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Author: Tom Bair, Location: Portland, Oregon USA PostPosted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:28 pm    Post subject:
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The SETI project is very like space itself -- space is 99.7 percent void of content. 3.6 percent of known matter (to us) is centered in a mass volume of .00037 percent of known (by us) space.

In more understandable language, we are looking for a signal generated by an intellegent source in a vastness of garbled random noise. Looking for Nemo (the fish) in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be considered much easier and more successful (but much less rewarding).

Although I myself have doubts about the success of SETI, I have never stopped supporting the project itself for the past twenty years. It is my firm belief that this is truly a noble and unselfless project taken on by the populace of mankind.

PCWriter
Author: Bart Decker,  PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:21 am    Post subject:
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Some CPU Times , all measured with the same WU

http://www.seti-nl.org/cputijden.php



I'm still in a bad mood , because i want to join the security forums seti group... This afternoon i'm going to do some password guessing Smile
Author: b4rtm4n, Location: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:26 pm    Post subject:
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Got a way to go to catch this up.

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Lurch
Windows XP
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.1 volt / 8°C) 230MHz fsb x 12 = 2760 MHz 2x256MB OCZ RAM 460 MHz @ 2-2-5-2 (3.0 volt) (PC3500) Northbridge (1.7 volt / 16°C)
1:45.07


Surely if your that keen the same specced box with a customised linux install would give even better performance.

I was initially surprised that there are so few *nix users on that list but thinking about it most *nix users tend to stick it on an old slow box as is shown by the last entry on the list.
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165.
The final frontier
Linux 486dx2 66 MHz 16 MB
99:59.58
Author: uncletom, Location: Isle of Man PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:19 pm    Post subject:
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SETI@home is now up and running on my Linux box. The command line version is nowhere near as interesting to watch for half an hour as the GUI version tho Wink

System 1: XP2100+, 512meg ram PC2100 DDR, Windows XP Pro, SETI@home GUI version
System 2: Athlon 800, 392meg ram PC100, Slackware Linux 9, SETI@home CLI

Wonder which'll be faster? Laughing
Author: Sgt_B, Location: Chicago, IL US PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:38 pm    Post subject:
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The command line version is nowhere near as interesting to watch for half an hour as the GUI version tho

Man find a hobby!!! Razz
Author: uncletom, Location: Isle of Man PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:05 am    Post subject:
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Sgt_B wrote:
Man find a hobby!!! Razz


Hobbies, what are they? Laughing

As a side note, it's interesting the different amount of time each unit takes to process, mine have varied from c. 6 hrs to c. 14 hrs. Suppose it depends on the current system workload but still, that sort of variation is a bit more than I would expect.
Author: spoofedpackets, Location: Atlanta PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:26 am    Post subject:
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I just joined the group.. Put my stats to good use atleast..
Author: RTE, Location: Singapore PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:04 am    Post subject: security forums - seti
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It seems that SF seti group never gets updated. The only way I've found to view updated stats is quit then rejoin. Is it just me?
Author: squidly, Location: Umm.. I dont know.. somewhere PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:29 am    Post subject: Re: security forums - seti
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RTE wrote:
It seems that SF seti group never gets updated. The only way I've found to view updated stats is quit then rejoin. Is it just me?


It does get updated it just takes a while. My first unit was done in 4 hours and it took about 24-36 hours for it to show on the site.
Author: RTE, Location: Singapore PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:32 am    Post subject: sf group - seti
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Seems I've waited longer than that but I'll wait and watch some more - thanks for the reply.
Author: ShaolinTiger, Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PostPosted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:21 am    Post subject: Re: sf group - seti
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RTE wrote:
Seems I've waited longer than that but I'll wait and watch some more - thanks for the reply.


Yeh it only updates once a day I think, if you use http://seti.security-forums.com though it will take you to the CGI version which shows the real time stats.
Author: RTE, Location: Singapore PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:12 am    Post subject: seti
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if you use http://seti.security-forums.com though it will take you to the CGI version which shows the real time stats.



Yup - that did it - thanks
Author: PostCode,  PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:55 pm    Post subject:
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Nice forums here. Well maintained and used frequently.

I joined your team and hope to be of some help both with the forums and Seti.
Author: Tom Bair, Location: Portland, Oregon USA PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:05 am    Post subject:
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Welcome to SFDC .... and thanks for the future assist on SETI.

PCWriter
Author: tree_twobears, Location: Cascadia, North America PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:00 am    Post subject: Man fired for running SETI@work
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Wonder how many others are running SETI or other folding software @ work...

http://news.com.com/2061-1032-5406158.html?tag=xtra.ml
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