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CyberGoyle Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 160 Credit: 3,622,756 RAC: 26 |
Woohoo! After two weeks - RAC: 2.98 Total Credit: 35.15 And all this time I thought it was just a worthless POS. Who knew? <a> |
ric Send message Joined: 16 Jun 03 Posts: 482 Credit: 666,047 RAC: 0 |
great ! what was the processing time? asking because got old pentium notebook with 120 MHz so I could have an estimate how many hours (days?) i will take greetings ric |
VK5FSCK Send message Joined: 12 Jun 02 Posts: 61 Credit: 342,840 RAC: 0 |
i got a P166MMX with 128M ram and under win98se it used to take about 60 hours to process a WU. I at the moment converting it over to RHL 9.0 and soon beable to tell you how long it takes to process a WU under that OS when able to dl a WU from berkeley Cheers Quail <a> [/url] Wireless Signals of the Past |
CyberGoyle Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 160 Credit: 3,622,756 RAC: 26 |
Processing time? I think I stopped paying attention after 5 days. Let me say it like this: I set up BOINC on that PC on July 8th and as of this posting it was 62% through its third workunit. That said, the first two WU's it crunched were the so-called 'super WU's'; on its last update, it downloaded 4 Wu's, which based on my cache should be enough for 3-7 days. So we shall see. <a> |
ric Send message Joined: 16 Jun 03 Posts: 482 Credit: 666,047 RAC: 0 |
ok I see, thanks 4 info. so I guess the p120 with 48 MB ram and w2k & setiQ.classic running can make 1 wu in 1 week, 4-6 in a month or 60 in a year?? the gain 4me, seen in troughput wu per day, will be less than 1%, maybe wondering what's the slowest cpu which can completed a wu in the 14 day delay it's nice to see, old cpu can do still work of today (excluding time factor) ric |
Petit Soleil Send message Joined: 17 Feb 03 Posts: 1497 Credit: 70,934 RAC: 0 |
Have an old Mac Performa 5200 PPC 603 75 MHz 40 MB RAM Process time 225 Hours |
Julian Send message Joined: 19 Jul 99 Posts: 75 Credit: 2,470,428 RAC: 0 |
By comparison I have stuck on a Cyrex (god so old I can not remember how to spell it) 333. Actually reports as 258 hz, This manged some workunits in about 40 hours! A lot of the machines at school I having chugging are 500 Mhz laptops and they are doing a unit a day each roughly. Julian Rouse |
CyberGoyle Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 160 Credit: 3,622,756 RAC: 26 |
It's spelled Cyrix. Unfortunately, I AM old enough to remember... |
MattDavis Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 919 Credit: 934,161 RAC: 0 |
A couple years ago I bought a 133MHz Cyrix computer from a rural Indiana school district for a couple dollars. I think it did a Seti Classic unit in just under two weeks :) |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
> A couple years ago I bought a 133MHz Cyrix computer from a rural Indiana > school district for a couple dollars. I think it did a Seti Classic unit in > just under two weeks :) > > I have an old 386 SX-2 16mhz machine with Seti classic installed on it. Without the math co-processor (sold separately) it takes about 3 years per workunit. Adding a co-processor drops the time to about 1 year. :) ------------------------------------------------------ We are Borgholio. You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
CyberGoyle Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 160 Credit: 3,622,756 RAC: 26 |
Before I upgraded BOINC onto my 200Mhz, I was running Seti@home on an old TI Scientific Calculator. Top THAT! <a> |
MattDavis Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 919 Credit: 934,161 RAC: 0 |
> I have an old 386 SX-2 16mhz machine with Seti classic installed on it. > Without the math co-processor (sold separately) it takes about 3 years per > workunit. Adding a co-processor drops the time to about 1 year. :) Did you actually do/complete units on that computer? :o |
MattDavis Send message Joined: 11 Nov 99 Posts: 919 Credit: 934,161 RAC: 0 |
> Before I upgraded BOINC onto my 200Mhz, I was running Seti@home on an old TI > Scientific Calculator. Top THAT! I do Seti@home work unit computations with a pencil and paper. |
ric Send message Joined: 16 Jun 03 Posts: 482 Credit: 666,047 RAC: 0 |
