Check This Out Seti Folks!!!!!

[b1er]

http://www.krasnoconv.com/index.html

Looks cool. I wonder if it really works?

And they are looking for beta testers.

 

[Kwatt]

If this can be adapted for RC5....Well better not let Russ see it

It does raise some interesting thoughts....

 

[Possessed Freak]

in case you missed it... http://www.krasnoconv.com/beta.html beta test this darn thing!

 

[Bartman]

That's nuts! We have people writeing the software that don't give a shoot about the speed of there client and refuse to include SSE/3dnow! support. On the other hand we have nuts designing stuff like this! Do you think it's even real?

Bart

 

[Sukhoi]

Wow, this sounds awesome! Now we need someone to try it out.

 

[Michael]

The cool thing is that they took surplus military CPUs. Instead of guiding missiles aimed at us, they'll be looking for aliens.

I don't see why this couldn't be adapted to RC5 as well. If they have a mini version of linux running on the card, getting RC5 to work souldn't be too much more work.

It's about $500 for 9 units / 24 hours. Russ is going with $25 MB's ($150 for 6 of them), say $25 for used ATX PS (another $150), 6 used C400 CPU's (maybe $50 each or $300), 6 nics ($10 each or $60), 32 meg of PC100 is running 30ish (another $180), and 6 used floppies ($5 each or $30). That's $870, and that assumes that you don't need keyboards or videocards.

All-in-all, this is a very cost effective way to increase WU production. Of course, the whole idea of SETI is to use the extra processing power that you already have ....

Michael

 

[BurntKooshie]

I quote...

<< SETI@home Team Lamb Chop devotee zAmboni wrote in with a product that is...unusual, to say the least. It's a dedicated SETI-crunching PCI card! It can be equipped with up to 6 CPUs and contains a stripped down version of Linux as well as the SETI client in flashable ROM. zAmboni points out that it may violate the SETI@home license agreement, but at the very least, it's a pretty clever idea >>



Worrisome at least?

 

[HomerSapien]

Its a great idea, but until some people actually beta test this or buy a few, its really mysterious. Go read about this topic at slashdot. They bring up a few interesting points that really should be considered before buying one.