Any witch whey you look at it, SETI will not be using CPU cycles unless you allow it. So why not allow it to use dead time?AshtonBlack wrote: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.Gawdzilla wrote: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.
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Re: SETI@home. Worthwhile or waste of CPU time?
Agreed, really. I was just thinking that the odds of SETI finding ET were a lot less than folding@home finding a cure for something. Finding ET is more appealing to me emotionally in some ways, but I decided to forego that romantic appeal and switch to folding@home. Meh. Both are good things to do.Gawdzilla wrote:Any witch whey you look at it, SETI will not be using CPU cycles unless you allow it. So why not allow it to use dead time?AshtonBlack wrote: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.Gawdzilla wrote: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.
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Re: SETI@home. Worthwhile or waste of CPU time?
It does.Gawdzilla wrote:Any witch whey you look at it, SETI will not be using CPU cycles unless you allow it. So why not allow it to use dead time?AshtonBlack wrote: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.Gawdzilla wrote: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.
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Re: SETI@home. Worthwhile or waste of CPU time?
PS3 nerds can download the folding at home app too, it helps me feel less wasteful pissing away my time playing games.
As for SETI, I love the idea but it seems to me that we are unlikely to be searching at just the right time for the surface of an expanding bubble of radio waves to be passing through our area. However, I do recall hearing that SETI has resulted in some good scientific discoveries, something along the line of previously unkown types of signals eventually being explained as new phenomena, types of stars, or something (citation definitely needed).
Edit: one example anyway
As for SETI, I love the idea but it seems to me that we are unlikely to be searching at just the right time for the surface of an expanding bubble of radio waves to be passing through our area. However, I do recall hearing that SETI has resulted in some good scientific discoveries, something along the line of previously unkown types of signals eventually being explained as new phenomena, types of stars, or something (citation definitely needed).
Edit: one example anyway
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Folding@home support thread...
I wonder if this will change the title of the thread... 
Edit: Nope. Mods?
Edit: Nope. Mods?
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Re: Folding@home support thread...
Can't you edit the OP? If not, I will do it for you - you can only edit posts for a short while after making them, to stop people deleting their whole history.FBM wrote:I wonder if this will change the title of the thread...
Edit: Nope. Mods?
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Re: Folding@home support thread...
Unless I'm missing something, nope. I guess the time limit has passed on the OP...do you mind? Or do you think I should made a separate thread for supporting folding@home?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Can't you edit the OP? If not, I will do it for you - you can only edit posts for a short while after making them, to stop people deleting their whole history.FBM wrote:I wonder if this will change the title of the thread...
Edit: Nope. Mods?
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Re: Folding@home support thread...
Yeah - that's probably better. A lot of this one is about SETI.FBM wrote:Unless I'm missing something, nope. I guess the time limit has passed on the OP...do you mind? Or do you think I should made a separate thread for supporting folding@home?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Can't you edit the OP? If not, I will do it for you - you can only edit posts for a short while after making them, to stop people deleting their whole history.FBM wrote:I wonder if this will change the title of the thread...
Edit: Nope. Mods?
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Re: Folding@home support thread...
Yep. Don't want to diss SETI. I like it and did it for years, but I think folding@home is more practical and realistic.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Yeah - that's probably better. A lot of this one is about SETI.FBM wrote:Unless I'm missing something, nope. I guess the time limit has passed on the OP...do you mind? Or do you think I should made a separate thread for supporting folding@home?Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Can't you edit the OP? If not, I will do it for you - you can only edit posts for a short while after making them, to stop people deleting their whole history.FBM wrote:I wonder if this will change the title of the thread...
Edit: Nope. Mods?
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Re: SETI@home. Worthwhile or waste of CPU time?
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