SETI Hits 1,000,000,000 Results [Archive]

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Dyyryath

08-20-2003, 12:41 PM

Yes, you read that correctly: 1 billion results. SETI@Home is one of the oldest and most popular distributed computing projects out there. Many of us originally began on SETI@Home. That's actually where I first ran into IronBits, ColinT, and JTrinkle. I've since moved on from SETI, but the projects obviously still going strong. If you'd like to see more stats about the SETI@Home project, check out this page: <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/totals.html">SETI@Home Project Statistics Page</a>

alpha

08-23-2003, 04:21 AM

That's one thousand million results for us 'awkward' folk. ;)

Paratima

08-23-2003, 09:05 AM

Wow! 1.5 MILLION (for all of us) CPU-years! That's impressive.

I know I logged in a big chunck of processor time on SETI (for Ars, btw)...

dragongoddess

08-28-2003, 12:56 AM

:shocked:

Thats a lot to say the least. Seti was also my first DC project. Ran it on a AMD K6-2 450mhz overclocked to 500mhz. That was my first experience with overclocking too. It took some time before I caught the DC itch ( I blame it on the DPC and Eccp-109) but when I did I found that I was forever searching for more power (GHZ).