I downloaded Seti At home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu). It's kinda cool... the prorgam uses my CPU power to analyse radio frequency data to find ... well you know :) I feel so good since I am contributing to the scientific community. I will recommend people to download it and let not your CPU power be idle too much :) Use if for something useful... besides it's a pretty cool scree saver too....

With my Celeron 300A overclocked to 450, It took me average about 32-33 hours to complete one unit of data ... Took so long :( :( Anybody runs this program on a better processor? How fast do you complete one unit of data?

Anyhow... try it out :D

cheers,
:beer:

Hey,
Me has been using it for about 6-8mths now. Its a RAM hog, so I deleted it :(. Never got around checking the time taken per unit though. Hmm.. I guess I will get back and check up :)

I used to run it as well but wasn't happy that it was taking all my CPU and most of my RAM.
I was doing units in 4-6 hours on an Athlon 800

Originally posted by JamesUS
I used to run it as well but wasn't happy that it was taking all my CPU and most of my RAM.

But... they only run as a scree saver, right? I don't feel any performance differences.... eventhough I actually let them run every moment as a background program... Probably because I don't run any CPU intensive program at home?

cheers,
:beer:

I had that on my comp for a while. Being a 366 PII laptop, I'd wander off and let SETI do it's thing only to come back an hour or so later and feel the keyboard hot enough to fry an egg on. Needless to say it went out the door. I have friends who use it and like it (they have a desktop), though even they say the newer version is starting to get a little hungry for CPU speed and time.

It's a great project idea, but unless you're operating with all cylinders wide open I'd reconsider the life expectancy of your computer.

Greg Moore

I recently downloaded the screen savor... it's pretty cool and it doesn't take too much of my 192 MB of RAM up because it only is activated when I'm away from my computer. I recommend it for everyone. :)

I used to run it, I was doing units ni 11-12 hours on a Celeron 550, I have Dual CPU so I didn't notice it hogging CPU as it only uses 1 CPU fully anway.

I stopped running it a long time ago and moved to Distributed.net which I ran in fits and starts but don't anymore.

While we are on the topic, does anyone know of some cooooool screen savers for Windows? :)