[H-GEN] SETI at home

Patrick Nichols pat at humbug.org.au
Mon Jul 26 10:32:14 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Patrick Nichols" <pat at humbug.org.au>)

>It uses idle CPU cycles and doesn't effect the performance of the machine
at
>all. It only connects to the internet to upload the results and download
another
>workunit.

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't seti use up inordinate amounts of ram
when compared with rc5? (another distributed computing client)  Also,
doesn't seti take *much* longer to complete a block than rc5?

-pat


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