Posts by Uwe Mock

1) Message boards : Number crunching : How fast does my computer need to be to be useful? (Message 387586)
Posted 3 Aug 2006 by Profile Uwe Mock
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Actually, given the amount of credit you've got and the number of computers attached to your account, you're taking this pretty seriously - it's probably worth starting to read the BOINC Wiki to get some more in-depth understanding of what's going on.


Many thanks for your explanation. I will look at Boinc-Wiki but after all it's only a hobby for me. :)

I am able to provide Seti with about 20 computers which are running nearly permanently. I have done this for about six years. I don't think that this is something special. Many others have done the same or far more. :)

Sorry again that I told Athenjan200 that 4 to 8 Seconds are telescopetime. That was wrong. ;)[Now I know]

Greetings,
Uwe
2) Message boards : Number crunching : How fast does my computer need to be to be useful? (Message 387387)
Posted 3 Aug 2006 by Profile Uwe Mock
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That's not true. Each workunit is data from 107 seconds of staring at the sky. This has nothing to do with how many seconds of work is requested. If even one second of work is requested, the Boinc Manager will receive a full workunit (when it can). Computation time has nothing to do with data collection time from the sky.


So what do those 4 to 8 or any other number of seconds mean? Sorry if I told it wrong. Thought it was right. ;)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : How fast does my computer need to be to be useful? (Message 387329)
Posted 3 Aug 2006 by Profile Uwe Mock
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I just noticed something about the runtimes on the work units. When fetching the work units, it says that it's fetching like 4 to 8 seconds of work. But my computer takes like, 1 to 7 hours to process it. I'm just wondering, is my computer too slow, and actually bogging down the SETI project rather than contributing anything? It's an Athlon XP 3200+, with 512MB of memory, with a smaller shell replacing explorer.exe, and no applications besides Internet Explorer, and occasionally Outlook running. (That's why I haven't upgraded my RAM yet, I just don't need any more performance). So tell me, is there a possiblity that my computer is actually bogging the project down?



When you fetch 4 to 8 seconds of work this means that the Arecibo radiotelescope has listened 4 to 8 seconds into the sky. That is plenty of work to analyse. ;)

Your computer is fast enough to do work for SETI.





 
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