posted 05-14-99 03:39 PM ET        

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It's out (finally), download it at Seti@Home

Help search for aliens!

posted 05-16-99 11:58 PM ET            

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Well, **** you

My P100 has been processing for 48 hrs, and is 19% done w/one unit.

Oh, well. I'm getting a new comp this summer. PIII550!

posted 05-17-99 12:02 AM ET            

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Bah! I've downloaded it twice and it won't install. I've resorted to asking someone to download it for me, then sending it my way.

Been waiting for this a long time.

posted 05-17-99 11:02 AM ET            

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Got it working, on my first packet of data, close to ten hours now, at a little over 10% done. With a Pentium 200.

Strange though, when I took the screen saver off, my mouse froze, and I couldn't connect to the internet. A leason there, don't turn on the screen saver, since you'll probally just keep it running in your system tray.

posted 05-18-99 02:13 AM ET            

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I don't know what the problem is, but it has been 25 hours on my, and only 56% done. I'm not running something anemic; I have a PII/350 w/ 128 MB of RAM. I am not doing any processor-intensive stuff; in fact, outside of a few hours of web-browsing and chat (mIRC) I have't used the computer at all.

Bummer.

posted 05-18-99 10:24 AM ET         

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Thanks for the tip guys, Seti@Home is one of the best idea I've ever seen. Getting idle machines to do a useful task instead of running screensavers - Excellent !

Every capable PC in my office is now numbercruching the seti data.

Umbra1: Wondering what would happen if anyone found an ET transmission ?

posted 05-18-99 10:33 AM ET         

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Ha I've found one.

It says "You have five days to lodge an appeal before your world is demolished to make way for the intergalactic highway.

posted 05-18-99 04:58 PM ET            

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Ronbo:

Dunno. It may be that the windows code is inherently less efficient than the *nix code or in some other way be OS dependent.

posted 05-18-99 06:28 PM ET            

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Just so everyone knows, I read on a BBC article about this, that a small "five minute download would provide enough data for a couple days of processing"(paraphrasing).

So, I believe this is normal; the time it's taking to analyze the data.

posted 05-19-99 02:10 PM ET            

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Hey, I put my name in a long time ago, and got no email! No fair.

Spoe, I envy your specs. Fortunately I should be getting a nice new beast myself somewhat soon.

GaryD: I tried to raise the Alpha Centauri Galactic Highway Office, but their reciever must be down. I guess that they'll delay the construction of they hyperspace bypass until they get communications going again... right?

posted 05-24-99 12:57 PM ET            

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Damn, my firm has a firewall with an open port at 8080, not 80.

Did you check out this entry in the top users...

NAME: swoporola
EMAIL: [email protected]
WORK UNITS SENT: 218
WORK UNITS RECEIVED: 213
TOTAL CPU TIME: 27 hr 09 min 31.8 sec
AVERAGE TIME PER PACKET: 0 hr 07 min 39.0 sec

Must be nice to have a Cray...

posted 05-24-99 01:50 PM ET            

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"My average time is 29 hours per unit. I'm running a Celeron 300a (@450) with 128MB of ram and Win98."

I guess this confirms my theory that the *nix versions are inherently more efficient than the windows versions. With my box(300a o/c to 450, 128 Mb, Linux), I'm averaging between 7 and 8 hours per unit(overall at about 13 hours due to mixing in data from my desktop at work).

posted 05-25-99 02:09 PM ET            

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DanS:
Dunno. Last time I worked on a Sun OS it was SunOS 4.03(IIRC, the version of SunOS before Solaris was released), during the transition from a BSD-based system to SYS5(again, IIRC. It may have been the other direction) on a SparcStation IPC. That was hardly a speed demon, though a switch to gcc instead of the then-bundled Sun cc increased performance substantially(IIRC in the neighborhood of 10-20%. Of course it had no effect on I/O performance, etc.).

Since then I've worked a little with HP-UX, Digital Unix, FreeBSD, linux, NeXT(on genuine NeXT hardware).

posted 05-28-99 09:30 PM ET            

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I finally have it, though it may take me as long as 80 hours to get that first unit processed.

I suggest we get together and form a team of people from the forums.

posted 05-28-99 11:15 PM ET            

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That would be good. Who's going to form the team?

So far, I have 14 or 15 units completed, thanks to the computers at my school (iMacs rule! =)