SETI@Home

[skier]

anyone done it before? i was thinking allocate GPU to F@H, CPU to S@H (as MY cpu only gets a WU done every day and a half(per client(non-SMP)) for F@H) but no LR team, no SETI...

[KnightRid]

I used to run Seti before i found f@h. I figured f@h would keep everything up to date (boy was I wrong on that one) and be more beneficial to us all as a society with trying to help scientists understand and fix disease. I have never heard of anything coming out of the Seti program, so either it all is hush hush or it has been years of scanning and no results.

I still think f@h is a more beneficial program than Seti, at least till we have the propulsion to make interstellar journeys a reality. What does it matter if we get a signal for light years away that is YEARS old when we could never visit or even have a response sent for YEARS. YEARS can be a VERY high number too ;)

Mike

It all comes down to the fact its YOUR computer and energy and YOUR beliefs taht effect the way you want to use it - but I would stay with f@h for a bit longer.

[Darkstar]

I did it about ten years ago when it first came out, stopped running it about 4 years back. Seti, in addition to the"Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" had another agenda, to prove the viability of distributed computing. that part of the agenda was definitely succesful, as to the seti agenda, we may never know.

[Apoptosis]

I ran SETI back in college in the 2000-2002 time period before switching to F@H... personally I think F@H is a bit more important.

[novicegamer]

I read an article somewhere that said seti was pointless because if those people are more advanced than us they would probably be using something like fibre optics and not beam anything into space.