[Jansar]

I was lookin on their website and was surprised to see people completing entire units in less than an hour (on average). How do they do that? I'm lucky if I ever hit 12 or 13.

[ism]

Jansar,

I have no idea. I can just about do 1 a day on my imac 450. And only then because I don't use it during the day or at night. I can't believe even a super duper athlon or something could do a whole unit in one hour. Are you sure it's not an average for their farm of computers, that would make more sense?

I've just had a look at the seti site and at the top 1000 users overall performance and crikey it seems there are some very quick times:

no. 107, Jerry Fel with 35mins per unit!! Wow

These must be farms of computers, look what the compaq wasinghton benchmark center (no. 68) site link goes to
compaq wasinghton benchmark center their supercomuting centre. Hmm maybe that's why..

[ 01-29-2002: Message edited by: ism ]

[cdhostage]

Yeah, a distributed computing node sounds about right. I got about 16 hours per unit on my iMac 500.

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[Scotttheking]

Well, first, posts like this should go in the team forum towards the bottom of the list.

To answer it, they are most likely some 64bit processor.
The best I can do is like 3:30

[Sarah31]

You guys do run the commandline version of seti I trust. My iMac still takes quite awhile to finish a wu (it only a 233 after all). But it does do the unit far faster in commandline than that crazy screensaver. Mind you unless you have OS X I guess this option is out.

Some run several units on small networks and others are sometimes some guy at an office that has placed the screensaver on all the businesses computers.

My PC can crunch 2 to three units a day.

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[ThinkInsane]

I'm moving this post to Team MacNN where you should be able to get the answers you're looking for.

[reader50]

Originally posted by Jansar:
<STRONG>I was lookin on their website and was surprised to see people completing entire units in less than an hour (on average). How do they do that? I'm lucky if I ever hit 12 or 13.</STRONG>

Some the the SETI@home crunchers are Sys Admins for company mainframes. Running on a million dollars worth of hardware, I would expect impressive crunch times.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by reader50:
<STRONG>Some the the SETI@home crunchers are Sys Admins for company mainframes. Running on a million dollars worth of hardware, I would expect impressive crunch times.</STRONG>

I would, too. I'd be interested to see what kind of times a maxed out dual 1gz would turn in. It's sad to say, but probably not as fast as even a single 1ghz Athlon, eh?

SETI isn't AltiVec-enabled, right? I've seen dual 800 stats on RC5 and they are fairly impressive, but us mac users just can't compete in Ubero and SETI. Doh!

[SkiBikeSki]

Wonder if Berkely will make a 64bit version of the CLI for the G5. Alitvec or not, that'd be fast!

[marnie]

Originally posted by Jansar:
<STRONG> I'm lucky if I ever hit 12 or 13.</STRONG>

My imac 333 gets about 25 hours running a single CLI seti instance.

G4 500 is about 15 hours running a single CLI. I used to run seti on a Linux box and was clocking about 4 hours on a 233 Pentium II. Not sure why the OS X CLI is so slow, but every optimizing trick I see seems to de me no good at all.

I'd love to know what else I could be doing.

[Scotttheking]

Originally posted by marnie:
<STRONG>I used to run seti on a Linux box and was clocking about 4 hours on a 233 Pentium II.</STRONG>

You sure that wasn't version 1.0 of SETI?
My Athlon XP 1.33 with DDR ram takes 4 hrs per WU.