SETI and macintoshes

[Lucky]

Picked up a G3/233 (on the way) and Im wondering how macs run SETI and whether it would be worth even installing.

 

[IJump]

You could look here and plug it in: Seti Calculator...


Whether it is worth it or not is up to you.


Macs do pretty good at RC5.....


Here is a site all about SETI@Home and Macs: Seti Station

 

[Crazee]

IJump is correct, the best projects for Macs is RC5 from what I understand. The Mac you have will do a Seti WU in about 23-24 hours would be my guess and that would be using the OS X CLI. If you have to use the GUI it will be slower.

 

[Evadman]

I am Macintosh of Borg. You will bomb.

I am Windows of Borg. You will be assimilated, and claim that you'r a brand new type of Borg even though you're just ripped off of Amiga of Borg and Macintosh of Borg.

I a shareware of Borg. You will be assimilated once you send in $99. Press the Q key in 30 seconds to continue.

I am priest of Borg. assimilatre for your sins!

Yoda of Borg am I. Assimilated you will be. Futile resistance is, hmm?

Sorry, have no clue what came over me

 

[Bigwoofer]

I am >>BumP<< of Borg

 

[GSmith]

Lucky,

What OS will you be running? 8.6, 9.x, or 10 (OSX) ?

I've found the GUI under OS 9 (all seem to be about the same 9.0.4 through 9.2.2) to be fastest so far on my Mac at work. The G3 233 I was running got 26hr times under 8.6 and 10, but 24hrs under 9.2. The system has been upgraded to 333mhz in the last few weeks, which dropped times under 9.2 to about 18 hrs.

I just tried switching over to OSX full time this week (dual boot) because some new software we will be using in the fall will require it. I found the CLI, which was not out when I last tried SETI under OSX. Under 10.0.3, I was getting 22hr WUs from the CLI at 333mhz. I upgraded to 10.1.5 today and expect a drop in my times based just on the way they improved performance in everyting else with this patch. I'll let you know how it goes.

If you got this computer just to run a DC project, I'd look for something else to run. They're pretty good at RC5 as I remember.