"Wally AngleseaT" <wanglese@spbigpondammersareparasites.net.au> wrote in
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seti@home has been going for some time now,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what the average processing time
per unit was back when we began, and if there's a graph of how this
has decreased over time. Purely from an intellectual exercise.

I guess the numbers of users per month has either remained static,
grown or decreased over time, so I'm just interested in if any stat
analysis is worthwhile (outside of the work unit processing of course)
:-))

All I know is that on the first computer I ran Seti on, my average time per

unit was 8 days. It was a Packard Bell with Win 98 and an AMD 333. On my
next computer also with Win 98 and a Pentium III 800 I averaged about 12
hours per unit. Now I run Win XP pro with an AMD Athlon 3000 with the
Bartion Core and average about 3:30 per unit. If chip speeds keep climbing
at this rate I can imagine that in five years a unit may take under 1 hour
to crunch.