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SETI@home is in hibernation

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Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by fho »

Breza wrote: post #78
SECProto wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cryptocurrency stuff is the closest I've ever felt today to the spirit of the old internet Cryptocurrency feels like the exact opposite of the old internet to me - it feels like a bunch of anonymous bros looking for the next sucker to scam out of money and get rich quick.

I agree with you. The early web was full of amazing opportunities but had trouble monetizing things. Cryptocurrency is the opposite, it tries to monetize everything but doesn't have practical uses.

Bitcoin was "old internet" tech at some point. Just for reference, I bought my first BTC at 0.20 €/BTC. Back then it looked like the future to a lot of us ... "hey! We/Hackers can make our own money. And it is superior to state issued money!" ... looking back, it honestly it is somewhat to see the state of cryptocurrencies today.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by ShakataGaNai »

It'll never not amuse me that in the first season of NCIS (circa 2003), Seti@Home (or someones clone of it) was the screen saver on Gibbs computer in a couple episodes.

At the same time we had already installed Seti@Home on basically every computer we had access to... including school.

Good times.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by tablespoon »

jasongill wrote: post #2

Wow, this is sad. I remember when this project was released in 1999 - we installed it on all the workstations in our office in an effort to be the first to find ET. Loved bragging about the cool graph, saying it could be an alien signal. Sad to see the project come to an end, even if it was the distant precursor to things like BitTorrent and Bitcoin

This is even sadder: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85870&po...

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by latchkey »

recuter wrote: post #84
latchkey wrote: post #74

This makes me sad because it reminds me of something similar I just went through. For the last few years, I've been running >120k gpus to mine ETH. Before we turned them off after ETH switched to PoS, I tried really hard to find an alternative workload for them. A large number of the GPUs were based on the PS5 chip, which is an APU (CPU+GPU) and ran as blade computers. It is actually a pretty power efficient chip, bu…

> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer. You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?

Hookers and blow actually. Space dust.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by delecti »

SECProto wrote: post #70
hot_gril wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, cryptocurrency stuff is the closest I've ever felt today to the spirit of the old internet.

> cryptocurrency stuff is the closest I've ever felt today to the spirit of the old internet Cryptocurrency feels like the exact opposite of the old internet to me - it feels like a bunch of anonymous bros looking for the next sucker to scam out of money and get rich quick.

I think before ~2014ish it felt like the old internet. Using bitcoin to buy drugs online really felt like the internet was free and empowering again.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by latchkey »

moralestapia wrote: post #93
recuter wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer. You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?

Yeah, that's either a typo or bull ... or maybe one of the top 5 ETH miners is among us.

Nah, while this was a large operation, there were much much larger ETH miners.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by latchkey »

esperent wrote: post #79
latchkey wrote: post #74

This makes me sad because it reminds me of something similar I just went through. For the last few years, I've been running >120k gpus to mine ETH. Before we turned them off after ETH switched to PoS, I tried really hard to find an alternative workload for them. A large number of the GPUs were based on the PS5 chip, which is an APU (CPU+GPU) and ran as blade computers. It is actually a pretty power efficient chip, bu…

> I've been running >120k gpus to mine ETH So when the sea levels rise and destroy my home, I'll know who to blame. Thank you.

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Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by recuter »

latchkey wrote: post #104
recuter wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer. You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?

Hookers and blow actually. Space dust.

Nice.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by pepa65 »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #15

It seems the aliens are already here, so not much need for SETI anymore. More seriously though, it appears there was some unresolved difficulty in searching and analyzing the data returned from the network, to the point the scientists working on it gradually threw in the towel and moved on to other projects. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85996 https://einsteinathome.org/content/can-we-run-setiho…

SETI is now advocating people join https://scienceunited.org/ if they want to contribute their computing power.

Re: SETI@home is in hibernation

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Post by tokai »

tablespoon wrote: post #103
jasongill wrote: post #2

Wow, this is sad. I remember when this project was released in 1999 - we installed it on all the workstations in our office in an effort to be the first to find ET. Loved bragging about the cool graph, saying it could be an alien signal. Sad to see the project come to an end, even if it was the distant precursor to things like BitTorrent and Bitcoin

This is even sadder: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85870&po...

>those tapes will probably also be discarded as well.

Maybe the Berkeley Library would take them.

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