[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Rob Kearey]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Rob Kearey <r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au>)

Martin Pool wrote:

> It also uses much more bandwidth to download units-of-work, because it
> needs to download raw data to crunch rather than just being told a range
> of keys.  I think blocks are ~400kB and take a day or so to process.
> Perhaps they could use a more efficient format but since the data is
> essentially random it can't be compressed.  This may be a problem if
> you're concerned about volume or connection time charges.

Well, let's see:

-rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       356281 Jul 26 15:00 work_unit.txt
-rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       270208 Jul 27 09:48 work_unit.txt.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       270485 Jul 27 09:47 work_unit.txt.gz

Seems to compress OK to me - I'd call 86k a worthwhile reduction. I
accuse you of lies and perdition.

Robert B, as Team Humbug leader, perhaps you'd like to give the
seti at home people a feature request for this?

> Martin
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