Anyone for an Amiga.Org SETI@Home group?

[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.

[cecilia]

I'd only want this for the Peg. I am NOT going to keep my laptop on all the time. not a good idea.

[blobrana]

Hum,

OR....

You could try `seti monitor` that will download a heap of units at once, and feed them one at a time to seti...

(It`s a bit like a plasma reservoir/magazine for a standard plasma rifle)

And once all your units are processed it uploads them , and downloads a refill...

WEBSITE HERE:
http://www.zrlm.com/highstress/setimon/

[Well, i like it]

[blobrana]

@Cyberus

Hum, just took a look at my CPU usage...(normal set up) 4 firewalls, win-amp 5 playing mp3, two browser windows open, and seti running...all the processes take up 3 - 8%...the other
 (mostly) 97% is spare...(but soaked up by seti).

And i`m running 1024 x 768 32bit, with ALL the features turned on in XP Pro...



Unfortunaly seti usage  drops down to 75% when i launch WinUAE...(As well)..

[Dalamar]

Amiga.Org SETI Group

[blobrana]

Maybe it`s my connection...
but i cant seen to join...
not found page comes up....


I`ll try later

[Dalamar]

Strange, it seems to be working right now.  Ah well perhaps their magic scripts have to run for a bit in the background.

:-)

[blobrana]

Hum,
It worked that time....












[Bot Automated reply]

I joined, does that count?

Wayne

[sumner7]

Wayne wrote:
I joined, does that count?

Wayne

I think it does :-)

[whabang]

Is there any client which uses the DSP of SoundBlaster live! cards for SETI@home?

I joined BTW.

[blobrana]

Hum,
that`s an intriguing idea...

But are the chips too slow, er, compared to the graphic processors?
(i suppose that you could program any chip to process the seti unit)

Or did i pick that up wrong?

(you want to listen to SETI?)

[whabang]

Nope, but if one could exploit the additional power availible in the SB's DSP (which isn't used except for 3d-gaming, basically) the total processing speed would increase.