Stig Mogensen wrote:

Yep...ben a member for  a year now!

My Pentium4 1,6ghz has been crunching at - I guess - 95% of the time.
I do a WU at 5h 46m. How is it possible that others do >10K WUs
faster than I've done my 1K WUs?

Is it possible that the braggs here, are owed to someone elses
processingpower? Ie, their employer?

Just curious....and a bit discouraged...:-(

Congratulations Stig!

Don't be discouraged my friend, In my first year of SETI I only did about 30
WUs. I joined in '99 and started on a 486 DX2 66, then went up to a Pentium
100, etc. For a lot of the last five years I've been running the GUI
(Screensaver) and it's an inefficient way to crunch. I was using my PC most
of the time, even if it was only a small percentage of it's processing
power, and the rest of the cycles were wasted. I only recently had the
confidence to try the CLI client and since I did my WU throughput increased
four-fold. (The name put me off more than anything, CLI, Command Line
Interface, I didn't want to be typing commands in a DOS-style environment, I
put that behind me years ago. However, I've been using it for a while now
and haven't had to type any DOS-style commands. The Easy SETI CLI package
made it all effortless for me).

I have progressed from one machine. I currently have three PCs on my
account, (and two on my fiancee's account) it's become a bit of a hobby. f/f
george has already mentioned to you that he has 17 machines (a 'farm') at
home, I'm getting a couple more myself soon. It can become an obssesion. <g>
Older machines can be got for low prices, or built, or even donated (Thanks
M). Computer hardware is my hobby (I'm an invalid) and I enjoy
building/fixing PCs. Once I've got them going what am I going to do with
them? Run SETI, that's what! I've donated a few to friends, or for their
children etc. but they want monitors, speakers, CD drives, big HDDs, modems,
OS's and, worst of all, support. :-). It's far easier to just set them up
here, on an ethernet switch and KVM switches or somesuch, and run SETI. It
costs a little electricity but not many hobbies are free.

Some other people have access to PCs at their place of work and install SETI
on those, that's good too. After all, it should, first and foremost be for
the science, not about numbers (although the numbers are fun too).

Everyone who crunches data for SETI is making a valuable contribution,
whether they are crunching two WUs a week or 200 a day.

Keep on crunching Stig, you're doing well. It took me four years to get to
1,000 WUs.

Once again, congratulations!
--
~misfit~