Hey... I used to run S.E.T.I@Home . But after having a stack of computers running 24/7/365 and only completing about 1000 work units. I gave up on it.
All the mainframes running SETI out there can crunch the units out so much faster.
I had a pile of 8 decommissioned systems mostly Pentium 166 and 200Mhz MMX HP Vectra Systems with 128 to 144MB of Ram running Windows 2000 Pro SP4, crunching numbers .... I think they worked better at heating my home than crunching numbers.
What stinks is that SETI does not or did not support multiple processor crunching, so when I took an old Compaq Proliant Server with a Dual P-II 333Mhz Processors and 512MB Ram and saw that it only would run on one CPU and the other would idle, I pulled the plug on my donation to science and saved myself about $40 a month...
Been tempted to install it again on my newer system a P4 HT 3.0Ghz with 2GB Ram and XP Pro to see how fast it could crunch a unit. The Pentium 1 systems would crunch about 1 per 30 hrs for the systems with 256k Cache and the single Pentium Pro 200 with 512k Pipeline burst cache screamed out a unit every 18 hrs.
I still believe we are not alone .... But think that our technology is so far un-advanced compared to theirs. We are still in the days of a telegraph compared to their technology. Someday we might get a hint of whats out there as solid proof. I wouldn't blame them for ignoring us for our destructive unintelligent primitive nature. *** We know something is bad for our future, yet we turn the other way and keep doing it, because it is the easiest method*** :-/
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