>Before I upgraded BOINC onto my 200Mhz, I was running Seti@home on an old TI >Scientific Calculator. Top THAT! 4-bit? a PET? was this running under cpm? anywhere in the basement in a bag still my "first compi" a commodore64. He is still working. also able to read from floppy think this could top (down) but I'm not sure if there was a "official" cloient for it. Well for displaying following messages even a 64 has enough cpu power. SETI@home - 2004-07-21 01:42:53 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi SETI@home - 2004-07-21 01:43:04 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded SETI@home - 2004-07-21 02:13:02 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi SETI@home - 2004-07-21 02:13:12 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded SETI@home - 2004-07-21 03:47:46 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi SETI@home - 2004-07-21 03:47:50 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded If everybody uses a 386, but with copro, then the demand could be keping on b.t.w. had also in the last centaury a Cyrix 200 Mhz, could "overclock" to stable 225 MHz, this without a fan. the passiv cooling device could easy tok off while the pc was running for mantenance an so, It was the time of no noise CPUs and no heaten cpu... ric |
CyberGoyle Send message Joined: 2 Jun 99 Posts: 160 Credit: 3,622,756 RAC: 26 |
> > Before I upgraded BOINC onto my 200Mhz, I was running Seti@home on an old > TI > > Scientific Calculator. Top THAT! > > I do Seti@home work unit computations with a pencil and paper. > > LMAO! |
Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 654 Credit: 18,623,738 RAC: 45 |
> > I have an old 386 SX-2 16mhz machine with Seti classic installed on it. > > Without the math co-processor (sold separately) it takes about 3 years > per > > workunit. Adding a co-processor drops the time to about 1 year. :) > > Did you actually do/complete units on that computer? :o > > Do, yes. Complete, no. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are Borgholio. You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
Eddie Cottongim Send message Joined: 15 Sep 01 Posts: 26 Credit: 6,149,499 RAC: 6 |
Impressive. I've been trying to figure out how to get my 386sx-16 to do SETI@HOME - hard when the max ram is 4mb. (Not counting the memory on my gigantic Intel Aboveboards, 2mb each using on 72 120ns chips). Most schemes so far involve a soldering iron :/ > > > I have an old 386 SX-2 16mhz machine with Seti classic installed on > it. > > > Without the math co-processor (sold separately) it takes about 3 > years > > per > > > workunit. Adding a co-processor drops the time to about 1 year. > :) > > > > Did you actually do/complete units on that computer? :o > > > > > > Do, yes. Complete, no. :) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > We are Borgholio. You will be assimilated...bunghole! > |
Pascal, K G Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 2343 Credit: 150,491 RAC: 0 |
Owner's manual Website Owner's Manual Bah!!! I am in it for the money. Message from the Head ;o) of the Horse Head Nebula Branch of Seti@Home, Check is in the mail |
AthlonRob Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 378 Credit: 7,041 RAC: 0 |
> By comparison I have stuck on a Cyrex (god so old I can not remember how to > spell it) 333. Actually reports as 258 hz, This manged some workunits in about > 40 hours! Cyrix (that's how it is spelled) actually invented PR rating (what AMD uses for CPU speeds)... except instead of doing it like AMD (reporting what the CPU is actually comperable to), they reported it as about twice what the CPU was comperable to. I had a Cyrix PR200+ back in the day... a 150MHz CPU. It was about the crappiest CPU in the whole world... the things (to this day, no less) have the crappiest FPUs imaginable. That's why they take so long to crunch a workunit. Forty hours is actually pretty damned good for such a thing. :-) > A lot of the machines at school I having chugging are 500 Mhz laptops and they > are doing a unit a day each roughly. That's a bit longer than I would have expected - my Athlon 550 does a workunit every thirteen hours, give or take. Rob |
Julian Send message Joined: 19 Jul 99 Posts: 75 Credit: 2,470,428 RAC: 0 |
> > By comparison I have stuck on a Cyrex (god so old I can not remember how > to > > spell it) 333. Actually reports as 258 hz, This manged some workunits in > about > > 40 hours! > > Cyrix (that's how it is spelled) actually invented PR rating (what AMD uses > for CPU speeds)... except instead of doing it like AMD (reporting what the CPU > is actually comperable to), they reported it as about twice what the CPU was > comperable to. > > I had a Cyrix PR200+ back in the day... a 150MHz CPU. It was about the > crappiest CPU in the whole world... the things (to this day, no less) have the > crappiest FPUs imaginable. That's why they take so long to crunch a workunit. > Forty hours is actually pretty damned good for such a thing. :-) > > > A lot of the machines at school I having chugging are 500 Mhz laptops and > they > > are doing a unit a day each roughly. > > That's a bit longer than I would have expected - my Athlon 550 does a workunit > every thirteen hours, give or take. > > Rob > <img> src="http://uml.no-ip-here.net/stats/sig.php?id=27&project=alpha"> > |
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