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| Personal background |
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| I use this account for several home computers and others i run that process seti@home work units. I'm a student studying Electrical & Electronic Eng at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. I work in my spare time as a self-employed website designer with a friend, we have done several websites for local busineses and some not-so-local ones. I have just set up a group (Creation Kings) so as my partner in crime can add his work unit totals to mine. I'm busy messing about with websites and trying to get my Seti Queue server working just right for my network and run reporting for network progress. I havn't had time to do the group site yet but it will be at http://www.creationkings.co.uk/seti when i'm done. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Seti@home. Well what else can i say.
Great in so many ways,
ET-life: in this large universe with infinite possibilities its gotta exist.
problems: unless someone is broadcasting a hulluva strong signal its possible it will degrade so far as to be undetectable before it reaches us :(
transmitting a beacon: not worth the trouble and large amounts of power.
seti@home keeps my cpu's busy. stops them thinking they have an easy life. also gives an idea of relative system performance.
eg, new athlon xp 1900 cpu. hmm in general use is it faster than a PII 450?
not really. a bit but hardly noticable.
now throw a seti work unit at it.
3 and a bit hours or 13 and a bit hours on average.
ok so there is a big difference. 99% of the athlon's time is spent processing a seti unit when i use it for anything but gaming (then it drops to about 8%)
the Pentium II only had about 10% tops spare for seti when i'm using it. when it sits on its own it can crack out about 90% or so.
suggestions:
if u run windows, focus on the command line client. esp under XP, get seti-service to run it. it improves processing times by 80% in some cases over the windows client.
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