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    SETI Power Growing - but at what rate ?...

    Hi All,

    I installed SETI just before Xmas and have left it running as a my default screen saver

    I have a question...

    With more and more people installing this program all the time...

    ...PLUS machines getting ridiculously powerful...

    ...PLUS bandwidth charges disappearing...

    ...can anyone quantify just how powerful the SETI system is now ?

    Also, with work completed increasing exponentially - when will we finish ?
    (and realise that we were looking for the wrong thing and start all over again )
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    I think there was some mention of it on the old seti@home pages, basically saying they were completing units so much faster than they ever expected, they were starting to reprocess older data looking for other things..
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    So the answer is that we have now searched the known sky - found no intelligent life - and realised that we might have been looking for the wrong thing



    Works for me !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrzej
    Hi All,

    I installed SETI just before Xmas and have left it running as a my default screen saver

    ...BTW, ditch the screensaver version as a workunit will take ages with it, and install the client app instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrzej
    So the answer is that we have now searched the known sky - found no intelligent life - and realised that we might have been looking for the wrong thing



    Works for me !
    Well, not quite, they'd covered most of the visible sky (Aricebo and only see a small slice of the sky, shown as a grey band on the s@h pages), and not all either (because they can only piggyback on whatever Aricebo is upto at the time, so they miss a few bits here and there,), currently 3.8% hasn't been covered at all, 12.4% has been over once, 20.3% twice, and 63.6% has been over 3 or more times.

    http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATE...te_051704.html

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    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/process_page/

    77.2% of the data processed so far

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    What a fantastic project

    Wonder what they will do when they have processed all of the sky thrice and found (presumably) nothing ?

    Humanity has a lot of clock cycles available...

    ...where should we stick them next ?
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    It's not as if there's a shortage of projects competing for your cycles Andrzej. UD, F@H, DF, D2OL or my favourite: FAD, to name but a few.....

    Rich :¬)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rave
    ...projects...
    If only I knew what the all meant
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    UD- United Devices www.grid.org
    F@H- Folding@Home http://folding.stanford.edu/
    DF- Distributed Folding http://www.blueprint.org/proteinfold...ibutedfolding/
    D2OL- Drug Design Optimisation Online http://www.d2ol.com/
    FAD- Find A Drug www.find-a-drug.org

    Out of those only UD has a Hexus team AFAIK. I crunched UD for a couple of years but eventually I switched over to Find-A-Drug when they convinced me that their software was an order of magnitude more efficient than the program UD are using. Find A Drug have actually tested some of the potential drugs they've discovered in the lab and more than 20% of them actually had the anti-cancer properties predicted. I seem to have slipped out of the top 300 unfortunately, I really must pull my finger out and get my dually built now I have all the bits.

    Folding at Home seems to be the stats whore's medical DC project of choice in general. It's also a very interesting project though.

    Rich :¬)
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    Ah don't be a weed Zak. TBH I could wax lyrical for hours about why my chosen project is better than the next man's, but I'd rather you were crunching for an (IMO) inferior project than not crunching at all. Since Hexus has a UD team, join that, see what it's all about, and take it from there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrzej
    Hi All,

    I installed SETI just before Xmas and have left it running as a my default screen saver

    I have a question...

    With more and more people installing this program all the time...

    ...PLUS machines getting ridiculously powerful...

    ...PLUS bandwidth charges disappearing...

    ...can anyone quantify just how powerful the SETI system is now ?

    Also, with work completed increasing exponentially - when will we finish ?
    (and realise that we were looking for the wrong thing and start all over again )
    You do know that the screen saver is a very wastefull way of crunching seti units.

    the cmd line version and seti driver are a better way to crunch wu's

    regards finish, that will never happen there is allmost a endless supplie of data for seti

    for seti driver

    http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/

    for cmd line version of seti

    ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/set...nt-cmdline.exe

    for more information see

    http://forums.teamphoenixrising.net/...34&postcount=3

    http://forums.teamphoenixrising.net/...25&postcount=5

    thanks goes to tpr for the guides above.
    Last edited by Apex; 09-02-2005 at 10:28 PM.



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