Anyone for an Amiga.Org SETI@Home group?

[Cyberus]

Yeah, why not? I used to do this on my uni computer as it was on 24/7, but that was a while ago. Why not, this computer I'm using now's on most of the day (and night!). Was tempted to do one of the cancer ones...oh well

[Cyberus]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
reading that has made me realise that some ppl may think that you need to be connected permanently to do seti work...you just need to download a 340 k `unit` , and can disconnect after that, only reconnecting to download another unit...
And it only takes up SPARE CPU cycles, so you could be doing work at the same time...OR...You could just run it as a screen-saver, only doing it`s job while in screen-saver mode...

True, but it is still more worthwhile for users whose computers are on most of the time, since there will be long periods when the processor is idle, such as when the user is asleep :-) I would leave my computer at uni on over christmas, for example, and all that time it was doing SETI, permanently connected to the internet so it could carry on downloading units.