SETI crunching

[refles]

Hi Guy's

i'm new here and also am about to join the Maxtrox users group on the SETI site. i just wanted to know, is the program about to take advantage of multi-processor machines?? because i'm using a IBM intellistation with 512 RAM, Dual P3 500's and of course a G400 Max. But my play machine which is also crunching the "WU's" is a P3 850 with 256 RAM and it blows through them in about 4-6 hours. Is there a way to have Seti@home threaded to take advantage of the SMP i have at home?

thanks for your time

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[refles]

oh yeah i'm sorry i forgot to mention that it takes about 6-8 hours on my Intellistation which i thought should be faster if it's able to take advantage of the SMP. And i'm using ver 3.00 of the seti software.

refles

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"you go do that voodoo that you do"

[paulcs]

Welcome!

As far as I know, there is only one way to take advantage of dual CPU's, and that's to run two SETI clients simultaneously.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[refles]

thanks for the welcome!! 8-)

how do you run 2 clients simultaneously?

right now i'm going throught alot of the old posts and WOW the information is overwhelming! ha ha...

thanks again,
refles

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[agallag]

If you're using the command line version, use the command line switch -cpu N, where N is the cpu you want to use. So you'll need two shortcuts, with the appropriate cpu number in each. I'm not sure if this also works with the screen saver version...

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Andrew
I will finish what I sta

[Sir Hitech]

Use <a href="http://home.sprintmail.com/~obermd/SETIDriver/">SetiDriver</a> and set processes to 2. Its also excellent for caching units..

[Swing]

And, you can use SETI Driver with SETI Spy.

Go here http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/faq.htm#FAQ%202.13 to find out how to do it.

It is FAQ number 2.13

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[This message has been edited by Swing (edited 31 October 2000).]

[refles]

thanks guys for all your help

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