0 angle range SETI units

[Electrode]

I was just checking my setiqueue to make sure I had enough WUs in case berkeley has more problems, and I've got 72. At 11 workunits a day, I think that'll last me through any outage that might come up. 🙂

Unfortunatly, I have quite a few VLARs, including one that defies all reason: a 0 AR WU. I've gotten these before, but never checked the result..

So, what's up with these? Are they some uber-VLAR that takes longer than any other workunit? A workunit that won't take very long at all? Just a normal WU whose angle range gets rounded to 0?

Just wondering.

 

[Poof]

Electrode - Setiqueue seems to round off the "0"s in WUs that have them, so a 0.410 shows up as 0.41 and 0.000s show up as 0. Like the rest of the VLARs, if run on 9x/ME, they'll run slow due to a bug in the CLI. They'll run a wee bit faster on NT/2K/XP, but not by much. In general, they should run FASTER than the mids (almost as fast as the VHARs), and they generally do with clients other than the windoze CLI. If you (dressed as a penguin 😛) have a *nix box running a client and set Setiqueue up for VLAR routing, you can have your *nix run those things and get excellent times from them. 🙂

 

[Assimilator1]

Poof
I find my friends PII 333@ 374 (& PIII is Win2k too I think) with Win2k runs VLAR WU's at only a slightly slower time than normal WU's ,so it would seem that Win2k is much faster than Win9x at VLAR WU's.
Look at the WU times here at his SETIQ server

 

[JimMc]

I have a "0" in my results queue, it only took about 6 minutes longer on than for a .417. That box is running XP however, don't know what would happen under '98.

 

[Assimilator1]

It would be nearly 50% slower🙁