Seti@home its a distributed computing thing. You go to
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
and download a utility that runs on your computer when you are not using it.
What it does is crunch the data that the SETI program has collected for signs
of intelligent life (organized signals). Its a very popular and very cool
thing. I've been doing it for about a year now and I've got about 72 blocks
of data analyzed on my computers. You can run it on every major OS.
Check it out its neato.
Abe
>===== Original Message From Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Abe...what's this thing you do with seti? It sounds really interesting.
>
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>Mark
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>On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
>
>> it actually takes about a minute. I've got a duron 600 machine with 256M
of
>> ram.
>>
>> It takes my machine 23 hours and 19 minutes to process a data block for
seti
>> but I only run seti in windows at the moment. Presumably it will be quite
a
>> bit faster in linux.
>>
>>
>>
>> abe
>>
>> >===== Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=====
>> >> you have my condolences Ozz. But hey, you can take your linux box
>> >with you
>> >> where ever you go! I have to sit at home in front of my desk to use
>> >it.
>> >> That's a definately worth it trade off.
>> >
>> >How long does it take you to boot StarOffice? I can go make a coffee
>> >while it loads on mine (seriously!).
>> >
>> >It is actually quicker for me to shut down X, reboot into Windoze and
>> >load Office97 than it is to load StarOffice from within X.
>> >
>> >To me, that is pathetic.
>> >
>> >Laptop Specs:
>> >AMD K6-2 @ 380Mhz.
>> >64Mb RAM
>> >6Gb hdd
>> >
>> >So as you can see, it's not a bad machine - it'll run two Seti@Home
>> >clients and still process work units in under 20 hours!
>> >(StarOffice performance figures are WITHOUT the likes of Seti running -
>> >Seti makes it even worse!)
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Ozz.
>>
>> Jesus saves,
>> Allah forgives,
>> Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
>>
>>
>>
Jesus saves,
Allah forgives,
Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
