# Anyone else here runnig seti@home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857 "2003-08-18T00:51:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/1 "2003-08-18T00:51:31Z")
If you aren’t, you should be! [http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) Your computer may find extraterrestrial life! I keep mine running 24/7, not just as a screensaver. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/2 "2003-08-18T00:54:56Z")
yeah but they give you packets that were already pored over. I had it installed once but my computer at the time couldn’t handle it. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/3 "2003-08-18T02:04:15Z")
I believe there once was a SDMB group on SETI@home. You might can search for it somewhere ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/4 "2003-08-18T02:18:33Z")
There is a SDMB group. I’m on it. I’m not running it now since I’m home for the summer, but I’ll be back on in a few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/5 "2003-08-18T02:24:51Z")
[The Straight Dopers](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_147143.html)–join us! ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/6 "2003-08-18T02:52:05Z")
I used to run it, but haven’t bothered installing it on my new computer. I even had a “possible discovery” or whatever they call it. ---
**Author:** ![benthames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@benthames](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benthames)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/7 "2003-08-18T03:03:11Z")
I used to run it until September 11, and the anthrax scare. Now I run the Smallpox research screensaver. [http://www.grid.org/projects/smallpox/](http://www.grid.org/projects/smallpox/) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/8 "2003-08-18T03:27:33Z")
Me! Me! (2297 data units completed; 34529 h, 26 min, 52.1 s) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/9 "2003-08-18T05:55:17Z")
So, **Sunspace** , are you a member of any teams? If not, we’d be happy to have you [join The Straight Dopers](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=147143). ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/10 "2003-08-18T05:56:15Z")
(And of course that invitation also applies to **Reeder** , who I don’t believe is a member either.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/11 "2003-08-18T07:22:49Z")
I downloaded the program and joined the group. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/12 "2003-08-18T19:00:36Z")
Cool! I’m #6 on the top members list. I just built a new PC which is kicking out WUs in about 2.5 hours each, so that 8+ hours figure will start dropping. I’m curious about “rackman” - the time per WU is huge, but the number they’ve done is even huger. Obviously they’ve got a rack or two of servers chewing away on the project. Not saying that that’s cheating, but I’m just curious how the stats for single-computer users like myself would work out. \<15 minutes later\> Looks like SAH started in March of 1999, so anyone doing more than 4.5 processor years is running multiple computers. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/13 "2003-08-18T23:26:26Z")
I’m in! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Sm\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sm\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sm_e)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/14 "2003-08-18T23:45:18Z")
For what is worth (93 units), I just joined… ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/15 "2003-08-19T07:43:50Z")
Welcome to all our new members! ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/16 "2003-08-19T07:57:20Z")
I don’t… I tried it, and it just gave my machine issues. Instead, I run Seventeen or Bust, to satisfy the mathematics nerd within me. Any SDMB teams for that? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/17 "2003-08-19T16:05:35Z")
I was a beta tester for seti@home. I have about 2.5 years of computing time right now, but I’ve been turning my computer off in the day time to conserve power this summer. Does anyone know anything about BOINC, the successor to seti@home that will allow you to run multiple projects? Supposedly, you could devote a portion of your time to SETI, a portion of your time to the smallpox research, a portion of your time to the search for the largest prime number, etc. etc. It was supposed to be out last spring, but it was delayed for “legal reasons.” Does anyone have the Dope on what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-runnig-seti-home/195857/18 "2003-08-19T18:02:48Z")
I have just joined . Only 4 downloads to date.