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Yet another SETIQ question - user information

Michael

Michael

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I am curious about how SETIQ and SETI@Home stamp the user name on the work units.

Is it the settings in the program that count, or is it the setting is SETIQ? I know that I can connect to my que via the internet (I just tried). I'm wondering if someone else connected to it who had a different user id/email, what would happen:

1) Setiq would reject the connection?

2) Setiq would pass the work unit to the client and then accept it back and then I would get credit when the WU was sent to SETI@HOME via SETIQ?

3) Setiq would pass the work unit to the client and then accept it back and then the id in the client would get credit when the WU was sent to SETI@HOME via SETIQ?

If option 2 is the truth, then I'll be pretty happy. Option 3 would be cool when SETI@HOME goes down as others without SETIQ could be fed from other member's stock of work units.

Option 2 also would give us an easy way to have a "general" member that the people that just do a couple of Wu's a week could point to. They would get and receive WU's from a master SETIQ and that user (not one of us, but a team user) would start showing up in our stats.

If you're curious and want to test, PM me and I'll send you the address for my SETIQ server.

Michael
 
I guess the question is - are WU's "neutral" until they're sent out (not written in the result file) or is the user ID written in the WU?

I wonder if the client (or SETIQ) says, "Hi, I'm user x and here's a WU" or if it just says "I want to send WU's in" and the ID is in the WU.

Michael
 
Bump ^ : I am curious also. I think they are neutral until the result file is made at which point the apropriate email gets attached. If this is so, then multiple users could use the same "Q" without any problems. I know that when I check the setiq site regarding my stats, that it shows me stats for each client. So it has to at least know that they are coming from different machines (each has it's own setiq running though).
 
Why don't one of you guys just setup one of your clients to use a new account and pull a wu from your setiq and see what happens?
 
Office Boy - Sure.

He answered me in PM that it is the last WU that goes into SETIQ that is the key. If I have 10 WU's sitting in my Q and then one more comes in from another email ID and then the que flushes, I'll get credit for all 11. However, the user ID file will then change to the last email ID and the next bunch will flush under that id.

So the best solution is to use the same email id for everyone.

Did I get that right, Office Boy?

Michael
 
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