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We've already had a few converts so far, myself included, and with their number of units you won't even make a dent. We need all we can get and it would make a bigger difference.
Okay, I joined today. 514 WU's. It is kind of cool actually being near the top of the group. Let's kick some ass!
Re: Re: Alpha or MIPS?
I think that MIPS probably has the coolest-sounding name of any CPU maker. Just say it. "MIPS." One syllable of greatness. Likewise, I think the "Rx000" names are among the coolest sounding model names as well. I mean, would you rather have an R14000, which sounds all high-tech and space-age, or would you rather have an Itanium, Opteron, Pentium, Athlon, or Celeron, all of which simply sound... lame? "PowerPC" is cool, too, but it's quite easy to change the spelling of that to "SlowerPC"...
Alex
OK, this (my) whole post is off-topic, but only MIPS's high-end chips are languishing at the moment (although the R14K is still holding its own)... their embedded chips, which comprise most of what they are responsible for, are doing very well.
I think that MIPS probably has the coolest-sounding name of any CPU maker. Just say it. "MIPS." One syllable of greatness. Likewise, I think the "Rx000" names are among the coolest sounding model names as well. I mean, would you rather have an R14000, which sounds all high-tech and space-age, or would you rather have an Itanium, Opteron, Pentium, Athlon, or Celeron, all of which simply sound... lame? "PowerPC" is cool, too, but it's quite easy to change the spelling of that to "SlowerPC"...
Alex
Now to be on-topic, I would join SETI@home if there were a way for me to run the software without my TiBook fan coming on high. I ran it briefly the other day just to see how fast it was - I multiplied the time it took to finish 1% of a WU by 100 to estimate approximately how fast I could complete the whole thing (on a 550MHz G4) and I figured about 10 hours. The last time I ran SETI@home was on a 350MHz AMD K6-2... and each WU took about 26 hours.
10 hours! Vroom! (Mimic TiBook hairdryer noise)
Alex
10 hours! Vroom! (Mimic TiBook hairdryer noise)
Alex
There is probably no way to stop the fan coming on unfortunatly. Crunching units is a processor intensive task. If you are running the CLI version in OSX you could try lowering the priorty? This will slow the work unit down + MAY stop your fan coming on so frequently. However, if you are not using your computer + seti is running then fan will most likely come on because no other programs have a higher priority.
Not sure if that made sense!
Not sure if that made sense!
Unless we can have a page which tells us general info such as rank, whether we are progressing then I think it will be hard! Check this teams page out;
http://team.macnn.com/seti/index.phtml
A joint Folding / SETI page would do great even if it is quite simple.
http://team.macnn.com/seti/index.phtml
A joint Folding / SETI page would do great even if it is quite simple.