Jeff Woods wrote:
> At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced
>> that this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to
>> getting more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing
>> to wait 14 months for the calculation of one result. Those folks at
>> Anand's are interested in visible changes in daily statistics,
>> something GIMPS doesn't provide when doing LL testing.
>
>
> Then why is SETI@home so popular, when it shows little in the way of
> daily statistics, either?
I recently invested a few CPU days in SETI. On my P3-600, I was
completing a work unit about every 7-8 hours.
Most people's primary machines could certainly complete one work unit
per day quite easily.
I might point out, though, that now that SETI is producing a new client
version which does more testing, and requires roughly twice as long to
do each work unit, some folks were complaining on their IRC channel
about the time needed to finish each work unit.
Nathan
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