Seti@home

[Vincent]

The link on the left should be http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

I pm'd Wayne about it a while ago but just kept forgetting to see if he'd changed it.  Looks like he might've forgotten :-)

[Vincent]

There is no link on the left anymore.

When did that happen?

[Vincent]

@X-Ray

Good to see you're back on the project again :-)

With my Sempron 2600+ I average about 3 hours, but the occasional one can easily reach 6 hours.

Although the one that's being done now is 6 hours 55 minutes in and it's only done 54% :-o

[Vincent]

Thankfully I read your second post before answering :-D

Not much difference between your 2.2GHz and my 1.8GHz then.

I would've expected a bit more out of 2.2GHz, but then it could be different to translate as you're running dual core instead of one 2.2GHz chip.

Interesting all the same :-)

[Vincent]

I would've expected a bit more out of 2.2GHz, but then it could be different to translate as you're running dual core instead of one 2.2GHz chip.

Forgot to say I run mine constantly in the background when the PC is on.

About 12 hours of work gets done a day, about 7 or 8 of that is probably when there's a lot of other stuff going on.

[Vincent]

Every day or so I have a quick gander at Boinc to see what type it's doing.

Not an error like you've had, but some of my results have been completely off.

God knows how I got that client error on the 12th May though, maybe that was something like this new one.

[Vincent]

PlayStation 3 tackles world ills:

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.

Sony has teamed up with US biologists who already run the distributed computing project, folding@home (FAH).

The project harnesses the capacity of thousands of PCs to examine how the shape of proteins, critical to most biological functions, affect disease.

FAH say a network of PS3's will allow performance similar to supercomputers.

With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.

If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.

Wonder how long it'll be before there's a BOINC port ;-)