+John Stead Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 (edited) I am wondering who on this forum is resigtered and contributing to the SETI search and may not be aware that we can pool our credits in a team. From my search of the teams, as far as I can see, Teasel is the only UK member and is subscribed to the "Geocachers of the World Unite" which was founded by Mark the Cat. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=31434 Why do not more us us join? Or is there another team of which I am not aware? Edited June 20, 2005 by John Stead Quote Link to comment
+-Phoenix- Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 (edited) I used to do a lot of SAH, at one point had a number of computers and specially built computers crunching between 50 and 100WU per day, I think I clocked up about 17,000WU in total Edited June 20, 2005 by -Phoenix- Quote Link to comment
+milvus-milvus Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 A work colleague and I have racked up 300,000 hours of PC time since 1999 looking for ET as the MK Seti Team - ~20,000 work units. Nothing to do with Geocaching though - we're part of the Unisys team. Quote Link to comment
+Birders Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Did SETI for many years, but gave up as it didn't really come up with anything. Wouldn't mind doing it again.. Quote Link to comment
+Learned Gerbil Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I did a lot of Seti@Home but long ago decided that Google Compute looked likely to produce something worthwhile. Quote Link to comment
+bobuk Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 (edited) I did SAH for many a year with team OcUK I still have 3 PCs running 24/7 but doing "Cancer Research" If anyone wants the info you can find it here: Cancer Research I stopped looking for little green men some time back when I thought the use of my computer could be put to better use. Bob Edited June 20, 2005 by bobuk Quote Link to comment
+Fangsy Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 (edited) Recently started running it again, within the last month. I only have 170 WUs completed so far, it seems the newer client does a lot more work on each and takes nearly day's worth of CPU time to complete. Joined up now, will show up when a unit completes I think Edited June 22, 2005 by Fangsy Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Hmm. I should be listed in that team. Maybe I'm missing because I've not been running Seti for a few weeks due to a hard drive failure. I'm away at the moment and don't have my account details - I'll check when I get back. Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I stopped looking for little green men some time back when I thought the use of my computer could be put to better use. Anyone who, like me, feels a social responsibility to help biologists fold their proteins, but who is also enticed by the "what if..." possibilities of SETI can now do both, and more, by installing BOINC. It basically lets you divvy up your CPU between lots of projects, including climate prediction, designing particle accelerators, looking for pulsars, rendering computer animations, etc, etc... as well as the good old stalwarts of trying to cure cancer or find ET. Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 Why do not more us us join? Or is there another team of which I am not aware? There are actually a lot more people in the team, but many of them haven't yet migrated their client software across to BOINC. You can see the "Seti Classic" members of Geocachers of the World Unite here. Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I would join seti at home, but I don't think my 10 year old pentium 133 would be much use to them. Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I dont do any of the above cause i save electricity by turning my computer off. Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted June 22, 2005 Author Share Posted June 22, 2005 Why do not more us us join? Or is there another team of which I am not aware? There are actually a lot more people in the team, but many of them haven't yet migrated their client software across to BOINC. You can see the "Seti Classic" members of Geocachers of the World Unite here. Thanks Ian - I thought there must be more and now see why they did not show when I looked. I thought we had to migrate to BOINC and hope others do so that they can share their time with others than SETI. Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I dont do any of the above cause i save electricity by turning my computer off. Wonder if there's a parameter in the climate model to account for all the extra oil burned by millions of computers trying to predict the climate? Quote Link to comment
+-Phoenix- Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 I dont do any of the above cause i save electricity by turning my computer off. Wonder if there's a parameter in the climate model to account for all the extra oil burned by millions of computers trying to predict the climate? Which is not inconsiderable, to run a single computer full time to just do DC work adds about £50 to your electricity bill, then there is the heat output, at one time I had about 8 computers in my office, which meant that in the winter I never had to heat the place, but in the summer the heat in there was stiffling, and required an air-conditioning unit in order to bring it to a bearable temperature... Quote Link to comment
Browser Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 (edited) On the subject of Cancer research at Grid.org homepage There is a UK Geocachers team - Imaginatively called "Geocaching UK" Edited June 22, 2005 by Browser Quote Link to comment
+bobuk Posted June 22, 2005 Share Posted June 22, 2005 There is a UK Geocachers team - Imaginatively called "Geocaching UK" A link to members site of geocachers uk Geocachers uk only a small team so they might like a little help... Bob Quote Link to comment
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