Questions about your distro team

[FatalException]

1. Can I set up multiple PC's on my home LAN to contribute to this project?

2. How much of an impact will it make (see system specs below)?

3. What about shutting down/closing the distro app - ???

4. Any specific configuration/ports required to open up?

5. Why should I join?

Home Lan Systems (Basic config info - no video saound hdd etc just pertinent info) all ready to go if needed:
Earthlink Cable 2.4M dn/384k up
Athlon XP 2100+ / 768MB PC2100 CL2.5 / KT266a / Win2K Pro (Main gaming rig)
Pentium 4 M 2.0Ghz / 1GB PC2100 CL2.5 / i845 / WinXP Pro (work notebook)
Athlon XP 1600+ / 512MB PC2100 CL2.5 / KM266 / Win2K Pro/ Red Hat 9 (son 1 rig)
Athlon XP 1600+ / 768 PC133 CL2 / KM266 / Win2K Pro/ Win 98SE (son 2 rig)
Pentium III 500Mhz / 256MB PC133 CL2.5 / i440BX / Red Hat 9 (home server)
Pentium II 333Mhz / 256MB PC66 / i440LX / Win2K Pro (wife notebook)
Pentium II 266Mhz / 192MB PC66 / i440BX / Debian 3 (pile o parts pc)
Pentium MMX 233Mhz / 256MB PC66 / i430TX / Mandrake 8.2 (old clunker)
486SX 33Mhz / 8MB / WFW3.11 (console connecting old monochrome laptop)

 

[Crazee]

Which project are you referring to?

 

[sswingle]

Join SETI

As for all your questions, most of the projects are basically the same answers...

1. Yes. You can install on as many computers as you like
2. The programs won't make any negative impact on your using the computer. The applications are set to IDLE priority, so they only use the CPU when other programs are not.
3. You can if you want, but there really is no need. The only time I shut mine down is to run windows update (it sometimes hangs with stuff running) and disk defragmenter, since it sometimes restarts a lot with programs running.
4. You shouldn't need to do anything specific for any programs I know of.
5. Why should you join? I do it for fun, as I run SETI. And we MIGHT actually find aliens As for some of the other programs, they should help find cures for diseases and such.

 

[zaph]

If you do decide to go with Seti, you might wish to reconsider the last 2 as crunching systems, i do not believe that seti runs well ( if at all) on a 486Sx since it has no math coprocessor, and even with the CLI ( the fastest client for Seti) a P-23 would be looking at well over 24 hours per wu. the pII's will do ok and the Athlon Xp's will do Verrrry nicely.

If you chose to run the 486 and P-1 there are some DC projects that do well on older processors, but another of our TeAm mates will have to comew forward with that info, as I am really only (reasonably) knowledgable about Seti@home.

 

[TofBnT]

Seti is a good project and lots of fun in these the last days of the project. We are trying to catch up with the number 5 team in the world and stay ahead of the number 7 team. This makes things interesting as we are all scrambling.
Any of the projects would be great if SETI doesn't appeal to you.
The main thing is to have fun.

 

[FatalException]

Thanks for your responses.

The meaning of question number 2 is how much help would I be to the project (SETI or any other ones)?

I am just curious of the answer. as these machines will be idling all day - and yes the 486 one was listed only to be funny I wouldnt consider using that - it stays in its rightful home in the closet ...

I may get flack from the wife leaving all of them on all the time, however the top 5 are almost always on during the day...