I don't know why I never got around to this before now.
I've known about Seti for years, but for some reason I never bothered to participate.
To participate, you just download a client from Seti downloads
After downloading and installing, if it's not a screensaver version, start it up with a script like:
cd /yoursetiinstalldir while true do ./setiathome > myseti.out sleep 21600 done
If that script is called "seti", start it with "nohup seti &".
You'll be asked for your email address and other preferences. Once you have that, it begins collecting and processing data. If you want, you can join a group
Got something to add? Send me email.
More Articles by Tony Lawrence © 2011-05-06 Tony Lawrence
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
I joined the pcunix.com seti group. I have been a seti user for over 4 years, and I have the client running on a HP-UX box, that I have for development. At the time of this writing, I have 366 results so far. Here is a link to the pcunix.com seti group members: https://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_177590.html
- Bruce Garlock
Hey, we're almost to 1000!. I've been doing seti off and on for a few years on as many as 4 systems, some dual processors. What better use for an old Proliant 1500 with dual processors acting as a router/print server? I figured I might as well make those old processors do something.
- John 'Hemo' Hiemenz
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