I'm always connected with ADSL at home too, but I just found out that
blanking the screen will improve my process time by up to a factor of 4
(thanks Wirt).  Now maybe I can reclaim my spot in the Top 10.

I was reading up on ports when I originally posted the question as to
whether anyone would do a port to MPE for this.  It seems that the experts
of the OS do the port and the SETI@Home folks adopt it.  There's a big list
of people that have ported to UNIX platforms at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html.  That means an MPE guru has to
do the port.  Know any?


-David Floyd


Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF401E2476E@dogbert.csillc.com...
> Gavin Scott wrote:
> >
> > Terry queries:
> > > OK, I want to know what Mark and Gavin are running their Seti software
on?
> > > They are reporting average runtimes of 9hr 37min and 11hr 41min
respectively.
> >
> > HP9000 K420 (mostly full time) and Dell 400Mhz PII running Linux (at
> > night, weekends).  Both are almost exactly the same speed at ~10 hours
> > per work unit.  The K420 has two CPUs and runs two instances of the
> > SETI client, so the box produces two results per 10 hours on average.
> >
> > > They are so much faster than everyone else, it's not funny.
> >
> > Basically the Windows version of the client is terrible (or at least the
> > older ones were, I haven't run the recent ones).  The Dell PC is around
> > four times faster running the non-gui Linux SETI client than it is
running
> > the Windows version.
>
> My home Gateway 400Mhz PII 128MB Win98 machine runs the GUI client full
time
> and completes work units in about 11 hours.
>
> It's on my to-do list to get the Linux client running on my other home
machine,
> a 350Mhz PII 64MB.  My home machines have an always-on DSL connection, so
no
> time is lost waiting for modem permission to do the work unit
upload/download.
>
> AFAIK, CCCD is still doing SETI work on my behalf, using my desktop Win95
> 266Mhz PC, and both processors of a dual-processor 9000/V2250 with 2GB of
RAM
> that would otherwise be sitting mostly idle.  I expect those machines to
> eventually stop searching, so Gavin will possibly surpass my totals
someday.
>
> > We also had a head start on most people.
>
> I started just a couple of days after the beta period ended.
>
> > > Also, there was talk at one time of an MPE port of the Seti client,
> > > anyone pursuing this idea?
> >
> > I believe multiple people have emailed them, but nobody has gotten a
> > response.
>
> No response here either.
>
> - Mark B.
>