On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:14:39 -0400, Michael Ravnitzky
<mikerav@mindspring.com> wrote:

The SETI@Home FAQ is fantastic and informative, but...

Can Anyone Answer These Questions Not Answered on the SETI@Home FAQ?

A)  What is the fastest computer known to run SETI@HOME now?  (Could you
tell by the work unit productivity?)

Many teams have benchmarks using a standard  AR 0.417 WU
e.g.
http://www.orifice.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

B)  Has anyone heard of anyone taking a supercomputer or a very fast
mainframe and hooked it up to the system to plow through work units in a
bloc of unused processor time?

There aren't clients written for it, the most you can do is run it in
parralel on a multi CPU machine, or have a "Farm" of computers all
crunching separate units at once.

C)  What is the rate at which users are signing up at SETI@HOME?

Think there are stats for that at b0rkeley

D)  What is the rate at which users drop out of SETI@HOME?

dunno

E)  Who is the individual user who has tapped into the most individual
computers for SETI@HOME?

See the Ministry of Serendipity the #1 user in the seti charts, thats
an unknown number of machines but they are putting out 10K WU's a day
so I'd say on average a low spec P4 can put out about 6 or 7  WU's a
day so they have aprox 1500 computers at their disposal.

F)  What are the other most popular distributed computing programs, and have
they had any results?

dunno

G)  Since there are a lot of government SETI@Home groups, is there a U.S.
Government policy on the use of government computers for SETI@Home? (yes I
realize that many of the computers are at-home computers rather than office
computers, but there are likely still quite a few chugging away at work)

dunno

H)  How frequently or infrequently do Windows users actually put their
SETI@home tasks on real time (highest task priority)?

Hopefully never all it gives you is a non-responsive computer, seti
will grab all the cycles it can on low priority, and people who run
farms don't run anything else on their computers except an OS and seti
so seti gets 100%
-- 
 Adam Edwards