Seti@home / boinc

Anyone else processing Seti work units?

for those of you who don't know what SETI is, visit here http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

We used to have a SETI team:
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=34768

Yeah, i'm doing SETI. (check out sig!) :D as of 1137 UTC on 11 Sep 04 i have done 26 units with 101 hr, 53 min, 32.7 sec processing time. I'm 58.145% thru my current unit in 2 hr 27 min 30 sec.

I've only just started.
5 units in 49hours & 12minutes.

Running on a 2.4GHz Celeron with 256mb RAM

I've tried to use the BOINC client, so I can download multiple work units. Can't seem to get it to work though :-\

I used to run it. It' has been a long time since I don't run it...
Has anybody here found something? Does SETI tell you if the program finds something or it just sends the information? I guess this last...
It'd be cool that someday you look at your screen with a ETI signal found... Just as payment for the hundreds of hours you spent processing SETI units... :D

What makes you think you are really searching for extra terrestrial intelligence? I've always figured SETI is a front for the NSA and that this seti@home package is just the NSA duping people into code cracking for them

:-\

Used to run it back at a previous company (had a bunch of people doing it).

Interesting you should mention it - Dan Wertheimer is one of the chief guys working on the SETI@home project... he was my electronics and programming instructor in high school!

What makes you think you are really searching for extra terrestrial intelligence? I've always figured SETI is a front for the NSA and that this seti@home package is just the NSA duping people into code cracking for them

:-\


Maybe we should start a conspiracy theories thread?? :chuckle:

Maybe we should start a conspiracy theories thread?? :chuckle:

Well ya know.. seems to me that a seti "packet" was a few hundred kilobytes, right? Thats not much data - yet you take half a day or longer to process it (depending on CPU) - now I'm no expert in signal processing but I've written some DFT routines and while its slow, its simply not THAT slow. Also, it was several years ago that seti announced that they had more than enough people running seti@home, which means theres tons of spare cpu cycles these days.
What are they doing with it?

Dammit Rookoon you figured us out...


Why is it whenever we here at the NSA have a good Idea to get nerds with Nice PC's at home to process our codecracking that SOMEONE allways has to figure it out... Oh well, I guess we'll just have to go back to our old standby. Gestapo Techniques...

~~NSA Agent Frog, Kermit D Frog...



PS f'real, I used to run SETI on like- all my various computers, my 3.3 ghz athalon, my 2.6 ghz pent 4, and my old p3 500 mhz. I think I processed a total of 7 or 800 packets a week. I ran it for like a month then got annoyed when I hadn't found anything intresting. I did find several Bell Curves tho- that was kinda wierd...

Maybe I should pick up the SETI thing again. I saw it at the Museum of Science the other day. just before seeing the Tesla Coil Demonstration (5 stars, it was frikkin awesome...)

~~Kermy

I've given up on it already :whoops:

I use objectdock (from www.wincustomize.com) as my task bar. It's quite CPU thirsty when you hover over it, and so crashes when SETI@Home is running :mad:

And if I set SETI@Home to be my screensaver, it goes to the blank screen then goes back to the desktop.

I've only done about 5 units, so haven't got very far really! :-\

Nevermind. Bring on the next fad :D

Maybe one of us motivated VB programmers can write up some sort of "fad" screensaver which lends CPU time to some big Extreme VB project.