"Gonzo" <james@FUCKSPAMFUCKzerblattzoo.co.uk> wrote

"Nicholas" <crfreaks@yahoo.com> wrote

Depending on how fast the cpu's are, NOT how many,,, also depends on

what

arc they are build on, how much Cache memory per cpu,, seti Does not

support

muti CPU's so if they ran 18,000 seti's i would say each one would take
about, 2 hours to complet.. Thats 216,000 wu in one day

one of the computers we use for rendering at my company has 8x ahtlon xp
cpus and we found this out the hard way ... i was quite annoyed seti

doesnt

support multi cpus as it has a combined speed of 17.6ghz. each cpu does a

wu

in about 3 hours which translates into a mere 192 a day assuming it has

all

that free cpu time. if seti did support multi cpus it would take maybe 7

1/2

mins per wu. will BOINC support multi cpus?

BOINC supports multiple CPUs but only in the same way as now - ie. it runs
multiple copies rather than a single multithreaded app.

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...
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