Limbo time! How low can you go?

Hosts doing SETI crunching have to be big and fast, but I wondered what's the smallest hardware ever to deliver a usable result?

I've found a system footprint called Intel 99MHz (currently position 50 in this view) that seems to be capable of getting credits, but I wonder if anyone can show something even "smaller", whatever interpretation of "small" can be agreed on...?

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"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

i have a 933mhz laptop and i think you'll find that from the result it's a typo

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I have used as small as a P1-166MMx processor. It returned results, very slowly (I believe 5-6 days). I since retired those old machines.

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I have used as small as a P1-166MMx processor. It returned results, very slowly (I believe 5-6 days). I since retired those old machines.

That's an old bugger!
Can you tell any more? How much memory, OS, optimized clients, ...?

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"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

I used to use an old Sparc4-66MHz with 32 megs of ram in the day. Give me a 3 WU queue, and I wouldn't know about the outage for another week or so....

back in my first classic period.

(j)
James

I used to use an old Sparc4-66MHz with 32 megs of ram in the day. Give me a 3 WU queue, and I wouldn't know about the outage for another week or so....

back in my first classic period.

(j)
James

heck, that was so long ago the results I turned in off that machine have been validated!

(j)

My first ever SETI classic machine was a 75mhz P1 with 16MB ram and Win95. I then upgraded the CPU to a 133mhz... zooom!

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I have used as small as a P1-166MMx processor. It returned results, very slowly (I believe 5-6 days). I since retired those old machines.

That's an old bugger!
Can you tell any more? How much memory, OS, optimized clients, ...?

It had 96M memory, no optimized clients. I believe 4.19 was the last client used on it. Windows 98SE. It was a small form factor, and is now in someones car being used with a GPS system. It's been retired since March.

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What about running Boinc/Seti on a Mobile Phone whith Windows CE? Anybody tried it?

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What about running Boinc/Seti on a Mobile Phone whith Windows CE? Anybody tried it?

egads. That's scary! If you get it running, I may try it out on a couple of WinCE thin clients I have laying around the office... Heh.

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i managed to install FreeBSD and BOINC on my old peacock notebook (33mhz/4mb ram/60mb hdd/9" bw-display) - cause it has no lan or pcmcia slot, i used a plip (tcp/ip via parallelport) connection to download/upload the workunits :)

unfortunately, the cpu didnt agree with the 2 weeks deadline :/

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~ phainomenon ~

I use to do seti in my own mind, but then I woke up and was scared to death because it was empty (my mind). I had actually contacted outerspace, and it was full of gonzos. oh no, that wasn't my dream, that was the muppet movie... sorry for wasting the bandwidth with dribble.

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Thanks, and Keep on crunchin'
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Sevierville TN

I started with nothing,
and I still have some of it left.
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I use to do seti in my own mind, but then I woke up and was scared to death because it was empty (my mind). I had actually contacted outerspace, and it was full of gonzos. oh no, that wasn't my dream, that was the muppet movie... sorry for wasting the bandwidth with dribble.

For me, it's always Grover.

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My first ever SETI classic machine was a 75mhz P1 with 16MB ram and Win95. I then upgraded the CPU to a 133mhz... zooom!

My 'smallest system' for Seti was a P133 Laptop with Windows 95.
I also ran it for a while on and HP 712/60 and a few 712/100.
Since then I've graduated to better CPU ( 2 Pentium M, 1 Celeron and 1 PIII )
and I'm considering running boinc on several servers I have sitting idle once they have access to the net. ( right now they stand on a 'standalone network' )
I wonder what are the performances of two HP K570 and a bunch of Netra 20 crunching work units.

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What about running Boinc/Seti on a Mobile Phone whith Windows CE? Anybody tried it?

[font='courier,courier new']If you can get (me) a copy of MS's Dev kit, I've got an extended LiIon battery and a 1GB of storage space.

The hard part will be the RAM: I've got 56MB, and IIRC BOINC needs more. Anyone wanna reverse-engineer swap pages for WinCE?

And since we're on the topic, if anyone has some 30-pin, 100ns or faster SIMMs for a Mac IIcx running A/UX 3.0.1... IIRC it clocks in at 3MIPS. Four, same-size sticks per bank, two banks total, so no loosies.[/font]

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Back in 99 I had a 486-50MHz machine I used as a file server. As it was running 24/7 I had it crunching Seti. Took something like a week for one WU - between 130 and 160 hrs. My fastest comp at that time (a Cyrix @ 200MHz) still took about 20 hrs/WU.

:-)= Greybeard

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I have a P166 and a P200 running classic still. I wanted to get my classic total over 1000 WU's so I set them to it. The 166MHz will have 96MB of ram in a couple days, and the 200MHz now has 265MB. As soon as I get the hard drives that I ordered in, darn Katrina, they'll have enough disk space to install BOINC and attach to SETI and CPDN. They are both running Win2k, and the 200 is my internet server....I have the lowly dial-up. :-\

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I have a 16mhz 386 motherboard in my attic. I could dig it out but I doubt it would complete a WU before the 14 day deadline.

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I have a P166 and a P200 running classic still. I wanted to get my classic total over 1000 WU's so I set them to it. The 166MHz will have 96MB of ram in a couple days, and the 200MHz now has 265MB. As soon as I get the hard drives that I ordered in, darn Katrina, they'll have enough disk space to install BOINC and attach to SETI and CPDN. They are both running Win2k, and the 200 is my internet server....I have the lowly dial-up. :-

CPDN wishes a minimum of 800MHz, otherwise you may not finish WUs in time, plus might not be robust enough to run the latest application, as even my P4 2.8G HT has some issues with it (hoping for a better application next one that downlods).

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I have a 16mhz 386 motherboard in my attic. I could dig it out but I doubt it would complete a WU before the 14 day deadline.

If you du that, I will say Ni!

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"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"