What's the slowest machine you've ever run SETI on?

[vss1980]

My slowest time is a bit over 70 hours for one work unit.

I achieved that feat on a Pentium 200MHz machine running just 128MB RAM and Windows 98SE.

Needless to say, my stats were a bit fudged after that.

 

[sduguid]

For a couple of years I had an old Linux server providing Internet connectivity for my yard. It was a Cyrix 5x86-100 cpu with 16MB of Ram. When the version 3.03 client came out, it was taking a bit over 9 days to complete a WU.

I wouldn't have run it but the system was always on anyway, so I let it go.

I wonder what my average time would be without it...

 

[Jeff7]

Hmm...just remembered that I have a working Intel 386 33MHz proc, with a motherboard (with manual no less!), and 4MB of RAM. If I had an AT PSU, I could power that thing up and see what it could do. Though I'd need to find an ISA IDE/floppy controller. This motherboard was made before the luxury of integrated IDE controllers, though it is Y2K compliant.

 

[zodder]

I installed seti on a PPro 200 server that I threw together for linux. Took forever to finish a wu! 🙂

 

[Assimilator1]

Slowest rig I ran it on was a Pentium 90 laptop ,v3.03 CLI ,79hrs!

jliechty
I think Ray meant a K6-2 300 or K6 300 😉

Jeff7
I doubt SETI would even run on that as it alone needs about 16Mb of RAM to run.

 

[mk]

PII 266 MHz - 20hrs/WU
K6-2 300 MHz - 30hrs/WU

 

[aberant]

in 2000 i had a stack of 4 X 486 SXs running RC-5. That was interesting....... i don't get why people are concerned about bang for buck - who cares about the leccy billl, run it anyway ? (could do with the heat atm anyway)

 

[Assimilator1]

Someone has to pay for the leccy bill😛😉

Btw hows that PII 233 & mbrd coming along?😉

 

[RaySun2Be]

jliechty
I think Ray meant a K6-2 300 or K6 300

I think you are correct, heck, I can't remember, other than it was an AMD 300mhz, and the slowest cracker I had. 😛

 

[Spacehead]

500mhz Celeron when i first started running SETI in '01.

 

[Assimilator1]

My Celeron 366@566 (103FSB)does WU's in 9.9hrs ,not bad🙂

 

[aberant]

my ma pays for the leccy bill = not a problem for me 😀 moving out in sept tho :S and am trying to scrounge an ATX psu off someone cos the one i was running it on died 🙁 i'm getting 2 boxes to scavange from in a couple of days, hopefully one of them will have an ATX psu in it 🙂

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
My Celeron 366@566 (103FSB)does WU's in 9.9hrs ,not bad🙂

Not bad at all 🙂

500mhz Celeron
Windows 98se
256mb PC100 SDRAM
CLI(v3.03)/SETI Driver/SETI Spy
Fastest time- 10:51:38 (7.180 AR)
Slowest time- 20:37:56 (0.071 AR)
Average time for 342 WU's- 13:37:00

GUI(v3.03)
Average time for 217 WU's- 17:31:59

 

[InlineFive]

Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1.4GHz

 

[Assimilator1]

lol ,that isn't slow!😉

 

[HayHauler]

hmmmm.....
A Packard Bell (remember those guys?)
P 60, with the floating point error.
Can't even remember how long it took to
crunch WU's. I used the (yes) screen saver
version back then.

Hay
Cheers
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