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Dave(The Admiral)Nelson ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jun 99 Posts: 414 Credit: 19,873,630 RAC: 9,575 ![]() ![]() |
I would like to build, or have built, a box for the sole purpose of running seti. No e-main,office suite,or freecell, just seti. What hardware/software would I need? Dave Nelson |
![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 14417 Credit: 3,624,570 RAC: 453 ![]() |
Depends on a couple of things: - your budget? - only CPU crunching? - or also GPU crunching? - more than one GPU crunching? - operating system of choice? If a small budget and no GPUs are required, you can do with any (old) Android v4, v5 or v6 telephone (Android v7 and v8 aren't supported at this time here @ Seti, due to a library incompatibility), or with small computers such as Raspberry Pi, C.H.I.P., Orange Pi or any other small ARM computer (see this 2015 review showing 10 of them). If a bigger budget, you'll have to say what you want. To run Seti@Home, you need at minimum one CPU core and 256MB of memory, although that leaves not much for operating systems, so let's say 1 GB of memory. Jord Ancient Astronaut Theorists can tell you that I do not help with tech questions via private message. Please use the forums for that. |
Dave(The Admiral)Nelson ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jun 99 Posts: 414 Credit: 19,873,630 RAC: 9,575 ![]() ![]() |
Do you think $800.00 would do or am I way to low? Dave Nelson |
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