Subject: Re: seti@home classic for mac
From: Douglas Hornick
Date: 19/09/2005, 14:15
Newsgroups: sci.astro.seti,alt.sci.seti




On 9/19/05 6:52 PM, in article jTvXe.9434$st1.7964@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net,
"Martin 53N 1W" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

DougH wrote:
Douglas Hornick wrote:
[...]
Mac G4 and would like to run classic on it also.  Could someone upload
[...]
Why old classic?

There's now a Mac-optimised Boinc-s@h client available. Much faster using
the PPC Altivec extensions.

...And apple libraries and a few more tweaks. See:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=20237

Now gives x2 to x4 (!!!!) speedup!


wanted to throw another computer onto the system to push my ranking up a

Good luck for the stats race.

In days of old, Berkeley usually left all the old versions in their
download directory even if they weren't linked to from the web page.
Have you taken a look there?

Happy crunchin',
Martin

The only thing I`ve found so far is the download link on the web site and
it`s all BOINC software.  I`ll need to do some looking around to discover an
alternate download directory on their servers.

DougH