I reckon I'm not the only one here who uses it, or has used it over the years.
Join Opelaus Fourms ;)
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_...?teamid=139179
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I reckon I'm not the only one here who uses it, or has used it over the years.
Join Opelaus Fourms ;)
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_...?teamid=139179
I was looking into this a while ago but couldnt find it, cheers pete
LOL - forgot about this - years ago I had every computer in a pharmacy I used to work in running Seti @ home - had some huge stats because they would all be churning away 24hrs a day 7 days a week.... Will have to get it going on the computers at work - maybe even on our server - nothing like some Quad Core unit processing!!!!
wtf is it??????
hehehe nice work :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vectracious
it searches for aliens ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hazrd
It uses spare CPU time to "decode" "jobs" sent to your computer via the Seti@home server. Main information page is here http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Quote:
Originally Posted by poita
You need a client program developed by the university called BOINC. Once this is on the computer or computers, it downloads jobs from the Seti server and when your screensaver starts, the action begins.
It's run by Berkeley University in California.
As there is some people who are iffy about this kind of stuff, no it isn't Spam or Spyware and no it doesn't burn your bandwidth from your internet connection.
i actually though u were kiddingQuote:
Originally Posted by poita
interesting, bandwidth doesnt worry me, i dont have a big enough hard drive, external, or enough dvd's to use mine :p. go the 80 gig cap :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kudrow
although the same goes for having enough hdd to d/l the file or run it :(.
maybe when i get a decent size external i will ;), tb external all the way :).
lol i was 100% seriousQuote:
Originally Posted by Neeko
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) ;)
Too busy curing cancer to hunt for little green men right now :)
(Folding@Home)
interesting read... probably not something i want to participate in though lol
+1 ps3 FTWQuote:
Originally Posted by mania
Joined. :D
for me, its using 40MB of space, has been since I installed it ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by auzvectra
yer i run folding on my PS3 also ;)
within boinc itself you can run multiple types
so can have seti & folding running 50/50 :)
damn it Pete, youve got me obsessed again - got both the laptop and pc at home running it, and have installed it already on 3 of the newer computers at work (all Core 2 Duos @ 2.83GHz :D :D )
dunno if I want to chuck it on the server just yet - unless I change the affinities because our dispensing program will only hit on one processor. (its old and crap and designed in the days of 486's.... :( )
running on 5 computers!!
nice work pete
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Originally Posted by Vectracious
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Originally Posted by poita
:l33t:
im still trying to understand how this benefits you though.... does the screensaver do anything fancy while its chugging away?
no benefit to you at all.
think of it as helping the good of the world.
and the screensaver gives you pretty colours and graphs and stuff
theres a lot of other projects you can be part of as well - like studying global warming, or analysing proteins to help treat disease and others. If you leave your computer on all the time and it spends a lot of time doing nothing (eg at work) might as well get it to do something while its just sitting there... :)
Should note that all of these cost $150 or so per decent computer a year to run in power costs... course if it's not your power bill, go for it :)
i leave my computer on 24/7 anyway, so no big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by mania
im sure the 800w psu doesnt use that much :p
and as pete said, he has it on his work computers, which are on all of the time.
also its not like we are forcing ppl to use it.
its something i use, and wanted to know if anyone else used it.
Bloody hell poita...800W PSU...WTF are you running???? I only have a 500W in mine and thats plenty...however would love something large to chew through my power bill lol
im kinda pre empting my upgrade.
currently: 3ghz amd dual core, 4gb ram, 8800gt, 4 x 320gb hard drives, and about 8 fans.
2 x tv tuners, card reader, dvd burner in a coolermaster cosmo case ;)
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Originally Posted by poita
:picsorban: lol
on a side note if you don't mind me asking...what brand is your 800W?? What price did you pay. Sorry bit off topic I know
I was talking about the difference between a cpu idling, 0-2W, and a cpu going flat stick, which these days is 100W+. If you have the video card working too... that can be another 100W+ that I didn't factor in. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by poita
Not that major, but it certainly adds up!
have also created an OpelAus Forums group for Rosetta@home.
for those who wish to put there cpu processin time to good use
damn will need to get all the other pcs in the pharmacy to run the Rosetta@Home project :DQuote:
Originally Posted by poita
Anyone still running either of these?
no, not anymore, stopped them years ago.
they're not gonna find anything anyway... should be looking locally, aliens made contact decades ago... :lol:
/notjoking
Aliens are here already. My PS3 still runs something but no idea. It just ticks over in the corner.
That would be folding@home ;)
Yeah...Thats the one :)
Maybe its my laptop at home that has Seti@home.... :lol:
so have installed BOINC on one of the back office computers at work again.....
So still running this, anyone else?
Read through it and have no idea what it is, what it does, what you can do with it or what benefit it has. :)