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SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by therein »

cptskippy wrote: post #23
dpcx wrote: post #18

I remember being a younger pup and building fleets of machines (including overclocking, etc) for the sole purpose of running S@H, and all of the amazing software the spun up around it... SetiSpy, SetiDriver, SetiQ. I often wonder how machines of today would compare in work production to my old Duron 800, but alas.

> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.

This comment made me nod my head in agreement, laugh and also experience a wave of nostalgia. All at once.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by dekhn »

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #25
thaumasiotes wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't Folding@Home trying to run an asymmetrical computation, though? The broad strokes as I understand them are that you have a sequence of amines, you arrange them into a three-dimensional protein (the hard part) by whatever method, and then you evaluate the energy bound within your structure (the easier part?). Lower energy is better. The obvious problem is that there's no judgment of "correct" or "incorrect". Ana…

RE: folding@home, How much money will the medical cartel make off of the fruits of all that free labor? Do users even know what they're folding? How do users know that they're not building bioweapons?

protein folding simulations don't produce a lot of money for pharma (I say that as somebody with a F@H publication to my name specifically doing research on GPCRs, which are a huge pharma target). users can see what the workunits are doing, and choose subprojects, presumably avoiding bioweapons if that's important to them.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by BrainInAJar »

unixhero wrote: post #45
sitzkrieg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the best part is that durons were better than celerons and cheaper for quite some time

The duron had a pencil trick which unlocked it somehow. I don't remember the details.

it was cheaper for AMD to produce one chip and then selectively cut the multiplier lines to differentiate sku for different market segments, so if you closed the lines again you'd get a different, faster clock multiplier

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by rconti »

alliao wrote: post #28
cptskippy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.

Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium

oh man I had a Celeron 300A that ran at 464mhz for yeeeeears. Hit the 504(?) day uptime bug where the counter reset to 0.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by Ice_cream_suit »

unixhero wrote: post #45
sitzkrieg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the best part is that durons were better than celerons and cheaper for quite some time

The duron had a pencil trick which unlocked it somehow. I don't remember the details.

The pencil trick:

"Unlocking the Duron and Athlon Using [a] Pencil

Hold your CPU in your left hand and look very closely at the CPU, so as to clearly see the L1 bridges.

Use a business card to separate the bridges so that you do not connect the L1 bridges to each other. Work your way across the bridges from left to right (using a business card as a separation tool) and connect the bridges by rubbing the pencil back and forth over the bridges about twenty times until it is dark black, not the normal gold color. Make sure that all the bridges are reconnected, but not touching each other, and you are on your way.

I know it sounds incredible, but that is actually all there is to it. Your processor, if done correctly, is ready to be overclocked. It can now be set to run at different clock frequencies, eliminating the need to increase the FSB."

http://computer-communication.blogspot.com/2007/06/unlocking...

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by rconti »

dguaraglia wrote: post #46
cptskippy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.

Hahah, I can relate so much with the 'poorerer' part, I'll raise you another one: my first '686' was a Cyrix 6x86 because those were the cheapest you could get. Eventually got my hands on a Pentium II and had to scavenge parts to replace my setup. Good times. Nowadays I just buy a laptop with everything soldered on it and complain a lot if I have to reboot it every month.

Cyrix/Nexgen 5x86/133!

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by rconti »

krick wrote: post #22
partiallypro wrote: post #11

Does that mean folding@home is next? I think the screensaver dying out eventually killed it. Also cloud computing.

Honestly, I never cared much about SETI@home, always felt like an empty waste of resources. But folding@home or even just training LeelaChess by community really feels like a noble cause I am willing to spend some electricity for.

Well, SETI@home would have predated folding@home, so people stuck with what they knew.
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