare in the long run, but this one looks promising.
• workers@pse, #51, is about one week younger than the Cassieopeia team and has a very similar growth curve.

With new teams is a question of momentum: can they follow through on the initial buildup. Most of the time the answer is no.

That's how the top team standings look this week on the SETI@home 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

• SETI Station, a site for Mac SETI@home enthusiasts. Includes full instructions for speeding things up with a RAM disk.
• SETI@home home page
• Results by CPU (PowerPC is #2 behind Intel)
• Results by OS (Mac OS trails Windows)
• Results by platform (Mac #2 behind Pentium/Windows)
• Top 200 teams
• How to join Team Mac Observer

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