Seti@home

[poita]

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!!!!

hehehe nice work

wtf is it??????

it searches for aliens

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[Kudrow]

hehehe nice work



it searches for aliens

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/.

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.

[auzvectra]

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/.

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.

interesting, bandwidth doesnt worry me, i dont have a big enough hard drive, external, or enough dvd's to use mine . go the 80 gig cap .

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 .

[glider]

interesting, bandwidth doesnt worry me, i dont have a big enough hard drive, external, or enough dvd's to use mine . go the 80 gig cap .

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 .

for me, its using 40MB of space, has been since I installed it

[poita]

yer i run folding on my PS3 also

within boinc itself you can run multiple types
so can have seti & folding running 50/50

[Vectracious]

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 )

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.... )

[poita]

running on 5 computers!!

nice work pete

[Neeko]

hehehe nice work



it searches for aliens

i actually though u were kidding

[poita]

i actually though u were kidding

lol i was 100% serious

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

[mania]

Too busy curing cancer to hunt for little green men right now

(Folding@Home)