I have an Intel PIII, 700 MgH, 128 Mb, Win 98... average WU is 13.5 hours... I am (said it before on this forum) a technological dwarf, but it seems to me that faster is not always better... it has to do with how long it takes to process FLops... CPU efficiency seems dependant on a number of factors, like ratio of cache size to processor speed, etc.
Anyhow, once again, the home page for setispy (for those of us who like pretty pictures) explains this better than I can. http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy (who has directions to other sites for comparison) If you want to increase WU turnover the thing to do seems to be run seti as a DOS command line, and learn to cache work units so that you have something to work on when the server is down, or there are delays/problems connecting. As for students and their games and traffic, I honestly think they have every right. Without them, no Berkeley, no Berkeley, no project... It's so international that peak time traffic there doesn't affect all of us... yet. The more using the Internet, the more will learn to use it productively... I understand that some of you high flyers who counts processed units in tens of thousands and CPU time in years are frustrated but the vast majority of us little people start out with great enthusiam... (I'm wondering when I'll download my 500 certificate...) If you want to put pressure on someone, put pressure on other telescope sites to record data for processing... why not map the whole sky instead of just this part of it? Can someone out there let me know about the gene project? And if I could run that simultaneously? I have a whole lot of power for someone who uses the machine as a glorified typewriter... Ad astra, per arduem. Night night, and to clear skies. Aisling =Unsubscribe instructions: http://www.talkspace.net/mlists/setiathome.html This list sponsored by talkspace.net: building space communities online. Mailing list services provided by klx.communications -- www.klx.com
