Hello,

first: if someone answers SuSE i'll throw with some things :-P

Are there any special distributions for math-calculations, perhaps for improving calculations of seti@home? There are some real-time systems and low-latency systems, perhaps there's something like that (a system for math's) too?

and how about low latency things? Will seti@home take advantages of such things?

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first: if someone answers SuSE i'll throw with some things :-P

Feel free to ask your questions here. Here are a lot of peoples with Unix and Linux knowledge.

Are there any special distributions for math-calculations, perhaps for improving calculations of seti@home? There are some real-time systems and low-latency systems, perhaps there's something like that (a system for math's) too?

and how about low latency things? Will seti@home take advantages of such things?

So far I can say would SETI not make any great benefit from real time systems.

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Low latency/realtime systems are intended to minimize the time from when a signal is received to the time the result of processing that signal is ready. Seti is about raw number crunching power and wouldn't benefit from that. The biggest gain can be had by optimizing the compilation of the science code and using optimized math libraris. This has already been done by some people on this project. The optimized clients are available at http://lunatics.kwsn.net

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