Subject: Re: Classic End is Near
From: John
Date: 25/06/2005, 21:14
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

In article <11br0eba854m6e2@corp.supernews.com>, Gary Heston
<gheston@hiwaay.net> writes

I did spot one person in the At Home top 1000 reporting 00:42:41 per
WU average crunching time, but I suspect that's bogus. The next closest
time I found was 03:42:00 average; I seriously doubt that anyone has
something at home that will do better than 00:45:00 consistently.

What with the new dual, and multi-, core 64 bit Optrons and Xeons, set
up in a dual, or better, configuration. Then the per machine output from
next year, on BOINC is going to be wondrous.

What PC system would complete a S@H Classic WU (AR 0.417) in 45 mins? An
AMD Optron I guess (the 2.2 Ghz ones). Imagine a dual CPU, each being
dual core, crunching Classic. I calculate, using 45 mins per WU, this
beast would be shoving out 128 WUs per day (24/0.75 * 4).

Anyone have an opinion on an average SETI/BOINC WU? Is there such a
standard for comparison, like Classic does?
-- John Clark