SETI - Off Topic

[rdouglass]

For a while now, I've been letting the 'unused' clock cycles on my PC's be used for SETI@home - a distributed computing project based around SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intellegence). I recently found a group (at SETI@home) called Space Empires and have contributed my 'results' to that group.

I suspect that many people that visit this board may have an interest in SETI and would like to participate. If you're interested, read about it at:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

The software (downloadable from that site)that does this is pretty cool and you may be the lucky one to find a SETI signal and get your name recorded in the history books! I thought it was pretty cool that I could do my small part in this search. If you decide to do it, consider putting your results into the Space Empires group...

[Suicide Junkie]

I've got 350 work units done! Been using a P2 266 and a P2 400 together for a while.

[Baron Munchausen]

And for the competitive among you, just returning ONE work unit boosts you up to the 32nd percentile. Yep, almost 1/3 of people who signup never return a work unit. Then there are the people you'll see in the lists on the site who have done 100 or more, and some thousands of work units. My brand spanking new Duron 800 takes about 10 hours of undistracted processing time to do one work unit. I can't imagine the home networks that some of these high-volume people contributing from "home" must be using. They must have banks of Athlon or P III machines hooked up and dedicated to SETI@HOME.

[Dracus]

I have been doing this since May 1999 I will check it to see the number packets I have done.

Ok I checked, 900 packets done.

My old pc took 24 hours to do one packet, My 450 takes 13.5 hours.
I run it in the background at work. So when I am off, it runs 24 hours not stop.

I want to get 1000 by the end of this month.

Check out some of the gov area's that is running it:
US AIR FORCE 8 people
United Nations 30 people
US Navy 346 people
USMC 315 people

here is a quote from the Us INS Office in NM (the home of the ufo crash)
"The US Immigration Service...Who better suited to search for aliens?? This group was started by those in INS in the Roswell/Artesia New Mexico area, right by the "Roswell Experience" site, but, of course, it is open to all who wish to help us."

Sun Microsystems runs it on alot of their Internet servers in the background. they are a customer of ours. They are also a sponsor of the project.
IBM --sponsor and has 977 people running it.
HP---sponsor and has 500 people running it.
Microsoft also runs it.




[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 12 May 2001).]

[rdouglass]

I have over 1300, but I have 2 NT systems running the text-only Version and a regular Version running 24-7 on my work PC...

[Lupusman]

Guess it would take me a while to catch up. I only have 57. Go ahead and laugh, my old 166 clunker does the best it can.
Who seriously thinks that they'll find something though? (Or if they do, that it won't be mysteriously ignored)

[Baron Munchausen]

Has anyone founded a 'Space Empires' group yet? If someone founds a group, then SE IV players could pool their contributions and compete with other Groups for total work units completed, processing time, etc. Or maybe we should be more general and found a Shrapnel Games group?

[Dracus]

I will set one up and post it.

[Will]

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
If you decide to do it, consider putting your results into the Space Empires group...

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[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, there's more than ONE Space Empires Seti team. Both of these teams are small enough as it is. We need to consolidate! Can teams be merged? Can we persuade the members of one to join the other?



[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 20 May 2001).]