[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au> wrote:
: (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon
<mca at tams.com.au>)

: Although I would dearly love to participate in this, the volume charges
: really are a killer.    I would really like to get a real figure for the
: amount of data I'd be chewing up.  Rob, how fast does the K6-233 you
: mentioned process RC5 blocks?  My machines are currently doing about 5,500
: kkeys/sec overall and I'm wondering what this would translate to in $/month
: if I switch to seti at home.

Hi Michael.  The best comparison I can give is this:  I seem to recall
that you mentioned that you did Seti previously but that bandwidth was
excessive.  After seti found that they had more procwssing power available
than they had dreamed possible they changed the client to do more precise
analysis of data and the time taken to process each block increased by a
factor of 8.  So multiply the time it used to take to process a block for
you and there you have it.  I can't recall how fast I used to process
blocks under rc5 unfortunately.

: Umm... without checking if my maths is right, it be something like 
: $/month=(5500/k6-233-rc5-rate)*356000/1000000*0.19*30  [1]

I'm d/l about 340k/day I believe, which isn't an issue for me personally.

: [1] In case you are not aware, a Telstra megabyte is 10^6 bytes, not 2^20
: bytes

I vaguely remember reading that somewhere but ta for the reminder.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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