wa4chq Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) Did anyone else here in the group run Seti@home in the background on their Linux PC and if you did, were your results as amazing as mine? Edited October 7, 2023 by wa4chq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Wow, they are still around. I was running seti@home back in the early 2000s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 25 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Wow, they are still around. I was running seti@home back in the early 2000s. Yep, me too....I saw strange lights flying over my house all the time but they never dropped in for a visit...or maybe they did... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 I ran BOINC for THE WORLD COMMUNITY GRID 24/7 for about seven years. Supported a few different projects in that time. At the time electricity was not so expensive and I did not contribute to any other sort of charity.  https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/how.s  https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/BOINC 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Very cool abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Nope. I've never run any of that background stuff on my systems. I did make a comical meme about it once, though... Â 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Hmmm looks like I was crunching from 2008 to 2021. Not all at 24/7 an it looks like I did not crunch 24/7 for 7 years. I do know I was crunching for several years at 24/7 though. This is the team I crunched for. Â https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/wcg-stats-thursday-03-january-2008.3371952/ Â https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/wcg-stats-sunday-03-january-2021.4076026/ Â You can guess my moniker for crunching. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 And yet no aliens 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 19 hours ago, securitybreach said: And yet no aliens WE are the aliens on this planet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Hedon James said: WE are the aliens on this planet. Â Could be... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) 9 hours ago, Hedon James said: WE are the aliens on this planet. No way! I still have my space suit and saucer stowed here! Oh wait....that makes me an alien! Never mind. Edited October 8, 2023 by wa4chq 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 i stil run BOINC on a couple of systems , annoyingly the manager won't delete a project that no longer runs. have not run SETI in a long time, might be 15 years. Running projects Einstein and Rosetta mostly. Â Â Â Â Â 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted October 9, 2023 Author Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 16 hours ago, crp said: Â Running projects Einstein and Rosetta mostly. Â Â Â Â Â I am not familiar with either one of these projects, so I'm off to look them up. Edited October 9, 2023 by wa4chq 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 On 10/9/2023 at 9:05 PM, wa4chq said: I am not familiar with either one of these projects, so I'm off to look them up.  List of projects by system requirements  Project list  Project list -more up to date but less info.  Quote Einstein@home URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ Institution: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and the Albert Einstein Institute Official launch: 19 February 2005 (beta testing began 19 November 2004) Project status: Active Platforms: <platforms>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</platforms> Description: Einstein@Home searches through data collected by the LIGO and GEO600 gravitational wave detectors for evidence of periodic sources (such as spinning neutron stars), which would be the gravitational equivalent of pulsars. Einstein@Home was launched as part of the World Year of Physics 2005.  Quote Rosetta@home URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Institution: University of Washington Official launch: 26-06-2005 Project status: Active Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/</platforms> Description: Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.  I preferred the WCG as it supported many different projects all directed to solving problems on tour planet.  Quote World Community Grid URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ Institution: IBM Corporate Community Relations Official launch: 16 Nov 2004 Project status: Active Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac Description: To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV/AIDS, cancer, muscular dystrophy, dengue fever, and many more.  1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted October 14, 2023 Author Share Posted October 14, 2023 2 hours ago, abarbarian said:  List of projects by system requirements  Project list  Project list -more up to date but less info.    I preferred the WCG as it supported many different projects all directed to solving problems on tour planet.   Thanks for the info, Abarbarian! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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