So with my new box up and running and looking at my stats last night. I was reminded that I have been doing SETI for nearly 5.5 years.
I remeber how I started it (fuzzy line fade and lets have this bit in black and white).
My friend and I were discussing the merits of the soon to come out 450 PIII and he mentioned that he likes to run Distributed programs to see how fast they run he was particularly impressed with a new one called SETI@Home.
I went on the internet and found the project. I remember downloading it playing with it in the afternoon and then e-mailing it home to myself with the links.
That night I ran it up on the home machine and after a few hours of running IT CRASHED. The early GUI version had a bug and the graphics would crash under NT. The machine had a dual boot to Win 98 and so for a while I ran it booted into 98 just so I could run SETI.
Wasn't long before I found the CLI version and so started a love hate relationship with Windows Batch to write ever more complex scripts to run SETI and send the results back. I had ISDN then and I used to want all the results sent back one after the other at a predetermind time. It was also important to be able to run the send/receive session myself.
(fuzzy line fade back to present day Oh and have one of those tags in the bottom left that says LONDON 09:00 ZULU like in X-files or JAG.)
In all that time there has never been less than two machines in my house running SETI. To start with there was a dual 400Mhz PIII 100Mhz FSB it had 512Mb and two 9Gb SCSI 80 disks man it was the dogs. If I remember rightly it put out 6 WU's a day and later when 3x clients came out, 4 Wu's. Infact it was up and running in a friends house till just last week. Now all it does is blue screen.
I also had a 266 K6-2 thats 66Mhz FSB ohhh now were going back and that put out 1 WU a day.
For a fair while that was it. It was all that I had running. 7 WU's a day and it slowly built.
Then came two DUAL 800Mhz PIII one had 100Mhz FSB and one had the new 133Mhz FSB. Those that date back to those days will remember the huge difference that FSB made. As this was about the time I joined TEAM ANANDTECH.
I had lurked on the site for a while and found many freindly helpful people then one day somebody said why don't you join the team. It was obvious and I'm not sure why I didn't do it sooner I joined with about 10,000 WU's. Back then the team had about 200 members and 10,000Wu's was alot so if I remember correctly I think I came in at 12th in the team. I think we were chasing the Dutch and there was daily banter going back and forth. Someone commented they hadn't seen that coming as that day we gained about 10,200 WU's on them.
GO TEAM
So time passed and the great CPU war between AMD and Intel raged who would be first to 1Ghz. Soon those 800Mhz machines were already out of date and so were followed quickly by DUAL 1Ghz XEON, a DUAL 1.7Gz Xeon, a DUAL 2.2Ghz XEON with Hyperthreading (remember all those stats and that long thread) and most recently a DUAL 3.6Gz XEON.
Which will probably be the last machine I will ever run SETI on. So if were in any doubt about the increase in power that we have seen in the last 5.5 years, 4 WU's to 35 WU's a day from one machine. Also it cost 600 quid less than the Dual 400 cost.
So come on I see plenty of people on here from the good old days.
How did you start and what did you start on?????????????????
I remeber how I started it (fuzzy line fade and lets have this bit in black and white).
My friend and I were discussing the merits of the soon to come out 450 PIII and he mentioned that he likes to run Distributed programs to see how fast they run he was particularly impressed with a new one called SETI@Home.
I went on the internet and found the project. I remember downloading it playing with it in the afternoon and then e-mailing it home to myself with the links.
That night I ran it up on the home machine and after a few hours of running IT CRASHED. The early GUI version had a bug and the graphics would crash under NT. The machine had a dual boot to Win 98 and so for a while I ran it booted into 98 just so I could run SETI.
Wasn't long before I found the CLI version and so started a love hate relationship with Windows Batch to write ever more complex scripts to run SETI and send the results back. I had ISDN then and I used to want all the results sent back one after the other at a predetermind time. It was also important to be able to run the send/receive session myself.
(fuzzy line fade back to present day Oh and have one of those tags in the bottom left that says LONDON 09:00 ZULU like in X-files or JAG.)
In all that time there has never been less than two machines in my house running SETI. To start with there was a dual 400Mhz PIII 100Mhz FSB it had 512Mb and two 9Gb SCSI 80 disks man it was the dogs. If I remember rightly it put out 6 WU's a day and later when 3x clients came out, 4 Wu's. Infact it was up and running in a friends house till just last week. Now all it does is blue screen.
I also had a 266 K6-2 thats 66Mhz FSB ohhh now were going back and that put out 1 WU a day.
For a fair while that was it. It was all that I had running. 7 WU's a day and it slowly built.
Then came two DUAL 800Mhz PIII one had 100Mhz FSB and one had the new 133Mhz FSB. Those that date back to those days will remember the huge difference that FSB made. As this was about the time I joined TEAM ANANDTECH.
I had lurked on the site for a while and found many freindly helpful people then one day somebody said why don't you join the team. It was obvious and I'm not sure why I didn't do it sooner I joined with about 10,000 WU's. Back then the team had about 200 members and 10,000Wu's was alot so if I remember correctly I think I came in at 12th in the team. I think we were chasing the Dutch and there was daily banter going back and forth. Someone commented they hadn't seen that coming as that day we gained about 10,200 WU's on them.
GO TEAM
So time passed and the great CPU war between AMD and Intel raged who would be first to 1Ghz. Soon those 800Mhz machines were already out of date and so were followed quickly by DUAL 1Ghz XEON, a DUAL 1.7Gz Xeon, a DUAL 2.2Ghz XEON with Hyperthreading (remember all those stats and that long thread) and most recently a DUAL 3.6Gz XEON.
Which will probably be the last machine I will ever run SETI on. So if were in any doubt about the increase in power that we have seen in the last 5.5 years, 4 WU's to 35 WU's a day from one machine. Also it cost 600 quid less than the Dual 400 cost.
So come on I see plenty of people on here from the good old days.
How did you start and what did you start on?????????????????
