~misfit~ wrote:

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~

Hey,

Thank you ;o) I've never run my seti client, in any other environment than
Linux. Right now it's a Gentoo Stage1, with a 2.4.26 vanilla kernel....it's
nice, smooth, fast and stable;o)

I'll keep crunching, and see what my next computerupgrade will do for the
time it takes to process a WU.

Regards,

Stig