How to speed up SETI?

[Hapless]

I just joined TeamAnandtech SETI, and it seems to be running a little slow. The first work unit I processed went by pretty quickly (30 minutes - 1 hour), but the 2nd says it's going to take 4 hours! Is there anything I can do in the settings to speed this up? I'm running a 1.33ghz Athlon with 256MB of DDR RAM.

 

[Swanny]

Are you running the GUI client or the CLI client? The CLI is much faster. I'd recommend using that with a WU caching program like SETI driver.

 

[aiex]

4hrs sounds about right these arn't rc5 units they take a while to complete

My duron 800 @ 1000 takes about 6hrs per WU

Hope that helps

Ai3x

 

[Hapless]

I'm running the CLI with SETIDriver, and now it says this WU is gonna take 5 hours!

 

[Engineer]

Hapless,

Apparantly your first WU was one of those "flukes" that gets processed pretty quickly....most WU's running on that PC should take between 5 and 6 hours....

Keep on crunching......every WU counts!

Welcome aboard!

 

[JimMc]

5-6 hours is actually about right. I've never heard of a WU in 1 hour, some kind of strange anomaly. Memory timings and FSB have the most impact (obviously CPU speed matters also), but I am somewhat DDR illiterate and can't/shouldn't try to give any advice on tweaking DDR settings.

 

[Hapless]

Heh, well in that case looks like I'm gonna have to steal my dad's computer for a little while and load SETI on it aswell

 

[LadyStarDust]

Those really fast Wu's are the ones with too much radio interference in them...I have had a few returned as fast as 5 minutes. I could use a few thousand of those right about now

 

[blcjr]

Yea, Hapless, go assimilate another computer! My 1.4@1.54 Tbird takes 4-5 hours a WU, usually. But I did get a very high angle range (whatever that means) WU that was crunched in just under 4 hours.

Then I got a couple of 333 celerys in a BP6 running at 540 that take about 14 hours each to do a WU.

It all counts.

-Bazilla

 

[TheyCallMeSAK]

Here are a few simple ways to speed up SETI production I've learned...

Less quake3, less UT, less CS
Less mIRC, less downloads
Less winamp, less installs
Less computing

There, a few simple ways to speed up SETI progress. Now if only I could do these...

 

[Sukhoi]

Welcome!