This Tuesday, May 18, will be my 5 year SETI@home aniversary, having completed almost 4500 work units.
SETI@home is considered a pioneer in distributed computing using the internet:
SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a scientific effort seeking to determine if there is intelligent life outside Earth. SETI researchers use many methods. One popular method, radio SETI, listens for artificial radio signals coming from other stars. SETI@home is a radio SETI project that lets anyone with a computer and an Internet connection participate.
(Thanks Pender)
You will accomplish in 5 years what I will accomplish in just over a year because my puter brianez are bigger.
I started out on a 2 or 3 hundred MHz machine, I think. I only run it at work now on my 1.3 GHz laptop. At least one year during those 5 I wasn’t doing any processing due to some network problems at my old job. At one point I was contributing to the search of Mersenne Prime, which I think started before SETI@home.
I’m not too far behind either. Check out the stats for our team. Feel free to join the team if you want.
I’d rather join WWR‘s team, if they had one.
Prime95 is great for burning holes in your CPU.
or just testing stability. it crashes your PC if you overclock too much. :(
I took a hiatus from this for a year or so, but I just started again, joining Whole Wheat Radio’s team (I don’t show up as a member yet; I just joined today) instead of the company I work for.