question about farms....

[eh?]

If i use more than 1 computer then how does that work? Like say my xp1600 downloads a WU and then my pentium3 500 downloads the next WU then my xp finish before the pentium can get its done. would the xp1600 download the same one that the 500 just downloaded?

[TC]

No doesn't quite work that way. Seti doesn't just send out one copy of a work unit to one person - the same work unit actually gets sent to several people, but all of those people will get credit for returning the WU. Their server doesn't send stuff to you in that order. It wouldn't be checking to see that you hadn't returned the last work unit downloaded before sending you another one. I think all they do is keep track of whether or not a particular unit has been returned by anybody, and after a certain period of time has expired it will be made available for download again. Regardless of that, anybody and everybody that ever returns the completed unit will get credit, time constraints aside. I believe this is how they ensure that all units get processed eventually, and presumably by more than one person so error checks can be made. So with a farm there's no problem with the order in which your machines download and upload. You can download as much as you like, and you get credit for everything completed.

[Basher]

No. Seti Driver (http://www.ocsetiteam.com/Instr1.htm) actually caches WU for you. I have 28 cached on one Computer and 16 on another. Use as many PC's as you wish :) There is a small chance you would get the same WU but that is because seti sends all WU's to multiple users for data valadation.

[Wookie8662]

Fair warning!!!!

Farming is not a type of crunching, its an addiction.

2 machines will make you want 3.
3 machines will make you want 4.
4 machines will make you want 5.

I'm sure TC wants another machine too! :D

I've got 3 running, with parts going into 2 more this month.

[Jon]

No doubt.

I started last February with a PIII 700 and a Celly 600.

I put my 10th rig together today and am beginning yet another AMD dually.

Definately addicting...

[LandShark]

i'm still trying as hard as i can to NOT adding any more cruncher at this moment. even tho even just our in-house competition is getting soooooo high......

trying to waiting as long as i can for the thoroughbred......

[FRANK]

Originally posted by Jon
No doubt.

I started last February with a PIII 700 and a Celly 600.

I put my 10th rig together today and am beginning yet another AMD dually.

Definately addicting...

No doubt.

I started with four in July. I've since retired a couple of K6's and have seven machines up now.

You know that you should re-think when you build a new system with an XP 1600+ on an 8KHA+and put an old Maxtor 2G hard drive in it with no sound card, only a few apps, and set SETI to "high priority."

I'm going to slow down.......yeah.....I'll just wait until the XP 1600's get down to $100.....By the way, when are those 0.13's coming out?

Overclockers Anonymous anyone?

[Jon]

Originally posted by FRANK


You know that you should re-think when you build a new system with an XP 1600+ on an 8KHA+and put an old Maxtor 2G hard drive in it with no sound card, only a few apps, and set SETI to "high priority."


HAHA. I'm doing the same thing except with a 545MB drive and another 710MB drive.

Really amazes how well some of these old parts take the bus speeds they do.

[Yodums]

Wish I had the cash to even build a second one :rolleyes:

Summer job here I come.

Yodums

[killem1x1]

Originally posted by Basher
No. Seti Driver (http://www.ocsetiteam.com/Instr1.htm) actually caches WU for you. I have 28 cached on one Computer and 16 on another. Use as many PC's as you wish :) There is a small chance you would get the same WU but that is because seti sends all WU's to multiple users for data valadation.

I may be missing something, but since we all know that multiple units get sent out, is there anything wrong with crunching the same w/u twice on one machine?

[Mictlan]

Originally posted by FRANK
Overclockers Anonymous anyone?

More like SETI-Addicts Anonymous :) (You can always call it SAA as it sounds cooler)