Rogue9 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 So who out there is still doing Seti, I'm up to 5,707 units completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I'm getting close to 300... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue9 Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 I changed to a more active team too since almost no one on the xwa team even came to the forums any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 Just added a 3rd comp (2 iMacs at work, and a P3 933) I might hook up my downstairs PC... but it's so slow already the additional performance drain might make it unusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Originally posted by Rogue9 So who out there is still doing Seti, I'm up to 5,707 units completed. Waste of friken time its not even a good screensaver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 You're not running a command line version? What a waste of processor cycles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legameboy Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 What's a seti? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Something about searching for alien life and stuff. I don't really remember... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ One of the first mass-computing experiments. Donate your unused and otherwise wasted computer CPU cycles to process radio-telescope data in the search of extraterrestrial, intellegent, technologically-advanced life-forms in other parts of the galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue9 Posted July 21, 2003 Author Share Posted July 21, 2003 Originally posted by Scar Da Kookee Waste of friken time its not even a good screensaver the screen saver wastes processor cycles so I don't use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 SETI@Home = Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence at Home. In other words, what edlib said. I really have no idea what processor cycles are, incidentally. ^^;; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 processing unit with the shape of a cycle .. .. ?? think of REcycling .. only that you dont cycle REs .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 o.O Now I'm even more confused... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 a proc needs to perform certain steps do achive 1 'action' in the runnig OS/App .. (just see it that simple) .. e.g. get next Programcount, get the command, load caches & registers etc .. all this is ONE cycle .. And according to the POWER (=workingspeed = Number of cycles/ interval ..) of your proc there are (almost always) some FREE cycles left by the OS, especially if you are doing NOTHING .. (hey .. i dont say you do nothing .. ) so seti@home does nothing else but upload some small exe or what and some data to CALCULATE .. it runs in the BG and just uses the CYCLES which are not needed by your system .. and then if you are online next time calculated data will be exchanged with new uncalculated data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I've noticed a few new names in the XWA SETI group. I can't place the names with user names here though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 i think noone has seen a seti yet.. how can there be a whole group .. Xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue9 Posted July 22, 2003 Author Share Posted July 22, 2003 had a few friends join it, there probably still running the program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 Ahh... OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
access_flux Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 .924% done. 0 units completed. i got so bored i thought i would join up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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