Why use SETI@home?

[DLC]

Umm explain to me the advantages of using SETI@home??
Why would I want to use a program the punishes my CPU non stop and will crank up my electricity bill cause Ill never turn the computer off?
I dont get it....

 

[Feisal]

Umm To participate in the search for ET, however laughable or futile it may be, for the competition, for the way it causes you to tweak your machine in every way possible, to further the advancement of distributed computing efforts.
Trust me man, it consumes you. Join up and you'll see.
http://www.teamlambchop.com
You will be assimilated.(maybe)
-Feisal

 

[ElFenix]

ummm... it doesn't punish your cpu, it simply keeps the pipelines full of info instead of junk data like the system idle process. unless you're running a software cooler or windows millenium, then your cpu is doing something all the time anyway. and you don't have to keep your comp on all day, though if you're not running an athlon or duron it probably takes less power than your average light bulb.

 

[DataFly]

There is NO reason to use SETI@Home!

Instead, go to http://www.anandtech.com/rc5.html and follow the instructions!

 

[DLC]

ok but is it seriously worth it?? Honestly do you think that using YOUR computer to do their work, and in a indirect way, pay for it, count for anything? I they did find alien life, governments would probably cover it up cause it could cause strange sh#t to happen here.. ie suicides, mass hysteria..u know all that weird cult type of sh#t that crazy people are in to... my 2cents though!!!

 

[konichiwa]

Actually I would value that at about 1 cent.

 

[LXi]

Is that suppose to mean something konichiwa?

 

[konichiwa]

Yes, it's supposed to mean that the attutide of "I'm not going to find it individually, so why help the team-effort?" is not a very good one IMO.

 

[LXi]

Are you using SETI? I dont see why you should accuse those who doesnt like to use SETI.

 

[konichiwa]

No I don't, but I use rc5. ... Heh, not very well to be honest, my computer isn't exactly the best cracking machine.

 

[bigshooter]

Actually it would probably be beneficial to release the finding of alien life, and cause mass hysteria and suicides. It would probably benefit the world to get rid of anyone crazy enough to kill themselves just because we found alien life.

 

[konichiwa]

LOL

 

[LXi]

LOL#2

 

[NOSOUP4U]

DLC is right. You do use more electricity.

 

[Sanctum]

Well, personal preference would be the key reason to run SETI. Other than that you can use any of the following reasons:

- Use SETI as a way to tune every last drop of performance from you memory and CPU subsystems.

- For competition between others to see who can turn out the most work units.

- For the sake of finding something that would be extremely cool

- To give your PC something to do in its idle time.

Otherwise.....if your not interested in it.....don't bother. It's that simple.

Later - Simple

 

[Soccerman]

"Yes, it's supposed to mean that the attutide of "I'm not going to find it individually, so why help the team-effort?" is not a very good one IMO."

Damn Strait.

people, if you are asking about it, then you should try it.

Helping Seti with crunching the massive amounts of data they get in from Aricebo isn't pointless. it helps them, doesn't really hurt u (unless u're CPU overheats) and shows support for scientific research all around. if you're one of those who don't give a sh!t about this, well nuts to u, instead go play with you're RC5.

Both are fun in that you can try to assimilate more computers, and tweak your existing ones..

 

[MisterM]

Feisal:

Umm...you do know that recruiting Team Members on forums that already have their own Teams is considered rude? Bad boy!

DataFly:
Using an SETI Icon, but doing RC5? Are you some kind of undercover agent? ?

BTW I agree with bigshooter. If that isn`t a great reason to do SETI, what else is?

 

[Sukhoi]

Three words: ALIENS and STATS! Team AnandTech SETI has more stats than you can shake a stick at! Check us out over in the Distributed Computing forum.