The Mac Mini is a tightly packed little box of Apple goodness. I've long suspected that it shares the same potential problems that lappie owners face - i.e. the cooling solution is just about adequate for normal running, but not the continuous load that SETI imposes.

While it is true that minis use laptop-grade silicon and drives, this does not apply to its cooling system: it's way more beefy than anything you'd ever find in a laptop. The G4 minis have employed a very similar cooling system, and I've had G4 minis run on SETI more or less since the day they were introduced - again without any hiccups to date.

OK, Well received all information. Do everything necessary for cooling.
Thanks for your help

I don't see why not. Any connection to a government listed team as far as I am concerned is ok so long as you don't control the massive computers that do work for the government. But then is it OK to use government equipment to have an edge over another team? I think not.

Just my opinion.

I already know how to do all this if you look at my past task you'll see that i did for awhile... :-D

Ok. Trying to help, but I guess I don't understand the root of your remaining concern. There is certainly nothing wrong w/ running stock 5.28 from Berkeley.
V8 is substantially quicker however and is quite a different animal under the hood. Run em' both, compare & decide from there.

Cheers!

The short answer to your question is "yes". Berkeley's current releases contain many "improvements" for specific optimizations that use SIMD instructions.

I just realized i saw the SSE and SSE2 but what about SSE3??? I used to use Alex kahns Workers loved those, until I realized, Berkeley has a new version up so I just wanted to try, and may stick with it...

Alex still makes them & has released new optimized applications which are the quickest yet. See this thread: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=31810&nowrap=true#656269

You will find both Core 2 and G4 aps.

Have fun!

Yes I know, but those are version 5.27, not 5.28 like here, and I use Intel Core Duo, not the core 2 one tho on my MBP, but I think Im gonna stick with the 5.28 for now, since i really dont see any difference between the 2, except the way Alex Kahns reports it back to seti@home so.. i dont know.. we'll see how my RAC goes for a few weeks I guess..

Sorry for confusion re: Core 2. Didn't realize you had Core Duo, but you no doubt saw the link w/ core Duo ap.
As for version #, 5.28 is the current OSX MB version w/ revised credit multi of 2.85

Alex's V8 is also MB w/ the credit multi revised to 2.85. It does the the same science as stock Berkeley 5.28, correctly &......MUCH faster.

Your choice.

You can also edit the app_info.xml file w/ V8 to look like the following.
This will then report as 5.28

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>seti_enhanced-i386-v8-core2-nographics</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
<version_num>527</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>seti_enhanced-i386-v8-core2-nographics</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
<version_num>528</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>seti_enhanced-i386-v8-core2-nographics</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>

The short answer to your question is "yes". Berkeley's current releases contain many "improvements" for specific optimizations that use SIMD instructions.

I just realized i saw the SSE and SSE2 but what about SSE3??? I used to use Alex kahns Workers loved those, until I realized, Berkeley has a new version up so I just wanted to try, and may stick with it...

Alex still makes them & has released new optimized applications which are the quickest yet. See this thread: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=31810&nowrap=true#656269

You will find both Core 2 and G4 aps.

Have fun!

The short answer to your question is "yes". Berkeley's current releases contain many "improvements" for specific optimizations that use SIMD instructions.

Just Quit the boinc manager and re-open it??

My G5 Mac has three S@hBeta results it’s been trying to report for several days now, and in the course of implementing the anonymous-platform workaround here I’ve restarted BOINC a few times. Its most recent log:

Mon 21 May 18:29:18 2007|SETI@home Beta Test|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta_cgi/cgi
Mon 21 May 18:29:18 2007|SETI@home Beta Test|Reason: To report completed tasks
Mon 21 May 18:29:18 2007|SETI@home Beta Test|Reporting 3 tasks
[color=red]Mon 21 May 18:29:28 2007|SETI@home Beta Test|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error[/color]
Mon 21 May 18:29:28 2007|SETI@home Beta Test|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 hours, 54 minutes and 3 seconds

So it’s certainly worth a try, but it’s by no means guaranteed to succeed.