Amiga.org SETI@Home effort

[aMIGA_dUDE]

I don't see a linux RPM. Are there any? Preferably for X11 and not console?

There an simple answer to this question.  Securty, people where sending back spoof reports that had completed an block of data.  Now I am not saying this is not happening now.  It just an lot harder to do.

But if there was RPM then there would be an lot easyer to make an client for Amiga platform.

[aMIGA_dUDE]

The group HammerD is in (and me also) was formed at least 2-3 years ago, I think. This was a little before most of the problems emerged at AI. I don't know where the guy who formed the group (aMIGA dUDE) comes down on all that has happend since then, but I think the description predates much of the squabbling.

Correct, I have no problem with changing the group description. But this isn't correct forum for discustion on this group description.  The groups mailing list is http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/AmiSetiAtHome

If my memory serves me right the group was formed during days of Escom.

The group needs an good web site but I am rubbish at that sort thing.

[aMIGA_dUDE]

If anyone want to talk to me directly, the best way is with Skype.  And my user name is amiga_dude

http://www.skype.com

Now I can only use this at work, so I might not be able to answer always.  Until Telewest installs my broadband connection at home.

[aMIGA_dUDE]

Not at all. Why does everything in the Amiga community end up having to choose sides and competing? There's no point in it.

Gosh some very wise words.  I rembered when started the group and that I was attacked when I mentioned about it.  A few of the RC5 effort members got very upset about it.  They got all up set about the fact that I’ll asked people to join my team and help in SETI@home.  I never mentioned not taking part in RC5 effort; I just posted news that you could be a part of Amiga effort for SETI@home.

My view is simple, it your computer and you use it as you like.  It not for me to tell you how to use your own computer.

[sir_inferno]

well, i've joined :-)

[whabang]

This is freaky! At current speed it would take 27 hours for a single block! :-o
I'm not saying that my Celeron 2.4 GHz is top-of-the-line, but it should at least be on par with an old P3 800 MHz... :-?
Gotta be some setting.

[System]

I've got an Athlon XP 2800 with 512 mb of DDR400 ram and it still appears to take about 4 hours to do one block.  

Wayne

[lordv]

Hello!

I'm interested in porting SETI client on amiga (classic one). Would it be possible to have a such in the near future, what do they say?
I have some experience in optimizing code for different 68k's (mainly 68060), so you can rely on me when helping official SETI team porting client.
For classic amiga hard asm optimizing of innerloops is absolutely necessary here, because all 68ks around are very, very slow for such a task. Even Pentium100 spends days and days calculating ONE chunk of data, God knows what will happen on amiga...

Please anwser to lvd#dgap,mipt,ru ...

Bye...

[whabang]

@Wayne
I Switched to the text-client instead. Cut down time to about 7 hours for a unit. Even then, it seems that the client never used more than four and halv hour of CPU time.
Windows is wierd! :-)

@lordv
Isn't a 060@66 actually faster than a P100? Sure seems much faster to me... (it sure as hell is faster than the old 120 MHz 486 I once had to put up with!)

[JoNty]

What we need are 68K (classic Amiga and Amithlon) and PPC (Blizzard, Cyberstorn, OS 4 and MorphOS) ports, and ideally, native OS 4 and MorphOS ports later on.

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JoNty

[lordv]

@whabang
Formally P100 is faster. Both 060 and pentium have two pipelines, can execute 2 instructions per cycle. Of course lack of registers in pentium makes it some slower, but not too much...