Distributed computing experiments
Distributed computing experiments
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hornet

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6,333 posts

274 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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Anyone here ever joined up to a distributed computing project? I've been reading about SETI and how you can
lend your processing power to their network to help with the number crunching (as much as you can on a desktop PC) and I like the sound of it. Trouble is, when I try and find something UK based to possibly get involved in (probably involving cosmology and/or particle physics), everything goes geeky and I don't understand a word of it!

Anyone here ever done this sort of thing?

DevDog

165 posts

278 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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I've been a member of Seti@home for just over 5 years now. in that time I have processed 1608 units for what its worth. I belong to a group called 'Lookers' Lol I not quite sure whether or not I want them to get a result

slinky

15,704 posts

273 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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Aye, I ran SETI for a while, and then ran a cancer cure search app..

Rebuilt my machine and haven't got around to re-installing either...

Have a look here for a list of current projects..

slinky

m-five

12,142 posts

308 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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I'm running SETI@Home and doing a unit every 2hr40m.

I am also running Folding@Home on the second processor.

Muncher

12,235 posts

273 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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Used to run Seti@Home, did over 1,000 units for team OcUK, no longer bother now.

tuffer

8,970 posts

291 months

Thursday 2nd September 2004
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Caught a guy at my last company who had kindly installed this crap on all of the servers that he looked after......Your own CPU's and bandwidth are one thing but the companies are for MP3's only!!!

arcturus

1,497 posts

287 months

Friday 3rd September 2004
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Running SETI here. Crunching 1203rd unit.

agent006

12,058 posts

288 months

Friday 3rd September 2004
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Whoozit

3,865 posts

293 months

Friday 3rd September 2004
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I've done a few hundred SETI units. I happened to notice last night that I've apparently used over 10,000 hours of CPU time - that's, erm, a lot!

xsaravtr

801 posts

286 months

Saturday 4th September 2004
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1064 SETi Units with over 9.5k hours!!!

m-five

12,142 posts

308 months

Sunday 5th September 2004
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1016 units in just over 3000 hours here, and I only joined last October, and only run it on weekends when I can safely leave the Mac on!

>> Edited by m-five on Sunday 5th September 16:56