SETI@home. Worthwhile or waste of CPU time?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm still doing SETI and QuakeCatcher because I'm hoping to find intelligent life in this Universe before the Big One hits Missouri.

[RPizzle]

I'm still doing SETI and QuakeCatcher because I'm hoping to find intelligent life in this Universe before the Big One hits Missouri.

Come on...you know you want to cure Alzheimers, muscular dystrophy, influenzas, and various other diseases.

[AshtonBlack]

I do seti at home. Occasionally, but I'm such a CPU hog.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I do seti at home. Occasionally, but I'm such a CPU hog.

I have SETI on my laptop, in the other room where I'm not tempted to run two keyboards at once. In here I have SETI and QuakeCatcher.

[AshtonBlack]

I do seti at home. Occasionally, but I'm such a CPU hog.

I have SETI on my laptop, in the other room where I'm not tempted to run two keyboards at once. In here I have SETI and QuakeCatcher.

My time spent towards SETI is inversely proportional to my personal CPU time. Which is a lot.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I do seti at home. Occasionally, but I'm such a CPU hog.

I have SETI on my laptop, in the other room where I'm not tempted to run two keyboards at once. In here I have SETI and QuakeCatcher.

My time spent towards SETI is inversely proportional to my personal CPU time. Which is a lot.

Do you leave your machine running when you're sleeping? Do you have BOINC set to start computing at 1 minute of idle time?

[FBM]

for newbies to get a look at folding@home...

I've risen to 33rd in the RDF team rankings already...

Right now, you are the 10th top producer of science on the team. You can only go up and up and up!

I'm not sure if you've seen this, but if you are as nerdy as I am, here is the team link which tracks all of the data:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=75655

Whoa! 10th, am I? OK, I looked at that page, but I think I'd have to go back to college to learn how to decipher most of it. But I did find the place where it showed that I'm the 10th top producer...

Anyway, ego aside, it'd be nice to help put an ass-whoopin' on adolescent leukemia and a few other particularly nasty diseases.

[RPizzle]

for newbies to get a look at folding@home...

I've risen to 33rd in the RDF team rankings already...

Right now, you are the 10th top producer of science on the team. You can only go up and up and up!

I'm not sure if you've seen this, but if you are as nerdy as I am, here is the team link which tracks all of the data:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... s=&t=75655

Whoa! 10th, am I? OK, I looked at that page, but I think I'd have to go back to college to learn how to decipher most of it. But I did find the place where it showed that I'm the 10th top producer...

Anyway, ego aside, it'd be nice to help put an ass-whoopin' on adolescent leukemia and a few other particularly nasty diseases.

Agreed! Plus, I have a personal vandetta against "Nerds for Jesus" for obvious reasons. How dare Jesus nerds fold more proteins than us!

[FBM]

Agreed! Plus, I have a personal vandetta against "Nerds for Jesus" for obvious reasons. How dare Jesus nerds fold more proteins than us!

Speaking of the "Nerds for Jeebus", are we catching up with them? Last I saw, we were WAY behind...

[RPizzle]

Agreed! Plus, I have a personal vandetta against "Nerds for Jesus" for obvious reasons. How dare Jesus nerds fold more proteins than us!

Speaking of the "Nerds for Jeebus", are we catching up with them? Last I saw, we were WAY behind...

We have double their output, but they have 13 million more points. Our overtake time is 11.7 months. They are Rank 202, so we'll be heading towards the top tier by that point.

[FBM]

Agreed! Plus, I have a personal vandetta against "Nerds for Jesus" for obvious reasons. How dare Jesus nerds fold more proteins than us!

Speaking of the "Nerds for Jeebus", are we catching up with them? Last I saw, we were WAY behind...

We have double their output, but they have 13 million more points. Our overtake time is 11.7 months. They are Rank 202, so we'll be heading towards the top tier by that point.

I think I can keep all my machines running for a year. May even add more before then.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm calling POE here. The subject line says "waste of CPU time", but BOINC only runs when the computer is idle. So the wasted time is the time between the user dozing off at the keyboard and the time BOINC starts.

[FBM]

I'm calling POE here. The subject line says "waste of CPU time", but BOINC only runs when the computer is idle. So the wasted time is the time between the user dozing off at the keyboard and the time BOINC starts.

a) You have the option of letting the program run uninterrupted, and

b) I would often leave the machine on just to let it crunch numbers for SETI.

Thus, extra CPU time...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm calling POE here. The subject line says "waste of CPU time", but BOINC only runs when the computer is idle. So the wasted time is the time between the user dozing off at the keyboard and the time BOINC starts.

a) You have the option of letting the program run uninterrupted, and

b) I would often leave the machine on just to let it crunch numbers for SETI.

Thus, extra CPU time...

I leave both mine on all the time. Seti has free run at least eight hours a day. 135,000 credits in the last 18 months. No B.E.M.s, however. :sad:

[AshtonBlack]

I'm calling POE here. The subject line says "waste of CPU time", but BOINC only runs when the computer is idle. So the wasted time is the time between the user dozing off at the keyboard and the time BOINC starts.

I have my own number crunching to do in "downtime". (I'd say about 70% of the downtime) Only then does SETI get a look in.