CHEERLEADING: RE: seti@home

From: Freeman Craig Presson (dhr@iname.com)
Date: Sat Jul 17 1999 - 09:48:38 MDT


On 16 Jul 99, at 4:13, mark@unicorn.com wrote:
[...]
> Seti has a fairly large dataset, and it spends a lot of time in Windows
> drawing the bars on the screen, so it's not surprising that a Celeron is
> slower than a PII.

Good point -- and I think there's an option to turn that off, or rather a
text-only version of the program, which would speed everyone up, but
especially the Celeron. Since mine is running mostly when I'm not there, I
shouldn't care much about the pretty graph.

I am just about to move into the top third of all SETI@home users, with only
4 work units completed -- this says to me that a lot of people sign up and do
0 or 1 and then drop out. We appear to have about 10 such people out of 40 on
the ExI/>H team. Also, we have >half of our total results from the top 4
members -- if any of them have stopped running, that would explain how the
Mormons got ahead :-)

I'm not sure how current or accurate the stats are on the www site, either.

And, no, I don't think CHEERLEADING: will catch on as a topic prefix :-)

-- fcp@traveller.com (Freeman Craig Presson)
-- ExI member, geek-at-large, etc.
-- http://www.bhm.tis.net/~fcp/



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