OT: SETI@home milestone

rdouglass · #1 January 8th, 2004, 09:43 PM

Since others have "tooted their horn", I will too. Many of you are aware of SETI@home and I just wanted to post my recent milestone of 25,000 work units!

I haven't discovered ET yet though...

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 January 8th, 2004, 10:00 PM

ET? you just missed him; he went home.

congratulations.

[ January 08, 2004, 20:01: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Narrew · #3 January 8th, 2004, 10:06 PM

narf LOL

Are you on dial-up or broadband rdouglass? Just wondering whats your set-up. Also since I am ignorant, what kind of resources does it use while your doing your normal things on the comp?

dogscoff · #4 January 9th, 2004, 01:59 PM

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Are you on dial-up or broadband rdouglass?

Doesn't make much difference to SETI@home- the work packets are small enough to be transferred by dialup.

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Just wondering whats your set-up. Also since I am ignorant, what kind of resources does it use while your doing your normal things on the comp?

I don't think you get results like that from just running it behind SE. I think he's probably got a dedicated SETI farm in his basement:-)

Thermodyne · #5 January 10th, 2004, 02:35 AM

Hmm�..I�m tempted to turn the Thermolian Data Center in your direction for a few weeks and see if I can run you down

Narrew · #6 January 10th, 2004, 04:29 AM

Yea, if I had a basement, I could use the 3 or 4 old comps I have in my closet collecting dust and my broadband connection, it is interesting, though isn't there another similuar program that is working on the genome project or some-such?

rdouglass · #7 January 12th, 2004, 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by Narrew:
Yea, if I had a basement, I could use the 3 or 4 old comps I have in my closet collecting dust and my broadband connection, it is interesting, though isn't there another similuar program that is working on the genome project or some-such?

Yeah, others have suggested before that I'm heating my house with old PC's running SETI@home

Not quite, just using up spare CPU cycles on some servers when they're idle. I use just the text-based Version and it only runs when nothing else is using cycles.

As to the genome project, look for the "Folding" thread. I have a single "box" holding up quite respectfully with that project as well. (Dual Intel 3.06 GHz Xeon's)

I just like having all my boxes doing something productive all the time (at least while they're consuming electricity). And who knows, it just may help someone someday....