OT: SETI@home milestone

[dogscoff]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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....