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Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Users have been commenting that SETI's own Data Distribution History is no longer being updated. This thread will be my personal attempt to fill that gap. I'm recording the 'tapes' which I've seen processed by MultiBeam (only) apps on my own machines. I'll post a snapshot of the tapes I'd seen by the end of each year, plus monthly updates from here on. The colour coding will be: ![]() The numbers in each cell are the number of distinct tapes (aa, ab, ...) I've seen for each day's Arecibo recordings. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
December 31st, 2008 - effectively the start of the GPU revolution. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
December 31st, 2009 ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
December 31st, 2010 ![]() ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
December 31st, 2011 ![]() |
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December 31st, 2012 ![]() |
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December 31st, 2013 ![]() ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Sorry I didn't do one of these last month, but May and June were almost entirely spent re-processing old tapes from 2008 and 2009. No point in posting those, so here's a summary of what we achieved in the first half of the year (January-June 2014 inclusive): ![]() That's 361 new tapes in all, of which just a handful were tapes from earlier years that I hadn't seen before. A reminder of the chart explanation, from the initial post in this thread: ![]() The numbers in each cell are the number of distinct tapes (aa, ab, ...) I've seen for each day's Arecibo recordings. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
I haven't forgotten about the data distribution history, but we've been exclusively re-processing the old tapes for several months now. For the record, we've now looked again at some 1086 old tapes so far this year. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
We have some new data to report! These new tapes were processed during October 2014. ![]() 76 new tapes in all. There were a few final resends from earlier years too, but most new tapes were from this year. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Well, we managed to get through some new data during November. ![]() I've added all the tapes currently shown on the SSP (131 new tapes in all), even though many of them are so short that there is little or no crunchable data on them. The full chart shows that the lab house-keeping has turned up data from every year since the multibeam antenna and recorder came into full use in January 2007. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Final tally for 2014. The disks Jeff received on 5 December (~5 TB of data) turned out to be 97 new 'tapes': ![]() None of the earlier tapes from 2012 and 2013 which showed up at the end were 'new', according to my database - we must have processed them before. Perhaps the staff wanted to re-check the MB processing - we certainly got MB tasks from them - but decided not to repeat the AP runs. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
With the new data from Arecibo that Jeff threw into the hopper on 23 June, it's time to pick up this thread again. ![]() That's 113 new tapes so far, and counting. Since it's been a while, a reminder of what I'm displaying. These are Multibeam tasks, processed so far on my machines and recorded in my SETI logs. Because I'm only recording MB, and only completed tasks, I run a little way behind the splitters - there will be at least 50 more tapes to report next month, and perhaps we'll fill in some of those gaps as well. And here's a reminder of the colour coding. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
117 'first time seen' tapes this month - 78 in Jeff's June shipment from Arecibo, and a scattering from 2008 onwards which have turned up as part of the ongoing reprocessing. I thought we might see some from the March-April gap, but evidently not. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
No addition to the Data Distribution History charts this month. All except two of the 2011 tapes (one each from 05oc and 23no) were in my database already - though I can't tell if we possibly crunched new areas from other tapes, which might have had an error the first time round. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
In the middle of the v8 excitment, we almost forgot about the arrival of a new shipment of tapes from Arecibo: ![]() Here's a reminder of the colour coding. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
The 2015 recordings aren't finished yet - 76 new ones processed this month. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
But they are now - only 19 left to do after last month. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Well, now Photobucket has given me my images back, we've finished reprocessing all the old work, and it's the first of the month, it's time to restart this project. Picking up where we left off: ![]() That shows what we've done since 1st January 2018 - some big blocks of VLARs held back from 2016 and 2017. We now have a slow-but-steady throttled internet link from Arecibo, replacing the old boxes of disks shipped by air-freight, so we're almost processing in real time. I'd prefer it if the Puerto Ricans had more help in repairing their own power lines (and water supplies, come to that) before the start of the new hurricane season today, but at least I hope we're not making things worse for them. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Since I have at least one reader, here are the Arecibo tapes for June and July 2018. ![]() |
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