"Canopus" wrote:

... Then I noticed it was going to take 2887hrs+ to complete the Climate 
Change experiment and as it had preempted SETI, I suspended it and let 
SETI resume.  All's well now.

Well...

Looks like my 1.4 GHz Celeron is going to take 3300 hours to complete a 
"Sulfur" work unit.  You must have a 1.5 GHz Pentium.

They gave me a year to complete the work unit.  Should take less than half a 
year.  No reason not to complete it.  I think I'll make that my deadline to 
build a 3 GHz dual core, 2 MB cache x 2.  Newegg sells the microprocessor 
for $200, without hyperthreading.  Add hyperthreading, and the uP goes up to 
$1000.  See if I can get the new computer running before the present work 
unit completes.

Last I heard, you should be able to log into your account on the 
ClimatePrediction (CP) website, and allocate your desired percentages to 
your selected projects.  Boinc does other things too, last I heard.  Boinc 
may have determined that your CP project was running behind, and devoted 
processor power to it to catch it up.  That's probably what your last 
computer-hijacking was about.

When I had the choice, I devoted my lowly processor to CP, and gave up SETI. 
Seemed like more of a realistic prioritization.

I've also been confused by the BBC thing.  OK the different branding, etc. 
I guess they never heard the one about, "... It doesn't matter who gets the 
credit, as long as the work gets done."

Happy crunching.

-Neil-